annealinglike
Annealinglike is an adjective used to describe processes, systems, or strategies that resemble the spirit of annealing, typically involving gradual relaxation toward a lower-energy or more stable state. The term is used across disciplines to indicate that a given process mimics key features of annealing without necessarily following a strict thermodynamic protocol.
In materials science, annealing is a thermal treatment that heats a material, holds at a high temperature,
In computational optimization and machine learning, annealinglike methods refer to strategies that emulate the essential spirit
Variants include heuristics that adjust objective penalties, stochastic optimization with temperature-like parameters, or hybrid approaches that
Because annealinglike is a descriptive label rather than a formal method, its precise meaning varies by field