On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Hideki Kato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rémi Coulom: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>>Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>
>>> The *paper* about MTD(f) is extremely interesting because it shows
>>> that many best-first algorithms can be rewritten as depth-first
>>> algorithms.
>>>
>>> It happened for SSS, it happened for proof-number search.
>>>
>>> Who will make it happen for UCT?
>>>
>>
>>
>>Actually, there was a paper presented at the 2007 Computer-Game Workshop
>>in Japan entitled "Depth-First UCT and its Application to Go", by
>>Haruhiro Yoshimoto, Akihiro Kishimoto, Tomoyuki Kaneko, and Kazuki Yoshizoe.
>
> Abstract in English:
> The UCT algorithm is a representative best-first search algorithm that
> has been popularly used in Monte Carlo Go.  This paper presents the
> DFUCT (Depth-First UCT) algorithm, which is an efficient depth-first
> variant of UCT.  Experimental results in Go show that DFUCT achieves
> 3% improvement in running time, while the solving abilities of DFUCT
> and UCT are comparable.
>
> This paper is written in Japanese.

Thank you for the translation.

cheers
stuart
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