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We describe mts, a generic framework for parallelizing certain types of tree search programs including reverse search, backtracking, branch and bound and satisfiability testing. It abstracts and generalizes the ideas used in parallelizing…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-03-29 David Avis , Charles Jordan

In this paper, we present a new algorithm for parallel Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS). It is based on the pipeline pattern and allows flexible management of the control flow of the operations in parallel MCTS. The pipeline pattern provides…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-04-04 S. Ali Mirsoleimani , Aske Plaat , Jaap van den Herik , Jos Vermaseren

We describe a new parallel implementation, mplrs, of the vertex enumeration code lrs that uses the MPI parallel environment and can be run on a network of computers. The implementation makes use of a C wrapper that essentially uses the…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2017-10-13 David Avis , Charles Jordan

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has proven to be capable of solving challenging tasks in domains such as Go, chess and Atari. Previous research has developed parallel versions of MCTS, exploiting today's multiprocessing architectures. These…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Karl Kurzer , Christoph Hörtnagl , J. Marius Zöllner

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a widely used approach for policy improvement through search with increasing popularity for real world applications. Due to the sequential and deterministic nature of its search, runtime-scaling of MCTS…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Yaniv Oren , Viliam Vadocz , Joery A. de Vries , Wendelin Böhmer , Matthijs T. J. Spaan , Hendrik Baier

It is common practice to use large computational resources to train neural networks, as is known from many examples, such as reinforcement learning applications. However, while massively parallel computing is often used for training models,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Xiufeng Yang , Tanuj Kr Aasawat , Kazuki Yoshizoe

Despite its groundbreaking success in Go and computer games, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is computationally expensive as it requires a substantial number of rollouts to construct the search tree, which calls for effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Anji Liu , Yitao Liang , Ji Liu , Guy Van den Broeck , Jianshu Chen

LiTS is a modular Python framework for LLM reasoning via tree search. It decomposes tree search into three reusable components (Policy, Transition, and RewardModel) that plug into algorithms like MCTS and BFS. A decorator-based registry…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xinzhe Li , Yaguang Tao

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is an effective test-time compute scaling (TTCS) method for improving the reasoning performance of large language models, but its highly variable execution time leads to severe long-tail latency in practice.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hongbeen Kim , Juhyun Lee , Sanghyeon Lee , Kwanghoon Choi , Jaehyuk Huh

Tree search-based methods have made significant progress in enhancing the code generation capabilities of large language models. However, due to the difficulty in effectively evaluating intermediate algorithmic steps and the inability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yuanyuan Lin , Xiangyu Ouyang , Teng Zhang , Kaixin Sui

In this paper we explore the application of simultaneous move Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) based online framework for tactical maneuvering between two unmanned aircrafts. Compared to other techniques, MCTS enables efficient search over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Kunal Srivastava , Amit Surana

We present Model Predictive Trees (MPT), a receding horizon tree search algorithm that improves its performance by reusing information efficiently. Whereas existing solvers reuse only the highest-quality trajectory from the previous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-26 John Lathrop , Benjamin Rivi`ere , Jedidiah Alindogan , Soon-Jo Chung

Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) is one of the most capable online search algorithms for sequential planning tasks, with significant applications in areas such as resource allocation and transit planning. Despite its strong performance in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Ziyan An , Hendrik Baier , Abhishek Dubey , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Meiyi Ma

The single-track railway train timetabling problem (TTP) is an important and complex problem. This article proposes an integrated Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) computing framework that combines heuristic methods, unsupervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Feiyu Yang

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has been proposed as a transformative approach to join-order optimization in database query processing, with recent frameworks such as AlphaJoin and HyperQO claiming to outperform traditional methods. However,…

Tree kernels are fundamental tools that have been leveraged in many applications, particularly those based on machine learning for Natural Language Processing tasks. In this paper, we devise a parallel implementation of the sequential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Souad Taouti , Hadda Cherroun , Djelloul Ziadi

We propose a novel Parallel Monte Carlo tree search with Batched Simulations (PMBS) algorithm for accelerating long-horizon, episodic robotic planning tasks. Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) is an effective heuristic search algorithm for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-15 Baichuan Huang , Abdeslam Boularias , Jingjin Yu

Tree of Thoughts (ToT) enhances Large Language Model (LLM) reasoning by structuring problem-solving as a spanning tree. However, recent methods focus on search accuracy while overlooking computational efficiency. The challenges of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Yifu Ding , Wentao Jiang , Shunyu Liu , Yongcheng Jing , Jinyang Guo , Yingjie Wang , Jing Zhang , Zengmao Wang , Ziwei Liu , Bo Du , Xianglong Liu , Dacheng Tao

Tree search has become as a representative framework for test-time reasoning with large language models (LLMs), exemplified by methods such as Tree-of-Thought and Monte Carlo Tree Search. However, it remains difficult to provide instant and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Jiaxi Li , Yucheng Shi , Xiao Huang , Jin Lu , Ninghao Liu

Tree search methods have demonstrated impressive performance in code generation. Previous methods combine tree search with reflection that summarizes past mistakes to achieve iterative improvement. However, these methods face significant…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Qingyao Li , Wei Xia , Kounianhua Du , Xinyi Dai , Ruiming Tang , Yasheng Wang , Yong Yu , Weinan Zhang
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