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Since AlphaGo and AlphaGo Zero have achieved breakground successes in the game of Go, the programs have been generalized to solve other tasks. Subsequently, AlphaZero was developed to play Go, Chess and Shogi. In the literature, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Hui Wang , Michael Emmerich , Mike Preuss , Aske Plaat

By introducing several improvements to the AlphaZero process and architecture, we greatly accelerate self-play learning in Go, achieving a 50x reduction in computation over comparable methods. Like AlphaZero and replications such as ELF…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 David J. Wu

The landmark achievements of AlphaGo Zero have created great research interest into self-play in reinforcement learning. In self-play, Monte Carlo Tree Search is used to train a deep neural network, that is then used in tree searches.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-16 Hui Wang , Michael Emmerich , Mike Preuss , Aske Plaat

Tactical decision making for autonomous driving is challenging due to the diversity of environments, the uncertainty in the sensor information, and the complex interaction with other road users. This paper introduces a general framework for…

AlphaZero in 2017 was able to master chess and other games without human knowledge by playing millions of games against itself (self-play), with a computation budget running in the tens of millions of dollars. It used a variant of the Monte…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Ameya Joshi

Recently, the seminal algorithms AlphaGo and AlphaZero have started a new era in game learning and deep reinforcement learning. While the achievements of AlphaGo and AlphaZero - playing Go and other complex games at super human level - are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Johannes Scheiermann , Wolfgang Konen

In recent years, much progress has been made in computer Go and most of the results have been obtained thanks to search algorithms (Monte Carlo Tree Search) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL). In this paper, we propose to use and analyze…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Brahim Driss , Jérôme Arjonilla , Hui Wang , Abdallah Saffidine , Tristan Cazenave

The advent of AlphaGo and its successors marked the beginning of a new paradigm in playing games using artificial intelligence. This was achieved by combining Monte Carlo tree search, a planning procedure, and deep learning. While the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Marco Kemmerling , Daniel Lütticke , Robert H. Schmitt

This paper presents MiniZero, a zero-knowledge learning framework that supports four state-of-the-art algorithms, including AlphaZero, MuZero, Gumbel AlphaZero, and Gumbel MuZero. While these algorithms have demonstrated super-human…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Ti-Rong Wu , Hung Guei , Pei-Chiun Peng , Po-Wei Huang , Ting Han Wei , Chung-Chin Shih , Yun-Jui Tsai

This paper describes a new algorithm for decision making in two-player real-time video games. As with Monte Carlo Tree Search, the algorithm can be used without heuristics and has been developed for use in general video game AI. The…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-07-07 Jialin Liu , Diego Pérez-Liébana , Simon M. Lucas

AlphaZero-like Monte Carlo Tree Search systems, originally introduced for two-player games, dynamically balance exploration and exploitation using neural network guidance. This combination makes them also suitable for classical search…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Alexandros Vazaios , Jannis Brugger , Cedric Derstroff , Kristian Kersting , Mira Mezini

The AlphaZero framework provides a standard way of combining Monte Carlo planning with prior knowledge provided by a previously trained policy-value neural network. AlphaZero usually assumes that the environment on which the neural network…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Isidoro Tamassia , Wendelin Böhmer

The combination of Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) with deep reinforcement learning has led to significant advances in artificial intelligence. However, AlphaZero, the current state-of-the-art MCTS algorithm, still relies on handcrafted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Jean-Bastien Grill , Florent Altché , Yunhao Tang , Thomas Hubert , Michal Valko , Ioannis Antonoglou , Rémi Munos

The success of AlphaZero (AZ) has demonstrated that neural-network-based Go AIs can surpass human performance by a large margin. Given that the state space of Go is extremely large and a human player can play the game from any legal state,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Li-Cheng Lan , Huan Zhang , Ti-Rong Wu , Meng-Yu Tsai , I-Chen Wu , Cho-Jui Hsieh

A core novelty of Alpha Zero is the interleaving of tree search and deep learning, which has proven very successful in board games like Chess, Shogi and Go. These games have a discrete action space. However, many real-world reinforcement…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-25 Thomas M. Moerland , Joost Broekens , Aske Plaat , Catholijn M. Jonker

AlphaZero-style reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms have achieved superhuman performance in many complex board games such as Chess, Shogi, and Go. However, we showcase that these algorithms encounter significant and fundamental…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Bei Zhou , Søren Riis

It is non-trivial to design engaging and balanced sets of game rules. Modern chess has evolved over centuries, but without a similar recourse to history, the consequences of rule changes to game dynamics are difficult to predict. AlphaZero…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Nenad Tomašev , Ulrich Paquet , Demis Hassabis , Vladimir Kramnik

Adversarial self-play in two-player games has delivered impressive results when used with reinforcement learning algorithms that combine deep neural networks and tree search. Algorithms like AlphaZero and Expert Iteration learn tabula-rasa,…

Game solving is a similar, yet more difficult task than mastering a game. Solving a game typically means to find the game-theoretic value (outcome given optimal play), and optionally a full strategy to follow in order to achieve that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Ti-Rong Wu , Hung Guei , Ting Han Wei , Chung-Chin Shih , Jui-Te Chin , I-Chen Wu

The AlphaGo, AlphaGo Zero, and AlphaZero series of algorithms are remarkable demonstrations of deep reinforcement learning's capabilities, achieving superhuman performance in the complex game of Go with progressively increasing autonomy.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-06 Yuandong Tian , Jerry Ma , Qucheng Gong , Shubho Sengupta , Zhuoyuan Chen , James Pinkerton , C. Lawrence Zitnick