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Monte-Carlo Exploration for Deterministic Planning

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Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 1766-1770.

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Search methods based on Monte-Carlo simulation have recently led to breakthrough performance improvements in difficult game-playing domains such as Go and General Game Playing. Monte-Carlo Random Walk (MRW) planning applies Monte-Carlo ideas to deterministic classical planning. In the forward chaining planner Arvand, Monte-Carlo random walks are used to explore the local neighborhood of a search state for action selection. In contrast to the stochastic local search approach used in the recent planner Identidem, random walks yield a larger and unbiased sample of the search neighborhood, and require state evaluations only at the endpoints of each walk. On IPC-4 competition problems, the performance of Arvand is competitive with state of the art systems.Hootan Nakhost, Martin Müller

Hootan Nakhost, and Martin Müller. 2009. Monte-Carlo Exploration for Deterministic Planning. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-09. IJCAI, 1766–1770. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2009/294
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