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研究生： 黃士傑
Shih-Chieh Huang
論文名稱： 應用於電腦圍棋之蒙地卡羅樹搜尋法的新啟發式演算法
New Heuristics for Monte Carlo Tree Search Applied to the Game of Go
指導教授： 林順喜
Lin, Shun-Shii
Rémi Coulom
Rémi Coulom
學位類別： 博士
Doctor
系所名稱： 資訊工程學系
Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering
論文出版年： 2011
畢業學年度： 99
語文別： 英文
論文頁數： 91
中文關鍵詞： 人工智慧 、圍棋 、電腦圍棋 、蒙地卡羅樹搜尋 、樹狀結構信賴上界法 、模擬平衡化 、時間控制 、Erica
英文關鍵詞： Artificial Intelligence, Go, computer Go, Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS), Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees (UCT), Simulation Balancing, Time Management, Erica
論文種類： 學術論文
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    • 電腦圍棋的研究開始於1970年，但圍棋程式卻從未曾被人們認為是強大的，直到2006年，當「蒙地卡羅樹搜尋」(Monte Carlo Tree Search)與「樹狀結構信賴上界法」(Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees)出現之後，情況才開始完全不同。「蒙地卡羅樹搜尋」與「樹狀結構信賴上界法」所帶進的革命強而有力到一個地步，人們甚至開始相信，圍棋程式在10年或者20年之後，將能夠擊敗頂尖的人類棋手。
    在本研究中，我們針對「蒙地卡羅樹搜尋」提出一些新的啟發式演算法，主要有兩方面的貢獻。第一個貢獻，是成功的將「模擬平衡化」(Simulation Balancing)應用到9路圍棋。「模擬平衡化」是一種用來訓練模擬的參數的演算法。Silver與Tesauro在2009年提出這個方法時，只實驗在比較小的盤面上，而我們的實驗結果首先證明了「模擬平衡化」在9路圍棋的有效性，具體方法是證明「模擬平衡化」超越了知名的監督式演算法Minorization-Maximization (MM)大約有90 Elo之多。第二個貢獻是針對19路圍棋，系統式的實驗了各種不同之時間控制的方法。實驗結果清楚的指明，聰明的時間控制方案可以大大的提高棋力。所有的實驗都是執行在我們的圍棋程式ERICA，而ERICA正是得益於這些啟發式演算法與實驗結果，成功取得了2010年電腦奧林匹亞的19路圍棋金牌。

    Research into computer Go started around 1970, but the Go-playing programs were never, in a real sense, considered to be strong until the year 2006, when the brand new search scheme Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) and Upper Confidence bounds applied to Trees (UCT) appeared on the scene. The revolution of MCTS and UCT promoted progress of computer Go to such a degree that people began to believe that after ten or twenty years, Go-playing programs will be able to defeat the top human players.
    In this research, we propose some new heuristics of MCTS focused on two contributions. The first contribution is the successful application of Simulation Balancing (SB), an algorithm for training the parameters of the simulation, to 9×9 Go. SB was proposed by Silver and Tesauro in 2009, but it was only practiced on small board sizes. Our experiments are the first to demonstrate its effectiveness in 9×9 Go by showing that SB surpasses the well-known supervised learning algorithm Minorization-Maximization (MM) by about 90 Elo. The second contribution is systematic experiments of various time management schemes for 19×19 Go. The results indicate that clever time management algorithms can considerably improve playing strength. All the experiments were performed on our Go-playing program ERICA, which benefitted from these heuristics and the experimental results to win the gold medal in the 19×19 Go tournament at the 2010 Computer Olympiad.

    誌謝 I Acknowledgement II 摘要 IV Abstract V Contents VI List of Figures X List of Tables XII Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Computer Games 1 1.2 The Game of Go 2 1.2.1 History 2 1.2.2 Rules 3 1.3 Computer Go 6 1.4 Summary of the Contributions 8 1.5 Organization of the Dissertation 9 Chapter 2 Background and Related Work 10 2.1 Monte Carlo Go 10 2.2 Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) 11 2.2.1 Selection 12 2.2.2 Expansion 12 2.2.3 Simulation 13 2.2.4 Backpropagation 15 2.3 Upper Confidence Bound Applied to Trees (UCT) 18 2.4 State-of-the-Art Go-Playing Programs 21 2.4.1 Crazy Stone 21 2.4.2 MOGO 23 2.4.3 GNU GO 26 2.4.4 FUEGO 28 2.4.5 The Many Faces of Go 29 2.4.6 ZEN 30 2.4.7 Other Programs 33 Chapter 3 ERICA 34 3.1 Development History 34 3.1.1 First Version Created on May 2008 34 3.1.2 Second Version Created on June 2009 36 3.1.3 Third Version Created on February 2010 38 3.2 MCTS in ERICA 40 3.2.1 Selection 40 3.2.2 Expansion 41 3.2.2.1 Larger Patterns 41 3.2.2.2 Other Features 42 3.2.3 Simulation 42 3.2.3.1 Boltzmann Softmax Playout Policy 42 3.2.3.2 Move Generator 44 3.2.3.3 ForbiddenMove 45 3.2.3.4 ReplaceMove 46 3.2.4 Backpropagation 46 3.2.4.1 Bias RAVE Updates by Move Distance 46 3.2.4.2 Fix RAVE Updates for Ko Threats 47 3.3 KGS Games of ERICA 49 Chapter 4 Monte Carlo Simulation Balancing Applied to 9×9 Go 52 4.1 Introduction 52 4.2 Description of Algorithms 54 4.2.1 Softmax Policy 54 4.2.2 Supervised Learning with MM 54 4.2.3 Policy-Gradient Simulation Balancing (SB) 55 4.3 Experiments 56 4.3.1 ERICA 56 4.3.2 Playout Features 56 4.3.3 Experimental Setting 58 4.3.4 Results and Influence of Meta-Parameters 59 4.4 Comparison between MM and SB Feature Weights 61 4.5 Against GNU Go on the 9×9 Board 63 4.6 Playing Strength on the 19×19 Board 65 4.7. Conclusions 65 Chapter 5 Time Management for Monte Carlo Tree Search Applied to the Game of Go 67 5.1 Introduction 67 5.2 Monte Carlo Tree Search in ERICA and Experiment Setting 68 5.3 Basic Formula 69 5.4 Enhanced Formula Depending on Move Number 70 5.5 Some Heuristics 72 5.5.1 UCT Formula in ERICA 72 5.5.2 Unstable-Evaluation Heuristic 72 5.5.3 Think Longer When Behind 73 5.6 Using Opponent’s Time 74 5.6.1 Standard Pondering 75 5.6.2 Focused Pondering 75 5.6.3 Reducing ThinkingTime According to the Simulation Percentage 77 5.7 Conclusions 78 Chapter 6 Conclusions and Proposals for Future Work 79 6.1 Simulation Balancing (SB) 79 6.2 Time Management 80 6.3 Other Prospects 80 References 82 Appendix A. Publication List 91

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