Figure 2.
Convergence of simulated annealing with 1000, 5000, 10,000, and 20,000 total iterations. The temperature parameter in the ith iteration of simulated annealing is taken as (n − i + 1)/n, with n being the total number of iterations. Although using a larger value of n maximizes the likelihood slightly better, the inferred MAP estimate of Sk does not change so much.
