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Planning the motion for humanoid robots is a computationally-complex task due to the high dimensionality of the system. Thus, a common approach is to first plan in the low-dimensional space induced by the robot's feet---a task referred to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Vinitha Ranganeni , Sahit Chintalapudi , Oren Salzman , Maxim Likhachev

This paper studies offline, zero-shot planning under Signal Temporal Logic (STL) specifications. We assume access only to an offline dataset of state-action-state transitions collected by a task-agnostic behavior policy, with no analytical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Ancheng Hou , Ruijia Liu , Xiang Yin

We present a heuristic strategy for marginal MAP (MMAP) queries in graphical models. The algorithm is based on a reduction of the task to a polynomial number of marginal inference computations. Given an input evidence, the marginals mass…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-02-13 Alessandro Antonucci , Thomas Tiotto

In recent years, the planning community has observed that techniques for learning heuristic functions have yielded improvements in performance. One approach is to use offline learning to learn predictive models from existing heuristics in a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-04-26 Shashank Shekhar , Deepak Khemani

We present three novel graph representations of planning tasks suitable for learning domain-independent heuristics using Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) to guide search. In particular, to mitigate the issues caused by large grounded GNNs we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Dillon Z. Chen , Sylvie Thiébaux , Felipe Trevizan

Understanding and adequately assessing the difference between a true and a learnt causal graphs is crucial for causal inference under interventions. As an extension to the graph-based structural Hamming distance and structural intervention…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-08-01 Mihir Dhanakshirur , Felix Laumann , Junhyung Park , Mauricio Barahona

Long-horizon planning in realistic environments requires the ability to reason over sequential tasks in high-dimensional state spaces with complex dynamics. Classical motion planning algorithms, such as rapidly-exploring random trees, are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-10-14 Brian Ichter , Pierre Sermanet , Corey Lynch

The graph edit distance is used for comparing graphs in various domains. Due to its high computational complexity it is primarily approximated. Widely-used heuristics search for an optimal assignment of vertices based on the distance…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Franka Bause , Christian Permann , Nils M. Kriege

When combined properly, search techniques can reveal the full potential of sophisticated branching heuristics. We demonstrate this observation on the well-known class of random 3-SAT formulae. First, a new branching heuristic is presented,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-02-19 Sid Mijnders , Boris de Wilde , Marijn Heule

Recent advancements in bidirectional heuristic search have yielded significant theoretical insights and novel algorithms. While most previous work has concentrated on optimal search methods, this paper focuses on bounded-suboptimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Shahaf S. Shperberg , Natalie Morad , Lior Siag , Ariel Felner , Dor Atzmon

We present two algorithms for the minimum feedback vertex set problem in planar graphs: an $O(n \log n)$ PTAS using a linear kernel and balanced separator, and a heuristic algorithm using kernelization and local search. We implemented these…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-04-24 Glencora Borradaile , Hung Le , Baigong Zheng

There are several known data structures that answer distance queries between two arbitrary vertices in a planar graph. The tradeoff is among preprocessing time, storage space and query time. In this paper we present three data structures…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Yahav Nussbaum

This paper presents a non-manual design engineering method based on heuristic search algorithm to search for candidate agents in the solution space which formed by artificial intelligence agents modeled on the base of bionics.Compared with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-07-30 Zengkun Li

Biharmonic distance (\bd) is a powerful graph distance metric with many applications, including identifying critical links in road networks and mitigating over-squashing problem in \gnn. However, computing \bd\ is extremely difficult,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yueyang Pan , Meihao Liao , Rong-Hua Li

It is well-known that any admissible unidirectional heuristic search algorithm must expand all states whose $f$-value is smaller than the optimal solution cost when using a consistent heuristic. Such states are called "surely expanded"…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-05-24 Jingwei Chen , Robert C. Holte , Sandra Zilles , Nathan R. Sturtevant

Scheduling is a key decision-making process to improve the performance of flexible manufacturing systems. Place-timed Petri nets provide a formal method for graphically modeling and analyzing such systems. By generating reachability graphs…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-20 Zhou He , Ning Li , Ning Ran , Liang Li

A key challenge in satisficing planning is to use multiple heuristics within one heuristic search. An aggregation of multiple heuristic estimates, for example by taking the maximum, has the disadvantage that bad estimates of a single…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-13 David Speck , André Biedenkapp , Frank Hutter , Robert Mattmüller , Marius Lindauer

Recently, hybrid metaheuristics have become a trend in operations research. A successful example combines the Greedy Randomized Adaptive Search Procedures (GRASP) and data mining techniques, where frequent patterns found in high-quality…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Ítalo Santana , Alexandre Plastino , Isabel Rosseti

Let $G$ be a connected graph. The average distance of a vertex $v$ of $G$ is the arithmetic mean of the distances from $v$ to all other vertices of $G$. The proximity and remoteness of $G$ are defined as the minimum and maximum,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Peter Dankelmann , Sonwabile Mafunda , Sufiyan Mallu

This paper considers metric spaces where distances between a pair of nodes are represented by distance intervals. The goal is to study methods for the determination of hierarchical clusters, i.e., a family of nested partitions indexed by a…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2016-10-17 Weiyu Huang , Alejandro Ribeiro