Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinforcement Learning

Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by elcapitan on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @04:17AM (#15859723)

What would be a good starting point to learn about the AI behind that for a "normal" programmer? There seem to be so many resources now that it's hard to choose. Combination of hands-on plus theory would be good.

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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by tom_wilde on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:01AM (#15860161)

Coursera - Andrew NG's course => Classic starting point, very thorough and digestable introduction to Neural Networks. I found he covered the 'how the heck do I use this?' rather well.. :)

From there, Coursera has a paid(?) DL course by Andrew NG or there's Fast.ai which looks good.

Good luck!

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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by thanatropism on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:44AM (#15860075)

The keyword is "reinforcement learning".

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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by elcapitan on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @06:02AM (#15860165)

I know the names of the general concepts, I was wondering if someone has concrete recommendations on where to start and which books/frameworks are sort of beginner-friendly.

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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by AlexCoventry on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @10:43AM (#15861909)

Try Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn and TensorFlow Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems for the fundamentals.

http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920052289.do

For reinforcement learning, I hear Barto and Sutton is very readable, but I haven't read it myself. You can just pick the concepts up by reading papers. The introduction in the Deep Q-Learning paper is not great, but it's how I first learned the concept.

http://ufal.mff.cuni.cz/~straka/courses/npfl114/2016/sutton-... https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf

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Re:Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with General Reinf... by magoghm on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @12:46PM (#15863115)

You can check this Reinforcement Learning Course by David Silver on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pWv7GOvuf0&t=836s

By the way, I believe David Silver was the lead programmer for AlphaZero.

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