RE: [computer-go] rave and patterns

2009-09-21 Thread David Fotland
To: computer-go Subject: Re: [computer-go] rave and patterns On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:06:01PM -0700, David Fotland wrote: Depends on what you mean by basic UCT. I think I had no UCT priors then, just a 1.1 or 1.2 K. The playouts included no self atari, no eye filling, no retake ko, and some

Re: [computer-go] rave and patterns

2009-09-21 Thread Petr Baudis
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 08:18:37AM -0700, David Fotland wrote: In the original Mogo paper it's the initial value for the children, rather than try every child once. Ah, you mean the First Play Urgency! Thanks, I will try that. Anyway, I'm happier; after fixing many bugs and improving my

Re: [computer-go] rave and patterns

2009-09-20 Thread Petr Baudis
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 08:49:15AM -0700, David Fotland wrote: Simple playouts with no eye fills and mogo 3x3 patterns and basic uct beat Gnugo 40% (at version 120) ..snip.. All win rates are on 9x9 vs gnugo 3.7.20 level 10 with 5000 playouts. After this I switched to testing 19x19, and

RE: [computer-go] rave and patterns

2009-09-17 Thread David Fotland
Pretty close. Rave is accumulated for every trial (I don't want to throw away useful information). N depends on the board size. K N and the ratio is not fixed. I use progressive widening, and I'm curious what the widening formula is for other programs, or how slowly it increases. From: