Late acceptance hill climbing, created by Yuri Bykov in 2008
is a
metaheuristic
In computer science and mathematical optimization, a metaheuristic is a higher-level procedure or heuristic designed to find, generate, or select a heuristic (partial search algorithm) that may provide a sufficiently good solution to an optimizati ...
search method employing
local search methods used for
mathematical optimization.
References
Metaheuristics
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