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title: "Distribution of UCT and Its Ramifications"
authors:
  - "Marc Yu-San Chee"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/623"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2015/0623.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2015
pages: "4351-4351"
track: "Doctoral Consortium"
keywords:
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# Distribution of UCT and Its Ramifications

Marc Yu-San Chee

*Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 4351-4351.

## Abstract

My thesis is largely focused on the parallelisation of UCT (and other Best-First Search techniques) and the ramifications of doing so. I have identified issues with chunking in UCT, created by some forms of parallelisation, and developed a solution to this involving buffering of simulations that appear “out of order” and reevaluation of propagation data. I have developed a technique for scalable distribution of both tree data and computation across a large scale compute cluster. The context of most of my work is General Game Playing, but the techniques themselves are largely agnostic to domain.