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Smooth UCT Search in Computer Poker
Authors: Johannes Heinrich, David Silver
IJCAI 2015 | Venue PDF | LLM Run Details
| Reproducibility Variable | Result | LLM Response |
|---|---|---|
| Research Type | Experimental | When applied to Kuhn and Leduc poker, Smooth UCT approached a Nash equilibrium, whereas UCT diverged. In addition, Smooth UCT outperformed UCT in Limit Texas Hold em and won 3 silver medals in the 2014 Annual Computer Poker Competition. |
| Researcher Affiliation | Collaboration | Johannes Heinrich University College London London, UK EMAIL David Silver Google Deep Mind London, UK EMAIL |
| Pseudocode | Yes | Algorithm 1 Self-play MCTS in extensive-form games; Algorithm 2 Smooth UCT |
| Open Source Code | No | The paper does not provide any links or explicit statements about the open-source availability of their code. |
| Open Datasets | Yes | We evaluated Smooth UCT in the Kuhn, Leduc and Limit Texas Hold em poker games. Kuhn poker [Kuhn, 1950] and Leduc Hold em [Southey et al., 2005] are small imperfect-information two-player zero-sum games... |
| Dataset Splits | No | The paper describes calibrating parameters and evaluating performance, but it does not explicitly define or specify a separate 'validation' dataset split with percentages or counts. |
| Hardware Specification | No | We trained on a modern desktop PC, using a single thread and less than 200 MB of RAM. |
| Software Dependencies | No | The paper does not specify version numbers for any software dependencies used in the experiments. |
| Experiment Setup | Yes | Smooth UCT s mixing parameter schedule (2) was manually calibrated and set to γ = 0.1, η = 0.9 and d = 0.001... In the exploration schedule (3) we set k = 0.5 and C = 24, which corresponds to half of the maximum potsize achievable in two-player LHE. |