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tabu search en · NOUN

Etymology

From tabu (“sacred, not to be touched”), in reference to the prohibition against revisiting earlier rejected solutions.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) A combinatorial search technique used to solve optimization problems by tracking and guiding the search.
    • Compared to simulated annealing, the tabu search heuristic performed well.

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