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Recent research works establish deep neural networks as high performing tools for radar target detection, especially on challenging environments (presence of clutter or interferences, multi-target scenarii...). However, the usually large…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-30 Noé Lallouet , Tristan Cazenave , Cyrille Enderli , Stéphanie Gourdin

The AlphaZero/MuZero (A/MZ) family of algorithms has achieved remarkable success across various challenging domains by integrating Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with learned models. Learned models introduce epistemic uncertainty, which is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Yaniv Oren , Viliam Vadocz , Matthijs T. J. Spaan , Wendelin Böhmer

This paper introduces the Constrained Monte Carlo Tree Search (CMCTS) framework to enhance the mathematical reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLM). By incorporating a constrained action space, Process Reward Model (PRM), and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Qingwen Lin , Boyan Xu , Guimin Hu , Zijian Li , Zhifeng Hao , Keli Zhang , Ruichu Cai

This paper introduces Monte Carlo *-Minimax Search (MCMS), a Monte Carlo search algorithm for turned-based, stochastic, two-player, zero-sum games of perfect information. The algorithm is designed for the class of of densely stochastic…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-04-23 Marc Lanctot , Abdallah Saffidine , Joel Veness , Christopher Archibald , Mark H. M. Winands

Decision trees are highly famous in machine learning and usually acquire state-of-the-art performance. Despite that, well-known variants like CART, ID3, random forest, and boosted trees miss a probabilistic version that encodes prior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Efthyvoulos Drousiotis , Paul G. Spirakis

Diffusion models have recently emerged as a powerful tool for planning. However, unlike Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-whose performance naturally improves with inference-time computation scaling-standard diffusion-based planners offer only…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Jaesik Yoon , Hyeonseo Cho , Doojin Baek , Yoshua Bengio , Sungjin Ahn

Decision-making under uncertainty (DMU) is present in many important problems. An open challenge is DMU in non-stationary environments, where the dynamics of the environment can change over time. Reinforcement Learning (RL), a popular…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Geoffrey Pettet , Ayan Mukhopadhyay , Abhishek Dubey

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a relatively new sampling method with multiple variants in the literature. They can be applied to a wide variety of challenging domains including board games, video games, and energy-based problems to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Fred Valdez Ameneyro , Edgar Galvan , Anger Fernando Kuri Morales

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS)-based algorithms, such as MuZero and its derivatives, have achieved widespread success in various decision-making domains. These algorithms employ the reanalyze process to enhance sample efficiency from stale…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Chunyu Xuan , Yazhe Niu , Yuan Pu , Shuai Hu , Yu Liu , Jing Yang

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

This work presents the first study of using the popular Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) method combined with dedicated heuristics for solving the Weighted Vertex Coloring Problem. Starting with the basic MCTS algorithm, we gradually…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-08 Cyril Grelier , Olivier Goudet , Jin-Kao Hao

We consider the problem of using a heuristic policy to improve the value approximation by the Upper Confidence Bound applied in Trees (UCT) algorithm in non-adversarial settings such as planning with large-state space Markov Decision…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-06-27 Truong-Huy Dinh Nguyen , Wee-Sun Lee , Tze-Yun Leong

Bandit based methods for tree search have recently gained popularity when applied to huge trees, e.g. in the game of go (Gelly et al., 2006). The UCT algorithm (Kocsis and Szepesvari, 2006), a tree search method based on Upper Confidence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-14 Pierre-Arnaud Coquelin , Rémi Munos

Inference-time scaling strategies, particularly Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), have significantly enhanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, current approaches remain predominantly stateless, discarding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hao Lu , Haoyuan Huang , Yulin Zhou , Chen Li , Ningxin Zhu

In this article we propose a heuristic algorithm to explore search space trees associated with instances of combinatorial optimization problems. The algorithm is based on Monte Carlo tree search, a popular algorithm in game playing that is…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Jorik Jooken , Pieter Leyman , Tony Wauters , Patrick De Causmaecker

Iterative methods for computing matrix functions have been extensively studied and their convergence speed can be significantly improved with the right tuning of parameters and by mixing different iteration types. Handtuning the design…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Sungyoon Kim , Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath , Longling geng , Mert Pilanci

Taking into account future risk is essential for an autonomously operating robot to find online not only the best but also a safe action to execute. In this paper, we build upon the recently introduced formulation of probabilistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Andrey Zhitnikov , Vadim Indelman

Recent research suggests that tree search algorithms (e.g. Monte Carlo Tree Search) can dramatically boost LLM performance on complex mathematical reasoning tasks. However, they often require more than 10 times the computational resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ante Wang , Linfeng Song , Ye Tian , Baolin Peng , Dian Yu , Haitao Mi , Jinsong Su , Dong Yu

In Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era, quantum processing units (QPUs) suffer from, among others, highly limited connectivity between physical qubits. To make a quantum circuit effectively executable, a circuit transformation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-26 Xiangzhen Zhou , Yuan Feng , Sanjiang Li

Making inferences with a deep neural network on a batch of states is much faster with a GPU than making inferences on one state after another. We build on this property to propose Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithms using batched inferences.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-12 Tristan Cazenave