RE: [SPAM] Re: [SPAM] Re: [computer-go] Progressive widening vs unpruning

2009-10-05 Thread David Fotland
: [SPAM] Re: [computer-go] Progressive widening vs unpruning 4) regularized success rate (nbWins +K ) /(nbSims + 2K) (the original progressive bias is simpler than that) I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you explain a bit more? Sorry for being unclear, I hope I'll do better below

Re: [SPAM] Re: [computer-go] Progressive widening vs unpruning

2009-10-02 Thread Olivier Teytaud
What's your general approach? My understanding from your previous posts is that it's something like: Your understanding is right. By the way, all the current strong programs are really very similar... Perhaps Fuego has something different in 19x19 (no big database of patterns ?). I'm not

Re: [SPAM] Re: [computer-go] Progressive widening vs unpruning

2009-10-02 Thread Jason House
On Oct 2, 2009, at 2:24 PM, Olivier Teytaud olivier.teyt...@lri.fr wrote: 4) regularized success rate (nbWins +K ) /(nbSims + 2K) (the original progressive bias is simpler than that) I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you explain a bit more?

RE: [SPAM] Re: [computer-go] Progressive widening vs unpruning

2009-09-30 Thread David Fotland
Look for the graph I posted a few weeks ago. Most things tried make it worse. Some make it a little better, and every now and then there is a big jump. David I'm wondering, are these tunings about squeezing single-percent increases with very narrow confidence bounds, or something that gives

Re: [SPAM] Re: [computer-go] Progressive widening vs unpruning

2009-09-29 Thread Olivier Teytaud
I guess I'm not really appreciating the difference between node value prior and progressive bias - adding a fixed small number of wins or diminishing heuristic value seems very similar to me in practice. Is the difference noticeable? It just means that the weight of the prior does not

RE: [SPAM] Re: [computer-go] Progressive widening vs unpruning

2009-09-29 Thread David Fotland
. David From: computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org [mailto:computer-go-boun...@computer-go.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Teytaud Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 1:26 PM To: computer-go Subject: Re: [SPAM] Re: [computer-go] Progressive widening vs unpruning I guess I'm not really appreciating