Generalized simulated annealing

Optimization by Simulated Annealing

Scott Kirkpatrick, C. D. Gelatt, M.P. Vecchi · Science · 1983 · 44.6K citations

Natural Sciences, Mathematics, Algorithms +10

Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines

N. Metropolis, Arianna W. Rosenbluth, M. N. Rosenbluth et al. · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1953 · 37.1K citations

Computing, Computer Engineering, Computer Science +9

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

Stuart Geman, Donald Geman · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 1984 · 18K citations

Arts, Biomedical Engineering, Bayesian Data Analysis +16

Possible generalization of Boltzmann-Gibbs statistics

Constantino Tsallis · Journal of Statistical Physics · 1988 · 9.6K citations

Natural Sciences, Physics, Probability Theory +13

Fast simulated annealing

Harold Szu, Ralph Hartley · Physics Letters A · 1987 · 1.1K citations