LLM reasoning / chain-of-thought

Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) / MCTSr

Superseded baseline#467 of 772 most-superseded

Cited as a baseline — critiqued by newer work, not yet beaten on a benchmark here

1 papers critique it · 0 beat it on benchmarks

What papers say

Verbatim critique sentences, each from a paper that cites Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) / MCTSr as a baseline.

While these approaches have progressed, they struggle with balancing exploration and exploitation, particularly in multi-step decision-making tasks
MC-NEST: Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models leveraging a Monte Carlo Self-Refine Tree

What to use instead

Recent methods in the same sub-problem, not yet superseded in the knowledge base — arXiv benchmark leaders, not vetted production recommendations.