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

41 papers, page 1 of 1

1. ICML 2024A Bayesian Approach to Online Planning
2. ICML 2024A Unified Adaptive Testing System Enabled by Hierarchical Structure Search
3. ICML 2024Accelerated Speculative Sampling Based on Tree Monte Carlo
4. ICML 2024Accelerating Look-ahead in Bayesian Optimization: Multilevel Monte Carlo is All you Need
5. ICML 2024Ai-sampler: Adversarial Learning of Markov kernels with involutive maps
6. ICML 2024AlphaZero-Like Tree-Search can Guide Large Language Model Decoding and Training
7. ICML 2024Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search with Window Filters
8. ICML 2024Automated Loss function Search for Class-imbalanced Node Classification
9. ICML 2024CHEMREASONER: Heuristic Search over a Large Language Model’s Knowledge Space using Quantum-Chemical Feedback
10. ICML 2024Contrastive Predict-and-Search for Mixed Integer Linear Programs
11. ICML 2024Debiased Distribution Compression
12. ICML 2024Demystifying SGD with Doubly Stochastic Gradients
13. ICML 2024DetKDS: Knowledge Distillation Search for Object Detectors
14. ICML 2024Diffusive Gibbs Sampling
15. ICML 2024Disentangled Continual Graph Neural Architecture Search with Invariant Modular Supernet
16. ICML 2024Dynamic Byzantine-Robust Learning: Adapting to Switching Byzantine Workers
17. ICML 2024EiG-Search: Generating Edge-Induced Subgraphs for GNN Explanation in Linear Time
18. ICML 2024Encodings for Prediction-based Neural Architecture Search
19. ICML 2024EvoRainbow: Combining Improvements in Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning for Policy Search
20. ICML 2024Faster Maximum Inner Product Search in High Dimensions
21. ICML 2024Integrated Hardware Architecture and Device Placement Search
22. ICML 2024Iterative Search Attribution for Deep Neural Networks
23. ICML 2024Kernel Semi-Implicit Variational Inference
24. ICML 2024Language Agent Tree Search Unifies Reasoning, Acting, and Planning in Language Models
25. ICML 2024Listening to the noise: Blind Denoising with Gibbs Diffusion
26. ICML 2024MD tree: a model-diagnostic tree grown on loss landscape
27. ICML 2024Neural Tangent Kernels for Axis-Aligned Tree Ensembles
28. ICML 2024Online Variational Sequential Monte Carlo
29. ICML 2024Parallel Affine Transformation Tuning of Markov Chain Monte Carlo
30. ICML 2024Position: Rethinking Post-Hoc Search-Based Neural Approaches for Solving Large-Scale Traveling Salesman Problems
31. ICML 2024Practical Hamiltonian Monte Carlo on Riemannian Manifolds via Relativity Theory
32. ICML 2024Probabilistic Inference in Language Models via Twisted Sequential Monte Carlo
33. ICML 2024Probabilistic Routing for Graph-Based Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search
34. ICML 2024Provably Efficient Long-Horizon Exploration in Monte Carlo Tree Search through State Occupancy Regularization
35. ICML 2024Quasi-Monte Carlo Features for Kernel Approximation
36. ICML 2024Reinforcement Learning within Tree Search for Fast Macro Placement
37. ICML 2024Resisting Stochastic Risks in Diffusion Planners with the Trajectory Aggregation Tree
38. ICML 2024Sliced Wasserstein with Random-Path Projecting Directions
39. ICML 2024Sliced-Wasserstein Estimation with Spherical Harmonics as Control Variates
40. ICML 2024Tilt your Head: Activating the Hidden Spatial-Invariance of Classifiers
41. ICML 2024tnGPS: Discovering Unknown Tensor Network Structure Search Algorithms via Large Language Models (LLMs)

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.