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There is some reason to believe that one can improve (22) to: Tnowal net = c('1)M In M (23) Simulating annealing can be in principle always get a solution that is arbitrary near the true maximum. However this is at a cost - in terms of time spent annealing - that is arbitrarily great. Neural nets seem to give generally good results in a time. given in equations (22) and (23), that is reasonable and more importantly predictable. 44 IV ORB: Orthogonal Recursive Bisection IV A The Graphical Distance d (i ,j) One problem with the methods of section III is that they are time consuming especially when M, the number of elements, is large; the statistical nature of the procedure leads to slow convergence to equilibrium for simulated annealing.

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As discussed in Refs. [9] and [4]. there are various methods of solving (21) which have different performance or different problems. We introduced in Ref. [4]. the bold network which was both fast and robust for hypercube decompositions. A key advantage of neural networks is that is is rather straightforward to estimate their speed of convergence. The total time taken to solve (21) is (22) where the value of c('1) depends on the required goodness of convergence; Ihis is the time taken to reach a value of E that is a factor (1 +'1) times its minimum value.

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