Practice - Optimization in Search
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Practice Questions
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What is Hill Climbing?
💡 Hint: Think about climbing a hill.
What does Simulated Annealing allow?
💡 Hint: Remember the analogy of heating and cooling.
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Interactive Quizzes
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Which technique uses gradient ascent to find solutions?
💡 Hint: Think about climbing a hill.
Simulated Annealing helps to escape local maxima. True or False?
💡 Hint: Consider how cooling metal allows for better shapes.
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Challenge Problems
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Design a simple problem where Hill Climbing might fail but Simulated Annealing could succeed. Explain why.
💡 Hint: Think about how searching blindly versus strategically can affect results.
Develop a comparison between Genetic Algorithms and linear programming in terms of optimization applications. Discuss pros and cons.
💡 Hint: Consider problem types when choosing optimization techniques.
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