January 2018 – Artificial thoughts

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Game of Nim, Reinforcement Learning

21 January 2018 10 November 2018

Intro In this post we report success in using reinforcement to learn the game of nim. We had previously cited two theses (ERIK JÄRLEBERG (2011) and PAUL GRAHAM & WILLIAM LORD (2015)) that used Q-learning to learn the game of nim. However, in this setting, the scaling issues with Q-learning are much more …

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Game of Nim, Supervised Learning

1 January 2018 11 September 2020

There are entire theses devoted to reinforcement learning of the game of nim, in particular those of ERIK JÄRLEBERG (2011) and PAUL GRAHAM & WILLIAM LORD (2015). Those two were successful in training a reinforcement-based agent to play the game of nim with a high percentage of accurate moves. However, they used lookup tables …