Re:AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
by panic on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:06PM
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MCTS means "Monte-Carlo Tree Search". It's the core of the algorithm. The big difference is that it doesn't use rollouts, or random play: it chooses where to expand the tree based only on the neural network.
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Re:AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
by cjbprime on Wednesday October 18, 2017 @02:08PM
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No, 'habitue is correct. This new blog post says that the new software no longer does game readouts and just uses the neural net.
That's not what Monte Carlo Tree search is. The new version is still one neural network + MCTS. There's no way to store enough information to judge the efficiency of every possible move in a neural network, therefore a second algorithm to simulate outcomes is necessary.