Hypothesis Space Search

• randomized beam search method to seek maximally fit hypothesis
• GAs vs. Backprop - GD moves smoothly from one hypothesis to a new one which is very similar
• GAs move much more abruptly - replacing a parent with an offspring that maybe radically different
• GA is therefore less likely to fall into the same kind of local minima that plague GD
• GAs have their own problems - Crowding