> The AlphaZero paper shows it out-performs AlphaGoZero, but they are > comparing to the 20-block, 3-day version. Not the 40-block, 40-day > version that was even stronger. > As papers rarely show failures, can we take it to mean they couldn't > out-perform their best go bot, do you think? ... > > In other words, do you think the changes they made from AlphaGo Zero to > Alpha Zero have made it weaker ...
Just some speculation: The article on AlphaGo Zero is in NATURE. Perhaps they made the AlphaZero research simultaneously, and when facing problems with acceptance in a journal (like NATURE) they decided to publish a preversion on AlphaZero in arXiv. So, perhaps the 40-block 40-day experiment was not yet done when they had written the AlphaZero paper. Just speculating... Ingo. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list Computer-go@computer-go.org http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
