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An Introduction to a Powerful Optimization Technique: Simulated Annealing

Explanation, parameters, strengths, weaknesses and use cases

Hennie de Harder
9 min readMar 15, 2023

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Simulated annealing is an optimization technique that tries to find the global optimum for a mathematical optimization problem. It is a great technique and you can apply it to a wide range of problems. In this post we’ll dive into the

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