Alpha–beta 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 (section Negamax with alpha beta pruning)
negamax value quickly by clever use of alpha–beta pruning discovered in the 1980s. Note that alpha–beta pruning is itself a way to compute the minimax...
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Expectiminimax (section Alpha-beta pruning)
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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Null-move heuristic (redirect from Verified null-move pruning)
heuristic technique used to enhance the speed of the alpha–beta pruning algorithm. Alpha–beta pruning speeds the minimax algorithm by identifying cutoffs...
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Alphabeta (disambiguation) (redirect from Alpha-Beta)
from Alpha (Αα) and Beta (Ββ), the first two letters Alpha and beta anomers (chemistry) Alpha–beta pruning, a type of search algorithm Alpha–beta transformation...
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NegaScout) is a negamax algorithm that can be faster than alpha–beta pruning. Like alpha–beta pruning, NegaScout is a directional search algorithm for computing...
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neural networks, pruning removes entire neurons or layers of neurons. Alpha–beta pruning Artificial neural network Null-move heuristic Pruning (artificial...
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dramatically, without affecting the result, by the use of alpha–beta 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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Alexander Brudno (section Early alpha-beta pruning)
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 alpha–beta 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 alpha–beta pruning would prune, and may prune some branches that alpha–beta would not. Stockman speculated that SSS*...
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problems. After discovering refutation screening—the application of alpha–beta pruning to optimizing move evaluation—in 1957, a team at Carnegie Mellon University...
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Computer Arimaa (section Alpha-beta pruning)
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 alpha–beta pruning, which in turn improves the efficiency of the minimax algorithm. Alpha–beta pruning works best when the best...
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it prohibitively difficult to use traditional AI methods such as alpha–beta 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 alpha–beta 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 alpha–beta 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, alpha–beta 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 alpha–beta search and uses bitboards. Compared to other engines, it is characterized...
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extensively for solving integer linear programs. Evolutionary algorithm Alpha–beta 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 Alpha–beta 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 alpha–beta 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 alpha–beta tree. While being slower than handcrafted evaluation functions, NNUE does...
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