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The quality of opponent Artificial Intelligence (AI) in fighting videogames is crucial. Some other game genres can rely on their story or visuals, but fighting games are all about the adversarial experience. In this paper, we will introduce…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Ignacio Gajardo , Felipe Besoain , Nicolas A. Barriga

We present a general algorithm to order moves so as to speedup exact game solvers. It uses online learning of playout policies and Monte Carlo Tree Search. The learned policy and the information in the Monte Carlo tree are used to order…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-16 Tristan Cazenave

Popular Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) algorithms for online planning, such as epsilon-greedy tree search and UCT, aim at rapidly identifying a reasonably good action, but provide rather poor worst-case guarantees on performance improvement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-09-27 Zohar Feldman , Carmel Domshlak

Artificial Intelligence, when amalgamated with games makes the ideal structure for research and advancing the field. Multi-agent games have multiple controls for each agent which generates huge amounts of data while increasing search…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Harsh Panwar , Saswata Chatterjee , Wil Dube

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

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

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

Combinatorial games lead to several interesting, clean problems in algorithms and complexity theory, many of which remain open. The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the area to encourage further research. In particular, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Erik D. Demaine , Robert A. Hearn

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) algorithms perform simulation-based search to improve policies online. During search, the simulation policy is adapted to explore the most promising lines of play. MCTS has been used by state-of-the-art…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Thomas Anthony , Robert Nishihara , Philipp Moritz , Tim Salimans , John Schulman

This paper proposes a novel reinforcement learning (RL) algorithm using improved Monte Carlo tree search (IMCTS) formulation for discrete optimum design of truss structures. IMCTS with multiple root nodes includes update process, the best…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Fu-Yao Ko , Katsuyuki Suzuki , Kazuo Yonekura

Leveraging the power of a graph neural network (GNN) with message passing, we present a Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) method to solve stochastic orienteering problems with chance constraints. While adhering to an assigned travel budget the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Marcos Abel Zuzuárregui , Stefano Carpin

We introduce the Thresholding Monte Carlo Tree Search problem, in which, given a tree $\mathcal{T}$ and a threshold $\theta$, a player must answer whether the root node value of $\mathcal{T}$ is at least $\theta$ or not. In the given tree,…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-02-02 Shoma Nameki , Atsuyoshi Nakamura , Junpei Komiyama , Koji Tabata

The article presents research on the use of Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) methods to create an artificial player for the popular card game "The Lord of the Rings". The game is characterized by complicated rules, multi-stage round…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Konrad Godlewski , Bartosz Sawicki

We investigate pruning in search trees of so-called quantified integer linear programs (QIPs). QIPs consist of a set of linear inequalities and a minimax objective function, where some variables are existentially and others are universally…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Michael Hartisch , Ulf Lorenz

The real-world effectiveness of deep neural networks often depends on their latency, thereby necessitating optimization techniques that can reduce a model's inference time while preserving its performance. One popular approach is to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Jakob Hartmann , Guoliang He , Eiko Yoneki

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…

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

The real-time strategy game of StarCraft II has been posed as a challenge for reinforcement learning by Google's DeepMind. This study examines the use of an agent based on the Monte-Carlo Tree Search algorithm for optimizing the build order…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Islam Elnabarawy , Kristijana Arroyo , Donald C. Wunsch

This work investigates the Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) method combined with dedicated heuristics for solving the Weighted Vertex Coloring Problem. In addition to the basic MCTS algorithm, we study several MCTS variants where the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Cyril Grelier , Olivier Goudet , Jin-Kao Hao

This paper introduces a new Negotiating Agent for automated negotiation on continuous domains and without considering a specified deadline. The agent bidding strategy relies on Monte Carlo Tree Search, which is a trendy method since it has…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Cédric Buron , Zahia Guessoum , Sylvain Ductor