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A new algorithm, Regular Tree Search, tackles non-convex simulation optimization problems.
Paper uses CMAB to improve NAS efficiency and accuracy.
Monte Carlo Tree Search improves financial derivative hedging efficiency.
Optimizes tree models for better beam search performance.
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 programs for many problems, however a disadvantage to MCTS is that it estimates the va…
We present an extension of Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) that strongly increases its efficiency for trees with asymmetry and/or loops. Asymmetric termination of search trees introduces a type of uncertainty for which the standard upper confidence bound (UCB) formula does not account. Our first algorithm (MCTS-T), whic…
We consider the classical sparse regression problem of recovering a sparse signal given a measurement vector . We propose a tree search algorithm driven by the deep neural network for sparse regression (TSN). TSN improves the signal reconstruction performance of the deep neural network designed for sp…
Automates optimizer design for diverse tasks efficiently.
AlphaCFG discovers alpha factors using grammar-guided search.
Optimal decision trees learned via dynamic programming and search.
SMAC method optimizes tree-boosting hyperparameters best.
A hybrid model for Bayesian optimization handles mixed variables using MCTS for categorical and GP for continuous.
Transformer learns to search through reinforcement learning, mimicking DFS.
Branch and Bound (B&B) is the exact tree search method typically used to solve Mixed-Integer Linear Programming problems (MILPs). Learning branching policies for MILP has become an active research area, with most works proposing to imitate the strong branching rule and specialize it to distinct classes of problems. We …
Planning problems are among the most important and well-studied problems in artificial intelligence. They are most typically solved by tree search algorithms that simulate ahead into the future, evaluate future states, and back-up those evaluations to the root of a search tree. Among these algorithms, Monte-Carlo tree …
A new algorithm improves sample complexity for thresholding in Monte Carlo Tree Search.
Finite-horizon lookahead policies are abundantly used in Reinforcement Learning and demonstrate impressive empirical success. Usually, the lookahead policies are implemented with specific planning methods such as Monte Carlo Tree Search (e.g. in AlphaZero). Referring to the planning problem as tree search, a reasonable…
This paper improves self-play learning in games by manipulating experience distributions.
DTS improves inference-time alignment of diffusion models with less compute.
Combines MCTS and neural networks for efficient multi-period financial planning.
Paper shows MCTS approximates policy optimization, proposing an improved variant.
Predict accuracy of neural architectures using non-neural models.
The game of Chinese Checkers is a challenging traditional board game of perfect information that differs from other traditional games in two main aspects: first, unlike Chess, all checkers remain indefinitely in the game and hence the branching factor of the search tree does not decrease as the game progresses; second,…
Decision trees are flexible models that are well suited for many statistical regression problems. In a Bayesian framework for regression trees, Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) search algorithms are required to generate samples of tree models according to their posterior probabilities. The critical component of such an …
Recent advances in bandit tools and techniques for sequential learning are steadily enabling new applications and are promising the resolution of a range of challenging related problems. We study the game tree search problem, where the goal is to quickly identify the optimal move in a given game tree by sequentially sa…
Improves diffusion model performance and efficiency through classical search.
Gradient-based methods are often used for policy optimization in deep reinforcement learning, despite being vulnerable to local optima and saddle points. Although gradient-free methods (e.g., genetic algorithms or evolution strategies) help mitigate these issues, poor initialization and local optima are still concerns …
LA-MCTS learns search space partition for black-box optimization using Monte Carlo Tree Search.
Bayesian methods improve drug discovery experiment design.
Approximate nearest neighbor algorithms are used to speed up nearest neighbor search in a wide array of applications. However, current indexing methods feature several hyperparameters that need to be tuned to reach an acceptable accuracy--speed trade-off. A grid search in the parameter space is often impractically slow…
We adopt data structure in the form of cover trees and iteratively apply approximate nearest neighbour (ANN) searches for fast compressed sensing reconstruction of signals living on discrete smooth manifolds. Levering on the recent stability results for the inexact Iterative Projected Gradient (IPG) algorithm and by us…
DR-MCTS improves decision quality and sample efficiency in complex environments.
Deep reinforcement learning has been successfully applied to several visual-input tasks using model-free methods. In this paper, we propose a model-based approach that combines learning a DNN-based transition model with Monte Carlo tree search to solve a block-placing task in Minecraft. Our learned transition model pre…
Tree ensemble kernels improve Bayesian optimization for mixed features and constraints.
Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown great success in automating the design of neural networks, but the prohibitive amount of computations behind current NAS methods requires further investigations in improving the sample efficiency and the network evaluation cost to get better results in a shorter time. In this …
Parallelizes MCTS for continuous domains using leaf and root parallelization.
Improves RL planning by proposing sub-goals hierarchically.
In the context of tree-search stochastic planning algorithms where a generative model is available, we consider on-line planning algorithms building trees in order to recommend an action. We investigate the question of avoiding re-planning in subsequent decision steps by directly using sub-trees as action recommender. …
New algorithm identifies optimal subtrees in fixed-budget tree search.
New A* algorithm improves hierarchical clustering quality.
Deep imagination optimizes decision-making in large trees with limited resources.
Bayesian model-based reinforcement learning is a formally elegant approach to learning optimal behaviour under model uncertainty, trading off exploration and exploitation in an ideal way. Unfortunately, finding the resulting Bayes-optimal policies is notoriously taxing, since the search space becomes enormous. In this …
Quantum algorithm speeds up MIP solving by a near-quadratic factor.
Optimal Survival Trees improve accuracy in medical data analysis.
K-nearest neighbor (kNN) search has wide applications in many areas, including data mining, machine learning, statistics and many applied domains. Inspired by the success of ensemble methods and the flexibility of tree-based methodology, we propose random projection forests (rpForests), for kNN search. rpForests finds …
The AutoML task consists of selecting the proper algorithm in a machine learning portfolio, and its hyperparameter values, in order to deliver the best performance on the dataset at hand. Mosaic, a Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) based approach, is presented to handle the AutoML hybrid structural and parametric expensiv…
Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) methods are drawing great interest after yielding breakthrough results in computer Go. This paper proposes a Bayesian approach to MCTS that is inspired by distributionfree approaches such as UCT [13], yet significantly differs in important respects. The Bayesian framework allows potential…
Tuning SVM and boosting models using optimization algorithms.