The accuracy of search heuristics: an empirical study on knapsack problems

  • Authors:
  • Daniel H. Leventhal;Meinolf Sellmann

  • Affiliations:
  • Brown University, Department of Computer Science, Providence, RI;Brown University, Department of Computer Science, Providence, RI

  • Venue:
  • CPAIOR'08 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Integration of AI and OR techniques in constraint programming for combinatorial optimization problems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Theoretical models for the evaluation of quickly improving search strategies, like limited discrepancy search, are based on specific assumptions regarding the probability that a value selection heuristic makes a correct prediction. We provide an extensive empirical evaluation of value selection heuristics for knapsack problems. We investigate how the accuracy of search heuristics varies as a function of depth in the search-tree, and how the accuracies of heuristic predictions are affected by the relative strength of inference methods like pruning and constraint propagation.