Automatic Goal Discovery in Subgoal Monte Carlo Tree Search

Autor: Dominik Jeurissen, Mark H.M. Winands, Chiara F. Sironi, Diego Perez-Liebana
Přispěvatelé: Dept. of Advanced Computing Sciences, RS: FSE DACS
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Zdroj: 2021 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG), 990-993
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Popis: Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) is a heuristic search algorithm that can play a wide range of games without requiring any domain-specific knowledge. However, MCTS tends to struggle in very complicated games due to an exponentially increasing branching factor. A promising solution for this problem is to focus the search only on a small fraction of states. Subgoal Monte Carlo Tree Search (S-MCTS) achieves this by using a predefined subgoal-predicate that detects promising states called subgoals. However, not only does this make S-MCTS domaindependent, but also it is often difficult to define a good predicate. In this paper, we propose using quality diversity (QD) algorithms to detect subgoals in real-time. Furthermore, we show how integrating QD-algorithms into S-MCTS significantly improves its performance in the Physical Travelling Salesmen Problem without requiring any domain-specific knowledge.
Databáze: OpenAIRE