[computer-go] bias in UCT and RAVE

2009-07-24 Thread Yung-Pin Chen
Hi, In Gelly and Silver's work on combining UCT and RAVE, there is a bias term for both UCT and RAVE. One assumption is that UCT is unbiased and RAVE is biased. Can anyone explain or define the bias term here? Yung-Pin ___ computer-go mailing list c

[computer-go] Re: bias in UCT and RAVE

2009-07-28 Thread Yung-Pin Chen
Jason, Thanks for your explanation. If RAVE "combines results from many variations," how can we justify it is an overestimate or underestimate of the true value of a move? Is it reasonable to assume that both UCT and RAVE are equally-biased? Yung-Pin ___