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Width-based algorithms search for solutions through a general definition of state novelty. These algorithms have been shown to result in state-of-the-art performance in classical planning, and have been successfully applied to model-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Nir Lipovetzky

The task of artificial intelligence is to provide representation techniques for describing problems, as well as search algorithms that can be used to answer our questions. A widespread and elaborated model is state-space representation,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-02-24 Tamás Kádek , János Pánovics

Heuristic search is often used for motion planning and pathfinding problems, for finding the shortest path in a graph while also promising completeness and optimal efficiency. The drawback is it's space complexity, specifically storing all…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Davor Bokan , Zlatan Ajanovic , Bakir Lacevic

Modern natural language generation paradigms require a good decoding strategy to obtain quality sequences out of the model. Beam search yields high-quality but low diversity outputs; stochastic approaches suffer from high variance and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Jiacheng Xu , Caiming Xiong , Silvio Savarese , Yingbo Zhou

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a ubiquitous problem in computational biology. Although it is NP-hard to find an optimal solution for an arbitrary number of sequences, due to the importance of this problem researchers are trying to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2011-09-29 S. Schroedl

The fireworks algorithm is an optimization algorithm for simulating the explosion phenomenon of fireworks. Because of its fast convergence and high precision, it is widely used in pattern recognition, optimal scheduling, and other fields.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Haimiao Mo , Min Zeng

Agents of any metaheuristic algorithms are moving in two modes, namely exploration and exploitation. Obtaining robust results in any algorithm is strongly dependent on how to balance between these two modes. Whale optimization algorithm as…

It has been shown recently that successful techniques in classical planning, such as goal-oriented heuristics and landmarks, can improve the ability to compute planning programs for generalized planning (GP) problems. In this work, we…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Chao Lei , Nir Lipovetzky , Krista A. Ehinger

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

The paper is a second in a series of two papers evaluating the power of a new scheme that generates search heuristics mechanically. The heuristics are extracted from an approximation scheme called mini-bucket elimination that was recently…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-01-30 Kalev Kask , Rina Dechter

The fluency and creativity of large pre-trained language models (LLMs) have led to their widespread use, sometimes even as a replacement for traditional search engines. Yet language models are prone to making convincing but factually…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Katherine Tian , Eric Mitchell , Huaxiu Yao , Christopher D. Manning , Chelsea Finn

The existing neural architecture search algorithms are mostly working on search spaces with short-distance connections. We argue that such designs, though safe and stable, obstacles the search algorithms from exploring more complicated…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yunjie Tian , Lingxi Xie , Jiemin Fang , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye , Qi Tian

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

This work addresses the uniform parallel machine scheduling problem within an optimistic bilevel optimization framework. The leader seeks to minimize the weighted number of tardy jobs, while the follower aims to minimize the total…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Quentin Schau , Federico Della Croce , Olivier Ploton , Vincent t'Kindt

Tackling complex optimization problems often relies on expert-designed heuristics, typically crafted through extensive trial and error. Recent advances demonstrate that large language models (LLMs), when integrated into well-designed…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ziyao Huang , Weiwei Wu , Kui Wu , Jianping Wang , Wei-Bin Lee

Recursive Best-First Search (RBFS) is a heuristic search algorithm known for its efficient memory usage compared to traditional best-first search methods like A*. Despite its theoretical advantages, RBFS is complex and difficult to teach…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Fred Matanel Grabovski , Lior Yasur

Coupling Large Language Models (LLMs) with Evolutionary Algorithms has recently shown significant promise as a technique to design new heuristics that outperform existing methods, particularly in the field of combinatorial optimisation. An…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Kevin Sim , Quentin Renau , Emma Hart

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…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Vadim Bulitko

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in automating scientific hypothesis generation, yet existing approaches primarily yield coarse-grained hypotheses lacking critical methodological and experimental details. We introduce and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Zonglin Yang , Wanhao Liu , Ben Gao , Yujie Liu , Wei Li , Tong Xie , Lidong Bing , Wanli Ouyang , Erik Cambria , Dongzhan Zhou

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