The compressed differential heuristic

Meir Goldenberg, Nathan Sturtevant, Ariel Felner, Jonathan Schaeffer

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Abstract

The differential heuristic (DH) is an effective memory-based heuristic for explicit state spaces. In this paper we aim to improve its performance and memory usage. We introduce a compression method for DHs which stores only a portion of the original uncompressed DH, while preserving enough information to enable efficient search. Compressed DHs (CDH) are flexible and can be tuned to fit any size of memory, even smaller than the size of the state space. Furthermore, CDHs can be built without the need to create and store the entire uncompressed DH. Experimental results across different domains show that, for a given amount of memory, a CDH significantly outperforms an uncompressed DH.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationAAAI-11 / IAAI-11 - Proceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference
Pages24-29
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2 Nov 2011
Event25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI-11 / IAAI-11 - San Francisco, CA, United States
Duration: 7 Aug 201111 Aug 2011

Publication series

NameProceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Volume1

Conference

Conference25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 23rd Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence Conference, AAAI-11 / IAAI-11
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Francisco, CA
Period7/08/1111/08/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Artificial Intelligence

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