Quote: TD-Gammon is successful because of the randomness of backgammon and a fairly smooth outcome function

Quotation Skeleton

A second key ingredient [to TD-Gammon's success] is the stochastic … As a result, the learner explores more of … [p. 65] the terminal states [of backgammon are] attractors … even for random initial networks, games usually terminate … Finally, non- deterministic games have the advantage that … perfect play on both sides, is a real-valued … In contrast the true game- theoretic value function … to learn.   Google-1   Google-2

Copyright clearance needed for quotation.

Additional Titles

Quote: even with a random initial network, TD-Gammon would terminate in, at most, several thousand moves

Related Topics

Topic: heuristic-based systems (35 items)
Topic: randomness (16 items)
Topic: limitations of artificial intelligence and cognitive science (64 items)