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Greedy Algorithms

Greedy algorithms attempt to find an optimal solution to a problem by making locally optimal choices at each step to optimize an objective function. They work by starting with a well-understood initial configuration and iteratively selecting the choice that best improves the objective, resulting in a sequence of optimal choices. To apply greedy algorithms successfully, the problem must exhibit optimal substructure and the greedy-choice property.

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Greedy Algorithms

Greedy algorithms attempt to find an optimal solution to a problem by making locally optimal choices at each step to optimize an objective function. They work by starting with a well-understood initial configuration and iteratively selecting the choice that best improves the objective, resulting in a sequence of optimal choices. To apply greedy algorithms successfully, the problem must exhibit optimal substructure and the greedy-choice property.

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Greedy algorithms

Introduction
 This algorithm design paradigm involves repeatedly making choices that optimize some
objective function,
 The greedy method is applied to optimization problems—that is, problems that involve
searching through a set of configurations to find one that minimizes or maximizes an
objective function defined on these configurations.
 in order to solve a given optimization problem, we proceed by a sequence of choices.
 The sequence of choices starts from some well-understood starting configuration, and then
iteratively makes the decision that is best from all of those that are currently possible, in
terms of improving the objective function
 greedy-choice property - the property that a global optimal
configuration can be reached by a series of locally optimal choices
 Optimal choices- choices that are the best from among the possibilities available at the
time , starting from a well-defined configuration.
 Optimal substructure -A problem exhibits optimal substructure if an optimal solution to
the problem contains within it optimal solutions to subproblems.

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