Approaches

N-tuple networks

Learn the value of a board from small cell patterns, each with its own lookup table, trained over millions of self-play moves.

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Fixing the learning rule, and conditioning on the rise clock

Fixes an n-tuple update bug and adds rise-cycle context. The corrected learner remains too weak.

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N-tuple value with a two-rise look-ahead

The family's largest run trained a pattern evaluator on 50 million moves and searched two row rises deep. Search made it worse than trusting the network alone.

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Blending the learned value with the hand-written one

Mix the learned board value with the hand-written heuristic and see whether the combination beats either alone. It did not.

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Learning from every column, not just the one played

An n-tuple value learner whose every update looks at all seven legal columns under the same imagined luck, so that exploration noise cannot leak into what it learns.

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