What is simulated annealing optimization?

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1. Who invented simulated annealing?
2. Is backpropagation gradient descent?
3. Why backpropagation algorithm is required?
4. What is RMSprop?
5. What is maximum margin hyperplane in SVM?
6. What is SGD in machine learning?
7. Why does simulated annealing work?
8. What is Backpropagation in machine learning?
9. Can SVM be used for prediction?
10. What is momentum in gradient descent?

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11. #heating
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15. #lowering
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17. #decrease
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19. #simulated
20. #material
21. #temperature
22. #defects