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Cost-Partitioned Merge-and-Shrink Heuristics for Optimal Classical Planning

Silvan Sievers, Florian Pommerening, Thomas Keller, Malte Helmert

Abstract

Cost partitioning is a method for admissibly combining admissible heuristics. In this work, we extend this concept to merge-and-shrink (M&S) abstractions that may use labels that do not directly correspond to operators. We investigate how optimal and saturated cost partitioning (SCP) interact with M&S transformations and develop a method to compute SCPs during the computation of M&S. Experiments show that SCP significantly improves M&S on standard planning benchmarks.

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BibTeX
@inproceedings{ijcai2020p574,
  title     = {Cost-Partitioned Merge-and-Shrink Heuristics for Optimal Classical Planning},
  author    = {Sievers, Silvan and Pommerening, Florian and Keller, Thomas and Helmert, Malte},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-20}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization},
  editor    = {Christian Bessiere},
  pages     = {4152--4160},
  year      = {2020},
  month     = {7},
  note      = {Main track},
  doi       = {10.24963/ijcai.2020/574},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2020/574},
}