At what bit lenght is this approach faster than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenstra%E2%80%93Lenstra%E2%80%... ?
In that case the answer is: never. We've tried to generously interpret earlier factoring annealing results (there is nothing new in the top-posted paper) and had to conclude that the overall method just doesn't scale well: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.01448