Anthony, T;
Tian, Z;
Barber, D;
(2017)
Thinking Fast and Slow with Deep Learning and Tree Search.
In: Guyon, I and Luxburg, UV and Bengio, S and Wallach, H and Fergus, R and Vishwanathan, S and Garnett, R, (eds.)
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 30 (NIPS 2017) pre-proceedings.
NIPS Proceedings: Long Beach, CA, USA.
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Abstract
Sequential decision making problems, such as structured prediction, robotic control, and game playing, require a combination of planning policies and generalisation of those plans. In this paper, we present Expert Iteration (ExIt), a novel reinforcement learning algorithm which decomposes the problem into separate planning and generalisation tasks. Planning new policies is performed by tree search, while a deep neural network generalises those plans. Subsequently, tree search is improved by using the neural network policy to guide search, increasing the strength of new plans. In contrast, standard deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms rely on a neural network not only to generalise plans, but to discover them too. We show that ExIt outperforms REINFORCE for training a neural network to play the board game Hex, and our final tree search agent, trained tabula rasa, defeats MoHex, the previous state-of-the-art Hex player.
Type: | Proceedings paper |
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Title: | Thinking Fast and Slow with Deep Learning and Tree Search |
Event: | Neural Information Processing Systems 2017 |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | https://papers.nips.cc/paper/7120-thinking-fast-an... |
Language: | English |
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UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10038400 |
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