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This may be a dumb question, but how do these engines get better when they're already amazing? Is it simply that they look further down the tree of possibilitie
by thinkingtoilet 6d ago
This may be a dumb question, but how do these engines get better when they're already amazing? Is it simply that they look further down the tree of possibilities?
- ajkjk 6d agoPresumably a lot of it is in a better evaluation function. That is, when searching the tree, a better analysis of whether a specific position is beneficial and by how much. After all most of the tree searches do not end in checkmate, just in minute improvements which accumulate over many moves.
- kadoban 6d agoYes. The ways to improve are: faster search (which lets you search more deeply) or better evaluation of a position or better heuristics.
- Aachen 6d agoHow do you get better when you're already amazing? When you're amazing, you understand what you're doing and where to improve. For very complex systems, the improvements will be in confined areas (not rewriting everything but noticing a bug or reading about another project which found that some other hyperparameter works better). Or even if you have no idea, the simplest way would be making random tweaks and seeing which ones are advantageous