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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,…

Many transit agencies operating paratransit and microtransit services have to respond to trip requests that arrive in real-time, which entails solving hard combinatorial and sequential decision-making problems under uncertainty. To avoid…

Graph neural networks have been successful for machine learning, as well as for combinatorial and graph problems such as the Subgraph Isomorphism Problem and the Traveling Salesman Problem. We describe an approach for computing graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-20 Alvin Chiu , Mithun Ghosh , Reyan Ahmed , Kwang-Sung Jun , Stephen Kobourov , Michael T. Goodrich

In this paper, we propose a new cooperative driving strategy for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) at unsignalized intersections. Based on the tree representation of the solution space for the passing order, we combine Monte Carlo…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Huile Xu , Yi Zhang , Li Li , Weixia Li

Graph neural networks are useful for learning problems, as well as for combinatorial and graph problems such as the Subgraph Isomorphism Problem and the Traveling Salesman Problem. We describe an approach for computing Steiner Trees by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-02 Reyan Ahmed , Mithun Ghosh , Kwang-Sung Jun , Stephen Kobourov

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

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

In high-energy particle physics, complex Monte Carlo (MC) simulations are needed to compare theory predictions to measurable quantities. Many and large MC samples are needed to be generated to take into account all the systematics.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-11-15 Valentina Guglielmi

Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) has received considerable interest due to its spectacular success in the difficult problem of computer Go and also proved beneficial in a range of other domains. A major issue that has received little…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Aurelien Pelissier , Atsuyoshi Nakamura , Koji Tabata

AlphaZero, using a combination of Deep Neural Networks and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), has successfully trained reinforcement learning agents in a tabula-rasa way. The neural MCTS algorithm has been successful in finding near-optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Prashank Kadam , Ruiyang Xu , Karl Lieberherr

We introduce a novel approach to the executable semantic object rearrangement problem. In this challenge, a robot seeks to create an actionable plan that rearranges objects within a scene according to a pattern dictated by a natural…

The detection of acoustic scenes is a challenging problem in which environmental sound events must be detected from a given audio signal. This includes classifying the events as well as estimating their onset and offset times. We approach…

Sound · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Turab Iqbal , Yong Xu , Qiuqiang Kong , Wenwu Wang

In this paper, we present the tidiness score-guided Monte Carlo tree search (TSMCTS), a novel framework designed to address the tabletop tidying up problem using only an RGB-D camera. We address two major problems for tabletop tidying up…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Hogun Kee , Wooseok Oh , Minjae Kang , Hyemin Ahn , Songhwai Oh

Modern route planners such as Google Maps and Apple Maps serve millions of users worldwide, optmizing routes in large-scale road networks where fast responses are required under diverse cost metrics including travel time, fuel consumption,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Muhammad Farhan , Henning Koehler

Probabilistic search algorithms, such as Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), have proven very effective in solving sequential decision-making tasks under uncertainty. However, interpreting asymmetric search trees that incorporate bandit-based…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Siqi Lu , Mirsaleh Bahavarnia , Hiba Baroud , Yixuan Zhang , Hemant Purohit , Ayan Mukhopadhyay

Maritime inventory routing optimization is an important yet challenging combinatorial optimization problem. We propose a machine learning-based local search approach for finding feasible solutions of large-scale maritime inventory routing…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-08-22 Rui Chen , Defeng Liu , Nan Jiang , Rishabh Gupta , Mustafa Kilinc , Andrea Lodi

In this work, we aim to develop an MLLM that understands and solves questions by learning to create each intermediate step of the reasoning involved till the final answer. To this end, we propose Collective Monte Carlo Tree Search (CoMCTS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Huanjin Yao , Jiaxing Huang , Wenhao Wu , Jingyi Zhang , Yibo Wang , Shunyu Liu , Yingjie Wang , Yuxin Song , Haocheng Feng , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

Nowadays, the field of Artificial Intelligence in Computer Games (AI in Games) is going to be more alluring since computer games challenge many aspects of AI with a wide range of problems, particularly general problems. One of these kinds…

Capsule networks are recently proposed as an alternative to modern neural network architectures. Neurons are replaced with capsule units that represent specific features or entities with normalized vectors or matrices. The activation of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-09 Haoyu Yang , Shuhe Li , Bei Yu

The Vehicle Routing Problem is about optimizing the routes of vehicles to meet the needs of customers at specific locations. The route graph consists of depots on several levels and customer positions. Several optimization methods have been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-18 László Kovács , Ali Jlidi