{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/using-monte-carlo-tree-search-to-calculate","title":"Using Monte Carlo Tree Search to Calculate Mutual Information in High Dimensions","arxiv_id":"2309.08516","date":"2023-09-15","proceeding":null,"authors":["Nick Carrara","Jesse Ernst"],"abstract":"Mutual information is an important measure of the dependence among variables. It has become widely used in statistics, machine learning, biology, etc. However, the standard techniques for estimating it often perform poorly in higher dimensions or with noisy variables. Here we significantly improve one of the standard methods for calculating mutual information by combining it with a modified Monte Carlo Tree Search. We present results which show that our method gives accurate results where the standard methods fail. We also describe the software implementation of our method and give details on the publicly-available code.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.08516v1","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.08516v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"using-monte-carlo-tree-search-to-calculate","repo_url":"https://github.com/jesse794/t-ksg","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}