Ah I see - of course. Should have thought of that. For comparison, I believe my usage arises from evolutionary fitness, where one might discuss local maxima on

Ah I see - of course. Should have thought of that. For comparison, I believe my usage arises from evolutionary fitness, where one might discuss local maxima on a fitness landscape. The challenge is perhaps much the same as in ML, with one strategy being to introduce random mutations in order to escape the same kind of trap.