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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

This paper introduces the MCTS algorithm to the financial world and focuses on solving significant multi-period financial planning models by combining a Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm with a deep neural network. The MCTS provides an…

Computational Finance · Quantitative Finance 2022-05-19 Afşar Onat Aydınhan , Xiaoyue Li , John M. Mulvey

Inference-time scaling strategies, particularly Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), have significantly enhanced the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, current approaches remain predominantly stateless, discarding…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Hao Lu , Haoyuan Huang , Yulin Zhou , Chen Li , Ningxin Zhu

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 sampling best-first method to search for optimal decisions. The success of MCTS depends heavily on how the MCTS statistical tree is built and the selection policy plays a fundamental role in this. A…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Fred Valdez Ameneyro , Edgar Galvan

Tree search-based methods have made significant progress in enhancing the code generation capabilities of large language models. However, due to the difficulty in effectively evaluating intermediate algorithmic steps and the inability to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Yuanyuan Lin , Xiangyu Ouyang , Teng Zhang , Kaixin Sui

Recent advances in large language models have demonstrated considerable potential in scientific domains such as drug repositioning. However, their effectiveness remains constrained when reasoning extends beyond the knowledge acquired during…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Zerui Yang , Yuwei Wan , Siyu Yan , Yudai Matsuda , Tong Xie , Bram Hoex , Linqi Song

Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) is an effective anytime algorithm with a vast amount of applications. It strategically allocates computational resources to focus on promising segments of the search tree, making it a very attractive search…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Cedric Derstroff , Jannis Brugger , Jannis Blüml , Mira Mezini , Stefan Kramer , Kristian Kersting

We consider the popular tree-based search strategy within the framework of reinforcement learning, the Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), in the context of finite-horizon Markov decision process. We propose a dynamic sampling tree policy that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Gongbo Zhang , Yijie Peng , Yilong 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

To solve the problem of lateral and logitudinal joint decision-making of multi-vehicle cooperative driving for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), this paper proposes a Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) method with parallel update for…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Ye Han , Lijun Zhang , Dejian Meng , Zhuang Zhang , Xingyu Hu , Songyu Weng

The rapid spread of misinformation in mobile and wireless networks presents critical security challenges. This study introduces a training-free, retrieval-based multimodal fact verification system that leverages pretrained vision-language…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Van-Hoang Phan , Long-Khanh Pham , Dang Vu , Anh-Duy Tran , Minh-Son Dao

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

In this paper we explore the application of simultaneous move Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) based online framework for tactical maneuvering between two unmanned aircrafts. Compared to other techniques, MCTS enables efficient search over…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Kunal Srivastava , Amit Surana

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

The goal of protein design is to generate amino acid sequences that fold into functional structures with desired properties. Prior methods combining autoregressive language models with Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) struggle with long-range…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Xuefeng Liu , Mingxuan Cao , Songhao Jiang , Xiao Luo , Xiaotian Duan , Mengdi Wang , Tobin R. Sosnick , Jinbo Xu , Rick Stevens

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 paper introduces COR-MCTS (Conservation of Resources - Monte Carlo Tree Search), a novel tactical decision-making approach for automated driving focusing on maneuver planning over extended horizons. Traditional decision-making…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-23 Karim Essalmi , Fernando Garrido , Fawzi Nashashibi

This paper presents an efficient approach to object manipulation planning using Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) to find contact sequences and an efficient ADMM-based trajectory optimization algorithm to evaluate the dynamic feasibility of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Huaijiang Zhu , Avadesh Meduri , Ludovic Righetti

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) has been proposed as a transformative approach to join-order optimization in database query processing, with recent frameworks such as AlphaJoin and HyperQO claiming to outperform traditional methods. However,…