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We present the first approach capable of learning domain-independent planning heuristics entirely from scratch. The heuristics we learn map the hypergraph representation of the delete-relaxation of the planning problem at hand, to a cost…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-12-02 William Shen , Felipe Trevizan , Sylvie Thiébaux

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

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

Recent work investigated the use of Reinforcement Learning (RL) for the synthesis of heuristic guidance to improve the performance of temporal planners when a domain is fixed and a set of training problems (not plans) is given. The idea is…

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Neural routing solvers (NRSs) that leverage deep learning to tackle vehicle routing problems have demonstrated notable potential for practical applications. By learning implicit heuristic rules from data, NRSs replace the handcrafted…

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Autonomous motion planning is critical for efficient and safe underwater manipulation in dynamic marine environments. Current motion planning methods often fail to effectively utilize prior motion experiences and adapt to real-time…

In recent years, there has been growing interest in utilizing modern machine learning techniques to learn heuristic functions for forward search algorithms. Despite this, there has been little theoretical understanding of what they should…

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In recent years, combining neural networks with local search heuristics has become popular in the field of combinatorial optimization. Despite its considerable computational demands, this approach has exhibited promising outcomes with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Ankur Nath , Alan Kuhnle

Planning as heuristic search is one of the most successful approaches to classical planning but unfortunately, it does not extend trivially to Generalized Planning (GP). GP aims to compute algorithmic solutions that are valid for a set of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-27 Javier Segovia-Aguas , Sergio Jiménez , Anders Jonsson

We consider a recently introduced class of network construction problems where edges of a transportation network need to be constructed by a server (construction crew). The server has a constant construction speed which is much lower than…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Igor Averbakh , Jordi Pereira

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

Heuristics are widely used for dealing with complex search and optimization problems. However, manual design of heuristics can be often very labour extensive and requires rich working experience and knowledge. This paper proposes Evolution…

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Heuristics have achieved great success in solving combinatorial optimization problems~(COPs). However, heuristics designed by humans require too much domain knowledge and testing time. Since Large Language Models~(LLMs) possess strong…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hui Wang , Xufeng Zhang , Chaoxu Mu

Optimization of heuristic functions for the A* algorithm, realized by deep neural networks, is usually done by minimizing square root loss of estimate of the cost to goal values. This paper argues that this does not necessarily lead to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Leah Chrestien , Tomas Pevny , Antonin Komenda , Stefan Edelkamp

Network Morphism based Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is one of the most efficient methods, however, knowing where and when to add new neurons or remove dis-functional ones is generally left to black-box Reinforcement Learning models. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Suman Sapkota , Binod Bhattarai

Network optimization has generally been focused on solving network flow problems, but recently there have been investigations into optimizing network characteristics. Optimizing network connectivity to maximize the number of nodes within a…

Physics and Society · Physics 2020-08-03 Jeremy Auerbach , Hyun Kim

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

Real-time heuristic search is a popular model of acting and learning in intelligent autonomous agents. Learning real-time search agents improve their performance over time by acquiring and refining a value function guiding the application…

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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