Ackley, Hinton & Sejnowski, A Learning Algorithm for Boltzmann Machines, 1985 · §2, fig. 1
The Stochastic Neuron & Simulated Annealing ChamberEscaping local minima
Energy landscape
Annealing sequencer
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Equilibrium distribution
Bars: where the particles have been recently (a moving average). Line: the Boltzmann distribution P ∝ e−E/T at the current temperature, which the bars approach when T is held fixed.