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to anneal

to anneal

9.3
To change possible solutions slowly during a search to find the best answer
  • verb
  • /əˈniːl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : recocido
  • After several iterations, they successfully annealed the candidate solutions, leading to an optimized outcome for the project.
  • simulated annealing

Examples

  • IBM also developed a simulated annealing method for the automated optimization of the arithmetic coder probability-estimation table.

    Academic text (1996)
  • In exchange for its versatility, the annealing algorithm is relatively time-consuming and complex to control.

    Academic text (1996)
  • It is the inexorable creation of new knowledge that both anneals society.

    Blog text (28)
  • You can use things like simulated annealing to run to get lower bounds to get things that look pretty good and maybe optimal.

  • It uses this quantum annealing capability and our founders believe that it was much easier to implement this type of quantum computing.

  • Thus, the multivariate (hundreds or billions of variables) landscape is dynamic, and we need dynamic knowledge to keep it annealed (optimized).

    Blog text (28)
  • This is followed by the removal of any overlaps created by clock optimization, which is done with a very low-temperature simulated-annealing run of timing-driven detailed placement to preserve timing closure.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The engineers decided to anneal the software model using a simulated annealing algorithm to find the best solution for the optimization problem.

  • To improve performance, the team will anneal their approach by applying simulated annealing for effective exploration of the algorithm's search space.

Phrasal Verbs

to anneal the steel
  • Specialized
7.2

Heat then cool steel to make it less brittle and easier to shape

How Thorough

exhaustive
  • Formal
32 6.6
to anneal
  • Specialized
9.3
backtracking
  • Specialized
1 7.2
to search
1.0
guess
768 1.0

Surface Forms

anneal infinitive
annealing present participle
anneals third person singular
annealed past
annealed past participle

Etymology

Anneal in computing borrows the same image of 'healing' by 'heating' and 'cooling': algorithms 'anneal' a solution by trying many changes and slowly settling on a stronger, more stable answer.