Greedy Is Good. Less Greedy May Be Better

3 neehao 1 6/25/2025, 12:50:51 AM gojiberries.io ↗

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deontology · 8h ago
I like the strategies being proposed!

"When we need better solutions, we can be strategically less greedy using four key approaches:

Keep more options open. Instead of committing to the single best choice at each step, preserve multiple promising alternatives. Beam search does exactly this—maintaining the top-k solutions rather than just the top one. Preserving options allows us to delay some decisions till we have more information.. ..."