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This article introduces a modified simulated annealing optimization approach for automatically determining optimal energy management strategies in grid-connected, storage-augmented, photovoltaics-supplied prosumer buildings and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Rosemarie Velik , Pascal Nicolay

The Minimum Quartet Tree Cost problem is to construct an optimal weight tree from the $3{n \choose 4}$ weighted quartet topologies on $n$ objects, where optimality means that the summed weight of the embedded quartet topologies is optimal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2014-09-16 Rudi L. Cilibrasi , Paul M. B. Vitanyi

A scalable graphical method is presented for selecting, and partitioning datasets for the training phase of a classification task. For the heuristic, a clustering algorithm is required to get its computation cost in a reasonable proportion…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-25 Sumedh Yadav , Mathis Bode

Physical systems evolve from one state to another along paths of least energy barrier. Without a priori knowledge of the energy landscape, multidimensional search methods aim to find such minimum energy pathways between the initial and…

This paper combines the idea of a hierarchical distributed genetic algorithm with different inter-agent partnering strategies. Cascading clusters of sub-populations are built from bottom up, with higher-level sub-populations optimising…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2010-07-05 Uwe Aickelin , Larry Bull

We use moment techniques to construct a converging hierarchy of optimization problems to lower bound the ground state energy of interacting particle systems. We approximate (from below) the infinite dimensional optimization problems in this…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2019-11-12 David de Laat

We explore whether the topology of energy landscapes in chemical systems obeys any rules and what these rules are. To answer this and related questions we use several tools: (i)Reduced energy surface and its density of states, (ii)…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-14 Artem R. Oganov , Mario Valle

Optimizing over separable quantum objects is challenging for two key reasons: determining separability is NP-hard, and the dimensionality of the problem grows exponentially with the number of qubits. We address both challenges by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Ankith Mohan , Tobias Haug , Kishor Bharti , Jamie Sikora

State-of-the-art clustering algorithms use heuristics to partition the feature space and provide little insight into the rationale for cluster membership, limiting their interpretability. In healthcare applications, the latter poses a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-12-04 Dimitris Bertsimas , Agni Orfanoudaki , Holly Wiberg

Intermittent renewable energy resources like wind and solar pose great uncertainty of multiple time scales, from minutes to years, on the design and operation of power systems. Energy system optimization models have been developed to find…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-04-27 Yuheng Zhang , Vivian Cheng , Dharik S. Mallapragada , Jie Song , Guannan He

A global search for possible LiF cluster structures is performed, up to (LiF)8. The method is based on simulated annealing, where all the energies are evaluated on the ab initio level. In addition, the threshold algorithm is employed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-21 K. Doll , J. C. Schoen , M. Jansen

When considering the number of subtrees of trees, the extremal structures which maximize this number among binary trees and trees with a given maximum degree lead to some interesting facts that correlate to other graphical indices in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-11 Xiu-Mei Zhang , Xiao-Dong Zhang , Daniel Gray , Hua Wang

Number partitioning is a classical problem from combinatorial optimisation. In physical terms it corresponds to a long range anti-ferromagnetic Ising spin glass. It has been rigorously proven that the low lying energies of number…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2016-08-19 Heiko Bauke , Silvio Franz , Stephan Mertens

The evolution of high-performance computing is associated with the growth of energy consumption. Performance of cluster computes (is increased via rising in performance and the number of used processors, GPUs, and coprocessors. An increment…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-23 E. A. Kiselev , P. N. Telegin , B. M. Shabanov

Optimization problems in disciplines such as machine learning are commonly solved with iterative methods. Gradient descent algorithms find local minima by moving along the direction of steepest descent while Newton's method takes into…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-20 Patrick Rebentrost , Maria Schuld , Leonard Wossnig , Francesco Petruccione , Seth Lloyd

Hierarchical clustering seeks to uncover nested structures in data by constructing a tree of clusters, where deeper levels reveal finer-grained relationships. Traditional methods, including linkage approaches, face three major limitations:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Maximilien Dreveton , Matthias Grossglauser , Daichi Kuroda , Patrick Thiran

Optimization plays a significant role in many areas of science and technology. Most of the industrial optimization problems have inordinately complex structures that render finding their global minima a daunting task. Therefore, designing…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2021-09-09 Amin Barzegar , Anuj Kankani , Salvatore Mandrà , Helmut G. Katzgraber

Structural optimization has been a crucial component in computational materials research, and structure predictions have relied heavily on this technique in particular. In this study, we introduce a novel method that enhances the efficiency…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-01-26 Shuo Tao , Xuecheng Shao , Li Zhu

Particle physics experiments often require the reconstruction of decay patterns through a hierarchical clustering of the observed final-state particles. We show that this task can be phrased as a Markov Decision Process and adapt…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Johann Brehmer , Sebastian Macaluso , Duccio Pappadopulo , Kyle Cranmer

Variational algorithms have particular relevance for near-term quantum computers but require non-trivial parameter optimisations. Here we propose Analytic Descent: Given that the energy landscape must have a certain simple form in the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-05-16 Bálint Koczor , Simon C. Benjamin