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40 hoursswitch to returning an array of actions instead of a linked listtslil clingman
- attempts to keep the same move ordering as the list method - saves ~170msec on a depth 7 search for a given board configuration - there is room to improve the pre-allocation size estimates, these bounds are not obviously tight and it may or may not be faster to have tighter bounds or even some form of estimation
40 hoursswitch to explicit game state & important bug fix & clang formattslil clingman
Previously the code base assumed that there was a single, global game state which was the implicit target of all actions taken. Looking ahead at architectural improvements, this has now been (almost entirely) made explicit and functions take tak_state_p where necessary (and also where unnecessary). Two important fixes to actions.c were made: - Previously when generating the possible stack moves, stack height overflows (> 15) were not taken into account and this resulted in the tree search corrupting the board state. Now action search does not list all legal actions, rather the subset of these encodeable by the implementation. - The check for crushing on a stack move was incorrect (too strict), and this resulted in many legitimate moves being igonored. Finally, in other changes, weights have also been improved by training all games instead of some subset for chosen players, and clang-format was run on the codebase.
40 hoursWelcome geminict!tslil clingman
This is a special interface to negamax_cnn1986 which is designed to generate output for use in a CGI tak interface to be used over gemini. Also in this commit is a reformating of the various source files to use the traditional tab width of 8 spaces.
40 hoursTrying to make things fastertslil
I tried the following, but they all made things worse: - moving away from the singly-linked (tail tracking) list for actions by: + using an array zipper for a deque + using an array to poorly hold a floating deque - caching the results of generating move lists in the transposition table and then + copying the resulting list/zip/deque instead of generating it + applying the move-to-front without copying, but this made the search order worse. Presumably in this case shallower nodes were messing up the search tree with garbage moves? I think some of this is not supposed to happen, but i have just the right combination of poor evaluation function and naively ordered and cheap move generation that i'm in a local minimum here.
40 hoursFix copyright notice in files, and small preemptive optimisationtslil clingman
Eventually there'll be a more complicated data generation step than the one we're presently using, so having it in-lined in the loop is wasteful. Ideally also this would be update per ply and we could avoid recalculating it entirely for every query -- though it's probably ``fast enough'' for now. Also, caching is WIP.
40 hoursRename ct_k -> ct, IANAL but ...tslil
40 hoursTry to squeeze out a little more performancetslil clingman
``Common wisdom'' dictates that placements are often better than stack moves, so we bias the generated move list in this fashion. Seems to be a little faster.
40 hoursAdded license information!tslil clingman
40 hoursIt would appear that any function call whatsoever is slower :/tslil clingman
For now we'll stay with directly recomputing it at each non-terminal node
40 hoursSomehting along these lines, i'm tiredtslil clingman
40 hoursStoring best moves!tslil clingman