6.034 Artificial Intelligence - Recitations, fall 2004 online slides on search

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Analysis

Repeat some work, but repeated work is only fraction of work on last (unrepeated) level

\([1] \;+\; [1+b] \;+\; [1+b+b^2] \;+\; \cdots \;+\; [1+b+b^2+ \ldots +b^d]\)

Repeated work is approximately $1/b$ of total work (negligible)

Least-length solution but not least-cost solution

Is there a better way to decide thresholds? Yes!

IDA* search (Like A* search but we avoid the space issues with A* by running it iteratively - more later)