For K-12 Students · Simulated Annealing
Simulated Annealing for a seating chart
Built for k-12 students learning it in middle or high school. Watch the idea come alive with plain-language steps and everyday examples — perfect for projects and homework. Simulate a seating chart live below — adjust the inputs and watch it respond, right in your browser.
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escaping local minima
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Simulated annealing borrows from metallurgy: at high temperature it accepts worse moves freely, letting it jump out of local minima; as it cools, it settles into the best valley it found. The acceptance probability exp(−ΔE/T) is the key. Cool too fast and it gets stuck; cool slowly and it finds the global optimum.
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Temperature5.00
Current value1.555
Best found0.000
Governing equation
Reading this result: Balanced schedule: enough early wandering to escape shallow minima, then a steady settle toward the deepest valley found.
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