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The hm admissible heuristics for (sequential and temporal) regression planning are defined by a parameterized relaxation of the optimal cost function in the regression search space, where the parameter m offers a trade-off between the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-28 P. Haslum

Planning as theorem proving in situation calculus was abandoned 50 years ago as an impossible project. But we have developed a Theorem Proving Lifted Heuristic (TPLH) planner that searches for a plan in a tree of situations using the A*…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Mikhail Soutchanski , Ryan Young

Heuristic search is the dominant paradigm in symbolic AI planning, and the strongest heuristics are the result of decades of work by planning researchers. Recent work has shown that large language models (LLMs) can design heuristics for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Elliot Gestrin , Jendrik Seipp

Autonomous exploration in dynamic environments necessitates a planner that can proactively respond to changes and make efficient and safe decisions for robots. Although plenty of sampling-based works have shown success in exploring static…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zhefan Xu , Christopher Suzuki , Xiaoyang Zhan , Kenji Shimada

Heuristic search is a powerful approach that has successfully been applied to a broad class of planning problems, including classical planning, multi-objective planning, and probabilistic planning modelled as a stochastic shortest path…

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

We investigate planning in time-critical domains represented as Markov Decision Processes, showing that search based techniques can be a very powerful method for finding close to optimal plans. To reduce the computational cost of planning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Richard Dearden , Craig Boutilier

We present a heuristic search algorithm for solving first-order MDPs (FOMDPs). Our approach combines first-order state abstraction that avoids evaluating states individually, and heuristic search that avoids evaluating all states. Firstly,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-08-12 Eldar Karabaev , Olga Skvortsova

Metaheuristic search methods have proven to be essential tools for tackling complex optimization challenges, but their full potential is often constrained by conventional algorithmic frameworks. In this paper, we introduce a novel approach…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Abdel-Rahman Hedar , Alaa E. Abdel-Hakim , Wael Deabes , Youseef Alotaibi , Kheir Eddine Bouazza

A common paradigm in classical planning is heuristic forward search. Forward search planners often rely on simple best-first search which remains fixed throughout the search process. In this paper, we introduce a novel search framework…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-12 Pawel Gomoluch , Dalal Alrajeh , Alessandra Russo

In this paper, we consider a planning problem for a hierarchical finite state machine (HFSM) and develop an algorithm for efficiently computing optimal plans between any two states. The algorithm consists of an offline and an online step.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-28 Elis Stefansson , Karl H. Johansson

We study the problem of learning good heuristic functions for classical planning tasks with neural networks based on samples represented by states with their cost-to-goal estimates. The heuristic function is learned for a state space and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-18 R. V. Bettker , P. P. Minini , A. G. Pereira , M. Ritt

Informative path planning algorithms are of paramount importance in applications like disaster management to efficiently gather information through a priori unknown environments. This is, however, a complex problem that involves finding a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-24 Mobolaji O. Orisatoki , Mahdi Amouzadi , Arash M. Dizqah

By Emerging huge databases and the need to efficient learning algorithms on these datasets, new problems have appeared and some methods have been proposed to solve these problems by selecting efficient features. Feature selection is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-21 Mitra Montazeri , Mahdieh Soleymani Baghshah , Aliakbar Niknafs

In unstructured environments like parking lots or construction sites, due to the large search-space and kinodynamic constraints of the vehicle, it is challenging to achieve real-time planning. Several state-of-the-art planners utilize…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Bhargav Adabala , Zlatan Ajanović

In this paper, we describe the hyper-parameter search problem in the field of machine learning and present a heuristic approach in an attempt to tackle it. In most learning algorithms, a set of hyper-parameters must be determined before…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Wei Hao Khoong

We consider the problem of optimal planning in stochastic domains with resource constraints, where the resources are continuous and the choice of action at each step depends on resource availability. We introduce the HAO* algorithm, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-01-16 Nicolas Meuleau , Emmanuel Benazera , Ronen I. Brafman , Eric A. Hansen , Mausam

Autonomous exploration of unknown environments is a vital function for robots and has applications in a wide variety of scenarios. Our focus primarily lies in its application for the task of efficient coverage of unknown environments.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Arsh Tangri , Dhruv Joshi , Ashalatha Nayak

While most heuristics studied in heuristic search depend only on the state, some accumulate information during search and thus also depend on the search history. Various existing approaches use such dynamic heuristics in $\mathrm{A}^*$-like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Remo Christen , Florian Pommerening , Clemens Büchner , Malte Helmert

Robot path planning is difficult to solve due to the contradiction between optimality of results and complexity of algorithms, even in 2D environments. To find an optimal path, the algorithm needs to search all the state space, which costs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Zhaoting Li , Jiankun Wang , Max Q. -H. Meng

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