Documenting paper reference of some implementation

[dsmic]

I think you implemented

#define UCT_DECAY_ALPHA 1
#define UCT_DECAY_K 0
#define UCT_DECAY_M 0

from a paper, do you have the reference? I would add it to engine.h directly before defines...

[Francois van Niekerk]

Actually, at the time it was an original idea, but it didn't work out, so we didn't pursue it. It might just not work in computer Go, with all the various other improvements, because it is very similar to "Accelerated UCT and Its Application to Two-Player Games" by Hashimoto et al.

[dsmic]

I see, thanks.

Yes, this is what I thought. The paper gives an improvenment of about 50ELO, where do you have the information from, that it does not work?

I am trying an idea of a backup operator in UCT at the moment, therefore I took it as a hint, that it might work out...

[Francois van Niekerk]

It was just some basic tests that we did, so it is possible it could still work.