> > BTW, by improvement, I don't mean higher Go playing skill...I mean > appearing close to the same level of Go playing skill _per_ _move_ with far > less computational cost. It's the total game outcomes that will fall. > > For the playouts, you always need a relatively inexpensive computation. Because for every invocation of the main NN in the tree, you need several hundred cheaper calls in the playout. So it will have to be orders of magnitude faster. Surely, replacing a crude fast NN with a slightly less crude fast NN would be beneficial. I don't know if other bots besides AlphaGo are already utilizing the selfplay improvement. But when they do, it will be helpful there too. Because the added knowledge of the main NN can be transferred down to the playout NN.
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