Analgorithm is a self-contained series of instructions to perform a function.

In other words, an algorithm is a means of describing a way to solve a problem so that it can be solved repeatedly, by humans or machines. Computer scientists compare the efficiency of algorithms through the concept of "Algorithmic Complexity" or "Big O" notation.

For example:

• A cooking recipe is an algorithm for humans.
• A sorting algorithm is often used in computer programming to explain to a machine how to sort data.

Common algorithms are Pathfinding algorithms such as the optimizationTraveling Salesman Problem,Tree Traversal algorithms, and so on.

There are alsoMachine Learning algorithms such asLinear Regression, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) Neural Network, Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Deep Convolutional Neural Network, and so on.

See also

• Algorithm on Wikipedia
• Explanations of sorting algorithms
• Explanations of algorithmic complexity