English
Related papers

Related papers: OptionZero: Planning with Learned Options

200 papers

Game solving is a similar, yet more difficult task than mastering a game. Solving a game typically means to find the game-theoretic value (outcome given optimal play), and optionally a full strategy to follow in order to achieve that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ti-Rong Wu , Hung Guei , Ting Han Wei , Chung-Chin Shih , Jui-Te Chin , I-Chen Wu

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

In 2019, Google DeepMind released MuZero, a model-based reinforcement learning method that achieves strong results in perfect-information games by combining learned dynamics models with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). However, comparatively…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Adam Haile

AlphaZero is a self-play reinforcement learning algorithm that achieves superhuman play in chess, shogi, and Go via policy iteration. To be an effective policy improvement operator, AlphaZero's search requires accurate value estimates for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-02 Alexandre Trudeau , Michael Bowling

The current state of the art in playing many important perfect information games, including Chess and Go, combines planning and deep reinforcement learning with self-play. We extend this approach to imperfect information games and present…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Andy Kitchen , Michela Benedetti

Test-time reasoning significantly enhances pre-trained AI agents' performance. However, it requires an explicit environment model, often unavailable or overly complex in real-world scenarios. While MuZero enables effective model learning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Ondřej Kubíček , Viliam Lisý

In the last years, the DeepMind algorithm AlphaZero has become the state of the art to efficiently tackle perfect information two-player zero-sum games with a win/lose outcome. However, when the win/lose outcome is decided by a final score…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Luca Pasqualini , Gianluca Amato , Marco Fantozzi , Rosa Gini , Alessandro Marchetti , Carlo Metta , Francesco Morandin , Maurizio Parton

Multi-agent football poses an unsolved challenge in AI research. Existing work has focused on tackling simplified scenarios of the game, or else leveraging expert demonstrations. In this paper, we develop a multi-agent system to play the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-22 Fanqi Lin , Shiyu Huang , Tim Pearce , Wenze Chen , Wei-Wei Tu

MuZero, a model-based reinforcement learning algorithm that uses a value equivalent dynamics model, achieved state-of-the-art performance in Chess, Shogi and the game of Go. In contrast to standard forward dynamics models that predict a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Joery A. de Vries , Ken S. Voskuil , Thomas M. Moerland , Aske Plaat

Reinforcement Learning (RL) has been widely used in many applications, particularly in gaming, which serves as an excellent training ground for AI models. Google DeepMind has pioneered innovations in this field, employing reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Abdelrhman Shaheen , Anas Badr , Ali Abohendy , Hatem Alsaadawy , Nadine Alsayad , Ehab H. El-Shazly

Leveraging the rich world knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) to enhance Reinforcement Learning (RL) agents offers a promising path toward general intelligence. However, a fundamental prior-dynamics mismatch hinders existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Junyu Xiong , Yuan Pu , Jia Tang , Yazhe Niu

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems have made remarkable progress, attaining super-human performance across various domains. This presents us with an opportunity to further human knowledge and improve human expert performance by leveraging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-26 Lisa Schut , Nenad Tomasev , Tom McGrath , Demis Hassabis , Ulrich Paquet , Been Kim

One explanation for how people can plan efficiently despite limited cognitive resources is that we possess a set of adaptive planning strategies and know when and how to use them. But how are these strategies acquired? While previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Ruiqi He , Falk Lieder

Planning and reinforcement learning are two key approaches to sequential decision making. Multi-step approximate real-time dynamic programming, a recently successful algorithm class of which AlphaZero [Silver et al., 2018] is an example,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Thomas M. Moerland , Anna Deichler , Simone Baldi , Joost Broekens , Catholijn M. Jonker

Learning efficiently from small amounts of data has long been the focus of model-based reinforcement learning, both for the online case when interacting with the environment and the offline case when learning from a fixed dataset. However,…

Recently, AlphaZero has achieved landmark results in deep reinforcement learning, by providing a single self-play architecture that learned three different games at super human level. AlphaZero is a large and complicated system with many…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Hui Wang , Mike Preuss , Aske Plaat

The imbalance of exploration and exploitation has long been a significant challenge in reinforcement learning. In policy optimization, excessive reliance on exploration reduces learning efficiency, while over-dependence on exploitation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Renye Yan , Yaozhong Gan , You Wu , Ling Liang , Junliang Xing , Yimao Cai , Ru Huang

The idea of decision-aware model learning, that models should be accurate where it matters for decision-making, has gained prominence in model-based reinforcement learning. While promising theoretical results have been established, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Claas A Voelcker , Arash Ahmadian , Romina Abachi , Igor Gilitschenski , Amir-massoud Farahmand

We propose the Thinker algorithm, a novel approach that enables reinforcement learning agents to autonomously interact with and utilize a learned world model. The Thinker algorithm wraps the environment with a world model and introduces new…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-30 Stephen Chung , Ivan Anokhin , David Krueger