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Many robotic tasks, such as inverse kinematics, motion planning, and optimal control, can be formulated as optimization problems. Solving these problems involves addressing nonlinear kinematics, complex contact dynamics, long-horizon…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Teng Xue , Yan Zhang , Amirreza Razmjoo , Sylvain Calinon

While the complex reasoning capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) has attracted significant attention, single-agent systems often encounter inherent performance ceilings in complex tasks such as code generation. Multi-agent…

Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) is extremely popular in computer Go which determines each action by enormous simulations in a broad and deep search tree. However, human experts select most actions by pattern analysis and careful evaluation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-06-14 Jinzhuo Wang , Wenmin Wang , Ronggang Wang , Wen Gao

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a sampling best-first method to search for optimal decisions. The success of MCTS depends heavily on how the MCTS statistical tree is built and the selection policy plays a fundamental role in this. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Fred Valdez Ameneyro , Edgar Galvan

The discovery of patterns that accurately discriminate one class label from another remains a challenging data mining task. Subgroup discovery (SD) is one of the frameworks that enables to elicit such interesting hypotheses from labeled…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-12-07 Guillaume Bosc , Jean-François Boulicaut , Chedy Raïssi , Mehdi Kaytoue

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

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has shown its strength for a lot of deterministic and stochastic examples, but literature lacks reports of applications to real world industrial processes. Common reasons for this are that there is no…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Dorina Weichert , Felix Horchler , Alexander Kister , Marcus Trost , Johannes Hartung , Stefan Risse

Autonomous mobile robots enable increased flexibility of manufacturing systems. The design and operating strategy of such a fleet of robots requires careful consideration of both fixed and operational costs. In this paper, a Monte-Carlo…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-05 T. M. J. T. Baltussen , M. Goutham , M. Menon , S. G. Garrow , M. Santillo , S. Stockar

Despite their outstanding capabilities, large language models (LLMs) are prone to hallucination and producing factually incorrect information. This challenge has spurred efforts in attributed text generation, which prompts LLMs to generate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Junyi Li , Hwee Tou Ng

In many applications of computer algebra large expressions must be simplified to make repeated numerical evaluations tractable. Previous works presented heuristically guided improvements, e.g., for Horner schemes. The remaining expression…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-12-04 Ben Ruijl , Jos Vermaseren , Aske Plaat , Jaap van den Herik

In the world of embedded systems, optimizing actions with the uncertain costs of multiple resources is a complex challenge. Existing methods include plan building based on Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), an approach that thrives in multiple…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-18 Franco Cordeiro , Samuel Tardieu , Laurent Pautet

Adversarial self-play in two-player games has delivered impressive results when used with reinforcement learning algorithms that combine deep neural networks and tree search. Algorithms like AlphaZero and Expert Iteration learn tabula-rasa,…

One weakness of Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is its sample efficiency which can be addressed by building and using state and/or action abstractions in parallel to the tree search such that information can be shared among nodes of the same…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Robin Schmöcker , Alexander Dockhorn , Bodo Rosenhahn

The UCT algorithm, which combines the UCB algorithm and Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), is currently the most widely used variant of MCTS. Recently, a number of investigations into applying other bandit algorithms to MCTS have produced…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-05-13 Yun-Ching Liu , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Inference-time search algorithms such as Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) may seem unnecessary when generating natural language text based on state-of-the-art reinforcement learning such as Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO). In this paper,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Jiacheng Liu , Andrew Cohen , Ramakanth Pasunuru , Yejin Choi , Hannaneh Hajishirzi , Asli Celikyilmaz

This paper introduces a new paradigm for minimax game-tree search algo- rithms. MT is a memory-enhanced version of Pearls Test procedure. By changing the way MT is called, a number of best-first game-tree search algorithms can be simply and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-04-08 Aske Plaat , Jonathan Schaeffer , Wim Pijls , Arie de Bruin

There exists a broad class of sequencing problems, for example, in proteins and polymers that can be formulated as a heuristic search algorithm that involve decision making akin to a computer game. AI gaming algorithms such as Monte Carlo…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-06-08 Tarak K Patra , Troy D. Loeffler , Subramanian K R S Sankaranarayanan

This paper presents a novel approach to automated playtesting for the prediction of human player behavior and experience. It has previously been demonstrated that Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) game-playing agents can predict both game…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Shaghayegh Roohi , Christian Guckelsberger , Asko Relas , Henri Heiskanen , Jari Takatalo , Perttu Hämäläinen

Dynamic resource allocation (DRA) problems are an important class of dynamic stochastic optimization problems that arise in a variety of important real-world applications. DRA problems are notoriously difficult to solve to optimality since…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2014-05-22 Dimitris Bertsimas , J. Daniel Griffith , Vishal Gupta , Mykel J. Kochenderfer , Velibor V. Mišić , Robert Moss

Classical policy gradient (PG) methods in reinforcement learning frequently converge to suboptimal local optima, a challenge exacerbated in large or complex environments. This work investigates Policy Gradient with Tree Search (PGTS), an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Uri Koren , Navdeep Kumar , Uri Gadot , Giorgia Ramponi , Kfir Yehuda Levy , Shie Mannor