Improving LaCAM for Scalable Eventually Optimal Multi-Agent Pathfinding

Authors: Keisuke Okumura

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Exhaustive experiments demonstrate their utility. For instance, La CAM sub-optimally solved 99% of the instances retrieved from the MAPF benchmark, where the number of agents varied up to a thousand, within ten seconds on a standard desktop PC, while ensuring eventual convergence to optima; developing a new horizon of MAPF algorithms.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Keisuke Okumura1,2 1National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 2University of Cambridge
Pseudocode Yes Algorithm 1 La CAM. ... Algorithm 2 PIBT ... Algorithm 3 La CAM ... Algorithm 4 procedure PIBT with swap
Open Source Code Yes The appendix and code are available at https://kei18.github.io/lacam2/.
Open Datasets Yes All experiments used four-connected grid maps retrieved from the MAPF benchmark [Stern et al., 2019].
Dataset Splits No The paper mentions using instances from the MAPF benchmark and increasing the number of agents, but it does not specify explicit training, validation, or testing splits for the data used in the experiments. It evaluates the algorithm directly on problem instances.
Hardware Specification Yes The experiments were run on a desktop PC with Intel Core i7-7820X 3.6 GHz CPU and 32 GB RAM.
Software Dependencies No La CAM was coded in C++. This only specifies the programming language, not any specific software dependencies with version numbers.
Experiment Setup Yes A maximum of 16 different instances were run in parallel using multi-threading. ... Unless mentioned, this section uses a timeout of 30 s for solving MAPF. ... with a small probability (e.g., 0.1%), the implementation reinserts a node of S instead of the found one.