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Re: [gnugo-devel] How to change the influence function?
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Darren Cook |
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Re: [gnugo-devel] How to change the influence function? |
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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:09:55 +0900 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080502) |
Hi,
I'll just answer the non-gnugo-specific question :-).
> I believe it can be said the new influence function is better if the
> new GNU Go wins more games, in average, than the old one.
Yes.
> In other words, this new influence
> function should be compared from self-play (old influence function
> vs. new influence fn). Does this sound reasonable?
No, tuning against just one opponent is risky.
Instead set up a tournament of 3-4 programs with different styles. (Or
the simpler way to do that is to put it on cgos:
http://senseis.xmp.net/?ComputerGoServer )
Darren
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