Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physis Seminar: "Darwinian versus Thermal Optimization"
Starts 22 Mar 2016 11:00
Ends 22 Mar 2016 12:00
Central European Time
SISSA, room 128, first floor
Abstract: Darwinian optimization -- walkers that randomly diffuse and reproduce proportionally to the quantity that has to be maximized -- may be mapped into ordinary thermal optimization (e.g. Monte Carlo) when applied to complex landscapes. We may thus see the limitations of the former clearly. More interestingly, we may apply what we know from annealing schemes to accelerating the dynamics of an evolving population.