[Computer-go] What's a good playout speed?

[uurtamo .]

I can offer you a factor of 2 speedup...

s.
On Mar 28, 2015 7:59 PM, "hughperkins2" <hughperkins2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> By the way, for mcts you dont need time controls. Each move takes the same
> amount of time, since you just do n playouts, and choose n as you like.
>
> I think my playouts took 2s, which was enoufht for 40000 playouts i
> suppose, but it was in novemebr, dont remember clearly... It was obvious
> that adding more playouts didnt increase the strength libearly, more like
> logarithmically, or, at best as the square root, and i dont want to program
> heursitics by hand, not going to get a papet out of that :-)
>
> The atari paper looks interesting. Kind of dabbling in that a bit... By
> the way, for mcts you dont need time controls. Each move takes the same
> amount of time, since you just do n playouts, and choose n as you like.
>
> I think my playouts took 2s, which was enoufht for 40000 playouts i
> suppose, but it was in novemebr, dont remember clearly... It was obvious
> that adding more playouts didnt increase the strength libearly, more like
> logarithmically, or, at best as the square root, and i dont want to program
> heursitics by hand, not going to get a papet out of that :- out of that :-)
>
> The atari paper looks interesting. Kind of dabbling in that a bit...
>
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