# Efficient Selectivity and Backup Operators in Monte-Carlo Tree Search

1 SEQUEL - Sequential Learning
LIFL - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille, Inria Lille - Nord Europe, LAGIS - Laboratoire d'Automatique, Génie Informatique et Signal
Abstract : Monte-Carlo evaluation consists in estimating a position by averaging the outcome of several random continuations, and can serve as an evaluation function at the leaves of a min-max tree. This paper presents a new framework to combine tree search with Monte-Carlo evaluation, that does not separate between a min-max phase and a Monte-Carlo phase. Instead of backing-up the min-max value close to the root, and the average value at some depth, a more general backup operator is defined that progressively changes from averaging to min-max as the number of simulations grows. This approach provides a fine-grained control of the tree growth, at the level of individual simulations, and allows efficient selectivity methods. This algorithm was implemented in a Go-playing program, Crazy Stone, that won the gold medal of the $9 \times 9$ Go tournament at the 11th Computer Olympiad.
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Communication dans un congrès
Paolo Ciancarini and H. Jaap van den Herik. 5th International Conference on Computer and Games, May 2006, Turin, Italy. 2006
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Rémi Coulom. Efficient Selectivity and Backup Operators in Monte-Carlo Tree Search. Paolo Ciancarini and H. Jaap van den Herik. 5th International Conference on Computer and Games, May 2006, Turin, Italy. 2006. 〈inria-00116992〉

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