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Apr 24, 2017 · Artificial Intelligence

How Simulated Annealing Beats Hill Climbing for Solving the Traveling Salesman Problem

This article explains the hill‑climbing greedy search, introduces the simulated annealing meta‑heuristic with its probabilistic acceptance rule and temperature schedule, provides full pseudocode, and demonstrates how to apply it to obtain near‑optimal solutions for the NP‑complete Traveling Salesman Problem.