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Disjoint Pattern Database Heuristics

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comparedtoManhattandistance.Thiscomesatthecostof550megabytesof maindiagonaltoobtainthereectedvalues. ordersofmagnitude,andtherunningtimebyafactorofovertwothousand, memory.Bycontrast,thebestnon-additivepatterndatabaseheuristicused Thislastheuristicreducesthenumberofnodegenerationsbyoverfour<br />

twelvetimesfasterthansimpleManhattandistance. byCulbersonandSchaeer[1],usingasimilaramountofmemory,generated almosttentimesmorenodesthenourbestdisjointdatabase,andranonly<br />

ourmostpowerfulheuristics.Weoptimallysolvedftyrandomproblem FindingoptimalsolutionstotheTwenty-FourPuzzleisonlypracticalwith 4.2 fromeachdatabaseisthesumofthenumberofmovesneededtosolveall reectionaboutthemaindiagonal,showninFigure5.Eachgroupconsists instanceswithIDA*,usingadisjointpatterndatabaseheuristic,andits<br />

fourgroupsoftilesfromthatstate.Theoverallheuristicisthemaximum ofthevaluesfromtheoriginalandreecteddatabases.Sincethereareonly ofsixtiles,requiring127;512;000entrieseach.Foragivenstate,thevalue<br />

twodierent-shapedgroups,a23blockoftiles,andanirregularblock surroundingtheblank,weonlyhavetostoretwodierenttables,withthe ofthesetwotables.Theheuristicvaluesforthe23grouprangefrom0to remainingvaluesobtainedbymappingthetilesandtheirpositionsintoone<br />

butthesetablescouldbecompressedaswell. byteperentry,thetotalamountofmemoryforbothtablesis243megabytes, 35moves,andfortheirregulargrouptheyrangefrom0to34moves.Atone<br />

Table3showstheinitialstate,lengthoftheoptimalsolution,andnumber Figure5:<strong>Disjoint</strong><strong>Database</strong>sforTwentyFourPuzzle<br />

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