• Alphabeta pruning is a search algorithm that seeks to decrease the number of nodes that are evaluated by the minimax algorithm in its search tree. It...
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  • negamax value quickly by clever use of alphabeta pruning discovered in the 1980s. Note that alphabeta pruning is itself a way to compute the minimax...
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  • called *-minimax, that enables alpha-beta pruning in expectiminimax trees. The problem with integrating alpha-beta pruning into the expectiminimax algorithm...
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  • heuristic technique used to enhance the speed of the alphabeta pruning algorithm. Alphabeta pruning speeds the minimax algorithm by identifying cutoffs...
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  • from Alpha (Αα) and Beta (Ββ), the first two letters Alpha and beta anomers (chemistry) Alphabeta pruning, a type of search algorithm Alphabeta transformation...
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  • NegaScout) is a negamax algorithm that can be faster than alphabeta pruning. Like alphabeta pruning, NegaScout is a directional search algorithm for computing...
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    neural networks, pruning removes entire neurons or layers of neurons. Alphabeta pruning Artificial neural network Null-move heuristic Pruning (artificial...
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  • dramatically, without affecting the result, by the use of alphabeta pruning. Other heuristic pruning methods can also be used, but not all of them are guaranteed...
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  • An aspiration window is a heuristic used in pair with alpha-beta pruning in order to reduce search time for combinatorial games by supplying a window (or...
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    a Russian computer scientist, best known for fully describing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. From 1991 until his death he lived in Israel. Brudno developed...
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    standard alphabeta search. AlphaZero inspired the computer chess community to develop Leela Chess Zero, using the same techniques as AlphaZero. Leela...
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  • tree. SSS* never examines a node that alphabeta pruning would prune, and may prune some branches that alphabeta would not. Stockman speculated that SSS*...
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    problems. After discovering refutation screening—the application of alphabeta pruning to optimizing move evaluation—in 1957, a team at Carnegie Mellon University...
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  • are key for pruning, because they are often much better than other moves. In Arimaa software the speedup provided by alpha-beta pruning is less, because...
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  • improves the efficiency of alphabeta pruning, which in turn improves the efficiency of the minimax algorithm. Alphabeta pruning works best when the best...
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  • it prohibitively difficult to use traditional AI methods such as alphabeta pruning, tree traversal and heuristic search. Almost two decades after IBM's...
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  • good choices first so that bad paths can be eliminated early (see alphabeta pruning). In the case of best-first search algorithms, such as A* search,...
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  • there is another move that is better for the same player (for example alpha-beta pruning can be used in many deterministic games). Any subtree that can be...
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  • the paranoid algorithm is an algorithm that aims to improve the alpha-beta pruning capabilities of the maxn algorithm by making the player p chosen to...
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    less emphasis on refining practical search algorithms (such as the alphabeta pruning heuristic included in most artificial intelligence textbooks), but...
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  • available computer memory, Samuel implemented what is now called alpha-beta pruning. Instead of searching each path until it came to the game's conclusion...
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    boards for position evaluation, and a microcode implementation of alpha-beta pruning. The computer also had one megabyte of memory for storing transposition...
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    Examples of algorithms for this class are the minimax algorithm, alphabeta pruning, and the A* algorithm and its variants. The name "combinatorial search"...
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    of its transposition table is 32 TB. Stockfish implements an advanced alphabeta search and uses bitboards. Compared to other engines, it is characterized...
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  • extensively for solving integer linear programs. Evolutionary algorithm Alphabeta pruning A. H. Land and A. G. Doig (1960). "An automatic method of solving...
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    Suzanne Scotchmer Thomas Schelling William Vickrey Search optimizations Alphabeta pruning Aspiration window Principal variation search max^n algorithm Paranoid...
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    most of the state-of-the-art gomoku algorithms are based on the alpha-beta pruning framework.[citation needed] Reisch proved that Generalized gomoku...
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  • improve the commonly used heuristics, such as the killer heuristic and alphabeta pruning, so that a more accurate estimate of the score of various nodes at...
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    killer move heuristic, static exchange evaluation, quiescence search, alpha-beta pruning, a transposition table, a refutation table, an evaluation cache, selective...
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    king-piece-square table. NNUE is used primarily for the leaf nodes of the alphabeta tree. While being slower than handcrafted evaluation functions, NNUE does...
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