Parallel Recursive Best-First AND/OR Search for Exact MAP Inference in Graphical Models

Part of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 28 (NIPS 2015)

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Authors

Akihiro Kishimoto, Radu Marinescu, Adi Botea

Abstract

The paper presents and evaluates the power of parallel search for exact MAP inference in graphical models. We introduce a new parallel shared-memory recursive best-first AND/OR search algorithm, called SPRBFAOO, that explores the search space in a best-first manner while operating with restricted memory. Our experiments show that SPRBFAOO is often superior to the current state-of-the-art sequential AND/OR search approaches, leading to considerable speed-ups (up to 7-fold with 12 threads), especially on hard problem instances.