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GONDOR to the Rescue: Satisficing Planning with Low Memory

Source: arXiv cs.AI

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GONDOR to the Rescue: Satisficing Planning with Low Memory

arXiv:2605.28454v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Greedy Best-First Search (GBFS) is the dominant approach for solving search problems where the goal can be estimated with a heuristic, such as planning, route finding, navigation, and pathfinding. This is especially true when the memory is tightly constrained, such as planning on edge devices. To alleviate that, we present GONDOR (Greedy Online Navigation with Dynamic Outpost-based Re-search), a memory-efficient extension of GBFS that allows search to continue under strict memory limits by periodically compressing the search tree while retaining

Why this matters
Why now

The continuous drive towards deploying advanced AI on resource-constrained edge devices necessitates new, memory-efficient search algorithms like GONDOR.

Why it’s important

This development addresses a critical bottleneck in AI deployment, enabling more complex autonomous functions in real-world, embedded systems with limited processing power.

What changes

AI planning and execution can now be performed more effectively on edge devices due to significantly reduced memory requirements, expanding the scope of AI applications outside of major data centers.

Winners
  • · Edge AI hardware developers
  • · Robotics industry
  • · Autonomous vehicle manufacturers
  • · Developers of AI agents
Losers
  • · Traditional high-memory AI systems for planning
Second-order effects
Direct

Increased adoption of AI planning in memory-constrained environments, such as drones and consumer devices.

Second

Acceleration in the development and deployment of truly autonomous agents and robots that operate independently without constant cloud connectivity.

Third

New competitive landscape emerges for AI hardware, favoring designs optimized for efficient local processing over raw computational power.

Editorial confidence: 90 / 100 · Structural impact: 55 / 100
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