Monte Carlo Tree Search papers, 2023–2026

Key findings

• Monte Carlo Tree Search went from 115 papers in 2023 to 278 in 2026, roughly 2.4x in three years.
• NeurIPS publishes the most Monte Carlo Tree Search work: 302 papers from 2023 to 2026, 39% of the four-venue total.
• The fastest-growing overlap is with AI Agents: papers tagged with both rose from 1 in 2023 to 26 in 2026.
• Among the 5 topics under Games and Planning, it ranks #3 by 2026 paper count; the fastest grower in the group, Classical Planning, is up 3.3x versus 2.4x here.

Representative papers

Spread across years and venues so every edition shows up

• NeurIPS 2026A Regularization-Based Approach to Public Belief State Search for Adversarial Games
• ICML 2026$\alpha$-PFN: Fast Entropy Search via In-Context Learning
• ICLR 2026Better Learning-Augmented Spanning Tree Algorithms via Metric Forest Completion
• CVPR 2026DRS-GUI Dynamic Region Search for Training-Free GUI Grounding
• NeurIPS 2025A Single-Swap Local Search Algorithm for k-Means of Lines
• ICML 2025Accelerating Large Language Model Reasoning via Speculative Search
• ICLR 2025Analysis of Linear Mode Connectivity via Permutation-Based Weight Matching: With Insights into Other Permutation Search Methods
• CVPR 2025DyFo: A Training-Free Dynamic Focus Visual Search for Enhancing LMMs in Fine-Grained Visual Understanding
• NeurIPS 2024Speculative Monte-Carlo Tree Search
• ICML 2024Accelerated Speculative Sampling Based on Tree Monte Carlo
• ICLR 2024Chain of Log-Concave Markov Chains
• CVPR 2024Hierarchical Correlation Clustering and Tree Preserving Embedding
• NeurIPS 2023Accelerating Monte Carlo Tree Search with Probability Tree State Abstraction
• ICML 2023A new near-linear time algorithm for k-nearest neighbor search using a compressed cover tree
• ICLR 2023A GNN-Guided Predict-and-Search Framework for Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
• CVPR 2023Bridging Search Region Interaction With Template for RGB-T Tracking
• NeurIPS 2026A Revisit of Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Efficiency on Bayesian Neural Networks
• ICML 2026A Bi-metric Framework for Efficient Nearest Neighbor Search
• ICLR 2026Dr.LLM: Dynamic Layer Routing in LLMs
• CVPR 2026UAST Unified Active Search and Tracking for Arbitrary Targets with

All Monte Carlo Tree Search papers

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1. CVPR 2026Breaking the Regional Perception Bottleneck of Multimodal Large Language Models
2. CVPR 2026DRS-GUI Dynamic Region Search for Training-Free GUI Grounding
3. CVPR 2026DynamicTree Interactive Real Tree Animation via Sparse Voxel Spectrum
4. CVPR 2026GeoViS Geospatially Rewarded Visual Search for Remote Sensing Visual Grounding
5. CVPR 2026InTrain Intrinsic Trainability for Zero-Cost Neural Architecture Search
6. CVPR 2026PhaseWin Search Framework Enable Efficient Object-Level Interpretation
7. CVPR 2026ProFocus Proactive Perception and Focused Reasoning in Vision-and-Language Navigation
8. CVPR 2026RAAS LLM Agentic System Architecture Search with GRPO
9. CVPR 2026Rethinking Pose Refinement in 3D Gaussian Splatting under Pose Prior
10. CVPR 2026TAS-LoRA Transformer Architecture Search with Mixture-of-LoRA Experts
11. CVPR 2026Thinking in 360deg Humanoid Visual Search in the Wild
12. CVPR 2026UAST Unified Active Search and Tracking for Arbitrary Targets with
13. CVPR 2026VCU-Bridge Hierarchical Visual Connotation Understanding via Semantic Bridging
14. CVPR 2026WISER Wider Search Deeper Thinking and Adaptive Fusion for Training-Free
15. CVPR 2025Cheb-GR: Rethinking K-nearest Neighbor Search in Re-ranking for Person Re-identification
16. CVPR 2025Collaborative Tree Search for Enhancing Embodied Multi-Agent Collaboration
17. CVPR 2025Deep Change Monitoring: A Hyperbolic Representative Learning Framework and a Dataset for Long-term Fine-grained Tree Change Detection
18. CVPR 2025DyFo: A Training-Free Dynamic Focus Visual Search for Enhancing LMMs in Fine-Grained Visual Understanding
19. CVPR 2025GENIUS: A Generative Framework for Universal Multimodal Search
20. CVPR 2025Global-Local Tree Search in VLMs for 3D Indoor Scene Generation
21. CVPR 2025Improving Personalized Search with Regularized Low-Rank Parameter Updates
22. CVPR 2025Learning on Model Weights using Tree Experts
23. CVPR 2025LotusFilter: Fast Diverse Nearest Neighbor Search via a Learned Cutoff Table
24. CVPR 2025Subnet-Aware Dynamic Supernet Training for Neural Architecture Search
25. CVPR 2025Training-free Neural Architecture Search through Variance of Knowledge of Deep Network Weights
26. CVPR 2025VasTSD: Learning 3D Vascular Tree-state Space Diffusion Model for Angiography Synthesis
27. CVPR 2024Accelerating Neural Field Training via Soft Mining
28. CVPR 2024AZ-NAS: Assembling Zero-Cost Proxies for Network Architecture Search
29. CVPR 2024Boosting Order-Preserving and Transferability for Neural Architecture Search: a Joint Architecture Refined Search and Fine-tuning Approach
30. CVPR 2024Hierarchical Correlation Clustering and Tree Preserving Embedding
31. CVPR 2024In Search of a Data Transformation That Accelerates Neural Field Training
32. CVPR 2024Insights from the Use of Previously Unseen Neural Architecture Search Datasets
33. CVPR 2024KITRO: Refining Human Mesh by 2D Clues and Kinematic-tree Rotation
34. CVPR 2024RTracker: Recoverable Tracking via PN Tree Structured Memory
35. CVPR 2024SNED: Superposition Network Architecture Search for Efficient Video Diffusion Model
36. CVPR 2024Towards Accurate and Robust Architectures via Neural Architecture Search
37. CVPR 2023Adversarially Robust Neural Architecture Search for Graph Neural Networks
38. CVPR 2023Bayesian Posterior Approximation With Stochastic Ensembles
39. CVPR 2023Bridging Search Region Interaction With Template for RGB-T Tracking
40. CVPR 2023Differentiable Architecture Search With Random Features
41. CVPR 2023DisWOT: Student Architecture Search for Distillation WithOut Training
42. CVPR 2023GANmouflage: 3D Object Nondetection With Texture Fields
43. CVPR 2023HOTNAS: Hierarchical Optimal Transport for Neural Architecture Search
44. CVPR 2023Iterative Next Boundary Detection for Instance Segmentation of Tree Rings in Microscopy Images of Shrub Cross Sections
45. CVPR 2023Large-Scale Training Data Search for Object Re-Identification
46. CVPR 2023Plateau-Reduced Differentiable Path Tracing
47. CVPR 2023The Differentiable Lens: Compound Lens Search Over Glass Surfaces and Materials for Object Detection
48. CVPR 2023TINC: Tree-Structured Implicit Neural Compression
49. CVPR 2023Tree Instance Segmentation With Temporal Contour Graph
50. CVPR 2023Visual Dependency Transformers: Dependency Tree Emerges From Reversed Attention

FAQ

How many Monte Carlo Tree Search papers were published at NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML and CVPR from 2023 to 2026?

773 in total: 115 in 2023, 144 in 2024, 236 in 2025, 278 in 2026.

How many Monte Carlo Tree Search papers are at NeurIPS 2026?

NeurIPS 2026 has 99 Monte Carlo Tree Search papers, versus 100 the year before.

How many Monte Carlo Tree Search papers are at ICLR 2026?

ICLR 2026 has 60 Monte Carlo Tree Search papers, versus 49 the year before.

How many Monte Carlo Tree Search papers are at ICML 2026?

ICML 2026 has 105 Monte Carlo Tree Search papers, versus 75 the year before.

How many Monte Carlo Tree Search papers are at CVPR 2026?

CVPR 2026 has 14 Monte Carlo Tree Search papers, versus 12 the year before.

Which conference publishes the most Monte Carlo Tree Search papers?

NeurIPS, with 302 papers from 2023 to 2026.