Summary of Injecting Combinatorial Optimization Into Mcts: Application to the Board Game Boop, by Florian Richoux
Injecting Combinatorial Optimization into MCTS: Application to the Board Game boop
by Florian Richoux
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Jun 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: None
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty summary: This research paper combines two AI methods, Monte Carlo Tree Search and Combinatorial Optimization, to improve game-playing algorithms. The authors introduce a novel approach by injecting Combinatorial Optimization into Monte Carlo Tree Search to enhance the search efficiency. They test their method on the board game Boop! and achieve a 96% win rate against the baseline algorithm. An ablation study is conducted to analyze the effectiveness of different injections and combinations of injections. Additionally, the authors pit their AI method against human players on the Board Game Arena platform, reaching an impressive 373 ELO rating and winning 69% of games. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty summary: This paper brings together two powerful AI tools to create a better way for computers to play board games. By combining these methods, the researchers created a new algorithm that can win most of the time against other computer players. They tested this method on a popular game called Boop! and found it was very good. The authors also compared their computer player to real people playing the same game online and showed that their AI was very competitive. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Optimization
