Oct. 11, 2012
9:37 a.m.
On 11.10.2012 04:20, Till Stensitzki wrote:
As far as i can tell, simulated annealing is quite out of touch with more modern optimization strategies.
In Bayesian statistics, Markov chain Monte Carlo is the standard integration tool. If you want a peak or a root instead of the integral, Metropolis-Hastings becomes simulated annealing. Sturla