What Does Hill Climbing Mean?
Hill climbing is a mathematical optimization heuristic method used for solving computationally challenging problems that have multiple solutions. It is an iterative method belonging to the local search family which starts with a random solution and then iteratively improves that solution one element at a time until it arrives at a more or less optimized solution.
Techopedia Explains Hill Climbing
Hill climbing is an optimization technique that is used to find a “local optimum” solution to a computational problem. It starts off with a solution that is very poor compared to the optimal solution and then iteratively improves from there. It does this by generating “neighbor” solutions which are relatively a step better than the current solution, picks the best and then repeats the process until it arrives at the most optimal solution because it can no longer find any improvements.
