Un algoritmo voraz (también conocido como ávido, devorador o goloso) es aquel que, para resolver un determinado problema, sigue una heurística consistente en elegir la opción óptima en cada paso local con la esperanza de llegar a una solución general óptima. Este esquema algorítmico es el que menos dificultades plantea a la hora de diseñar y comprobar su funcionamiento. Normalmente se aplica a los problemas de optimización.

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A greedy algorithm is an algorithmic paradigm that follows the problem solving heuristic of making the locally optimal choice at each stage with the hope of finding a global optimum. In many problems, a greedy strategy does not in general produce an optimal solution, but nonetheless a greedy heuristic may yield locally optimal solutions that approximate a global optimal solution in a reasonable time. For example, a greedy strategy for the traveling salesman problem (which is of a high computational complexity) is the following heuristic: "At each stage visit an unvisited city nearest to the current city". This heuristic need not find a best solution, but terminates in a reasonable number of steps; finding an optimal solution typically requires unreasonably many steps. In mathematical optimization, greedy algorithms solve combinatorial problems having the properties of matroids.

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