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We present TransZero, a model-based reinforcement learning algorithm that removes the sequential bottleneck in Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). Unlike MuZero, which constructs its search tree step by step using a recurrent dynamics model,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Emil Malmsten , Wendelin Böhmer

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), which leverages Upper Confidence Bound for Trees (UCTs) to balance exploration and exploitation through randomized sampling, is instrumental to solving complex planning problems. However, for multi-agent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Sizhe Tang , Jiayu Chen , Tian Lan

Building agents based on tree-search planning capabilities with learned models has achieved remarkable success in classic decision-making problems, such as Go and Atari. However, it has been deemed challenging or even infeasible to extend…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Yazhe Niu , Yuan Pu , Zhenjie Yang , Xueyan Li , Tong Zhou , Jiyuan Ren , Shuai Hu , Hongsheng Li , Yu Liu

The combination of Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) with deep reinforcement learning has led to significant advances in artificial intelligence. However, AlphaZero, the current state-of-the-art MCTS algorithm, still relies on handcrafted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Jean-Bastien Grill , Florent Altché , Yunhao Tang , Thomas Hubert , Michal Valko , Ioannis Antonoglou , Rémi Munos

We introduce a recursive AlphaZero-style Monte--Carlo tree search algorithm, "RMCTS". The advantage of RMCTS over AlphaZero's MCTS-UCB is speed. In RMCTS, the search tree is explored in a breadth-first manner, so that network inferences…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-12 Keith Frankston , Benjamin Howard

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

Monte-Carlo planning and Reinforcement Learning (RL) are essential to sequential decision making. The recent AlphaGo and AlphaZero algorithms have shown how to successfully combine these two paradigms in order to solve large scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-17 Tuan Dam , Carlo D'Eramo , Jan Peters , Joni Pajarinen

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has proven highly effective in solving complex planning tasks by balancing exploration and exploitation using Upper Confidence Bound for Trees (UCT). However, existing work have not considered MCTS-based…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Zuyuan Zhang , Tian Lan

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has profoundly influenced reinforcement learning (RL) by integrating planning and learning in tasks requiring long-horizon reasoning, exemplified by the AlphaZero family of algorithms. Central to MCTS is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Maximilian Weichart

We introduce an approach aimed at enhancing the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) through an iterative preference learning process inspired by the successful strategy employed by AlphaZero. Our work leverages Monte…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Yuxi Xie , Anirudh Goyal , Wenyue Zheng , Min-Yen Kan , Timothy P. Lillicrap , Kenji Kawaguchi , Michael Shieh

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithms such as AlphaGo and MuZero have achieved superhuman performance in many challenging tasks. However, the computational complexity of MCTS-based algorithms is influenced by the size of the search…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Yangqing Fu , Ming Sun , Buqing Nie , Yue Gao

How resources are deployed to secure critical targets in networks can be modelled by Network Security Games (NSGs). While recent advances in deep learning (DL) provide a powerful approach to dealing with large-scale NSGs, DL methods such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-20 Wanqi Xue , Bo An , Chai Kiat Yeo

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a powerful approach to designing game-playing bots or solving sequential decision problems. The method relies on intelligent tree search that balances exploration and exploitation. MCTS performs random…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Maciej Świechowski , Konrad Godlewski , Bartosz Sawicki , Jacek Mańdziuk

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a powerful algorithm for solving complex decision-making problems. This paper presents an optimized MCTS implementation applied to the FrozenLake environment, a classic reinforcement learning task…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Esteban Aldana Guerra

The combination of deep learning and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has shown to be effective in various domains, such as board and video games. AlphaGo represented a significant step forward in our ability to learn complex board games, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-29 Alexandre Borges , Arlindo Oliveira

MuZero Unplugged presents a promising approach for offline policy learning from logged data. It conducts Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) with a learned model and leverages Reanalyze algorithm to learn purely from offline data. For good…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Zichen Liu , Siyi Li , Wee Sun Lee , Shuicheng Yan , Zhongwen Xu

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

The AlphaZero algorithm has been successfully applied in a range of discrete domains, most notably board games. It utilizes a neural network, that learns a value and policy function to guide the exploration in a Monte-Carlo Tree Search.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Johannes Czech , Patrick Korus , Kristian Kersting

Autonomous driving holds promise for increased safety, optimized traffic management, and a new level of convenience in transportation. While model-based reinforcement learning approaches such as MuZero enables long-term planning, the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Tong Zhou , Erli Lyu , Jiaole Wang , Guangdu Cen , Ziqi Zha , Senmao Qi , Max Q. -H. Meng

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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