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What are the main cons of hill-climbing search?1 pointTerminates at local optimum & Does not find optimum solutionTerminates at global optimum & Does not find optimum solutionDoes not find optimum solution & Fail to find a solutionFail to find a solutionOther:

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What are the main cons of hill-climbing search?1 pointTerminates at local optimum & Does not find optimum solutionTerminates at global optimum & Does not find optimum solutionDoes not find optimum solution & Fail to find a solutionFail to find a solutionOther:

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The main cons of hill-climbing search are:

  1. It often gets stuck at local optima: This means that the algorithm may find a solution that is the best in its immediate vicinity, but not the best overall. This is because hill-climbing search only looks at the immediate neighbors of the current state and chooses the one that improves the situation the most. If it reaches a state where all neighbors are worse, it will stop, even if there are better solutions further away.

  2. It does not always find the global optimum

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