Real-Time Flight Test Maneuver Selection with Monte Carlo Tree Search
arXiv:2607.18089
2026
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The paper contributes a concrete posterior-aware planning mechanism: use a propagated state of predictive variances inside shallow Monte Carlo Tree Search, rather than evaluating each maneuver independently. Its transferable asset is a cost-aware lookahead rule that discounts redundant observations and accounts for transition or acquisition costs. This can be applied to neural-network active learning, dataset curation, and expensive simulation labeling by replacing GP variance with ensemble, Laplace, or neural-tangent uncertainty and planning batches or trajectories of queries.
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Replace greedy uncertainty sampling with a shallow Monte Carlo Tree Search that plans sequences of neural-network data acquisitions using a propagated uncertainty state. Each hypothetical query reduces uncertainty at nearby or correlated points, so later rewards automatically penalize redundant coverage and include labeling, simulation, or trajectory-transition costs.
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