Increasing the attraction area of the global minimum in the binary   optimization problem
  The problem of binary minimization of a quadratic functional in the configuration space is discussed. In order to increase the efficiency of the random-search algorithm it is proposed to change the energy functional by raising to a power the matrix it is based on. We demonstrate that this brings about changes of the energy surface: deep minima displace slightly in the space and become still deeper and their attraction areas grow significantly. Experiments show that this approach results in a considerable displacement of the spectrum of the sought-for minima to the area of greater depth, and the probability of finding the global minimum increases abruptly (by a factor of 10^3 in the case of the 10-by-10 Edwards-Anderson spin glass). 
Iakov Karandashev and Boris Kryzhanovsky
cond-mat.dis-nn