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You missed the point then. Alpha beta pruning requires knowledge of the game rules. Neural network pruning doesn't. The advantage is that it's a general purpose
by ggggtez 8y ago
You missed the point then. Alpha beta pruning requires knowledge of the game rules. Neural network pruning doesn't. The advantage is that it's a general purpose technique.
- stabbles 8y agoYes, that's the main contribution of the experiment / paper. But prior to AlphaZero the chess community did not even consider investing in MCTS engines -- alpha-beta pruning was thought to be far superior. I'm thinking that we might see classical engines exploring this concept more, and maybe it's even a natural step to go from alpha-beta pruning + iterative deepening to 'best-first' search with MCTS.