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Self-play has powered breakthroughs in two-player and multi-player games. Here we show that self-play is a surprisingly effective strategy in another domain. We show that robust and naturalistic driving emerges entirely from self-play in…

We introduce CuLE (CUDA Learning Environment), a CUDA port of the Atari Learning Environment (ALE) which is used for the development of deep reinforcement algorithms. CuLE overcomes many limitations of existing CPU-based emulators and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-07 Steven Dalton , Iuri Frosio , Michael Garland

Recent achievements from AlphaZero using self-play has shown remarkable performance on several board games. It is plausible to think that self-play, starting from zero knowledge, can gradually approximate a winning strategy for certain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Ruiyang Xu , Karl Lieberherr

In this paper we experiment with a 2-player strategy board game where playing models are evolved using reinforcement learning and neural networks. The models are evolved to speed up automatic game development based on human involvement at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dimitris Kalles

The Elo rating system has been used world wide for individual sports and team sports, as exemplified by the European Go Federation (EGF), International Chess Federation (FIDE), International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Ben Wise

Card game AI has always been a hot topic in the research of artificial intelligence. In recent years, complex card games such as Mahjong, DouDizhu and Texas Hold'em have been solved and the corresponding AI programs have reached the level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yudong Lu , Jian Zhao , Youpeng Zhao , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

While Model Predictive Control (MPC) delivers strong performance across robotics applications, solving the underlying (batches of) nonlinear trajectory optimization (TO) problems online remains computationally demanding. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Alexander Du , Emre Adabag , Gabriel Bravo-Palacios , Brian Plancher

The rise of Large Language Models (LLMs) has reshaped machine translation (MT), but multilingual MT still relies heavily on parallel data for supervised fine-tuning (SFT), facing challenges like data scarcity for low-resource languages and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Wei Zou , Sen Yang , Yu Bao , Shujian Huang , Jiajun Chen , Shanbo Cheng

A generally intelligent agent must be able to teach itself how to solve problems in complex domains with minimal human supervision. Recently, deep reinforcement learning algorithms combined with self-play have achieved superhuman…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Stephen McAleer , Forest Agostinelli , Alexander Shmakov , Pierre Baldi

Evolutionary algorithms (EAs) are increasingly implemented on graphics processing units (GPUs) to leverage parallel processing capabilities for enhanced efficiency. However, existing studies largely emphasize the raw speedup obtained by…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Xinmeng Yu , Tao Jiang , Ran Cheng , Yaochu Jin , Kay Chen Tan

We present a self-improving, Neural Tree Expansion (NTE) method for multi-robot online planning in non-cooperative environments, where each robot attempts to maximize its cumulative reward while interacting with other self-interested…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-07-12 Benjamin Riviere , Wolfgang Hoenig , Matthew Anderson , Soon-Jo Chung

In recent years, federated learning (FL) has been widely applied for supporting decentralized collaborative learning scenarios. Among existing FL models, federated logistic regression (FLR) is a widely used statistic model and has been used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-24 Xiaodian Cheng , Wanhang Lu , Xinyang Huang , Shuihai Hu , Kai Chen

Recent years have witnessed the great breakthrough of deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in various perfect and imperfect information games. Among these games, DouDizhu, a popular card game in China, is very challenging due to the imperfect…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Youpeng Zhao , Jian Zhao , Xunhan Hu , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

The game of Go has been highly under-researched due to the lack of game records and analysis tools. In recent years, the increasing number of professional competitions and the advent of AlphaZero-based algorithms provide an excellent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Yifan Gao , Danni Zhang , Haoyue Li

We present a strong solution of the board game pentago, computed using exhaustive parallel retrograde analysis in 4 hours on 98304 ($3 \times 2^{15}$) threads of NERSC's Cray Edison. At $3.0 \times 10^{15}$ states, pentago is the largest…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2014-04-07 Geoffrey Irving

Recent trends in language modeling have focused on increasing performance through scaling, and have resulted in an environment where training language models is out of reach for most researchers and practitioners. While most in the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Jonas Geiping , Tom Goldstein

Metaheuristic algorithms are widely used for solving complex problems due to their ability to provide near-optimal solutions. But the execution time of these algorithms increases with the problem size and/or solution space. And, to get more…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Henish Soliya , Anugrah Jain

The concept of innateness is rarely discussed in the context of artificial intelligence. When it is discussed, or hinted at, it is often the context of trying to reduce the amount of innate machinery in a given system. In this paper, I…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-01-18 Gary Marcus

Training large-scale deep learning models has become a key challenge for the scientific community and industry. While the massive use of GPUs can significantly speed up training times, this approach has a negative impact on efficiency. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-04 David Cortes , Carlos Juiz , Belen Bermejo

Fine-tuning LLMs is necessary for various dedicated downstream tasks, but classic backpropagation-based fine-tuning methods require substantial GPU memory. To this end, a recent work, MeZO, which relies solely on forward passes to fine-tune…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Zhijie Cai , Haolong Chen , Guangxu Zhu