Learning Inadmissible Heuristics during Search
published: July 21, 2011, recorded: June 2011, views: 4038
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Suboptimal search algorithms offer shorter solving times by sacrificing guaranteed solution optimality. While optimal search algorithms like A* and IDA* require admissible heuristics, suboptimal search algorithms need not constrain their guidance in this way. Previous work has explored using off-line training to transform admissible heuristics into more effective inadmissible ones. In this paper we demonstrate that this transformation can be performed on-line, during search. In addition to not requiring training instances and extensive precomputation, an on-line approach allows the learned heuristic to be tailored to a specific problem instance. We evaluate our techniques in four different benchmark domains using both greedy best-first search and bounded suboptimal search. We find that heuristics learned on-line result in both faster search and better solutions while relying only on information readily available in any best-first search.
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