Lecture 3 Note: Some slides and/or pictures are adapted from Lecture slides / Books of Dr Zafar Alvi. Text Book - Aritificial Intelligence Illuminated by Ben Coppin, Narosa Publishers. Ref Books
Artificial Intelligence- Structures & Strategies for Complex Problem Solving by George F. Luger, 4th edition, Pearson Education. Artificial Intelligence A Modern Approach by Stuart Russell & Peter Norvig. Artificial Intelligence, Third Edition by Patrick Henry Winston Outline
Problems and their representation Goal Driven VS Data Driven
Properties of search Methods Tree search algorithm Depth First algorithm Breadth First algorithm Iterative Deepening algorithm Problems and their Representations
Three men and three lions are on one side of a river, with a boat. They all want to get to the other side of the river. The boat can only hold one or two at a time. At no time should there be more lions than men on either side of the river, as this would probably result in the men being eaten.
Representation could be 3, 3, 1 0, 0, 0 Problems and their Representations Traveling Salesman problem (NP complete) Problems and their Representations Traversing a Maze
Data Driven or Goal Driven Search Data-driven search starts from an initial state and uses actions that are allowed to move forward until a goal is reached. This approach is also known as forward chaining. Search can start at the goal and work back
toward a start state, by seeing what moves could have led to the goal state. This is goaldriven search, also known as backward chaining. Properties of Search Methods
Complexity Completeness Optimality
Admissibility Irrevocability Complexity It is useful to describe how efficient that method is, over time and space. The time complexity of a method is related to
the length of time that the method would take to find a goal state. The space complexity is related to the amount of memory that the method needs to use. Completeness A search method is described as being
complete if it is guaranteed to find a goal state if one exists. A method that is not complete has the disadvantage that it cannot necessarily be believed if it reports that no solution exists. Optimality
A search method is optimal if it is guaranteed to find the best solution that exists. In other words, it will find the path to a goal state that involves taking the least number of steps. This does not mean that the search method itself is efficientit might take a great deal of time for an optimal search method to identify the optimal
solutionbut once it has found the solution, it is guaranteed to be the best one. Admissibility In some cases, the word optimal is used to describe an algorithm that finds a solution in the quickest possible time, in which case the
concept of admissibility is used in place of optimality. An algorithm is then defined as admissible if it is guaranteed to find the best solution. Irrevocability Methods that do not use backtracking, and
which therefore examine just one path, are described as irrevocable. Irrevocable search methods will often find suboptimal solutions to problems because they tend to be fooled by local optima solutions that look good locally but are less favorable when compared with other solutions
elsewhere in the search space. Tree search algorithms Basic idea: offline, simulated exploration of state space by generating successors of already-explored
Tree search example Tree search example Tree search example Uninformed search strategies
Uninformed search strategies use only the information available in the problem definition Depth-first search Breadth-first search Iterative deepening search etc
Depth-first search Expand deepest unexpanded node Implementation: put successors at front Depth-first search
Expand deepest unexpanded node Implementation: put successors at front Depth-first search Expand deepest unexpanded node
Implementation: put successors at front Depth-first search Expand deepest unexpanded node Implementation:
put successors at front Depth-first search Expand deepest unexpanded node Implementation: put successors at front
Depth-first search Expand deepest unexpanded node Implementation: fringe = LIFO queue, i.e., put successors at front
Depth-first search Expand deepest unexpanded node Implementation: fringe = LIFO queue, i.e., put successors at front
Depth-first search Expand deepest unexpanded node Implementation: put successors at front Depth-first search
Expand deepest unexpanded node Implementation: put successors at front Depth-first search Expand deepest unexpanded node
Implementation: put successors at front Depth-first search Expand deepest unexpanded node Implementation:
put successors at front Depth-first search Expand deepest unexpanded node Implementation: put successors at front
Depth-first search Function depth () { queue = []; // initialize an empty queue state = root_node; // initialize the start state
while (true) { if is_goal (state) then return SUCCESS else add_to_front_of_queue (successors (state)); if queue == []
then report FAILURE; state = queue [0]; // state = first item in queue remove_first_item_from (queue); } }
Breadth-first search Expand shallowest unexpanded node Implementation: new successors go at end Breadth-first search
Expand shallowest unexpanded node Implementation: new successors go at end Breadth-first search Expand shallowest unexpanded node
Implementation: new successors go at end Breadth-first search Expand shallowest unexpanded node Implementation:
fringe is a FIFO queue, i.e., new successors go at end Breadth-first search Function breadth () { queue = []; // initialize an empty queue
state = root_node; // initialize the start state while (true) { if is_goal (state) then return SUCCESS else add_to_back_of_queue (successors (state)); if queue == []
then report FAILURE; state = queue [0]; // state = first item in queue remove_first_item_from (queue); } } Iterative deepening search l =0
Iterative deepening search l =1 Iterative deepening search l =2 Iterative deepening search l =3
Iterative deepening search Number of nodes generated in a depth-limited search to depth d with branching factor b: NDLS = b0 + b1 + b2 + + bd-2 + bd-1 + bd GP Number of nodes generated in an iterative deepening search to depth d
with branching factor b: NIDS = (d+1)b0 + d b^1 + (d-1)b^2 + + 3bd-2 +2bd-1 + 1bd For b = 10, d = 5, NDLS = 1 + 10 + 100 + 1,000 + 10,000 + 100,000 = 111,111 NIDS = 6 + 50 + 400 + 3,000 + 20,000 + 100,000 = 123,456
Overhead = (123,456 - 111,111)/111,111 = 11%
