Uninformed Search: CS 106: Artificial Intelligence
Uninformed Search: CS 106: Artificial Intelligence
Uninformed Search
Search Problems
Reflex agents:
Choose action based on current percept (and
maybe memory)
May have memory or a model of the world’s
current state
Do not consider the future consequences of
their actions
Consider how the world IS
Planning agents:
Ask “what if”
Decisions based on (hypothesized)
consequences of actions
Must have a model of how the world evolves in
response to actions
Must formulate a goal (test)
Consider how the world WOULD BE
A state space
“N”, 1.0
A successor function
(with actions, costs)
“E”, 1.0
A start state and a goal test
State space:
Cities
Successor function:
Roads: Go to adjacent city with
cost = distance
Start state:
Cà Mau
Goal test:
Is state == TP. Hồ Chí Minh?
Solution?
What’s in a State Space?
The world state includes every last detail of the environment
A search state keeps only the details needed for planning (abstraction)
World state:
Agent positions: 120
Food count: 30
Ghost positions: 12
Agent facing: NSEW
How many
World states?
120x(230)x(122)x4
States for pathing?
120
States for eat-all-dots?
120x(230)
State Space Graphs and Search Trees
State Space Graphs
We can rarely build this full graph in memory Tiny search graph for a tiny
(it’s too big), but it’s a useful idea search problem
Search Trees
This is now / start
“N”, 1.0 “E”, 1.0
Possible futures
A search tree:
A “what if” tree of plans and their outcomes
The start state is the root node
Children correspond to successors
Nodes show states, but correspond to PLANS that achieve those states
For most problems, we can never actually build the whole tree
State Space Graphs vs. Search Trees
Each NODE in in
State Space Graph the search tree is Search Tree
an entire PATH in
the state space S
G graph. e p
a d
b c
b c e h r q
e
d f a a h r p q f
S h We construct both
on demand – and p q f q c G
p q r
we construct as q c a
G
little as possible.
a
Quiz: State Space Graphs vs. Search Trees
Consider this 4-state graph: How big is its search tree (from S)?
S G
Important ideas:
Fringe/Frontier
Expansion
Exploration strategy
Implementation: e
d f
Fringe is a LIFO stack S h
p q r
d e p
b c e h r q
a a h r p q f
p q f q c G
q c G a
a
Depth-First Search
DFS: Is it optimal?
Search Algorithm Properties
Search Algorithm Properties
Complete: Guaranteed to find a solution if one exists?
Optimal: Guaranteed to find the least cost path?
Time complexity?
Space complexity? b
1 node
… b nodes
b2 nodes
Cartoon of search tree:
m tiers
b is the branching factor
m is the maximum depth
solutions at various depths
bm nodes
Number of nodes in entire tree?
1 + b + b2 + …. bm = O(bm)
Depth-First Search (DFS) Properties
What nodes DFS expand?
Some left prefix of the tree. 1 node
b
Could process the whole tree! … b nodes
If m is finite, takes time O(bm) b2 nodes
m tiers
How much space does the fringe take?
Only has siblings on path to root, so O(bm)
Is it complete? bm nodes
m could be infinite, so only if we prevent
cycles.
Is it optimal?
No, it finds the “leftmost” solution,
regardless of depth or cost
Breadth-First Search
Strategy: expand a shallowest node first
Breadth-First Search
Strategy: expand a a G
shallowest node first b c
Implementation: Fringe e
d f
is a FIFO queue S h
p q r
d e p
Search
b c e h r q
Tiers
a a h r p q f
p q f q c G
q c G a
a
Breadth-First Search
Breadth-First Search: Is it optimal?
Breadth-First Search (BFS) Properties
What nodes does BFS expand?
Processes all nodes above shallowest solution b
1 node
Let depth of shallowest solution be s … b nodes
s tiers
Search takes time O(bs) b2 nodes
Is it complete? bm nodes
s must be finite if a solution exists, so yes!
Is it optimal?
Only if costs are all 1 (more on costs later)
Breadth-First Search (BFS) Properties
Quiz: DFS vs BFS
DFS vs BFS
S 0
d 3 e 9 p 1
b 4 c e 5 h 17 r 11 q 16
11
Cost a 6 a h 13 r 7 p q f
contours
p q f 8 q c G
q 11 c G 10 a
a
Uniform Cost Search
Uniform Cost Search: Is it optimal?
Uniform Cost Search (UCS) Properties
What nodes does UCS expand?
Processes all nodes with cost less than cheapest solution!
b c1
If that solution costs C* and arcs cost at least , then the …
“effective depth” is roughly C*/ C*/ “tiers”
c2
Takes time O(b ) (exponential in effective depth)
C*/
c3
Is it complete?
Assuming best solution has a finite cost and minimum arc cost
is positive, yes!
Is it optimal?
Yes!
Uniform Cost Issues
Remember: UCS explores increasing cost c1
…
contours c2
c3
The bad:
Explores options in every “direction”
No information about goal location Start Goal