Bidirectional heuristic search: Expanding nodes by a lower bound (extended abstract)

Shahaf S. Shperberg, Ariel Felner, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Eyal Shimony, Avi Hayoun

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Abstract

Recent work on bidirectional search defined a lower bound on costs of paths between pairs of nodes, and introduced a new algorithm, NBS, which is based on this bound. Building on these results, we introduce DVCBS, a new algorithm that aims to to further reduce the number of expansions. Generalizing beyond specific algorithms, we then propose a method for enhancing heuristics by propagating such lower bounds (lb-propagation) between frontiers. This lb-propagation can be used in existing algorithms, often improving their performance, as well as making them”well behaved”.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020
EditorsChristian Bessiere
PublisherInternational Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
Pages4775-4779
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9780999241165
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020 - Yokohama, Japan
Duration: 1 Jan 2021 → …

Publication series

NameIJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Volume2021-January
ISSN (Print)1045-0823

Conference

Conference29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2020
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityYokohama
Period1/01/21 → …

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Inst. Sci. inf., Univ. Defence in Belgrade. All rights reserved.

Funding

Partially supported by ISF grant #844/17, by BSF grant #2017692, by NSF grant #1815660, by the Frankel center for CS at BGU, by CIFAR and NSERC.

FundersFunder number
National Science Foundation1815660
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation2017692
Israel Science Foundation844/17

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