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Graduate Student-Faculty Seminars
Wednesday, November 9,
Cullimore Hall Room 611
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Simulated Annealing Methods
Rashi Jain
Department
of Mathematical Sciences
New Jersey
Institute of Technology
Abstract
The goal is to identify the global minimum of an error or
cost function. Local search methods
typically get trapped at a local minimum. Simulated annealing methods provide
an alternative and efficient way for finding the global minimum.