Re: [Bug-gnubg] Alternative weights files

[Michael Petch]

On 2012-09-17 16:54, Philippe Michel wrote:
> I have uploaded new weights at 
> http://www.gnubg.org/media/nn-training/pmichel/nets/20120907/
> 
> The difference since what I posted in June is mostly further training of 
> the contact net, and this time the result is statistically significantly 
> better than the current nets.
> 
> new @ 0ply won 50.19% of 5 pts matches against current @ 0ply (1M trials)
> 
> new @ 2ply won 50.69% of 5 pts matches against current @ 2ply (100k trials)
> 
> The latter, if not an outlier, would be a great result. A possible 
> explanation for the bigger improvement compared to 0ply could be that with 
> the new nets, 1ply evaluation works adequately (wins 52.8% of 10k 5ptrs 
> against 0ply) when it is apparently not the case with the current nets.
> 

Thanks for the work! If this is true, and others sign off that this
looks better (I'm sure some will want to verify it), it would seem like
a good reason for another Update in the near future.

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Michael Petch
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