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Tree search is a fundamental tool for planning, as many sequential decision-making problems can be framed as searching over tree-structured spaces. We propose an uncertainty-guided tree search algorithm for settings where the reward…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Julia Grosse , Ruotian Wu , Ahmad Rashid , Cheng Zhang , Philipp Hennig , Pascal Poupart , Agustinus Kristiadi

Sampling based probabilistic roadmap planners (PRM) have been successful in motion planning of robots with higher degrees of freedom, but may fail to capture the connectivity of the configuration space in scenarios with a critical narrow…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-05 Shubham Shukla , Lokesh Kumar , Titas Bera , Ranjan Dasgupta

This paper presents a novel multicriteria shortest path search algorithm called Hierarchical MLS. The distinguishing feature of the algorithm is the multilayered structure of compressed k-Path-Cover graphs it operates on. In addition to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Temirlan Kurbanov , Linxiao Miao , Jiří Vokřínek

Personalized Route Recommendation (PRR) aims to generate user-specific route suggestions in response to users' route queries. Early studies cast the PRR task as a pathfinding problem on graphs, and adopt adapted search algorithms by…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Jingyuan Wang , Ning Wu , Wayne Xin Zhao , Fanzhang Peng , Xin Lin

We introduce a heuristic scheduling algorithm for real-time adaptive traffic signal control to reduce traffic congestion. This algorithm adopts a lane-based model that estimates the arrival time of all vehicles approaching an intersection…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Hsu-Chieh Hu , Joseph Zhou , Gregory J. Barlow , Stephen F. Smith

Backtracking has been widely used for solving problems in artificial intelligence (AI), including constraint satisfaction problems and combinatorial optimization problems. Good branching heuristics can efficiently improve the performance of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-29 Congsong Zhang , Yong Gao , James Nastos

This paper introduces a novel approach to urban pathfinding by transforming traditional heuristic-based algorithms into deep learning models that leverage real-time contextual data, such as traffic and weather conditions. We propose two…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Mohamed Hussein Abo El-Ela , Ali Hamdi Fergany

Optimal motion planning involves obstacles avoidance where path planning is the key to success in optimal motion planning. Due to the computational demands, most of the path planning algorithms can not be employed for real-time based…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Geesara Kulathunga

Probabilistic sampling methods have become very popular to solve single-shot path planning problems. Rapidly-exploring Random Trees (RRTs) in particular have been shown to be efficient in solving high dimensional problems. Even though…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-12-02 Nicolas A. Barriga , Mauricio Araya-López

Latent variable models are an elegant framework for capturing rich probabilistic dependencies in many applications. However, current approaches typically parametrize these models using conditional probability tables, and learning relies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-10-19 Ankur P. Parikh , Le Song , Mariya Ishteva , Gabi Teodoru , Eric P. Xing

Path-planning algorithms are an important part of a wide variety of robotic applications, such as mobile robot navigation and robot arm manipulation. However, in large search spaces in which local traps may exist, it remains challenging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-12 Yuka Ariki , Takuya Narihira

Landmarks have long played a pivotal role in automated planning, serving as crucial elements for improving the planning algorithms. The main limitation of classical landmark extraction methods is their sensitivity to specific planning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Cristian Pérez-Corral , Antonio Garrido , Laura Sebastia

Conflict-Based Search is one of the most popular methods for multi-agent path finding. Though it is complete and optimal, it does not scale well. Recent works have been proposed to accelerate it by introducing various heuristics. However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Chenning Yu , Qingbiao Li , Sicun Gao , Amanda Prorok

We propose a novel method for multi-objective motion planning problems by leveraging the paradigm of lexicographic optimization and applying it for the first time to graph search over probabilistic roadmaps. The competing resources of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-19 Tixiao Shan , Brendan Englot

Simple heuristics often show a remarkable performance in practice for optimization problems. Worst-case analysis often falls short of explaining this performance. Because of this, "beyond worst-case analysis" of algorithms has recently…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Stefan Klootwijk , Bodo Manthey , Sander K. Visser

This paper presents preliminary work on learning the search heuristic for the optimal motion planning for automated driving in urban traffic. Previous work considered search-based optimal motion planning framework (SBOMP) that utilized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Zlatan Ajanovic , Bakir Lacevic , Georg Stettinger , Daniel Watzenig , Martin Horn

With the goal of efficiently computing collision-free robot motion trajectories in dynamically changing environments, we present results of a novel method for Heuristics Informed Robot Online Path Planning (HIRO). Dividing robot…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Xi Huang , Gergely Sóti , Hongyi Zhou , Christoph Ledermann , Björn Hein , Torsten Kröger

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

The Product Data Model (PDM) is an example of a data-centric approach to modelling information-intensive business processes, which offers exibility and facilitates process optimization. Because the approach is declarative in nature, there…

Databases · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Konstantinos Varvoutas , Anastasios Gounaris , Georgia Kougka , Hajo A. Reijers

We study the parameterized complexity of a generalization of the coordinated motion planning problem on graphs, where the goal is to route a specified subset of a given set of $k$ robots to their destinations with the aim of minimizing the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Argyrios Deligkas , Eduard Eiben , Robert Ganian , Iyad Kanj , M. S. Ramanujan