Questions tagged [connect-four]
For questions that involve the connect four game, which is a two-player connection board game, in which the players choose a color and then take turns dropping colored discs into a seven-column, six-row vertically suspended grid. The questions need to be related to AI.
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Deep Reinforcement Learning - How to Avoid a Naive Solution?
I'm implementing a connect-4 agent: using DQN, training by playing vs previous versions of the network.
However, many times the network learns that it's best to simply put 4 pieces in the same column, ...
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Negamax: how should you avoid the horizon effect in the connect four game?
I'm trying to implement a quiescence search in the negamax algorithm, for a connect four game.
The algorithm is as follow for a chess game:
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Reduction of state space of the game Connect Four to apply RL algorithms SARSA and Q-Learning
I would like to implement the reinforcement learning algorithms SARSA and Q-Learning for the board game Connect Four.
I am familiar with the algorithms and know about their limitations regarding large ...
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Which heuristic function should I use for the ColorShapeLinks game?
For learning purposes, I am trying to implement the minimax algorithm for the ColorShapeLinks game, which is similar to connect 4, except the fact that it combines both shape and color as the winning ...
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How should I define the reward function in the case of Connect Four?
I'm using RL to train a Network on the game Connect4. It learns quickly that 4 connected pieces is good. It gets a reward of 1 for this. A zero is rewarded for all other moves.
It takes quite a time ...
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