Either your understanding is correct or mine isn’t: AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero _do_ do a tree search that the DM papers call “Monte Carlo Tree Search” but that doesn’t involve actual Monte Carlo playouts and that doesn’t match e.g. the description on the Wikipedia page about MCTS.
Either your understanding is correct or mine isn’t: AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero _do_ do a tree search that the DM papers call “Monte Carlo Tree Search” but that doesn’t involve actual Monte Carlo playouts and that doesn’t match e.g. the description on the Wikipedia page about MCTS.