Re: [computer-go] JFFoS + Criticality Heuristic + Parameter Optimization

2009-02-02 Thread Rémi Coulom
Darren Cook wrote: Was there a reason in not using criticality as a guide in playouts too? Or just lack of time to experiment with it? No particular reason, except maybe that it would be difficult to do, and I do not really know how to implement it. I am convinced that the idea of criticalit

Re: [computer-go] JFFoS + Criticality Heuristic + Parameter Optimization

2009-02-02 Thread Darren Cook
Hi Remi, Thanks for the reply. There are so many parameters to tune and heuristics to try, and having two types of search (playouts and the MCTS) doubles the number of knobs! (More than doubles, as there is the interaction to consider too.) > I did not try your position. But understanding seki is

Re: [computer-go] JFFoS + Criticality Heuristic + Parameter Optimization

2009-02-01 Thread Rémi Coulom
Darren Cook wrote: I don't precalculate before MCTS. Criticality, like point owner, is re-calculated for each node of the tree, as it grows. It is computed from MCTS playouts. More precisely, search at a node starts without MC features. Move gammas are all computed with static features only. Aft

Re: [computer-go] JFFoS + Criticality Heuristic + Parameter Optimization

2009-02-01 Thread Darren Cook
> I don't precalculate before MCTS. Criticality, like point owner, is > re-calculated for each node of the tree, as it grows. It is computed > from MCTS playouts. > > More precisely, search at a node starts without MC features. Move gammas > are all computed with static features only. After a few

Re: [computer-go] JFFoS + Criticality Heuristic + Parameter Optimization

2009-02-01 Thread Rémi Coulom
Isaac Deutsch wrote: Hi, The "criticality" stuff looks really interesting. Do you apply it with the offline knowledge, or as a RAVE prior value, or otherwise? It looks like you precalculate (before the MTCS) the ownership + criticality map, maybe it can be extracted from playouts in the MTCS as

Re: [computer-go] JFFoS + Criticality Heuristic + Parameter Optimization

2009-02-01 Thread Isaac Deutsch
well? ibd Original-Nachricht > Datum: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 11:01:12 +0100 > Von: "Rémi Coulom" > An: computer-go > Betreff: [computer-go] JFFoS + Criticality Heuristic + Parameter Optimization > Hi, > > I have just come back from a trip to Japan. I was inv

[computer-go] JFFoS + Criticality Heuristic + Parameter Optimization

2009-02-01 Thread Rémi Coulom
Hi, I have just come back from a trip to Japan. I was invited to give presentation at the JFFoS Symposium and the UEC. You can now find slides of my presentations on my web page: "The Monte-Carlo Revolution in Go" http://remi.coulom.free.fr/JFFoS/JFFoS.pdf (Nothing new here. A simple presenta