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Monte Carlo Tree Search is a cornerstone algorithm for online planning, and its root-parallel variant is widely used when wall clock time is limited but best performance is desired. In environments with continuous action spaces, how to best…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Junlin Xiao , Victor-Alexandru Darvariu , Bruno Lacerda , Nick Hawes

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a fundamental sampling-based search algorithm widely used for online planning in sequential decision-making domains. Despite its success in driving recent advances in artificial intelligence, understanding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Yiyu Qian , Liyuan Zhao , Tim Miller

We propose a parallel algorithm for local, on the fly, model checking of a fragment of CTL that is well-suited for modern, multi-core architectures. This model-checking algorithm takes bene t from a parallel state space construction…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Rodrigo Tacla Saad , Silvano Dal Zilio , Bernard Berthomieu

When processing large amounts of data, the rate at which reading and writing can take place is a critical factor. High energy physics data processing relying on ROOT is no exception. The recent parallelisation of LHC experiments' software…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-11 Guilherme Amadio , Brian Bockelman , Philippe Canal , Danilo Piparo , Enric Tejedor , Zhe Zhang

Today the LHC offline computing relies heavily on CPU resources, despite the interest in compute accelerators, such as GPUs, for the longer term future. The number of cores per CPU socket has continued to increase steadily, reaching the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-05 Christopher Jones , Patrick Gartung

Today, very large amounts of data are produced and stored in all branches of society including science. Mining these data meaningfully has become a considerable challenge and is of the broadest possible interest. The size, both in numbers…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Andreas Vitalis

The discrete wavelet transform can be found at the heart of many image-processing algorithms. Until now, the transform on general-purpose processors (CPUs) was mostly computed using a separable lifting scheme. As the lifting scheme consists…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-27 David Barina , Pavel Najman , Petr Kleparnik , Michal Kula , Pavel Zemcik

We propose a provably correct Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) algorithm for solving risk-aware Markov decision processes (MDPs) with entropic risk measure (ERM) objectives. We provide a non-asymptotic analysis of our proposed algorithm,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Pedro P. Santos , Jacopo Silvestrin , Alberto Sardinha , Francisco S. Melo

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a powerful algorithm for solving complex decision-making problems. This paper presents an optimized MCTS implementation applied to the FrozenLake environment, a classic reinforcement learning task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Esteban Aldana Guerra

Rewrite systems [6, 10, 12] have been widely employing equality saturation [9], which is an optimisation methodology that uses a saturated e-graph to represent all possible sequences of rewrite simultaneously, and then extracts the optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Guoliang He , Zak Singh , Eiko Yoneki

The increasing number of processing elements and decreas- ing memory to core ratio in modern high-performance platforms makes efficient strong scaling a key requirement for numerical algorithms. In order to achieve efficient scalability on…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-14 Michael Lange , Gerard Gorman , Michele Weiland , Lawrence Mitchell , James Southern

This paper introduces COR-MCTS (Conservation of Resources - Monte Carlo Tree Search), a novel tactical decision-making approach for automated driving focusing on maneuver planning over extended horizons. Traditional decision-making…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Karim Essalmi , Fernando Garrido , Fawzi Nashashibi

This work describes the challenges presented by porting parts ofthe Gysela code to the Intel Xeon Phi coprocessor, as well as techniques used for optimization, vectorization and tuning that can be applied to other applications. We evaluate…

Computational Physics · Physics 2015-08-04 G. Latu , M. Haefele , J. Bigot , V. Grandgirard , T. Cartier-Michaud , F. Rozar

This paper presents a batch-parallel 2-3 tree T in an asynchronous dynamic multithreading model that supports searches, insertions and deletions in sorted batches and has essentially optimal parallelism, even under the restrictive QRMW…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Wei Quan Lim

This paper presents an efficient approach to object manipulation planning using Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to find contact sequences and an efficient ADMM-based trajectory optimization algorithm to evaluate the dynamic feasibility of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Huaijiang Zhu , Avadesh Meduri , Ludovic Righetti

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) methods are drawing great interest after yielding breakthrough results in computer Go. This paper proposes a Bayesian approach to MCTS that is inspired by distributionfree approaches such as UCT [13], yet…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-03-19 Gerald Tesauro , V T Rajan , Richard Segal

Automated program repair with large language models remains challenging at the repository level due to long-horizon reasoning requirements and the limitations of autoregressive decoding. We present CodePilot, a hybrid framework that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yixuan Liang

In this paper, we study the parallelization of the dedispersion algorithm on many-core accelerators, including GPUs from AMD and NVIDIA, and the Intel Xeon Phi. An important contribution is the computational analysis of the algorithm, from…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-01-20 Alessio Sclocco , Henri E. Bal , Jason Hessels , Joeri van Leeuwen , Rob V. van Nieuwpoort

Generative Flow Networks (GFlowNets) treat sampling from distributions over compositional discrete spaces as a sequential decision-making problem, training a stochastic policy to construct objects step by step. Recent studies have revealed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Nikita Morozov , Daniil Tiapkin , Sergey Samsonov , Alexey Naumov , Dmitry Vetrov

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a class of methods for solving complex decision-making problems through the synergy of Monte-Carlo planning and Reinforcement Learning (RL). The highly combinatorial nature of the problems commonly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Tuan Dam , Carlo D'Eramo , Jan Peters , Joni Pajarinen