Subject
Computer Science
Topic
Artificial Intelligence
With left-to-right alpha-beta search on a full binary tree whose leaves are 8,7,6,5,1,2,3,4, how many leaf evaluations are pruned?
With left-to-right alpha-beta search on a full binary tree whose leaves are 8,7,6,5,1,2,3,4, how many leaf evaluations are pruned?
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2Explanation
The left MIN node gets min(8, 6) = 6, so MAX already has 6. On the right, the first MAX child gives 2, so that MIN node is at most 2 and its remaining leaves 3 and 4 are skipped: 2 leaves pruned.Related questions
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