The Joy of Forgetting: Faster Anytime Search via Restarting

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Richter, Silvia
Thayer, Jordan
Ruml, Wheeler
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Ronen Brafman, Hector Geffner, Jorg Hoffmann, Henry Kautz

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2010
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Anytime search algorithms solve optimisation problems by quickly finding a (usually suboptimal) first solution and then finding improved solutions when given additional time. To deliver an initial solution quickly, they are typically greedy with respect to the heuristic cost-to-go estimate h. In this paper, we show that this low-h bias can cause poor performance if the greedy search makes early mistakes. Building on this observation, we present a new anytime approach that restarts the search from the initial state every time a new solution is found. We demonstrate the utility of our method via experiments in PDDL planning as well as other domains, and show that it is particularly useful for problems where the heuristic has systematic errors.

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ICAPS 2010 Conference Proceedings

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© 2010 AAAI Press. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the conference's website for access to the definitive, published version.

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Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing not elsewhere classified

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