Bayesian Simulated Annealing — Global Optimization with Bayesian Priors

Bayesian Simulated Annealing (BSA) integrates Bayesian prior knowledge about the objective landscape into the simulated annealing search process. By encoding beliefs about promising regions as prior distributions and updating them as the search progresses, BSA focuses computational effort on high-probability areas of the solution space, accelerating convergence and improving solution quality compared to uninformed SA.