Questions about algorithmic thinking

[Keplerrrrrrrr]

Hello, thanks for your outstanding work!
I am interested in your paper "Adaptive Path Masking", the idea of expanding and sampling the nodes in the graph.
Is it a kind of Heuristically Search?

[HelloElwin]

Hi, thanks for the question! I think there's a difference between them. Expanding and sampling are used to generate the transition paths from anchor nodes. The process stops after a few steps (as specified in the hyper-parameters) and it is not 'searching' for something. Instead, it simply produces randomly generated transition paths from anchor nodes.