Difference between revisions of "Beam Search"

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Start: CURRENT.STATES := initial.state
 
Start: CURRENT.STATES := initial.state
:while(not '''CONTAINS_GOAL'''(CURRENT.STATES)) do
+
:while(not ''CONTAINS_GOAL''(CURRENT.STATES)) do
::CANDIDATE.STATES := NEXT
+
::CANDIDATE.STATES := ''NEXT''(CURRENT.STATES)
 +
::''SCORE''(CANDIDATE.STATES)
 +
::CURRENT.STATES := ''PRUNE''(CANDIDATE.STATES)

Revision as of 01:11, 2 November 2011

Beam a heuristic search method. It used for decoding in many areas including in Machine Translation and speech recognition.

Algorithm

The pseudocode for beam search is:

Start: CURRENT.STATES := initial.state

while(not CONTAINS_GOAL(CURRENT.STATES)) do
CANDIDATE.STATES := NEXT(CURRENT.STATES)
SCORE(CANDIDATE.STATES)
CURRENT.STATES := PRUNE(CANDIDATE.STATES)