Stochastic gradient Markov chain Monte Carlo (SG-MCMC) methods are Bayesian analogs to popular stochastic optimization methods; however, this connection is not well studied. We explore this relationship by applying simulated annealing to an SGMCMC algorithm. Furthermore, we extend recent SG-MCMC methods with two key components: i) adaptive preconditioners (as in ADAgrad or RMSprop), and ii) ada...

The freeform surface adaptive interferometer (FSAI) recently has been employed to realize the unknown metrology. A near null interferogram should be acquired from initial with undistinguished fringes even dark areas. direct optimization object in FSAI is just rather than focusing intensity characterization traditional wavefront-sensorless (WFS) systems. simulated annealing-hill climbing (SA-HC)...

The traditional kanban system with fixed number of cards does not work satisfactorily in unstable environment. In the adaptive kanban-type pull control mechanism the number of kanban is allowed to change with respect to the inventory and backorder level. It is required to set the threshold values at which cards are added or deleted which is a part of the design. Previous studies used the local ...

Virtually all implementations of simulated annealing are simplified by assuming discrete unknowns, yet continuous-parameter annealing has many potential applications to image processing. A wide array of problems such as speech formant tracking, boundary estimation and phase-unwrapping can be approached as global minimization of contour energy function. This thesis proposes to solve such problem...

It is a long time that the Simulated Annealing (SA) procedure has been introduced as a model-free optimization for solving NP-hard problems. Improvements from the standard SA in the recent decade mostly concentrate on combining its original algorithm with some heuristic methods. These modifications are rarely happened to the initial condition selection methods from which the annealing schedules...

In today’s dynamic market, organizations must be adaptive to market fluctuations. In addition, studies show that material-handling cost makes up between 20 and 50 percent of the total operating cost. Therefore, this paper considers the problem of arranging and rearranging, when there are changes in product mix and demand, manufacturing facilities such that the sum of material handling and rearr...

The third component introduced in conventional turbo codes in recent days is effective in improving the performance of the code. But under noisy environments the parameters such as permeability and permittivity rates are static and hence their adapatability to noisy environment is poor. To overcome the aforesaid drawback A3D-TC was proposed in our previous paper[29].In our present paper a compa...