Hello, the ICGA is proud to annouce a special talk by Aja Huang during the Computer Olympiad and "Computer Games" conference in Leiden (NL).
**** Computer and Games 2016 Conference **** Keynote Lecture June 29, 2016: 14.00-15.00 h. Location: Leiden University, room 1 of the Gorlaeus Building Lecture by Aja Huang of the AlphaGo team AlphaGo: Combining Deep Neural Networks with Tree Search Abstract In this talk we will present the source of power of AlphaGo. In AlphaGo, we use ‘value networks’ to evaluate board positions and ‘policy networks’ to select moves. These deep neural networks are trained by a novel combination of supervised learning from human expert games, and reinforcement learning from games of self-play. Without any look ahead search, the neural networks play Go at the level of state-of-the-art Monte Carlo tree search programs that simulate thousands of random games of self-play. We also introduce a new search algorithm that combines Monte Carlo simulation with value and policy networks. Using this search algorithm, our program AlphaGo achieved a 99.8% winning rate against other Go programs, and defeated the human European Go champion by 5 games to 0. In March 2016 AlphaGo defeated Lee Sedol, the strongest human Go player in the last decade. ******************************************************************** Hope, you all will come. Cheers, Ingo. _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
