THE PARALLELIZATION OF MONTE-CARLO PLANNING - Parallelization of MC-Planning

S. Gelly, J. B. Hoock, A. Rimmel, O. Teytaud, Y. Kalemkarian

2008

Abstract

Since their impressive successes in various areas of large-scale parallelization, recent techniques like UCT and other Monte-Carlo planning variants (Kocsis and Szepesvari, 2006a) have been extensively studied (Coquelin and Munos, 2007; Wang and Gelly, 2007). We here propose and compare various forms of parallelization of bandit-based tree-search, in particular for our computer-go algorithm XYZ.

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Gelly S., B. Hoock J., Rimmel A., Teytaud O. and Kalemkarian Y. (2008). THE PARALLELIZATION OF MONTE-CARLO PLANNING - Parallelization of MC-Planning . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO, ISBN 978-989-8111-30-2, pages 244-249. DOI: 10.5220/0001502402440249


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@conference{icinco08,
author={S. Gelly and J. B. Hoock and A. Rimmel and O. Teytaud and Y. Kalemkarian},
title={THE PARALLELIZATION OF MONTE-CARLO PLANNING - Parallelization of MC-Planning},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,},
year={2008},
pages={244-249},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001502402440249},
isbn={978-989-8111-30-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics - Volume 1: ICINCO,
TI - THE PARALLELIZATION OF MONTE-CARLO PLANNING - Parallelization of MC-Planning
SN - 978-989-8111-30-2
AU - Gelly S.
AU - B. Hoock J.
AU - Rimmel A.
AU - Teytaud O.
AU - Kalemkarian Y.
PY - 2008
SP - 244
EP - 249
DO - 10.5220/0001502402440249