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📗 [3 points] Let be an admissible heuristic from a state to the optimal goal, A* search with which ones of the following will be admissible?
Hint
See Fall 2019 Midterm Q1, Fall 2018 Midterm Q6, Fall 2017 Midterm Q10. Since is admissible, for any , . It means if , then it must be true that , i.e. is always admissible. Since can be arbitrarily large, only when for some or when , is never admissible.
📗 [3 points] Let be an admissible heuristic from a state to the optimal goal, A* search with which ones of the following will be admissible?
Hint
See Fall 2019 Midterm Q1, Fall 2018 Midterm Q6, Fall 2017 Midterm Q10. Since is admissible, for any , . It means if , then it must be true that , i.e. is always admissible. Since can be arbitrarily large, only when for some or when , is never admissible.
📗 [3 points] If and are both admissible heuristic functions, which ones of following are also admissible heuristic functions?
Hint
See Fall 2019 Midterm Q4 Q7 Q8 Q9, Fall 2018 Midterm Q5, Spring 2018 Midterm Q2, Fall 2006 Final Q3, Fall 2006 Midterm Q7, Fall 2005 Final Q3, Fall 2005 Midterm Q2. Since and are admissible, for any , and . It means if or , then it must be true that , i.e. is also admissible.
📗 [4 points] Run search algorithm on the following graph, starting from state 0 with the goal state being . Write down the expansion path (in the order of the states expanded). The heuristic function is shown as subscripts. Break tie by expanding the state with a smaller index.
📗 In case the diagram is not clear: the weights are (with heuristic values on the diagonal entries): .
Hint
See Fall 2019 Midterm Q2, Spring 2017 Midterm Q1, Fall 2012 Final Q15, Fall 2010 Midterm Q2, Fall 2009 Midterm Q3, Fall 2006 Midterm Q9, Fall 2005 Final Q10, Fall 2005 Midterm Q1. Priority queue in Uniform Cost Search is ordered by g(s). Priority queue in Best First Greedy Search is ordered by h(s). Priority queue in A Search is ordered by g(s)+h(s). When a state is deQueued from the priority queue, append it to the expansion path (list of expanded states), and add its successors to the queue.
📗 [4 points] Run search algorithm on the following graph, starting from state 0 with the goal state being . Write down the expansion path (in the order of the states expanded). The heuristic function is shown as subscripts. Break tie by expanding the state with a smaller index.
📗 In case the diagram is not clear: the weights are (with heuristic values on the diagonal entries): .
Hint
See Fall 2019 Midterm Q2, Spring 2017 Midterm Q1, Fall 2012 Final Q15, Fall 2010 Midterm Q2, Fall 2009 Midterm Q3, Fall 2006 Midterm Q9, Fall 2005 Final Q10, Fall 2005 Midterm Q1. Priority queue in Uniform Cost Search is ordered by g(s). Priority queue in Best First Greedy Search is ordered by h(s). Priority queue in A Search is ordered by g(s)+h(s). When a state is deQueued from the priority queue, append it to the expansion path (list of expanded states), and add its successors to the queue.
📗 [4 points] Let the states be 3D integer points with integer coordinates with boundary constrains and and . Each state has six successors or a subset thereof subject to the boundary constraints. The score of state is . Which local minimum will be reached if hill climbing is used starting from ? Enter the state, not the score.
Hint
See Fall 2017 Midterm Q9. Due to the convexity of the function, hill climbing will eventually reach the global minimum. If the coefficient in front of (or , ) is positive, then (or , ) should be as small as possible at the global minimum. If the coefficient in front of (or ) is negative, then (or , ) should be as large as possible at the global minimum.
📗 [3 points] In the following graph coloring problem, each node is either labeled as + or -. The score of the graph is the number of edges connecting two nodes with the same label (color). We are minimizing the score. If the successor function is to change the label of a single node, in hill climbing (here, valley finding), which node should we change in the following graph? Enter the index of the node (subscript in the diagram) or -1 if we are at a local minimum. Break ties by entering the node with the smaller index.
In case the diagram is not clear: the labels are (1 is +, 0 is -) and the indices are . Hint
See Fall 2006 Final Q2, Fall 2005 Final Q2, Fall 2005 Midterm Q3. Try flipping the label of all nine nodes, compute the change is score (i.e. the number of same-sign edges that are removed). The flip that leads to the largest decrease in score is the node to change in the next step.
📗 [3 points] Consider a state space where the states are positive integers between 1 and . State has two neighbors and (subject to the boundary constraints). State has score . If one runs the hill climbing algorithm, which initial states can reach the global minimum? Break ties by moving towards the global minimum. If there are multiple global minima, list the states that lead to all of them.
Hint
See Spring 2019 Midterm Q10, Fall 2017 Midterm Q8, Fall 2009 Midterm Q5. Try to solve the problem with a small and find the pattern. Alternatively, start with the global minimum , keep count the states while or .
📗 [2 points] In simulated annealing one accepts a transition from to an inferior neighbor with probability , where is the temperature parameter. Suppose = and = . At what temperature is the transition probability ?
📗 [3 points] Four individuals (i.e. candidate solutions) in the current generation are given by -digit ( dimensional) sequences: . Individual 1: ; Individual 2: ; Individual 3: ; Individual 4: . The fitness function is . What is the result of performing 1-point crossover for the sequences with the highest fitness (break ties by preferring the sequence that appears earlier in the list) with a cross-point between digit and digit .
📗 Note: the first line representing the first child should start with the sequence with the highest fitness, and the second line representing the second child should start with the sequence with the second highest fitness.
Hint
See Spring 2017 Midterm Q2. Compute the fitness of all four sequences and find the two with the highest fitness say . The crossover of the two sequences between digits and are and .
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📗 Some of the past exams referenced in the Hints can be found on Professor Zhu, Professor Liang and Professor Dyer's websites: Link, and Link.
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