Re: [Computer-go] Computer-go Digest, Vol 54, Issue 4

2014-07-03 Thread Greg Schmidt
My original example was unrealistic and on the extreme side to make a point. However if there are nodes with say 7/10, 12/20, and 50/100 how should they be ranked? In some sense, the first one seems promising since we've only searched just a few nodes, yet we are mainly seeing wins (granted,

Re: [Computer-go] Computer-go Digest, Vol 54, Issue 4

2014-07-03 Thread Petr Baudis
On Thu, Jul 03, 2014 at 06:18:32AM -0700, Greg Schmidt wrote: Perhaps there is an argument that the UCB formula won't generally let this happen since it takes into consideration both win rate and tries to increase confidence by promoting the visit of nodes with low visit counts. Still, I