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New AAC method optimizes A* search heuristics, reducing expansions by up to 22.7%

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Researchers have developed the Architecturally Admissible Compressor (AAC), a novel method for optimizing landmark-based A* search heuristics. AAC adapts these heuristics to query demand within a fixed label-memory budget, offering two continuous relaxations of the ALT (A*, Landmarks, and Triangle inequality) selection process. Experiments show that AAC-CG, a variant of AAC, reduces A* expansions by up to 22.7% compared to farthest-point ALT (FPS-ALT) across various road networks and graph configurations, while achieving 99.6% of the canonical greedy heuristic value. AI

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New AAC method optimizes A* search heuristics, reducing expansions by up to 22.7%

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · An T. Le, Vien Ngo ·

    AAC: Admissible-by-Architecture Differentiable Landmark Compression for ALT

    arXiv:2604.20744v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We introduce the Architecturally Admissible Compressor (AAC), which adapts landmark-based A* heuristics to query demand under a fixed label-memory budget. AAC provides two continuous relaxations of ALT (A*, Landmarks, and Triang…

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