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Subject: Re: Research idea? re: weight optimization

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 04:30:39 12/29/01

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On December 29, 2001 at 06:15:47, Steve Maughan wrote:

>backpropagation training as it may trigger some thought processes.  Another idea
>may be to run this for a large number of positions (~10,000) with a shallow
>search (4 ply) and collect all of the coefficient deltas - applying the changes
>at the end.  This may give a more stable situation.  I don't think you need a

Possibly the most important part of the idea is that the searches are iterative,
so this suggestion will not work.

Let's say the program is shooting for position X, but _should_ be aiming for
position Z. The algorithm makes X less attractive and Z more attractive, but
that might make the program try for position Y instead of Z. By making only
minor adjustments to the weights and iterating the searches, the program's
behavior is disturbed as little as possible while still making it play the
correct move.

-Tom



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