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Stochastics and Stochastic Reports Volume 29, 1990 - Issue 2
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Optimal acceptance probability for simulated annealing

George Kesidis University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
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Eugene Wong University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA
Pages 221-226 | Received 25 May 1989, Published online: 04 Apr 2007
 
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Abstract

The objective of this note is two-fold: first, to prescribe a rather general form for the acceptance probability which will attain the Gibbs distribution for a stationary Markov chain; second, to find the particular one that will maximize the rate at which equilibrium is reached.

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