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Each page here is one theory of how to choose a column, grouped by the technique it uses; the engines that play the games and the instruments that measure them live under Engines and Diagnostics.

Techniqueallexpectimaxheuristic-evaluationq-learningn-tuplennuepolicy-gradientevolutionmctsrollout-policy-iterationoracle-distillationrisk-survivalafterstateconstructive-planningdeterminization
Statusallcompletedrejectedruntime-pausedpreregisteredsupport-onlyproposal
Readsallpublicoracle/teacherdiagnostic
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2 approaches of 87

Depth-4 search and long outcomes

Judges moves over 25-step continuations, then tries to retain only choices that survive the longer view.

4 moves: the search25 moves: the rolloutrises+Δthresholdmargin short of the mark: the search keeps its move
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Rollout veto

Keep the depth-4 search's move unless replaying every column forward for twenty-five moves says, across all seven imagined futures, that another one is better.

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Terminal policy iteration

Play every move forward many times, then override the reference only when one move produces clearly longer, higher-scoring games.

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Terminal policy iteration

Terminal rollout

Compare columns by playing each one to the end of the game. This faithful version was unaffordable.

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