Warm-starting nested rollout policy adaptation with optimal stopping

C Dang, C Bazgan, T Cazenave, M Chopin… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - ojs.aaai.org
Abstract Nested Rollout Policy Adaptation (NRPA) is an approach using online learning
policies in a nested structure. It has achieved a great result in a variety of difficult …

Comparing search algorithms on the retrosynthesis problem

M Roucairol, T Cazenave - Molecular Informatics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
In this article we try different algorithms, namely Nested Monte Carlo Search and Greedy
Best First Search, on AstraZeneca's open source retrosynthetic tool: AiZynthFinder. We …

Monte-Carlo tree search for logistics

S Edelkamp, M Gath, C Greulich, M Humann… - … : Proceedings of the 2nd …, 2016 - Springer
In this paper we review recent advances of randomized AI search in solving industrially
relevant optimization problems. The method we focus on is a sampling-based solution …

Algorithm and knowledge engineering for the TSPTW problem

S Edelkamp, M Gath, T Cazenave… - 2013 IEEE Symposium …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The well-known traveling salesman problem (TSP) is concerned with determining the
shortest route for a vehicle while visiting a set of cities exactly once. We consider knowledge …

Monkey business: Reinforcement learning meets neighborhood search for virtual network embedding

M Elkael, MA Aba, A Araldo, H Castel-Taleb… - Computer Networks, 2022 - Elsevier
In this article, we consider the Virtual Network Embedding (VNE) problem for 5G networks
slicing. This problem requires to allocate multiple Virtual Networks (VN) on a substrate …

Monte Carlo inverse folding

T Cazenave, T Fournier - Monte Carlo Search: First Workshop, MCS 2020 …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The RNA Inverse Folding problem comes from computational biology. The goal is to
find a molecule that has a given folding. It is important for scientific fields such as …

Monte-Carlo tree search for 3D packing with object orientation

S Edelkamp, M Gath, M Rohde - … : 37th Annual German Conference on AI …, 2014 - Springer
In this paper we look at packing problems that naturally arise in container loading. Given a
set of 3D iso-oriented objects and a container, the task is to find a packing sequence of the …

Monte-carlo tree search for the multiple sequence alignment problem

S Edelkamp, Z Tang - Proceedings of the International Symposium on …, 2015 - ojs.aaai.org
The paper considers solving the multiple sequence alignment, a combinatorial challenge in
computational biology, where several DNA RNA, or protein sequences are to be arranged …

Monte Carlo search algorithms for network traffic engineering

C Dang, C Bazgan, T Cazenave, M Chopin… - … Conference on Machine …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The aim of Traffic Engineering is to provide routing configurations in networks such
that the used resources are minimized while maintaining a high level of quality of service …

Monte Carlo graph coloring

T Cazenave, B Negrevergne, F Sikora - … First Workshop, MCS 2020, Held in …, 2021 - Springer
Graph Coloring is probably one of the most studied and famous problem in graph
algorithms. Exact methods fail to solve instances with more than few hundred vertices …