Talk:Exhaustive search

I was surprised that W does not have an extensive entry on Grid search, given the importance of this type of search in so many real-life situations from military through treasure hunting to recreational. While it may be a special case of Exhaustive Search, everything is a special case of something - that's why the god of cyberspace gave us hyperlinks. By the same token, the existing topic Underwater searches should connect to Grid search as one or another form of grid searches are almost always used in this context -- it is almost a child of Grid search.

It seems to me the specific topic (i.e. Grid search) well deserves an extensive article. I wish I could contribute it - I am a mathematician but this is way outside my area of expertise, and I'm sure others could do much better. However, I may do a little research and expand the Grid search stub to the point where an expert will step in and expand it.

On a personal note, that was exactly my first experience with Wikipedia. My colleagues & I had been discussing the usage of naming conventions such as Camel Case and Pascal Case; there was no entry at the time on Camel Case, so I added a short one. A few days later, I was chagrined to find that my beautifully concise definition had been completely replaced by an extensive article! I had to admit, though, that while I disagreed with the author on one point, his article was certainly comprehensive. That's how it works.... D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 20:46, 29 January 2012 (UTC)

Merge grid search into exhaustive search?
I oppose the proposed merge of grid search into this article; I've just expanded that page with an ML-specific example and a note on alternatives, with references. If it has to go, it should not be merged here but into model selection instead. Qwertyus (talk) 20:57, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

I oppose the proposed merge. Grid search is a technical term that is often used in Machine Learning. Yes, it's a type of exhaustive search, but it's just not any kind. --Dmolla (talk) 09:13, 27 October 2012 (UTC)


 * In fact, it's not really an exhaustive search either as you first select a grid from a (typically continuous) family of hyperparameter settings, then search through those. Qwertyus (talk) 11:16, 28 February 2013 (UTC)