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Levente Kocsis
Co-author of UCT, the selection rule that made Monte Carlo tree search converge — and later powered AlphaGo's search.
Organizations
Institute for Computer Science and Control (SZTAKI), Budapest
Major Achievements
- •Co-introduced UCT (2006), applying upper confidence bounds to tree search so promising lines get explored first.
- •UCT turned Monte Carlo tree search from a heuristic into a method with convergence guarantees.
- •The rule underpins the strongest Go programs, and the search half of AlphaGo a decade later.
Key Papers
- Bandit Based Monte-Carlo Planning
Levente Kocsis, Csaba Szepesvári · ECML 2006