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Maxim Lapan
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Maxim Lapan

Maxim has been working as a software developer for more than 20 years and was involved in various areas: distributed scientific computing, distributed systems and big data processing. Since 2014 he is actively using machine and deep learning to solve practical industrial tasks, such as NLP problems, RL for web crawling and web pages analysis. He has been living in Germany with his family.
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To make the training fast, I intentionally chose the hyperparameters of the training process to be small. For example, at every step of the self-play process, only 10 MCTSes were performed, each with a mini-batch size of eight. This, in combination with efficient mini-batch MCTS and the fast game engine, made training very fast.

Basically, after just one hour of training and 2,500 games played in the self-play mode, the produced model was sophisticated enough to be enjoyable to play against. Of course, the level of its play was well below even a kid's level, but it showed some rudimentary strategies and made mistakes in only every other move, which was good progress.

The training was left running for a day, which resulted in 60k games played by a best model and, in total, 105 best model rotations. The training dynamics are shown in the following charts. Figure 23.3 shows the win ratio (win/loss for the current evaluated policy versus the current best policy...

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Maxim Lapan

Maxim has been working as a software developer for more than 20 years and was involved in various areas: distributed scientific computing, distributed systems and big data processing. Since 2014 he is actively using machine and deep learning to solve practical industrial tasks, such as NLP problems, RL for web crawling and web pages analysis. He has been living in Germany with his family.
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