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Holistically Guided Monte Carlo Tree Search for Intricate Information Seeking
Ren, Ruiyang, Wang, Yuhao, Li, Junyi, Jiang, Jinhao, Zhao, Wayne Xin, Wang, Wenjie, Chua, Tat-Seng
In the era of vast digital information, the sheer volume and heterogeneity of available information present significant challenges for intricate information seeking. Users frequently face multistep web search tasks that involve navigating vast and varied data sources. This complexity demands every step remains comprehensive, accurate, and relevant. However, traditional search methods often struggle to balance the need for localized precision with the broader context required for holistic understanding, leaving critical facets of intricate queries underexplored. In this paper, we introduce an LLM-based search assistant that adopts a new information seeking paradigm with holistically guided Monte Carlo tree search (HG-MCTS). We reformulate the task as a progressive information collection process with a knowledge memory and unite an adaptive checklist with multi-perspective reward modeling in MCTS. The adaptive checklist provides explicit sub-goals to guide the MCTS process toward comprehensive coverage of complex user queries. Simultaneously, our multi-perspective reward modeling offers both exploration and retrieval rewards, along with progress feedback that tracks completed and remaining sub-goals, refining the checklist as the tree search progresses. By striking a balance between localized tree expansion and global guidance, HG-MCTS reduces redundancy in search paths and ensures that all crucial aspects of an intricate query are properly addressed. Extensive experiments on real-world intricate information seeking tasks demonstrate that HG-MCTS acquires thorough knowledge collections and delivers more accurate final responses compared with existing baselines.
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From Zelda to Elden Ring – how to make time for gaming when you have a busy life
Welcome to Pushing Buttons, the Guardian's gaming newsletter. If you'd like to receive it in your inbox every week, just pop your email in below – and check your inbox (and spam) for the confirmation email. I have a long, emotionally-significant history with Elden Ring's developer – I was the first person in the world to review Dark Souls, for heaven's sake – but I still haven't found time to play FromSoftware's latest title. I once flew to California to play Dark Souls for 24 straight hours on a live stream. These games are IMPORTANT to me!
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Decentralized Optimization Over the Stiefel Manifold by an Approximate Augmented Lagrangian Function
In this paper, we focus on the decentralized optimization problem over the Stiefel manifold, which is defined on a connected network of $d$ agents. The objective is an average of $d$ local functions, and each function is privately held by an agent and encodes its data. The agents can only communicate with their neighbors in a collaborative effort to solve this problem. In existing methods, multiple rounds of communications are required to guarantee the convergence, giving rise to high communication costs. In contrast, this paper proposes a decentralized algorithm, called DESTINY, which only invokes a single round of communications per iteration. DESTINY combines gradient tracking techniques with a novel approximate augmented Lagrangian function. The global convergence to stationary points is rigorously established. Comprehensive numerical experiments demonstrate that DESTINY has a strong potential to deliver a cutting-edge performance in solving a variety of testing problems.
In video game 'Destiny's Sword,' mental health is as important as combat strategy
Promotional artwork for the upcoming video game, 'Destiny's Sword,' in which your characters' mental health are as important as their strengths and weaponry. Most combat video games stress tactics and firepower, but in the upcoming sci-fi strategy game "Destiny's Sword" you will also want to take into account your bedside manner. The online role-playing computer game from Ontario, Canada, studio 2Dogs Games puts players in the role of a squadron commander in a futuristic faction war. Scores of players can compete online – think "World of Warcraft" mashed up with the movie "Starship Troopers." But there's another unique twist: As you direct your troops, their experiences in combat will affect each character differently – that, in turn, influences their effectiveness in subsequent battles.
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The 14 best video games of E3 2018
An expansive third-person action game set on foreign planets, Anthem rides the coattails of Destiny, The Division and Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Wildlands, and promises wide multiplayer support that will continue long after it launches . At first glance it looks a lot like Destiny, with four players in mech exosuits blasting away at space creatures with rifles, pulse cannons, grenades and missiles. In combat, Anthem recalls Titanfall, as you transition from hovering, to dodging, landing, sprinting and swimming, experimenting with the weighty arsenal of weapons. Developer BioWare is known for great stories: we've seen none of that aspect of Anthem yet, but it feels great to play. The trailer suggests a fun, colourful, 1980s-inspired take on cyberpunk, but in reality Cyberpunk 2077 is gritty, featuring a lot of nudity, violence, swearing and drugs.
Tweeting Google may get you an instant EMOJI reply
Users tweeting the company with an emoji receive an instant reply with a gif, a quick quip, or a link to local search results. And there are some hidden surprises for tweeting certain characters. For instance, Google will respond to the peach emoji with a Google search for'Bootylicious lyrics', a single released by Destiny's Child in 2001. It responds to aubergine emojis with babganoush recipes. As well as being playful, the service can also prove useful.
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