Heuristic Search in Cyclic AND/OR Graphs

Abstract

Heuristic search algorithms can find solutions that take the form of a simple path (A*), a tree or acyclic graph (AO*). We present a novel generaliza-tion of heuristic search (called LAO*) that can find solutions with loops, that is, solutions that take the form of a cyclic graph. We show that it can be used to solve Markov decision problems without evaluat-ing the entire state space, giving it an advantage over dynamic-programming al orithms such as policy iter-ation and value iteration as an approach to stochastic planning.

Cite

Text

Hansen and Zilberstein. "Heuristic Search in Cyclic AND/OR Graphs." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1998.

Markdown

[Hansen and Zilberstein. "Heuristic Search in Cyclic AND/OR Graphs." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1998.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1998/hansen1998aaai-heuristic/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{hansen1998aaai-heuristic,
  title     = {{Heuristic Search in Cyclic AND/OR Graphs}},
  author    = {Hansen, Eric A. and Zilberstein, Shlomo},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1998},
  pages     = {412-418},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1998/hansen1998aaai-heuristic/}
}