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GATE Artificial Intelligence: Search: informed, uninformed and adversarial – Previous Year Questions

7 GATE previous year questions on Search: informed, uninformed and adversarial (Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Artificial Intelligence) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2024 DA Q23 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Let h 1 and h 2 be two admissible heuristics used in A* search. Which ONE of the following expressions is always an admissible heuristic?
  2. GATE 2024 DA Q25 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider the following statement: In adversarial search, – pruning can be applied to game trees of any depth where is the (m) value choice we have…
  3. GATE 2024 DA Q44 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Consider a state space where the start state is number 1. The successor function for the state numbered n returns two states numbered n+1 and n+2.…
  4. GATE 2025 DA Q43 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Consider game trees Tree-1 and Tree-2 as shown. The first level is a MAX agent and the second level is a MIN agent. The value in the square node is…
  5. GATE 2025 DA Q44 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – The state graph shows the action cost along the edges and the heuristic function h associated with each state. [Figure: A directed state graph. S goes…
  6. GATE 2026 DA Q13 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Which of the following algorithms is NOT an example of uninformed search?
  7. GATE 2026 DA Q30 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – Consider the game tree for a two-player turn-taking minimax game as shown in the figure. The value of a terminal node represents the utility of the…