Optimally stopped optimization systems having heuristic optimizer and methods using the same
US11308400B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 20, 2018 |
| Grant date | Apr 19, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Feb 18, 2041 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06N20/10
- WIPO fieldComputer technology
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An optimally stopped heuristic optimizer includes a processor. The processor heuristically generates a sequence of proposed solutions for solving a discrete optimization problem associated with an objective function, and for each additional proposed solution of the sequence, derives an estimate of a quality distribution that is based on the sequence including the additional proposed solution. The quality distribution assigns a probability to each of the proposed solutions according to quality of the proposed solution. The processor further, responsive to a most recent additional proposed solution of the sequence having quality better than a quality threshold that is defined by the estimate corresponding to the sequence including the most recent additional proposed solution, commands a stop such that further proposed solutions to the discrete optimization problem are no longer generated, and identifies and outputs a selected one of the sequence having best quality.
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