Stochastic hill climbing is a variant of the basic hill climbing method. While basic hill climbing always chooses the steepest uphill move, "stochastic hill climbing chooses at random from among the uphill moves; the probability of selection can vary with the steepness of the uphill move.


See also:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_gradient_descent








Quelle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_hill_climbing