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A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play

At a glance

AlphaZero learned chess, shogi and Go through self-play rather than human examples.

In one paragraph

Introduced AlphaZero, which learned chess, shogi and Go by playing against itself, using the same learning approach for each game. Given the rules but no examples of human play, it defeated leading specialist programs in all three games.

Authors 13

  1. David Silver
  2. Thomas Hubert
  3. Julian Schrittwieser
  4. Ioannis Antonoglou
  5. Matthew Lai
  6. Arthur Guez
  7. Marc Lanctot
  8. Laurent Sifre
  9. Dharshan Kumaran
  10. Thore Graepel
  11. Timothy Lillicrap
  12. Karén Simonyan
  13. Demis Hassabis

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