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 2024Accelerating Neural Field Training via Soft Mining
2. CVPR 2024AZ-NAS: Assembling Zero-Cost Proxies for Network Architecture Search
3. CVPR 2024Boosting Order-Preserving and Transferability for Neural Architecture Search: a Joint Architecture Refined Search and Fine-tuning Approach
4. CVPR 2024Hierarchical Correlation Clustering and Tree Preserving Embedding
5. CVPR 2024In Search of a Data Transformation That Accelerates Neural Field Training
6. CVPR 2024Insights from the Use of Previously Unseen Neural Architecture Search Datasets
7. CVPR 2024KITRO: Refining Human Mesh by 2D Clues and Kinematic-tree Rotation
8. CVPR 2024RTracker: Recoverable Tracking via PN Tree Structured Memory
9. CVPR 2024SNED: Superposition Network Architecture Search for Efficient Video Diffusion Model
10. CVPR 2024Towards Accurate and Robust Architectures via Neural Architecture Search
11. ICLR 2024ArchLock: Locking DNN Transferability at the Architecture Level with a Zero-Cost Binary Predictor
12. ICLR 2024ARGS: Alignment as Reward-Guided Search
13. ICLR 2024Chain of Log-Concave Markov Chains
14. ICLR 2024Data Debugging with Shapley Importance over Machine Learning Pipelines
15. ICLR 2024Effective and Efficient Federated Tree Learning on Hybrid Data
16. ICLR 2024Fast Hyperboloid Decision Tree Algorithms
17. ICLR 2024Faster Sampling from Log-Concave Densities over Polytopes via Efficient Linear Solvers
18. ICLR 2024Fiber Monte Carlo
19. ICLR 2024GRANDE: Gradient-Based Decision Tree Ensembles for Tabular Data
20. ICLR 2024GraphChef: Decision-Tree Recipes to Explain Graph Neural Networks
21. ICLR 2024Improving protein optimization with smoothed fitness landscapes
22. ICLR 2024Langevin Monte Carlo for strongly log-concave distributions: Randomized midpoint revisited
23. ICLR 2024Local Search GFlowNets
24. ICLR 2024Masked Distillation Advances Self-Supervised Transformer Architecture Search
25. ICLR 2024Monte Carlo guided Denoising Diffusion models for Bayesian linear inverse problems.
26. ICLR 2024Neural Fine-Tuning Search for Few-Shot Learning
27. ICLR 2024PromptAgent: Strategic Planning with Language Models Enables Expert-level Prompt Optimization
28. ICLR 2024Provable and Practical: Efficient Exploration in Reinforcement Learning via Langevin Monte Carlo
29. ICLR 2024Quasi-Monte Carlo for 3D Sliced Wasserstein
30. ICLR 2024Reinforcement Symbolic Regression Machine
31. ICLR 2024Repelling Random Walks
32. ICLR 2024Reverse Diffusion Monte Carlo
33. ICLR 2024Robust NAS under adversarial training: benchmark, theory, and beyond
34. ICLR 2024Robustifying and Boosting Training-Free Neural Architecture Search
35. ICLR 2024SEABO: A Simple Search-Based Method for Offline Imitation Learning
36. ICLR 2024Sliced Wasserstein Estimation with Control Variates
37. ICLR 2024Sum-Product-Set Networks: Deep Tractable Models for Tree-Structured Graphs
38. ICLR 2024ToolChain*: Efficient Action Space Navigation in Large Language Models with A* Search
39. ICLR 2024Tractable MCMC for Private Learning with Pure and Gaussian Differential Privacy
40. ICLR 2024Transport meets Variational Inference: Controlled Monte Carlo Diffusions
41. ICLR 2024Tree Cross Attention
42. ICLR 2024Tree Search-Based Policy Optimization under Stochastic Execution Delay
43. ICLR 2024Tree-Planner: Efficient Close-loop Task Planning with Large Language Models
44. ICLR 2024UNR-Explainer: Counterfactual Explanations for Unsupervised Node Representation Learning Models
45. ICML 2024A Bayesian Approach to Online Planning
46. ICML 2024A Unified Adaptive Testing System Enabled by Hierarchical Structure Search
47. ICML 2024Accelerated Speculative Sampling Based on Tree Monte Carlo
48. ICML 2024Accelerating Look-ahead in Bayesian Optimization: Multilevel Monte Carlo is All you Need
49. ICML 2024Ai-sampler: Adversarial Learning of Markov kernels with involutive maps
50. ICML 2024AlphaZero-Like Tree-Search can Guide Large Language Model Decoding and Training

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.