Figure 1: Various cooling schedules that can be used with a Simulated Annealing optimization. T_i is the temperature for cycle i, where i increases from 0 to N. The initial and final temperatures, T₀ and T_N respectively, are determined by the user, as is N.

Cooling Schedule 0	Cooling Schedule 1
Cooling Schedule 2	Cooling Schedule 3
Cooling Schedule 4(sigmoid)	Cooling Schedule 5
Cooling Schedule 6	Cooling Schedule 7
Cooling Schedule 8	Cooling Schedule 9

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