English
Related papers

Related papers: Survey of Parallel A* in Rust

200 papers

Designing good heuristic functions for graph search requires adequate domain knowledge. It is often easy to design heuristics that perform well and correlate with the underlying true cost-to-go values in certain parts of the search space…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Ramkumar Natarajan , Muhammad Suhail Saleem , William Xiao , Sandip Aine , Howie Choset , Maxim Likhachev

Breadth-first Search (BFS) is one of the most important graph processing subroutines, especially for computing the unweighted distance. Many applications may require running BFS from multiple sources. Sequentially, when running BFS on a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Letong Wang , Guy Blelloch , Yan Gu , Yihan Sun

Greedy best-first search (GBFS) and A* search (A*) are popular algorithms for path-finding on large graphs. Both use so-called heuristic functions, which estimate how close a vertex is to the goal. While heuristic functions have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Shinsaku Sakaue , Taihei Oki

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in closing the performance gap between state-of-the-art planning solvers and generalized planning (GP), a research area of AI that studies the automated synthesis of algorithmic-like…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Alejandro Fernández-Alburquerque , Javier Segovia-Aguas

Search is a central problem in artificial intelligence, and breadth-first search (BFS) and depth-first search (DFS) are the two most fundamental ways to search. In this paper we derive estimates for average BFS and DFS runtime. The average…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-13 Tom Everitt , Marcus Hutter

Multi-agent path finding (MAPF) determines an ensemble of collision-free paths for multiple agents between their respective start and goal locations. Among the available MAPF planners for workspace modeled as a graph, A*-based approaches…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Zhongqiang Ren , Sivakumar Rathinam , Howie Choset

This work addresses a Multi-Objective Shortest Path Problem (MO-SPP) on a graph where the goal is to find a set of Pareto-optimal solutions from a start node to a destination in the graph. A family of approaches based on MOA* have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Zhongqiang Ren , Richard Zhan , Sivakumar Rathinam , Maxim Likhachev , Howie Choset

The Breadth-First Search (BFS) algorithm is an important building block for graph analysis of large datasets. The BFS parallelisation has been shown to be challenging because of its inherent characteristics, including irregular memory…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2017-04-21 Mireya Paredes , Graham Riley , Mikel Lujan

Path planning is typically considered in Artificial Intelligence as a graph searching problem and R* is state-of-the-art algorithm tailored to solve it. The algorithm decomposes given path finding task into the series of subtasks each of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Konstantin Yakovlev , Egor Baskin , Ivan Hramoin

A* is a classic and popular method for graphs search and path finding. It assumes the existence of a heuristic function $h(u,t)$ that estimates the shortest distance from any input node $u$ to the destination $t$. Traditionally, heuristics…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Talya Eden , Piotr Indyk , Haike Xu

Parallel search algorithms harness the multithreading capability of modern processors to achieve faster planning. One such algorithm is PA*SE (Parallel A* for Slow Expansions), which parallelizes state expansions to achieve faster planning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Shohin Mukherjee , Sandip Aine , Maxim Likhachev

Finding the shortest path between two points in a graph is a fundamental problem that has been well-studied over the past several decades. Shortest path algorithms are commonly applied to modern navigation systems, so our study aims to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Kevin Y. Chen

Subgraph matching is a basic operation widely used in many applications. However, due to its NP-hardness and the explosive growth of graph data, it is challenging to compute subgraph matching, especially in large graphs. In this paper, we…

Databases · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Xin Jin , Zhengyi Yang , Xuemin Lin , Shiyu Yang , Lu Qin , You Peng

Bi-objective search is a well-known algorithmic problem, concerned with finding a set of optimal solutions in a two-dimensional domain. This problem has a wide variety of applications such as planning in transport systems or optimal control…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Saman Ahmadi , Guido Tack , Daniel Harabor , Philip Kilby

Rooted spanning trees (RSTs) are a core primitive in parallel graph analytics, underpinning algorithms such as biconnected components and planarity testing. On GPUs, RST construction has traditionally relied on breadth-first search (BFS)…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Abhijeet Sahu , Srikar Vilas Donur

A robot finds it really hard to learn creatively and adapt to new unseen challenges. This is mainly because of the minimal information it has access to or experience towards. Paulius et al. [1] presented a way to construct functional graphs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Kumar Shashwat

In this paper, we investigate the parallelization of $k$-core decomposition, a method used in graph analysis to identify cohesive substructures and assess node centrality. Although efficient sequential algorithms exist for this task, the…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Davide Rucci , Sebastian Parfeniuc , Matteo Mordacchini , Emanuele Carlini , Alfredo Cuzzocrea , Patrizio Dazzi

This paper considers a generalization of the Path Finding (PF) problem with refuelling constraints referred to as the Gas Station Problem (GSP). Similar to PF, given a graph where vertices are gas stations with known fuel prices, and edge…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Shizhe Zhao , Anushtup Nandy , Howie Choset , Sivakumar Rathinam , Zhongqiang Ren

Pathfinding makes up an important sub-component of a broad range of complex tasks in AI, such as robot path planning, transport routing, and game playing. While classical algorithms can efficiently compute shortest paths, neural networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Sam Earle , Ozlem Yildiz , Julian Togelius , Chinmay Hegde

Breadth First Search (BFS) is a building block for graph algorithms and has recently been used for large scale analysis of information in a variety of applications including social networks, graph databases and web searching. Due to its…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-04-12 Mireya Paredes , Graham Riley , Mikel Lujan