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Annealing schedule from population dynamics

Stefan Bornholdt

cond-mat.stat-mecharXiv:cond-mat/9903077

Abstract

We introduce a dynamical annealing schedule for population-based optimization algorithms with mutation. On the basis of a statistical mechanics formulation of the population dynamics, the mutation rate adapts to a value maximizing expected rewards at each time step. Thereby, the mutation rate is eliminated as a free parameter from the algorithm.

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