metaheuristic
higher-level procedure designed to find, generate or select a heuristic
boosting
ensemble meta-algorithm for reducing bias and variance in machine learning
Guided Local Search
search algorithm
ant colony optimization algorithms
probabilistic techniques for solving computational problems that can be reduced to finding good paths through graphs
Greedy randomized adaptive search procedure
metaheuristic commonly used for optimization problems
Firefly algorithm
in mathematical optimization, a metaheuristic proposed by Xin-She Yang
Iterated local search
kind of metaheuristic algorithm
bootstrap aggregating
ensemble method within machine learning
evolutionary algorithm
subset of evolutionary computation
simulated annealing
numerical optimization technique for searching for a solution in a space otherwise too large for ordinary search methods to yield results