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Memory intensive AND/OR search for combinatorial optimization in graphical models. (English) Zbl 1185.68649
Summary: We explore the impact of caching during search in the context of the recent framework of AND/OR search in graphical models. Specifically, we extend the depth-first AND/OR Branch-and-Bound tree search algorithm to explore an AND/OR search graph by equipping it with an adaptive caching scheme similar to good and no-good recording. Furthermore, we present best-first search algorithms for traversing the same underlying AND/OR search graph and compare both algorithms empirically. We focus on two common optimization problems in graphical models: finding the Most Probable Explanation in belief networks and solving Weighted CSPs. In an extensive empirical evaluation, we demonstrate conclusively the superiority of the memory intensive AND/OR search algorithms on a variety of benchmarks.

##### MSC:
 68T20 Problem solving in the context of artificial intelligence (heuristics, search strategies, etc.) 90C27 Combinatorial optimization
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