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In Metropolis-coupled Markov chain Monte Carlo, heated chains have the following characteristics:

  • The most sophisticated way to avoid getting stuck in local optima involves heated chains.
  • There is a main, true chain, and several heated chains, all running in parallel.
  • Every so often, the true chain picks as its proposed tree the location of a heated chain.
  • If the new tree is accepted, the heated chain and main chain swap and continue.
  • The heated chains experience a more “flattened” landscape and so can move through deep valleys more easily.

Note: Also, multiple heated chains.

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