Beam search

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Notion

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Science and technology

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What Wikipedia says

In computer science, beam search is a heuristic search algorithm that explores a graph by expanding the most promising node in a limited set. Beam search is a modification of best-first search that reduces its memory requirements.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Beam search”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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