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Comment author: Lumifer 04 June 2015 05:13:35PM 3 points [-]

At high temperature the algorithm searches for solutions that are very different from the current solution. At low temperature the algorithm searches smaller variation of the current solution.

The technique is known as simulated annealing.

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