[computer-go] More UCT / Monte-Carlo questions

[Olivier Teytaud]

> I think mogo is the only strong program that uses the UCB1-tuned formula.
> The others use the same formula you use.  I found a thesis where they
> measured many different formulas and found little difference.   If any
> strong program other than mogo uses some formula other than the basic one,
> can you please let us know?
>

MoGo does not use the UCB1 formula or the UCB1-Tuned formula
(see ICML paper from Gelly and Silver). Also, now, the formula
has been tuned again and again and does not look anymore like
something I could explain :-) this is almost genetic programming :-)

Basically, the formula in MoGo combines the success ratio and the
RAVE-success ratio, with more focus on the success ratio when the
number of simulations is large.
Olivier