Comparison Training for Computer Chinese Chess

01/23/2018

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by   Wen-Jie Tseng, et al.

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This paper describes the application of comparison training (CT) for automatic feature weight tuning, with the final objective of improving the evaluation functions used in Chinese chess programs. First, we propose an n-tuple network to extract features, since n-tuple networks require very little expert knowledge through its large numbers of features, while simulta-neously allowing easy access. Second, we propose a novel evalua-tion method that incorporates tapered eval into CT. Experiments show that with the same features and the same Chinese chess program, the automatically tuned comparison training feature weights achieved a win rate of 86.58 hand-tuned. The above trained version was then improved by adding additional features, most importantly n-tuple features. This improved version achieved a win rate of 81.65