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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

Recent research suggests that tree search algorithms (e.g. Monte Carlo Tree Search) can dramatically boost LLM performance on complex mathematical reasoning tasks. However, they often require more than 10 times the computational resources…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Ante Wang , Linfeng Song , Ye Tian , Baolin Peng , Dian Yu , Haitao Mi , Jinsong Su , Dong Yu

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across multiple tasks through in-context learning. For complex reasoning tasks that require step-by-step thinking, Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has given impressive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-10 Armel Zebaze , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

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

LLM-guided compiler optimization has recently shown promise, but existing approaches rely on a single large LLM throughout search, making them expensive and excluding smaller models. We pose the research question: whether heterogeneous LLMs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Annabelle Sujun Tang , Christopher Priebe , Lianhui Qin , Hadi Esmaeilzadeh

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning capabilities, yet their standard generation process -- auto-regressive token prediction -- is inherently myopic and prone to cascading errors. To address this, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Guni Sharon

Recent advancements in large language models (LLMs) have spurred growing interest in automatic theorem proving using Lean4, where effective tree search methods are crucial for navigating the underlying large proof search spaces. While the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Ran Xin , Chenguang Xi , Jie Yang , Feng Chen , Hang Wu , Xia Xiao , Yifan Sun , Shen Zheng , Kai Shen

This study investigates the combined use of generative grammar rules and Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) for optimizing truss structures. Our approach accommodates intermediate construction stages characteristic of progressive construction…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-04-03 Gabriel Garayalde , Luca Rosafalco , Matteo Torzoni , Alberto Corigliano

The rapid advancement in capabilities of large language models (LLMs) raises a pivotal question: How can LLMs accelerate scientific discovery? This work tackles the crucial first stage of research, generating novel hypotheses. While recent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Aniketh Garikaparthi , Manasi Patwardhan , Lovekesh Vig , Arman Cohan

Recent research in vision-language models (VLMs) has centered around the possibility of equipping them with implicit long-form chain-of-thought reasoning -- akin to the success observed in language models -- via distillation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 David Acuna , Ximing Lu , Jaehun Jung , Hyunwoo Kim , Amlan Kar , Sanja Fidler , Yejin Choi

This paper introduces a novel framework, Tree-GPT, which incorporates Large Language Models (LLMs) into the forestry remote sensing data workflow, thereby enhancing the efficiency of data analysis. Currently, LLMs are unable to extract or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Siqi Du , Shengjun Tang , Weixi Wang , Xiaoming Li , Renzhong Guo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have shown strong performance in automated source-to-target code translation through pretraining on extensive code corpora. However, mainstream LLM-based code translation methods suffer from two critical…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-13 He Jiang , Yufu Wang , Hao Lin , Peiyu Zou , Zhide Zhou , Ang Jia , Xiaochen Li , Zhilei Ren

Conversational interfaces provide a flexible and easy way for users to seek information that may otherwise be difficult or inconvenient to obtain. However, existing interfaces generally fall into one of two categories: FAQs, where users…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Dirk Väth , Lindsey Vanderlyn , Ngoc Thang Vu

This paper presents a novel approach termed Layer-of-Thoughts Prompting (LoT), which utilizes constraint hierarchies to filter and refine candidate responses to a given query. By integrating these constraints, our method enables a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Wachara Fungwacharakorn , Nguyen Ha Thanh , May Myo Zin , Ken Satoh

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable abilities across various language tasks, but solving complex reasoning problems remains a significant challenge. While existing methods, such as Chain-of-Thought (CoT) and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Zhenni Bi , Kai Han , Chuanjian Liu , Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang

The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has outpaced traditional evaluation methods. Static benchmarks fail to capture the depth and breadth of LLM capabilities and eventually become obsolete, while most dynamic approaches…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Vahid Majdinasab , Amin Nikanjam , Foutse Khomh

This study explores how to enhance the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in knowledge base question answering (KBQA) by leveraging Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). Semantic parsing-based KBQA methods are particularly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-20 Guanming Xiong , Haochen Li , Wen Zhao

Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) achieve remarkable inference-time improvements through parallel thinking. However, existing methods rely on redundant sampling of reasoning trajectories, failing to effectively explore the reasoning space to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zicheng Xu , Xiuyi Lou , Guanchu Wang , Yu-Neng Chuang , Feng Luo , Guangyao Zheng , Alexander S. Szalay , Zirui Liu , Vladimir Braverman

Despite the impressive capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) on various tasks, they still struggle with scenarios that involves complex reasoning and planning. Recent work proposed advanced prompting techniques and the necessity of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-11 Ye Tian , Baolin Peng , Linfeng Song , Lifeng Jin , Dian Yu , Haitao Mi , Dong Yu

We present the design of a new functional programming language, MLTS, that uses the lambda-tree syntax approach to encoding bindings appearing within data structures. In this approach, bindings never become free nor escape their scope:…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Ulysse Gérard , Dale Miller , Gabriel Scherer