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New algorithm optimizes decision-making under variable costs

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Researchers have developed a novel branch-and-bound algorithm designed to construct cost-optimal decision strategies for evaluating propositional formulas. This algorithm aims to minimize the expected cost by considering variable costs for information acquisition and a probability distribution over truth assignments. The approach includes heuristics for variable selection, pruning, and caching, and is presented as the first practical exact algorithm for this problem. Experiments show scalability and the trade-off between efficiency and quality with a greedy beam-search variant, while theoretical analysis confirms the problem's #P-hard complexity. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xia Zong, Tuomo Lehtonen, Jussi Rintanen ·

    Cost-Optimal Decision Diagrams for Stochastic Boolean Function Evaluation

    arXiv:2606.24672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In many decision-making scenarios, acquiring information incurs different costs. We consider the problem of constructing a deterministic evaluation strategy that minimizes the expected cost of evaluating a propositional formula unde…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Jussi Rintanen ·

    Cost-Optimal Decision Diagrams for Stochastic Boolean Function Evaluation

    In many decision-making scenarios, acquiring information incurs different costs. We consider the problem of constructing a deterministic evaluation strategy that minimizes the expected cost of evaluating a propositional formula under variable costs and a probability distribution …

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