Questions tagged [markov-chain-monte-carlo]

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How does Monte-Carlo Tree Search Compare to MCMC?

Monte-Carlo Tree Search was the method used for AlphaGo my understanding is: it would randomly search the state space of possible moves where the probability of choosing a move was proportional to the perceived Value of the resulting state (this…
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What's the relationship between Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)?

The title may seem too broad, let me specify this question a bit more. Suppose that there is a problem that can be solved via MCMC-based algorithm, i.e., for its formulation we can construct a Markov chain, and Monte Carlo sampling is adopted to…