Introduction - If you have any usage issues, please Google them yourself
anneal Minimizes a function with the method of simulated annealing (Kirkpatrick et al., 1983)
ANNEAL takes three input parameters, in this order:
LOSS is a function handle (anonymous function or inline) with a loss function, which may be of any type, and needn t be continuous. It does, however, need to return a single value.
PARENT is a vector with initial guess parameters. You must input an initial guess.
OPTIONS is a structure with settings for the simulated annealing. If no OPTIONS structure is provided, anneal uses a default structure. OPTIONS can contain any or all of the following fields (missing fields are filled with default values):
Verbosity: Controls output to the screen.
0 suppresses all output
1 gives final report only [default]
2 gives temperature changes and final report
Generator: Generates a new solution from an old one. Any function handle that takes a solution as input and gives a valid solution (i.e.