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  3. Chapter 2: What is the Cost Function?

Chapter 2: What is the Cost Function?

Except for those familiar with science, why an annealing machine derives the optimal solution from the cost function may not be clear. So, let's unpack the relationship between an annealing machine and the Ising model in detail.

  • Section 1: Relationship between Annealing Machines and Cost Functions
  • Section 2: How to create a cost function
Optimization Problems and Combinatorial Optimization Problems
Relationship between Annealing Machine and Cost function

Math for Annealing Machine

  • Chapter 1: What is a Combinatorial Optimization Problem?
  • Section 1: Optimization Problems and Combinatorial Optimization Problems
  • Chapter 2: What is the Cost Function?
  • Section 1: Relationship between Annealing Machines and Cost Functions
  • Section 2: How to create a cost function
  • Chapter 3: Annealing Machines, Quadratic Expressions, and Discrete Values
  • Section 1: Linear programming problems
  • Section 2: Annealing machines are for Quadratic problems
  • Section 3: Quadratic optimization problems (portfolio optimization)
  • Section 4: Difference between discrete and continuous values
  • Section 5: Continuous or discrete is up to user's choice
  • Chapter 4: Believe in and go looking for the possibilities of Annealing Machines!

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