Overview of the Beam Search algorithm
Beam search is a heuristic search algorithm used in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks where the output is a sequence of words, such as machine translation, speech recognition, and text summarization. It is used to find a 'good enough' sequence of words without having to explore the entire search space, which would otherwise be computationally expensive (O(n!) complexity, where n is the dictionary size raised to the power of the sequence length).