Patent ID: 11861455
Assignee: D-WAVE SYSTEMS INC.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 17:
18. A method of operation of a hybrid computer, the hybrid computer comprising an analog processor and a digital processor, the method performed by the digital processor, the method comprising:
determining a plurality of evolution schedules for two or more intervals i of a normalized evolution coefficient s;
iteratively repeating for each interval i of the normalized evolution coefficient s:
iteratively repeating until an exit condition has been met:
programming the analog processor using an evolution schedule of the plurality of evolution schedules;
evolving the analog processor in a direction of increasing normalized evolution coefficient from a value si of the normalized evolution coefficient to a value si+1 of the normalized evolution coefficient; and
evolving the analog processor in a direction of decreasing normalized evolution coefficient from the value si+1 of the normalized evolution coefficient to a value si of the normalized evolution coefficient.