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by YeGoblynQueenne 8 days ago
OP:

>> using human-like(?) reasoning means cutting down the search space by having some sort of insight or intuition which allows you to prune branches from the entire tree

So according to the OP there's a search of a tree and it also uses pruning btw, so I want to know what search they mean. Why are you asking?
1 comments
tptacek 7 days ago
Because your question doesn't make sense; this isn't how implicit search works.
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YeGoblynQueenne 7 days ago
"Implicit search" with pruning?
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wmorgan 7 days ago
Why not? Lasker said, “when you see a good move, look for a better one.” That was tree pruning advice for an implicit search.
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YeGoblynQueenne 7 days ago
Sorry, that's just egregious abuse of terminology. Either you're pruning the branches of a tree (or other graph, potentially) when you're doing a tree search, or you don't do pruning. Specifically advice taking (if that's what you mean) is not pruning.
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tptacek 7 days ago
I don't understand why you're scare quoting "implicit search".
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YeGoblynQueenne 7 days ago
It's a direct quotation from your comment, not a "scare quote". How does "implicit search" do pruning? Can you explain?

Edit: Turns out "implicit search" is actually a thing in the literature, albeit introduced in a single paper I could find that claims Diffusion Modelling does it:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19805

I don't think anyone has picked that term up. One more for the scrapheap then, oh well, next paper.

No mention of pruning though. So what did you, or the other guys mean?

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