That same statement baffles me.   AMAF gives a huge boost with light
playouts for me.  As the number of playouts increase, AMAF gives less and
less.  After a few thousand playouts it's almost nothing but if it's worse
than not doing AMAF it is difficult to measure.   Of course MCTS never does
thousands of playouts from a single node.

What is the definition of light playouts?   I am referning only to purely
random playouts and perhaps that is where the discrepency is.

Don


2009/12/14 Olivier Teytaud <[email protected]>

>
>
>>
>> I've found that AMAF gives very little boost with light playouts,
>>
>>
> Thanks for this interesting comment.
> I would (erroneously) have believed that AMAF gives
> better results with non-optimized implementation (e.g. in Havannah with no
> expertise Amaf provides huge improvements). In particular, I believed it was
> moderately efficient in 19x19 due to the patterns which already provide
> relevant
> informations - but I could never test it (testing properly this assumption
> requires the tuning of the version without Rave, which would be time
> consuming and boring :-) ).
>
> Best regards,
> Olivier
>
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