DUCT ALGORITHM

Overview

DUCT (Deterministic UCT) is a variant of MCTS designed for deterministic games. It addresses the challenge of information sets and partial observability while maintaining the benefits of Monte Carlo tree search.

Key Features

›Information set handling
›Deterministic simulations
›Perfect information games
›Reduced variance

DUCT vs UCT

UCT (Stochastic):

Random playouts with variance

DUCT (Deterministic):

Deterministic evaluations, reduced noise

Applications

Perfect information games

Strategy optimization

Game AI development

Decision making systems