Big Data Course - Local Optima in Clustering. Spring 2014 Unit 20 Lesson 4. MOOC - Unit 16: Lesson 4
Channel: Digital Science Center Courses
Date: 2013-09-06

Lesson Overview:
This lesson introduces some general principles. First many important processes are ''just'' optimization problems. Most such problems are rife with local optima. The key idea behind annealing to avoid local optima is described. The pervasive greedy optimization method is described.

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