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Subject: Re: Evaluation Autotuning (comparison training)

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 06:16:21 06/28/04

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>The basic idea (which actually dates to my senior year in college, when I took
>CAD tools, 18760) is to use simulated annealing. Simulated annealing makes
>random changes and accepts them probablistically:
>
>(V1 > V0) : accept change
>(V1 < V0) : accept if rand() > exp((V1 - V0)/T)
>
>Where T is the temperature, and it gradually gets smaller during the anneal.
>This has the effect of ignoring small changes initially, and concentrating on
>the big picture. This is the best link I can find in a few minutes of google
>search; I will explain more if people are still unclear:
>
>http://members.aol.com/btluke/simann1.htm

Amazingly I forgot to mention that it uses comparison training, that is making
sure the evaluation of the position after the best move is higher than the
lesser moves.

anthony



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