toulbar2 is an open-source black-box C++ optimizer for cost function networks and discrete additive graphical models. This also covers Max-SAT, Max-Cut, QUBO (and constrained variants), among others.

The Simulated Bifurcation (SB) algorithm is a fast and highly parallelizable state-of-the-art algorithm for quadratic combinatorial optimization inspired by quantum physics and spins dynamics. It ...

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I find it rare for a gun to possess intrinsic warmth, but the Colt Python 3-inch model reintroduced this year has just that. I don’t mean warmth produced by the combustion of smokeless powder—I mean a ...