The Statistical Inference Method in Heuristic Search Techniques

Abstract

In this paper we present a new heuristic searching algorithm by introducing statistical inference method on the basic of algorithm A*. It's called algorithm SA*. The following results have been proved. (1) Algorithm SA* in superior to algorithm A*. (2) The mean complexity of SA* is CN2, but in some case A* exhibits exponential complexity (eN). (3) In a (N,d,F)- game tree, the mean complexity of SA* is CN2, but the complexity of other known game-searching algoritham (α-β , SSS* etc.) is at least dN. (4) The maximal storage-space required by SA* is C,N. This shows that under a given significance level SA* is superior to other known algorithm (e.g. A*, B*, α-β, SSS* etc.).

Cite

Text

Zhang and Zhang. "The Statistical Inference Method in Heuristic Search Techniques." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1983.

Markdown

[Zhang and Zhang. "The Statistical Inference Method in Heuristic Search Techniques." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1983.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1983/zhang1983ijcai-statistical/)

BibTeX

@inproceedings{zhang1983ijcai-statistical,
  title     = {{The Statistical Inference Method in Heuristic Search Techniques}},
  author    = {Zhang, Ling and Zhang, Bo},
  booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  year      = {1983},
  pages     = {757-759},
  url       = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1983/zhang1983ijcai-statistical/}
}