SAS Significantly Boosts Sudoku Solving Accuracy

furongh · x · 2026-07-06

Sudoku perfectly illustrates this concept. The learned scheduling identified an easy-to-hard solving sequence, propagating constraints before tackling ambiguous cells. The results: the best heuristic achieved 82.0% accuracy, SAS reached 91.8%, and SAS combined with second-stage fine-tuning hit an impressive 97.5%.

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