Consider yourself traversing a landscape, trying to get to the highest peak. With BFS, your only rule is to go up. What happens if you get to the top of a small hill? Where do you go if you reach level ground?
How does best-first search suffer from plateau and local maxima?
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05-03-2022 - |
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I understand that this particular algorithm suffers from these issues, however when I am researching the actual meanings of each one I can not grasp the concept. Can someone please explain how these are problems and whether 'Ridges and Alleys' affects it to.
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