Random search is a technical term in optimization with a very specific meaning (which unfortunately does not mean searching random locations in parameter space

Random search is a technical term in optimization with a very specific meaning (which unfortunately does not mean searching random locations in parameter space a la brute force). It’s more in the spirit of randomly deciding the direction in which to try to take the next step, thereby implicitly deriving a gradient component by sampling. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_search https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_search