Preliminary Empirical Evaluation of Anytime Weighted AND/OR Best-First Search for MAP
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چکیده
We explore the potential of anytime best-first search schemes for combinatorial optimization tasks over graphical models (e.g., MAP/MPE). We show that recent advances in extending best-first search into an anytime scheme have a potential for optimization for graphical models. Importantly, these schemes come with upper bound guarantees and are sometime competitive with known effective anytime branch-and-bound schemes.
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