Efficient single frontier bidirectional search

Marco Lippi, Marco Ernandes, Ariel Felner

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Abstract

The Single Frontier Bi-Directional Search (SBS) framework was recently introduced. A node in SBS corresponds to a pair of states, one from each of the frontiers and it uses front-tofront heuristics. In this paper we present an enhanced version of SBS, called eSBS, where pruning and caching techniques are applied, which significantly reduce both time and memory needs of SBS. We then present a hybrid of eSBS and IDA* which potentially uses only the square root of the memory required by A* but enables to prune many nodes that IDA* would generate. Experimental results show the benefit of our new approaches on a number of domains.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2012
Pages49-56
Number of pages8
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes
Event5th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2012 - Niagara Falls, ON, Canada
Duration: 19 Jul 201221 Jul 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2012

Conference

Conference5th International Symposium on Combinatorial Search, SoCS 2012
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityNiagara Falls, ON
Period19/07/1221/07/12

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