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Please point out where I am (completely!) wrong. I have formally dealt with approximation algorithms before and I skimmed the wikipedia article, yet I did not
by schwurb 8y ago
Please point out where I am (completely!) wrong.
I have formally dealt with approximation algorithms before and I skimmed the wikipedia article, yet I did not find anything that contradicts me. Note the in the section on hardness, P and NP (obviously) appear as bounds of solutions. Where is the contradiction?
Further, all this (approximation algos and P/NP algos) are discrete, complete algorithms. ML is a completely different story, as one is never certain whether some optimum is global or local. Hence, ML is a heuristic, while Djikstras shortest path algorithm is a series of steps with a success guarantee (with provable worst runtime behavior).