A reinforcement learning algorithm applied to simplified two-player Texas Hold’em poker

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2167, Issue , 2001, Pages 85-96

  Dahl, Fredrik A ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN DEFENCE RESEARCH ESTABLISHMENT FFI   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; REINFORCEMENT LEARNING;

GRADIENT SEARCH; IMPERFECT INFORMATION; NON-TRIVIAL; PARAMETER SPACES; Q-LEARNING; VALUE-BASED;

LEARNING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 33745139542     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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