I don't know how to get an estimate of the value of a position without using other engines.
Maybe use your own engine and re-search it on shallow depth. But who will say that that gives a right estimate if your current evaluation is bad.
You can not evaluate every test position manually for that is too much work.
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Re: tuning for the uninformed
quiet-labeled.epd contains the outcome of every positionHenk wrote:I don't know how to get an estimate of the value of a position without using other engines.
Maybe use your own engine and re-search it on shallow depth. But who will say that that gives a right estimate if your current evaluation is bad.
You can not evaluate every test position manually for that is too much work.
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Don't understand. What is quiet-labeled.epd?sandermvdb wrote:quiet-labeled.epd contains the outcome of every positionHenk wrote:I don't know how to get an estimate of the value of a position without using other engines.
Maybe use your own engine and re-search it on shallow depth. But who will say that that gives a right estimate if your current evaluation is bad.
You can not evaluate every test position manually for that is too much work.
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Sorry, that is one of the testsets by Alexandru Mosoi, the author of Zurichess. It conains quiet positions including the outcome of the game.Henk wrote:Don't understand. What is quiet-labeled.epd?sandermvdb wrote:quiet-labeled.epd contains the outcome of every positionHenk wrote: Maybe use your own engine and re-search it on shallow depth. But who will say that that gives a right estimate if your current evaluation is bad.
You can not evaluate every test position manually for that is too much work.
Re: tuning for the uninformed
What do you mean by that?sandermvdb wrote:The basic idea is pretty simple: calculate the error of the evaluation when it is compared to the actual outcome of the positions.
Do you mean the following:
- fen as input
- calc move with an eval val
- calc eval of the move that should've been moved
- compare these two (how? percentual difference? or what?)
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No. I mean:flok wrote:What do you mean by that?sandermvdb wrote:The basic idea is pretty simple: calculate the error of the evaluation when it is compared to the actual outcome of the positions.
Do you mean the following:
- fen as input
- calc move with an eval val
- calc eval of the move that should've been moved
- compare these two (how? percentual difference? or what?)
- fen as input
- calculate evaluation
- calculate error: compare evaluation score with the actual outcome. If the evaluation calculates that white has a big advantage but black wins -> big error. The exact formula is described on the cpw. This is my (pseudo) implementation, where K=1.3:
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public double calculateTotalError() {
double totalError = 0;
for (Entry<String, Double> entry : fens.entrySet()) { // fens contains all positions, including the outcome
ChessBoard cb = new ChessBoard(entry.getKey());
totalError += Math.pow(entry.getValue() - calculateSigmoid(Eval.calculateScore(cb)), 2);
}
totalError /= fens.size();
return totalError;
}
public double calculateSigmoid(int score) {
return 1 / (1 + Math.pow(10, -1.3 * score / 400));
}
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Re: tuning for the uninformed
This is the local search algorithm but I would assume that it is better to run some gradient based algorithm first (Maybe gradient descent or gauss-newton). Then if the error doesn't change by much anymore I would switch to local search.sandermvdb wrote:The basic idea is pretty simple: calculate the error of the evaluation when it is compared to the actual outcome of the positions. Lower a particular evaluation parameter and check if the error has improved, if not, higher the parameter, if again not improved, keep the original value. Do this for all parameters until you have reached the lowest error.flok wrote:If anyone is willing to explain the Texel tuning method tht would be great!
Sofar I understand I have to let it play (well, run QS + eval on FENs) millions of games and then do something with the evaluation-value. But what? I don't understand the wiki explanation.
I am going to implement texel tuning this week and see what I get
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All does not work if search space has a great many local optima and only very few global optima that you are interested in. But simulated annealing taking too long.
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Local search and any other practical algorithm to minimize the error will end up in a local optimum.Henk wrote:All does not work if search space has a great many local optima and only very few global optima that you are interested in. But simulated annealing taking too long.
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Wasn't it that if it optimizes enough parameters you won't get trapped in a local optimum. I can't remember.CheckersGuy wrote:Local search and any other practical algorithm to minimize the error will end up in a local optimum.Henk wrote:All does not work if search space has a great many local optima and only very few global optima that you are interested in. But simulated annealing taking too long.