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The AI Seminar is a weekly meeting at the University of Alberta where researchers interested in artificial intelligence (AI) can share their research. Presenters include both local speakers from the University of Alberta and visitors from other institutions. Topics can be related in any way to artificial intelligence, from foundational theoretical work to innovative applications of AI techniques to new fields and problems.
On July 23, Amii Fellow and Canada CIFAR AI Chair Levi Lelis, presented “Policy and Heuristic-Guided Tree Search Algorithms" at the AI Seminar.
Heuristic search algorithms such as A* use a heuristic function to guide its search by focusing on states that are estimated to be closer to a goal state. In this talk, Levi explores the use of a policy, i.e., a probability distribution over actions, for solving single-agent deterministic problems by:
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