Generalized Label Reduction for Merge-and-Shrink Heuristics

Authors: Silvan Sievers, Martin Wehrle, Malte Helmert

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental As a case study, we implement a nonlinear merge strategy based on the original work on mergeand-shrink heuristics in model checking by Dr ager et al. We show experimental results that highlight the usefulness of generalized label reduction in general and non-linear merge strategies in particular.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Universit at Basel Basel, Switzerland {silvan.sievers,martin.wehrle,malte.helmert}@unibas.ch
Pseudocode No The paper describes methods in prose and mathematical notation, but does not include structured pseudocode or algorithm blocks.
Open Source Code No The paper mentions using the Fast Downward planning system but does not provide any link or explicit statement about releasing the source code for the methodology described in this paper.
Open Datasets Yes We evaluate on all benchmarks from the International Planning Competitions for optimal planning (up to 2011) that only use language features supported by the merge-and-shrink framework (44 domains and 1396 instances in total).
Dataset Splits No The paper evaluates on a set of benchmark instances but does not describe a traditional train/validation/test split for a dataset, as it concerns heuristic generation and application for planning tasks rather than training a machine learning model.
Hardware Specification Yes The experiments were performed on Intel Xeon E5-2660 CPUs running at 2.2 GHz, using a time bound of 30 minutes and a memory bound of 2 GB per run.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions using the 'Fast Downward planning system (Helmert 2006)' but does not provide specific version numbers for this system or any other software dependencies used in their implementation.
Experiment Setup Yes We varied along three dimensions: label reduction method, merge strategy and shrink strategy... We consider a shrink strategy based on greedy bisimulation with no limit on transition system size (G-N ) as well as shrink strategies based on (exact) bisimulation with different size limits N for the intermediate transition system size (B-N10k, B-N50k, B-N100k, BN200k, B-N ). The threshold parameter (Helmert et al. 2014) was set to N for the strategies with bounded transition system size and to 1 for the unbounded ones (G-N and B-N ), following Nissim, Hoffmann, and Helmert (2011a).