Optimization plays a significant role in many areas of science and technology. Most of the industrial optimization problems have inordinately complex structures that render finding their global minima a daunting task. Therefore, designing heuristics that can efficiently solve such problems is of utmost importance. In this paper we benchmark and improve the thermal cycling algorithm [Phys. Rev. Lett. 79, 4297 (1997)PRLTAO0031-900710.1103/PhysRevLett.79.4297] that is designed to overcome energy barriers in nonconvex optimization problems by temperature cycling of a pool of candidate solutions. We perform a comprehensive parameter tuning of the algorithm and demonstrate that it competes closely with other state-of-the-art algorithms such as parallel tempering with isoenergetic cluster moves, while overwhelmingly outperforming more simplistic heuristics such as simulated annealing.
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