What Matters in Hierarchical Search for Combinatorial Reasoning Problems?

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Auteurs principaux: Zawalski, Michał, Góral, Gracjan, Tyrolski, Michał, Wiśnios, Emilia, Budrowski, Franciszek, Cygan, Marek, Kuciński, Łukasz, Miłoś, Piotr
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author Zawalski, Michał
Góral, Gracjan
Tyrolski, Michał
Wiśnios, Emilia
Budrowski, Franciszek
Cygan, Marek
Kuciński, Łukasz
Miłoś, Piotr
author_facet Zawalski, Michał
Góral, Gracjan
Tyrolski, Michał
Wiśnios, Emilia
Budrowski, Franciszek
Cygan, Marek
Kuciński, Łukasz
Miłoś, Piotr
contents Efficiently tackling combinatorial reasoning problems, particularly the notorious NP-hard tasks, remains a significant challenge for AI research. Recent efforts have sought to enhance planning by incorporating hierarchical high-level search strategies, known as subgoal methods. While promising, their performance against traditional low-level planners is inconsistent, raising questions about their application contexts. In this study, we conduct an in-depth exploration of subgoal-planning methods for combinatorial reasoning. We identify the attributes pivotal for leveraging the advantages of high-level search: hard-to-learn value functions, complex action spaces, presence of dead ends in the environment, or using data collected from diverse experts. We propose a consistent evaluation methodology to achieve meaningful comparisons between methods and reevaluate the state-of-the-art algorithms.
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spellingShingle What Matters in Hierarchical Search for Combinatorial Reasoning Problems?
Zawalski, Michał
Góral, Gracjan
Tyrolski, Michał
Wiśnios, Emilia
Budrowski, Franciszek
Cygan, Marek
Kuciński, Łukasz
Miłoś, Piotr
Machine Learning
Efficiently tackling combinatorial reasoning problems, particularly the notorious NP-hard tasks, remains a significant challenge for AI research. Recent efforts have sought to enhance planning by incorporating hierarchical high-level search strategies, known as subgoal methods. While promising, their performance against traditional low-level planners is inconsistent, raising questions about their application contexts. In this study, we conduct an in-depth exploration of subgoal-planning methods for combinatorial reasoning. We identify the attributes pivotal for leveraging the advantages of high-level search: hard-to-learn value functions, complex action spaces, presence of dead ends in the environment, or using data collected from diverse experts. We propose a consistent evaluation methodology to achieve meaningful comparisons between methods and reevaluate the state-of-the-art algorithms.
title What Matters in Hierarchical Search for Combinatorial Reasoning Problems?
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.03361