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Anytime Best+Depth-First Search for Bounding Marginal MAP
Radu Marinescu, Junkyu Lee, Alexander Ihler and Rina Dechter
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Abstract
We introduce new anytime search algorithms that combine
best-first with depth-first search into hybrid schemes for
Marginal MAP inference in graphical models. The main goal
is to facilitate the generation of upper bounds (via the bestfirst
part) alongside the lower bounds of solutions (via the
depth-first part) in an anytime fashion. We compare against
two of the best current state-of-the-art schemes and show
that our best+depth search scheme produces higher quality
solutions faster while also producing a bound on their accuracy,
which can be used to measure solution quality during
search. An extensive empirical evaluation demonstrates the
effectiveness of our new methods which enjoy the strength
of best-first (optimality of search) and of depth-first (memory
robustness), leading to solutions for difficult instances where
previous solvers were unable to find even a single solution.
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