Does STAN support Simulated Annealing?

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Hi Stan-Developers,

Does STAN support Simulated Annealing?

Thanks

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No, in Stan (n.b. capitalization) the only optimization options in Stan are “LBFGS”, “BFGS”, & “Newton”. See here.

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Also our supported sampling algorithms are HMC and its derivatives like NUTS.