Notice: The reproducibility variables underlying each score are classified using an automated LLM-based pipeline, validated against a manually labeled dataset. LLM-based classification introduces uncertainty; scores should be interpreted as estimates. Full accuracy metrics and methodology are described in [1]

Enhanced Partial Expansion A*

Authors: M. Goldenberg, A. Felner, R. Stern, G. Sharon, N. Sturtevant, R. C. Holte, J. Schaeffer

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Reproducibility Variable Result LLM Response
Research Type Experimental Experimental studies show significant improvements in run-time and memory performance for several standard benchmark applications.
Researcher Affiliation Academia Meir Goldenberg EMAIL Ariel Felner EMAIL Roni Stern EMAIL Guni Sharon EMAIL Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Beer-Sheva, Israel Nathan Sturtevant EMAIL The University of Denver, Denver, USA Robert C. Holte EMAIL Jonathan Schaeffer EMAIL The University of Alberta Edmonton, Canada
Pseudocode Yes Procedure 1 A*, PEA* and EPEA*. Procedure 2 IDA* and EPEIDA*. Procedure 3 Algorithmic component of an additive PDBs-based OSF for MAPF.
Open Source Code No The paper does not provide concrete access to source code for the methodology described by the authors. While it mentions using Korf's IDA* code, it does not offer the authors' implementation of EPEA* or EPEIDA*.
Open Datasets Yes Optimal solutions to random instances of the 15-puzzle were first found by Korf (1985) using IDA* and the MD heuristic. Korf has graciously made this code available to the public. The pancake puzzle (Dweighter, 1975). Rubik s Cube was invented in 1974 by Erno Rubik of Hungary.
Dataset Splits No The paper focuses on combinatorial search problems, where experiments are run on problem 'instances' (e.g., 100 random instances for the 15-puzzle, pancake puzzle, Rubik's cube, or 1,000 generated instances for MAPF). The concept of training/test/validation splits, as typically found in machine learning contexts, is not applicable or explicitly provided for these search problem instances.
Hardware Specification Yes The timing results were obtained on Dell Optiplex 760.
Software Dependencies No The paper mentions using "Korf's IDA* code" for the 15-puzzle experiments, but it does not specify any version numbers for this or any other software components used in their methodology.
Experiment Setup Yes All algorithmic variants were run under the ID framework as described in the footnote. All variants were given up to two minutes and two gigabytes of memory per instance.