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Why can constraint satisfaction algorithms outperform general search?

  • A.They use better heuristics than general search algorithms
  • B.They search a smaller state space than the general formulation
  • C.They are permitted to return approximate solutions
  • D.They exploit the structure of the variable representation

Answer: D

Because states are described by variables, an algorithm can detect that a partial assignment is already inconsistent and prune every completion of it at once, which an atomic representation cannot express. Heuristics such as most constrained variable are a further benefit of the same structure. The space is the same, and exact solutions are returned. The lesson that representation determines what can be exploited, established early in the subject, pays off concretely here.

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