C++ MTCS is a header-only framework for the Monte Carlo Tree Search algorithm. By implementing a few classes, the MCTS framework makes it possible to use MCTS in a custom game.
Monte Carlo Tree Search is an algorithm for making decisions by searching state spaces heuristically. For more information on the algorithm consult the following resources:
- Coulom, R. (2007). Efficient selectivity and backup operators in Monte-Carlo tree search. Computers and Games (CG 2006) (eds. P. Ciancarini and H.J. van den Herik), Vol. 4630 of LNCS, pp. 72–83, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
- Nijssen, J.A.M. and Winands, M.H.M (2011). Enhancements for Multi-Player Monte-Carlo Tree Search. Computers and Games (CG 2010) (eds. H.J. van den Herik, H. Iida, and A. Plaat), Vol. 6515 of LNCS, pp. 238–249, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany.
In order to use the framework the classes ExpansionStrategy, PlayoutStrategy, Scoring,
Backpropagation and TerminationCheck need to be implemented. See the documentation for
details on implementing those. After implementing, create an instance of MCTS and call
MCTS::calculateAction().
In order to generate the documentation get Doxygen and run
doxygen Doxyfile in the project root directory.
- A C++11 compiler
- Qt5 (only when building the samples)
No building is required for the main library, simply put the mcts.h file in your project.
When using CMake you can also put this entire project in your project, call add_subdirectory
and add target_link_libraries(target CPP_MCTS) to your CMakeLists.txt.
To build the samples, make sure the CPP_MCTS_BUILD_SAMPLES is ON and that you have
installed Qt5. Run CMake in the project root directory
(e.g. cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" -DCPP_MCTS_BUILD_SAMPLES=ON -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/path/to/qt5" .) or out of source
(e.g. cmake -G"Unix Makefiles" -DCPP_MCTS_BUILD_SAMPLES=ON -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH="/path/to/qt5" /path/to/source).
And run make and make install. On Windows, in order to run the TicTacToe sample,
copy Qt5Core.dll, Qt5Gui.dll and Qt5Widgets.dll to the same folder as TicTacToe.exe.