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VISION-LIST Digest 1989 05 26
Vision-List Digest Fri May 26 14:43:10 PDT 89
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Today's Topics:
learning to play Go and Neural Networks: info request
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Date: 23 May 89 08:32:41 GMT
From: munnari!latcs1.oz.au!mahler@uunet.UU.NET (Daniel Mahler)
Subject: learning to play Go and Neural Networks: info request
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
[ Not a mainline vision question, but perhaps of interest to some.
phil... ]
i am an honours student working on implementing
a neural network that learns to play Go.
this seems appropriate as Go has a much
higher (~50x) branching factor, forcing
a pattern oriented rather than a lookahead
orinted approach, and most instruction
(heuristics advocated by books & players)
are of an intuitive nature hard to
formalise into the classical ai symbolic/logical
paradigm. My current idea is to preprocess
the board position using image/signal processing techniques (eg transforms,
filters, convolution, multi dimensional grammars)
to enhance the strategic structure of
the position over superficial similarities;
in other words i will treat the board
as a 2d signal/image. I will concentrate mainly on
the opening to early middle game phase, as these are
quiescent; later stages become more dependent on tactical
lookahead. All responses, be they bibliographic,
theoretical, practical, or philosophical, will be apprecited.
i leave to your discretion to judge
the appropriatness of replying by news or email.
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