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Acting to complete tasks in stochastic partially observable domains is an important problem in artificial intelligence, and is often formulated as a goal-based POMDP. Goal-based POMDPs can be solved using the RTDP-BEL algorithm, that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Guy Shani

Generalized planning is concerned with the characterization and computation of plans that solve many instances at once. In the standard formulation, a generalized plan is a mapping from feature or observation histories into actions,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-15 Blai Bonet , Hector Geffner

This paper presents preliminary work on using deep neural networks to guide general-purpose heuristic algorithms for performing utilitarian combinatorial assignment. In more detail, we use deep learning in an attempt to produce heuristics…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Fredrik Präntare , Mattias Tiger , David Bergström , Herman Appelgren , Fredrik Heintz

Working with exhaustive search on large dataset is infeasible for several reasons. Recently, developed techniques that made pattern set mining feasible by a general solver with long execution time that supports heuristic search and are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-07-21 Shanjida Khatun , Hasib Ul Alam , Swakkhar Shatabda

We consider the problem of computing a lightest derivation of a global structure using a set of weighted rules. A large variety of inference problems in AI can be formulated in this framework. We generalize A* search and heuristics derived…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-10-12 P. F. Felzenszwalb , D. McAllester

Image classification is an essential task in computer vision, which aims to categorise a set of images into different groups based on some visual criteria. Existing methods, such as convolutional neural networks, have been successfully…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2019-10-01 Benjamin Patrick Evans , Harith Al-Sahaf , Bing Xue , Mengjie Zhang

Cluster analysis plays an important role in decision making process for many knowledge-based systems. There exist a wide variety of different approaches for clustering applications including the heuristic techniques, probabilistic models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-03-09 Kayvan Bijari , Hadi Zare , Hadi Veisi , Hossein Bobarshad

Clustering is a NP-hard problem. Thus, no optimal algorithm exists, heuristics are applied to cluster the data. Heuristics can be very resource-intensive, if not applied properly. For substantially large data sets computational efficiencies…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-03-11 Mujahid Sultan

In certain real-world optimization scenarios, practitioners are not interested in solving multiple problems but rather in finding the best solution to a single, specific problem. When the computational budget is large relative to the cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Judith Echevarrieta , Etor Arza , Aritz Pérez , Josu Ceberio

A quantum algorithm for general combinatorial search that uses the underlying structure of the search space to increase the probability of finding a solution is presented. This algorithm shows how coherent quantum systems can be matched to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Tad Hogg

The difficulty of deterministic planning increases exponentially with search-tree depth. Black-box planning presents an even greater challenge, since planners must operate without an explicit model of the domain. Heuristics can make search…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Cameron Allen , Michael Katz , Tim Klinger , George Konidaris , Matthew Riemer , Gerald Tesauro

Automating the design of heuristic search methods is an active research field within computer science, artificial intelligence and operational research. In order to make these methods more generally applicable, it is important to eliminate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-07-28 Edmund Burke , Tim Curtois , Matthew Hyde , Gabriela Ochoa , Jose A. Vazquez-Rodriguez

This paper considers a problem of planning an attack in robotic football (RoboCup). The problem is reduced to finding a trajectory of the ball from its current position to the opponents goals. Heuristic search algorithm, i.e. A*, is used to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Ivan Khokhlov , Vladimir Litvinenko , Ilya Ryakin , Konstantin Yakovlev

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

We present a framework for learning to guide geometric task and motion planning (GTAMP). GTAMP is a subclass of task and motion planning in which the goal is to move multiple objects to target regions among movable obstacles. A standard…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Beomjoon Kim , Luke Shimanuki , Leslie Pack Kaelbling , Tomás Lozano-Pérez

Neural Combinatorial Optimization attempts to learn good heuristics for solving a set of problems using Neural Network models and Reinforcement Learning. Recently, its good performance has encouraged many practitioners to develop neural…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Andoni I. Garmendia , Josu Ceberio , Alexander Mendiburu

Gaussian process (GP) regression provides a strategy for accelerating saddle point searches on high-dimensional energy surfaces by reducing the number of times the energy and its derivatives with respect to atomic coordinates need to be…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2025-12-03 Rohit Goswami , Hannes Jónsson

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) is a general artificial intelligence benchmark that poses difficulties for pure machine learning methods due to its requirement for fluid intelligence with a focus on reasoning and abstraction. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Chao Lei , Nir Lipovetzky , Krista A. Ehinger

Link prediction is a fundamental task in graph learning, inherently shaped by the topology of the graph. While traditional heuristics are grounded in graph topology, they encounter challenges in generalizing across diverse graphs. Recent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Juzheng Zhang , Lanning Wei , Zhen Xu , Quanming Yao

Robot path planning plays a pivotal role in enabling autonomous systems to navigate safely and efficiently in complex and uncertain environments. Despite extensive research on classical graph-based methods and sampling-based planners,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Siyuan Wang , Shuyi Zhang , Zhen Tian , Yuheng Yao , Gongsen Wang , Yu Zhao