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1 Problem solving and search hapter 3 hapter 3 1

2 eminders ssignment 0 due 5pm today ssignment 1 posted, due 2/9 ection 105 will move to 9-10am starting next week hapter 3 2

3 Outline Problem-solving agents Problem types Problem formulation Example problems asic search algorithms hapter 3 3

4 estricted form of general agent: Problem-solving agents function imple-problem-olving-gent( percept) returns an action static: seq, an action sequence, initially empty state, some description of the current world state goal, a goal, initially null problem, a problem formulation state Update-tate(state, percept) if seq is empty then goal Formulate-Goal(state) problem Formulate-Problem(state, goal) seq earch( problem) action ecommendation(seq, state) seq emainder(seq, state) return action Note: this is offline problem solving; solution executed eyes closed. Online problem solving involves acting without complete knowledge. hapter 3 4

5 Example: omania On holiday in omania; currently in rad. Flight leaves tomorrow from ucharest Formulate goal: be in ucharest Formulate problem: states: various cities actions: drive between cities Find solution: sequence of cities, e.g., rad, ibiu, Fagaras, ucharest hapter 3 5

6 71 Oradea Example: omania Neamt Zerind 75 rad Timisoara Dobreta 151 ibiu 99 Fagaras 80 imnicu Vilcea ugoj Mehadia 120 Pitesti ucharest raiova 90 Giurgiu 87 Iasi Urziceni Vaslui Hirsova 86 Eforie hapter 3 6

7 Problem types Deterministic, fully observable = single-state problem gent knows exactly which state it will be in; solution is a sequence Non-observable = conformant problem gent may have no idea where it is; solution (if any) is a sequence Nondeterministic and/or partially observable = contingency problem percepts provide new information about current state solution is a contingent plan or a policy often interleave search, execution Unknown state space = exploration problem ( online ) hapter 3 7

8 Example: vacuum world ingle-state, start in #5. olution?? hapter 3 8

9 Example: vacuum world ingle-state, start in #5. olution?? [ight, uck] onformant, start in {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} e.g., ight goes to {2, 4, 6, 8}. olution?? hapter 3 9

10 Example: vacuum world ingle-state, start in #5. olution?? [ight, uck] onformant, start in {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} e.g., ight goes to {2, 4, 6, 8}. olution?? [ight, uck, ef t, uck] ontingency, start in #5 Murphy s aw: uck can dirty a clean carpet ocal sensing: dirt, location only. olution?? hapter 3 10

11 Example: vacuum world ingle-state, start in #5. olution?? [ight, uck] onformant, start in {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8} e.g., ight goes to {2, 4, 6, 8}. olution?? [ight, uck, ef t, uck] ontingency, start in #5 Murphy s aw: uck can dirty a clean carpet ocal sensing: dirt, location only. olution?? [ight, if dirt then uck] hapter 3 11

12 ingle-state problem formulation problem is defined by four items: initial state e.g., at rad successor function (x) = set of action state pairs e.g., (rad) = { rad Zerind, Zerind,...} goal test, can be explicit, e.g., x = at ucharest implicit, e.g., N odirt(x) path cost (additive) e.g., sum of distances, number of actions executed, etc. c(x, a, y) is the step cost, assumed to be 0 solution is a sequence of actions leading from the initial state to a goal state hapter 3 12

13 electing a state space eal world is absurdly complex state space must be abstracted for problem solving (bstract) state = set of real states (bstract) action = complex combination of real actions e.g., rad Zerind represents a complex set of possible routes, detours, rest stops, etc. For guaranteed realizability, any real state in rad must get to some real state in Zerind (bstract) solution = set of real paths that are solutions in the real world Each abstract action should be easier than the original problem! hapter 3 13

14 Example: vacuum world state space graph states?? actions?? goal test?? path cost?? hapter 3 14

15 Example: vacuum world state space graph states??: integer dirt and robot locations (ignore dirt amounts etc.) actions?? goal test?? path cost?? hapter 3 15

16 Example: vacuum world state space graph states??: integer dirt and robot locations (ignore dirt amounts etc.) actions??: eft, ight, uck, NoOp goal test?? path cost?? hapter 3 16

17 Example: vacuum world state space graph states??: integer dirt and robot locations (ignore dirt amounts etc.) actions??: eft, ight, uck, NoOp goal test??: no dirt path cost?? hapter 3 17

18 Example: vacuum world state space graph states??: integer dirt and robot locations (ignore dirt amounts etc.) actions??: eft, ight, uck, NoOp goal test??: no dirt path cost??: 1 per action (0 for NoOp) hapter 3 18

19 Example: The 8-puzzle tart tate Goal tate states?? actions?? goal test?? path cost?? hapter 3 19

20 Example: The 8-puzzle tart tate Goal tate states??: integer locations of tiles (ignore intermediate positions) actions?? goal test?? path cost?? hapter 3 20

21 Example: The 8-puzzle tart tate Goal tate states??: integer locations of tiles (ignore intermediate positions) actions??: move blank left, right, up, down (ignore unjamming etc.) goal test?? path cost?? hapter 3 21

22 Example: The 8-puzzle tart tate Goal tate states??: integer locations of tiles (ignore intermediate positions) actions??: move blank left, right, up, down (ignore unjamming etc.) goal test??: = goal state (given) path cost?? hapter 3 22

23 Example: The 8-puzzle tart tate Goal tate states??: integer locations of tiles (ignore intermediate positions) actions??: move blank left, right, up, down (ignore unjamming etc.) goal test??: = goal state (given) path cost??: 1 per move [Note: optimal solution of n-puzzle family is NP-hard] hapter 3 23

24 Example: robotic assembly P states??: real-valued coordinates of robot joint angles parts of the object to be assembled actions??: continuous motions of robot joints goal test??: complete assembly with no robot included! path cost??: time to execute hapter 3 24

25 Tree search algorithms asic idea: offline, simulated exploration of state space by generating successors of already-explored states (a.k.a. expanding states) function Tree-earch( problem, strategy) returns a solution, or failure initialize the search tree using the initial state of problem loop do if there are no candidates for expansion then return failure choose a leaf node for expansion according to strategy if the node contains a goal state then return the corresponding solution else expand the node and add the resulting nodes to the search tree end hapter 3 25

26 Tree search example rad ibiu Timisoara Zerind rad Fagaras Oradea imnicu Vilcea rad ugoj rad Oradea hapter 3 26

27 Tree search example rad ibiu Timisoara Zerind rad Fagaras Oradea imnicu Vilcea rad ugoj rad Oradea hapter 3 27

28 Tree search example rad ibiu Timisoara Zerind rad Fagaras Oradea imnicu Vilcea rad ugoj rad Oradea hapter 3 28

29 Implementation: states vs. nodes state is a (representation of) a physical configuration node is a data structure constituting part of a search tree includes parent, children, depth, path cost g(x) tates do not have parents, children, depth, or path cost! parent, action tate Node depth = 6 g = state The Expand function creates new nodes, filling in the various fields and using the uccessorfn of the problem to create the corresponding states. hapter 3 29

30 Implementation: general tree search function Tree-earch( problem, fringe) returns a solution, or failure fringe Insert(Make-Node(Initial-tate[problem]), fringe) loop do if fringe is empty then return failure node emove-front(fringe) if Goal-Test(problem, tate(node)) then return node fringe Insertll(Expand(node, problem), fringe) function Expand( node, problem) returns a set of nodes successors the empty set for each action, result in uccessor-fn(problem, tate[node]) do s a new Node Parent-Node[s] node; ction[s] action; tate[s] result Path-ost[s] Path-ost[node] + tep-ost(node, action, s) Depth[s] Depth[node] + 1 add s to successors return successors hapter 3 30

31 earch strategies strategy is defined by picking the order of node expansion trategies are evaluated along the following dimensions: completeness does it always find a solution if one exists? time complexity number of nodes generated/expanded space complexity maximum number of nodes in memory optimality does it always find a least-cost solution? Time and space complexity are measured in terms of b maximum branching factor of the search tree d depth of the least-cost solution m maximum depth of the state space (may be ) hapter 3 31

32 Uninformed search strategies Uninformed strategies use only the information available in the problem definition readth-first search Uniform-cost search Depth-first search Depth-limited search Iterative deepening search hapter 3 32

33 Expand shallowest unexpanded node readth-first search Implementation: fringe is a FIFO queue, i.e., new successors go at end D E F G hapter 3 33

34 Expand shallowest unexpanded node readth-first search Implementation: fringe is a FIFO queue, i.e., new successors go at end D E F G hapter 3 34

35 Expand shallowest unexpanded node readth-first search Implementation: fringe is a FIFO queue, i.e., new successors go at end D E F G hapter 3 35

36 Expand shallowest unexpanded node readth-first search Implementation: fringe is a FIFO queue, i.e., new successors go at end D E F G hapter 3 36

37 Properties of breadth-first search omplete?? hapter 3 37

38 Properties of breadth-first search omplete?? Yes (if b is finite) Time?? hapter 3 38

39 Properties of breadth-first search omplete?? Yes (if b is finite) Time?? 1 + b + b 2 + b b d + b(b d 1) = O(b d+1 ), i.e., exp. in d pace?? hapter 3 39

40 Properties of breadth-first search omplete?? Yes (if b is finite) Time?? 1 + b + b 2 + b b d + b(b d 1) = O(b d+1 ), i.e., exp. in d pace?? O(b d+1 ) (keeps every node in memory) Optimal?? hapter 3 40

41 Properties of breadth-first search omplete?? Yes (if b is finite) Time?? 1 + b + b 2 + b b d + b(b d 1) = O(b d+1 ), i.e., exp. in d pace?? O(b d+1 ) (keeps every node in memory) Optimal?? Yes (if cost = 1 per step); not optimal in general pace is the big problem; can easily generate nodes at 100M/sec so 24hrs = 8640G. hapter 3 41

42 Expand least-cost unexpanded node Uniform-cost search Implementation: fringe = queue ordered by path cost, lowest first Equivalent to breadth-first if step costs all equal omplete?? Yes, if step cost ɛ Time?? # of nodes with g cost of optimal solution, O(b /ɛ ) where is the cost of the optimal solution pace?? # of nodes with g cost of optimal solution, O(b /ɛ ) Optimal?? Yes nodes expanded in increasing order of g(n) hapter 3 42

43 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 43

44 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 44

45 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 45

46 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 46

47 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 47

48 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 48

49 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 49

50 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 50

51 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 51

52 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 52

53 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 53

54 Expand deepest unexpanded node Depth-first search Implementation: fringe = IFO queue, i.e., put successors at front D E F G H I J K M N O hapter 3 54

55 Properties of depth-first search omplete?? hapter 3 55

56 Properties of depth-first search omplete?? No: fails in infinite-depth spaces, spaces with loops Modify to avoid repeated states along path complete in finite spaces Time?? hapter 3 56

57 Properties of depth-first search omplete?? No: fails in infinite-depth spaces, spaces with loops Modify to avoid repeated states along path complete in finite spaces Time?? O(b m ): terrible if m is much larger than d but if solutions are dense, may be much faster than breadth-first pace?? hapter 3 57

58 Properties of depth-first search omplete?? No: fails in infinite-depth spaces, spaces with loops Modify to avoid repeated states along path complete in finite spaces Time?? O(b m ): terrible if m is much larger than d but if solutions are dense, may be much faster than breadth-first pace?? O(bm), i.e., linear space! Optimal?? hapter 3 58

59 Properties of depth-first search omplete?? No: fails in infinite-depth spaces, spaces with loops Modify to avoid repeated states along path complete in finite spaces Time?? O(b m ): terrible if m is much larger than d but if solutions are dense, may be much faster than breadth-first pace?? O(bm), i.e., linear space! Optimal?? No hapter 3 59

60 Depth-limited search = depth-first search with depth limit l, i.e., nodes at depth l have no successors ecursive implementation: function Depth-imited-earch( problem, limit) returns soln/fail/cutoff ecursive-d(make-node(initial-tate[problem]), problem, limit) function ecursive-d(node, problem, limit) returns soln/fail/cutoff cutoff-occurred? false if Goal-Test(problem, tate[node]) then return node else if Depth[node] = limit then return cutoff else for each successor in Expand(node, problem) do result ecursive-d(successor, problem, limit) if result = cutoff then cutoff-occurred? true else if result failure then return result if cutoff-occurred? then return cutoff else return failure hapter 3 60

61 Iterative deepening search function Iterative-Deepening-earch( problem) returns a solution inputs: problem, a problem for depth 0 to do result Depth-imited-earch( problem, depth) if result cutoff then return result end hapter 3 61

62 Iterative deepening search l = 0 imit = 0 hapter 3 62

63 Iterative deepening search l = 1 imit = 1 hapter 3 63

64 Iterative deepening search l = 2 imit = 2 D E F G D E F G D E F G D E F G D E F G D E F G D E F G D E F G hapter 3 64

65 Iterative deepening search l = 3 imit = 3 D E F G D E F G D E F G D E F G H I J K M N O H I J K M N O H I J K M N O H I J K M N O D E F G D E F G D E F G D E F G H I J K M N O H I J K M N O H I J K M N O H I J K M N O D E F G D E F G D E F G D E F G H I J K M N O H I J K M N O H I J K M N O H I J K M N O hapter 3 65

66 omplete?? Properties of iterative deepening search hapter 3 66

67 Properties of iterative deepening search omplete?? Yes Time?? hapter 3 67

68 Properties of iterative deepening search omplete?? Yes Time?? (d + 1)b 0 + db 1 + (d 1)b b d = O(b d ) pace?? hapter 3 68

69 Properties of iterative deepening search omplete?? Yes Time?? (d + 1)b 0 + db 1 + (d 1)b b d = O(b d ) pace?? O(bd) Optimal?? hapter 3 69

70 Properties of iterative deepening search omplete?? Yes Time?? (d + 1)b 0 + db 1 + (d 1)b b d = O(b d ) pace?? O(bd) Optimal?? Yes, if step cost = 1 an be modified to explore uniform-cost tree Numerical comparison for b = 10 and d = 5, solution at far right leaf: N(ID) = , , , 000 = 123, 450 N(F) = , , , , 990 = 1, 111, 100 ID does better because other nodes at depth d are not expanded F can be modified to apply goal test when a node is generated hapter 3 70

71 ummary of algorithms riterion readth- Uniform- Depth- Depth- Iterative First ost First imited Deepening omplete? Yes Yes No Yes, if l d Yes Time b d+1 b /ɛ b m b l b d pace b d+1 b /ɛ bm bl bd Optimal? Yes Yes No No Yes hapter 3 71

72 epeated states Failure to detect repeated states can turn a linear problem into an exponential one! D hapter 3 72

73 Graph search function Graph-earch( problem, fringe) returns a solution, or failure closed an empty set fringe Insert(Make-Node(Initial-tate[problem]), fringe) loop do if fringe is empty then return failure node emove-front(fringe) if Goal-Test(problem, tate[node]) then return node if tate[node] is not in closed then add tate[node] to closed fringe Insertll(Expand(node, problem), fringe) end hapter 3 73

74 ummary Problem formulation usually requires abstracting away real-world details to define a state space that can feasibly be explored Variety of uninformed search strategies Iterative deepening search uses only linear space and not much more time than other uninformed algorithms Graph search can be exponentially more efficient than tree search hapter 3 74

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