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Re:EURISKO Lives by adw on Tuesday April 23, 2024 @05:15PM (#40137360)
> And MCTS still the SOTA search algo in Go etc

It's often forgotten that Rich Sutton said the two things which work are learning (the AlphaGo/Leela Zero policy network) and search (MCTS). (I think the most interesting research in ML is around the circumstances in which large models wind up performing implicit search.)

Re:EURISKO Lives by YeGoblynQueenne on Wednesday April 24, 2024 @11:14AM (#40145342)
Well, gradient optimisation is a form of search.