Fast simulated annealing

Optimization by Simulated Annealing

Scott Kirkpatrick, C. D. Gelatt, M.P. Vecchi · Science · 1983 · 44K citations

Numerical Analysis, Large-scale Global Optimization, Computational Science +15

Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

N. Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1953 · 36.5K citations

Numerical Analysis, Engineering, Material Simulation +22

Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images

Stuart Geman, Donald Geman · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 1984 · 17.9K citations

Engineering, Bayesian Restoration, Markov Chain Monte Carlo +17

Quantum Monte Carlo

David M. Ceperley, Berni J. Alder · Science · 1986 · 358 citations

Engineering, Monte Carlo Methods, Superfluid Helium +18

Nonconvex optimization by fast simulated annealing

Harold Szu, Ralph Hartley · Proceedings of the IEEE · 1987 · 132 citations

Numerical Analysis, Large-scale Global Optimization, Nondifferentiable Optimization +13