Author: José de Jesús García Ruvalcaba
Date: 11:08:32 06/12/99
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On June 12, 1999 at 13:35:50, James Robertson wrote: >On June 11, 1999 at 18:58:09, Dan Homan wrote: > >>On June 11, 1999 at 17:43:59, Jon Dart wrote: >> >>>On June 11, 1999 at 10:39:13, Dan Homan wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I've been thinking about this alot recently. One thing that occurred >>>>to me is that this might be an effecient way to create a neural net based >>>>program. >>>> >>>>Say the neural net (nn) is responsible for filling a piece-square table... >>>>Then the nn could operate either once, at the root of the search, or >>>>only selected times during the search. This would largely overcome >>>>the major drawback of nn evaluations which is that they are slow. >>>> >>>>Then we could have a TD based learning program that also learns >>>>evaluation features! >>>> >>>>I've thought alot about building my next chess program on this >>>>idea.... The one major drawback that I see is that there will be >>>>a relatively large number of parameters for learning to adjust. >>>>The other drawback is that I really know nothing useful about >>>>programming neural nets. :) >>>> >>>> - Dan >>> >>>KnightCap (http://samba.anu.edu.au/KnightCap/) has learning of >>>its evaluation parameters (as well as book learning) .. it >>>appears to work very well. But I don't believe it does non-leaf >>>evals. >> >>I've read the knightcap papers. I was thinking it might be interesting >>to go a step beyond learning values for pre-defined evaluations features >>and actually learn new features not previously defined. >> >>Neural Nets will allow this, but they are slow.... so I was thinking >>of using a neural net to fill piece-square tables at the start of the >>search or at well-defined points in the search. Maybe this wouldn't >>work, but it is interesting to think about. >> >> - Dan >>> >>>--Jon > >I am fascinated by program's learning, but I know nothing of neural nets or any >other learning feature. Where can I find more information? I am too lazy to >fine-tune my program's eval by hand. :) > >James Try the following page: http://forum.swarthmore.edu/~jay/learn-game/index.html Hope it helps.
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