The Compressed Differential Heuristic

Meir Goldenberg, Nathan Sturtevant, Ariel Felner, Jonathan Schaeffer

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Abstract

The differential heuristic (DH) is an effective memory-based heuristic for explicit state spaces. In this paper we aim to improve its performance and memory usage. We introduce a compression method for DHs which stores only a portion of the original uncompressed DH, while preserving enough information to enable efficient search. Compressed DHs (CDH) are flexible and can be tuned to fit any size of memory, even smaller than the size of the state space. Furthermore, CDHs can be built without the need to create and store the entire uncompressed DH. Experimental results across different domains show that, for a given amount of memory, a CDH significantly outperforms an uncompressed DH.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2011
PublisherAAAI press
Pages24-29
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781577355083
StatePublished - 11 Aug 2011
Externally publishedYes
Event25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2011 - San Francisco, United States
Duration: 7 Aug 201111 Aug 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2011

Conference

Conference25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI 2011
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco
Period7/08/1111/08/11

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2011, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (www.aaai.org). All rights reserved.

Funding

This research was supported by the Israeli Science Foundation (ISF) under grant no. 305/09 to Ariel Felner. Financial support of iCORE and NSERC to Jonathan Schaeffer is greatly appreciated.

FundersFunder number
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Israel Science Foundation305/09

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