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Approximate Solution Sampling (and Counting) on AND/OR spaces
Vibhav Gogate and Rina Dechter |
Abstract
In this paper, we describe a new algorithm for sampling solutions from
a uniform distribution over the solutions of a constraint network. Our new algorithm
improves upon the Sampling/Importance Resampling (SIR) component of
our previous scheme of SampleSearch-SIR by taking advantage of the decomposition
implied by the network’s AND/OR search space.We also describe how our
new scheme can approximately count and lower bound the number of solutions
of a constraint network. We demonstrate both theoretically and empirically that
our new algorithm yields far better performance than competing approaches.
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