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Demystifying AlphaGo Zero as AlphaGo GAN (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A close look at AlphaGo Zero's self-play training shows it works like a game where two networks compete and push each other to improve. That built-in rivalry explains why it should train reliably, so its success may not mark a new era of AI.

Abstract

The astonishing success of AlphaGo Zero\cite{Silver_AlphaGo} invokes a worldwide discussion of the future of our human society with a mixed mood of hope, anxiousness, excitement and fear. We try to dymystify AlphaGo Zero by a qualitative analysis to indicate that AlphaGo Zero can be understood as a specially structured GAN system which is expected to possess an inherent good convergence property. Thus we deduct the success of AlphaGo Zero may not be a sign of a new generation of AI.

Xiao Dong, Jiasong Wu, Ling Zhou
arXiv:1711.09091 · cs.LG, stat.ML · submitted Nov 24, 2017
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