Parallelizing Multi-Objective A* Search (Extended Abstract)
Parallelizing Multi-Objective A* Search (Extended Abstract)
Saman Ahmadi, Nathan R. Sturtevant, Andrea Raith, Daniel Harabor, Mahdi Jalili
Proceedings of the Thirty-Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Sister Conferences Best Papers. Pages 8215-8220.
https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2026/915
The Multi-objective Shortest Path (MOSP) problem is a classic network optimization problem that aims to find all Pareto-optimal paths between two points in a graph with multiple edge costs. Recent studies on multi-objective search with A* (MOA*) have demonstrated strong performance on challenging MOSP instances. This paper presents a novel search framework that enables efficient parallelization of MOA* through different objective orderings and a unique upper-bounding strategy that, in certain cases, allows the problem dimensionality to be reduced to one. Results demonstrate that the proposed framework can significantly improve the performance of MOA*, with speedups increasing proportionally to the number of objectives.
Keywords:
Search: Heuristic search
AI: Planning and Scheduling
