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Strength estimation and adjustment are crucial in designing human-AI interactions, particularly in games where AI surpasses human players. This paper introduces a novel strength system, including a strength estimator (SE) and an SE-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Chun Jung Chen , Chung-Chin Shih , Ti-Rong Wu

Games are often designed to shape player behavior in a desired way; however, it can be unclear how design decisions affect the space of behaviors in a game. Designers usually explore this space through human playtesting, which can be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-08-06 Alexander Zook , Brent Harrison , Mark O. Riedl

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have shown remarkable potential in automating machine learning tasks. However, existing LLM-based agents often struggle with low-diversity and suboptimal code generation. While recent work…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Zujie Liang , Feng Wei , Wujiang Xu , Lin Chen , Yuxi Qian , Xinhui Wu

The ability of a robot to plan complex behaviors with real-time computation, rather than adhering to predesigned or offline-learned routines, alleviates the need for specialized algorithms or training for each problem instance. Monte Carlo…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Benjamin Riviere , John Lathrop , Soon-Jo Chung

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

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithms have achieved great success on many challenging benchmarks (e.g., Computer Go). However, they generally require a large number of rollouts, making their applications costly. Furthermore, it is also…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Anji Liu , Jianshu Chen , Mingze Yu , Yu Zhai , Xuewen Zhou , Ji Liu

Neural network supported tree-search has shown strong results in a variety of perfect information multi-agent tasks. However, the performance of these methods on partial information games has generally been below competing approaches. Here…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Ryan Yu , Alex Olshevsky , Peter Chin

A novel method called mixed variable system Monte Carlo tree search (MVSMCTS) formulation is presented for optimization problems considering various types of variables with single and mixed continuous-discrete system. This method utilizes a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-10-31 Fu-Yao Ko , Katsuyuki Suzuki , Kazuo Yonekura

Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) is a popular choice for solving sequential anytime problems. However, it depends on a numeric feedback signal, which can be difficult to define. Real-time MCTS is a variant which may only rarely encounter…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-20 Tobias Joppen , Christian Wirth , Johannes Fürnkranz

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is an immensely popular search-based framework used for decision making. It is traditionally applied to domains where a perfect simulation model of the environment is available. We study and improve MCTS in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Farnaz Kohankhaki , Kiarash Aghakasiri , Hongming Zhang , Ting-Han Wei , Chao Gao , Martin Müller

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has showcased its efficacy across a broad spectrum of decision-making problems. However, its performance often degrades under vast combinatorial action space, especially where an action is composed of multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Yunhyeok Kwak , Inwoo Hwang , Dooyoung Kim , Sanghack Lee , Byoung-Tak Zhang

Non-monotone object rearrangement planning in confined spaces such as cabinets and shelves is a widely occurring but challenging problem in robotics. Both the robot motion and the available regions for object relocation are highly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Hanwen Ren , Ahmed H. Qureshi

The most widely used methods for toolpath planning in fused deposition 3D printing slice the input model into successive 2D layers in order to construct the toolpath. Unfortunately slicing-based methods can incur a substantial amount of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Chanyeol Yoo , Samuel Lensgraf , Robert Fitch , Lee M. Clemon , Ramgopal Mettu

The Job Shop Scheduling Problem (JSSP) is a well-known optimization problem in manufacturing, where the goal is to determine the optimal sequence of jobs across different machines to minimize a given objective. In this work, we focus on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-31 Laurie Boveroux , Damien Ernst , Quentin Louveaux

Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game unit generation is an unexplored area of Procedural Content Generation (PCG) research, which leaves the question of how to automatically generate interesting and balanced units unanswered. Creating unique and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Kynan Sorochan , Matthew Guzdial

High-dimensional design spaces underpin a wide range of physics-based modeling and computational design tasks in science and engineering. These problems are commonly formulated as constrained black-box searches over rugged objective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Suvo Banik , Troy D. Loeffler , Henry Chan , Sukriti Manna , Orcun Yildiz , Tom Peterka , Subramanian Sankaranarayanan

This article presents MCTS-BN, an adaptation of the Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm for the structural learning of Bayesian Networks (BNs). Initially designed for game tree exploration, MCTS has been repurposed to address the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Jorge D. Laborda , Pablo Torrijos , José M. Puerta , José A. Gámez

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

Games, including abstract board games, constitute a convenient ground to create, design, and improve new AI methods. In this field, Monte Carlo Tree Search is a popular algorithm family, aiming to build game trees and explore them…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Florian Richoux

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a widely-used strategy for online planning that combines Monte-Carlo sampling with forward tree search. Its success relies on the Upper Confidence bound for Trees (UCT) algorithm, an extension of the UCB…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-05 Tuan Dam , Odalric-Ambrym Maillard , Emilie Kaufmann