The classical approach to statistical analysis is usually based upon finding values for model parameters that maximize the likelihood function. Model choice in this context is often also based on the ...

If you want to simulate a tic-tac-toe game, that’s easy. You can evaluate every possible move in a reasonable amount of time. Simulating antennas, however, is much harder. [Rosrislav] has been ...

Mathematics of Operations Research, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Aug., 2000), pp. 476-484 (9 pages) Simulated Annealing has proven to be a very successful heuristic for various combinatorial optimization problems.

1- Is it possible to avoid local minima by combining a crude form of simulated annealing with backprop?<BR><BR>specifically, make the activation or weights stochastic, and gradually reduce the ...