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The combination of Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) and deep reinforcement learning is state-of-the-art in two-player perfect-information games. In this paper, we describe a search algorithm that uses a variant of MCTS which we enhanced by 1)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-26 Arta Seify , Michael Buro

Although RLVR has become an essential component for developing advanced reasoning skills in language models, contemporary studies have documented training plateaus after thousands of optimization steps, i.e., notable decreases in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Fang Wu , Weihao Xuan , Heli Qi , Ximing Lu , Aaron Tu , Li Erran Li , Yejin Choi

We explore applying the Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithm in a notoriously difficult task: tuning programs for high-performance deep learning and image processing. We build our framework on top of Halide and show that MCTS can…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2020-05-29 Ameer Haj-Ali , Hasan Genc , Qijing Huang , William Moses , John Wawrzynek , Krste Asanović , Ion Stoica

Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a family of sampling-based search algorithms widely used for online planning in sequential decision-making domains and at the heart of many recent advances in artificial intelligence. Understanding the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Yiyu Qian , Tim Miller , Zheng Qian , Liyuan Zhao

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

Active Inference, grounded in the Free Energy Principle, provides a powerful lens for understanding how agents balance exploration and goal-directed behavior in uncertain environments. Here, we propose a new planning framework, that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-27 Mawaba Pascal Dao , Adrian M. Peter

Retrosynthesis is a technique to plan the chemical synthesis of organic molecules, for example drugs, agro- and fine chemicals. In retrosynthesis, a search tree is built by analysing molecules recursively and dissecting them into simpler…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Marwin Segler , Mike Preuß , Mark P. Waller

Learning predictive world models is crucial for enhancing the planning capabilities of reinforcement learning (RL) agents. Recently, MuZero-style algorithms, leveraging the value equivalence principle and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Yuan Pu , Yazhe Niu , Zhenjie Yang , Jiyuan Ren , Hongsheng Li , Yu Liu

Bayesian optimization (BO) is a popular method for computationally expensive black-box optimization. However, traditional BO methods need to solve new problems from scratch, leading to slow convergence. Recent studies try to extend BO to a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Shukuan Wang , Ke Xue , Lei Song , Xiaobin Huang , Chao Qian

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

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has improved the performance of game engines in domains such as Go, Hex, and general game playing. MCTS has been shown to outperform classic alpha-beta search in games where good heuristic evaluations are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-06-23 Marc Lanctot , Mark H. M. Winands , Tom Pepels , Nathan R. Sturtevant

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) methods have achieved great success in many Artificial Intelligence (AI) benchmarks. The in-tree operations become a critical performance bottleneck in realizing parallel MCTS on CPUs. In this work, we develop…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Yuan Meng , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna

In this study, we explore the efficiency of the Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), a prominent decision-making algorithm renowned for its effectiveness in complex decision environments, contingent upon the volume of simulations conducted.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Ye Zhang , Mengran Zhu , Kailin Gui , Jiayue Yu , Yong Hao , Haozhan Sun

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

To reduce global carbon emissions and limit climate change, controlling energy consumption in buildings is an important piece of the puzzle. Here, we specifically focus on using a demand response (DR) algorithm to limit the energy…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-22 Fabio Pavirani , Gargya Gokhale , Bert Claessens , Chris Develder

Rewrite systems [6, 10, 12] have been widely employing equality saturation [9], which is an optimisation methodology that uses a saturated e-graph to represent all possible sequences of rewrite simultaneously, and then extracts the optimal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Guoliang He , Zak Singh , Eiko Yoneki

One of the most important AI research questions is to trade off computation versus performance since ``perfect rationality" exists in theory but is impossible to achieve in practice. Recently, Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) has attracted…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Weirui Ye , Pieter Abbeel , Yang Gao

Competitive program generation aims to automatically produce correct and efficient solutions for programming-contest problems under strict time and memory constraints. Existing LLM-based approaches often fail to perform explicit algorithmic…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Minnan Wei , Xiang Chen , Xiaoshuai Niu , Siyu Chen

Zero-shot text learning enables text classifiers to handle unseen classes efficiently, alleviating the need for task-specific training data. A simple approach often relies on comparing embeddings of query (text) to those of potential…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Tassallah Abdullahi , Ritambhara Singh , Carsten Eickhoff

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