[Computer-go] Building a database for training CNNs

2014-12-20 Thread Álvaro Begué
Hi, There are things a CNN could probably do well, if only we had the right database to train it. I have in mind these two possibilities: * using a CNN as an evaluation function, * using a CNN to estimate ownership for each point (i.e., a number between -1 and 1 that is an estimate of who is

Re: [Computer-go] Building a database for training CNNs

2014-12-20 Thread Erik van der Werf
Hi Álvaro, I've done things like that, except I didn't use games by strong computer opponents (none existed at the time), so just human amateur games. In my experience the critical part is in learning about life death. Once you have that, estimating ownership is fairly easy, asymptotically

Re: [Computer-go] Building a database for training CNNs

2014-12-20 Thread Erik van der Werf
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Robert Jasiek jas...@snafu.de wrote: On 20.12.2014 17:04, Erik van der Werf wrote: the critical part is in learning about life death. Once you have that, estimating ownership is fairly easy [...] See the following papers for more details: [...]