local search

Terms from Artificial Intelligence: humans at the heart of algorithms

The glossary is being gradually proof checked, but currently has many typos and misspellings.

Local search is about finding the best point within a region of the fitness landscape. It fine tunes the parameters of a model. Techniques such as hill climbing or gradient descent for continuous parameters work well at this scale. Local search is in contrast to global search, which is about finding the best overall region.

Used in Chap. 9: pages 122, 123