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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=67104 Run LC Zero in LittleBlitzerGUI] by [[Stefan Pohl]], [[CCC]], April 14, 2018 » [[LittleBlitzer]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=67104 Run LC Zero in LittleBlitzerGUI] by [[Stefan Pohl]], [[CCC]], April 14, 2018 » [[LittleBlitzer]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=67121 LC0 - how to catch up?] by [[Srdja Matovic]], [[CCC]], April 16, 2018
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=67121 LC0 - how to catch up?] by [[Srdja Matovic]], [[CCC]], April 16, 2018
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* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67300 Leela on more then one GPU?] by [[Karlo Bala Jr.]], [[CCC]], May 01, 2018
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67646 New CLOP settings give Leela huge tactics boost] by [[Albert Silver]], [[CCC]], June 04, 2018 » [[CLOP]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67646 New CLOP settings give Leela huge tactics boost] by [[Albert Silver]], [[CCC]], June 04, 2018 » [[CLOP]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67668 First Win by Leela Chess Zero against Stockfish dev] by [[Ankan Banerjee]], [[CCC]], June 07, 2018 » [[Stockfish]]
 
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67668 First Win by Leela Chess Zero against Stockfish dev] by [[Ankan Banerjee]], [[CCC]], June 07, 2018 » [[Stockfish]]

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Leela Chess Zero, (LCZero, lc0)
an adaption of Gian-Carlo Pascutto's Leela Zero Go project [2] to Chess, initiated and announced by Stockfish co-author Gary Linscott, who was already responsible for the Stockfish Testing Framework called Fishtest. Leela Chess is open source, released under the terms of GPL version 3 or later, and supports UCI. The goal is to build a strong chess playing entity following the same type of deep learning along with Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) techniques of AlphaZero as described in DeepMind's 2017 and 2018 papers [3] [4] [5], but using distributed training for the weights of the deep convolutional neural network (CNN, DNN, DCNN).

Lc0

Leela Chess Zero consists of an executable to play or analyze games, initially dubbed LCZero, soon rewritten by a team around Alexander Lyashuk for better performance and then called Lc0 [6] [7]. This executable, the actual chess engine, performs the MCTS and reads the self-taught CNN, which weights are persistent in a separate file. Lc0 is written in C++14 and may be compiled for various platforms and backends. Since deep CNN approaches are best suited to run massively in parallel on GPUs to perform all the floating point dot products for thousands of neurons, the preferred target platforms are Nvidia GPUs supporting CUDA and CuDNN libraries [8]. Ankan Banerjee wrote the CuDNN backend code, also shared by Deus X and Allie [9]. None CUDA compliant GPUs (AMD) are supported through OpenCL, while much slower pure CPU binaries are possible using BLAS, target systems with or without a graphics card (GPU) are Linux, Mac OS and Windows computers, or BLAS only the Raspberry Pi.

Description

Like AlphaZero, Lc0's evaluates positions using non-linear function approximation based on a deep neural network, rather than the linear function approximation as used in classical chess programs. This neural network takes the board position as input and outputs position evaluation (QValue) and a vector of move probabilities (PValue, policy). Once trained, these network is combined with a Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) using the policy to narrow down the search to high­probability moves, and using the value in conjunction with a fast rollout policy to evaluate positions in the tree. The MCTS selection is done by a variation of Rosin's UCT improvement dubbed PUCT (Predictor + UCT).

Board Representation

Lc0's color agnostic board is represented by five bitboards (own pieces, opponent pieces, orthogonal sliding pieces, diagonal sliding pieces, and pawns including en passant target information coded as pawns on rank 1 and 8), two king squares, castling rights, and a flag whether the board is color flipped. Getting individual piece bitboards requires some setwise operations such as intersection and set theoretic difference [10].

Network

While AlphaGo used two disjoint networks for policy and value, AlphaZero as well as Leela Chess Zero, share a common "body" connected to disjoint policy and value "heads". The “body” consists of spatial 8x8 planes, using B residual blocks with F filters of kernel size 3x3, stride 1. So far, model sizes FxB of 64x6, 128x10, 192x15, and 256x20 were used.

Concerning nodes per second of the MCTS, smaller models are faster to calculate than larger models. They are faster to train and will earlier recognize progress, but they will also saturate earlier so that at some point more training will no longer improve the engine. Larger and deeper network models will improve the receptivity, the amount of knowledge and pattern to extract from the training samples, with potential for a stronger engine. As a further improvement, Leele Chess Zero applies the Squeeze and Excite (SE) extension to the residual block architecture [11] [12]. The body is connected to both the policy "head" for the move probability distribution, and the value "head" for the evaluation score aka winning probability of the current position and up to seven predecessor positions on the input planes.

Training

Like in AlphaZero, the Zero suffix implies no other initial knowledge than the rules of the game, to build a superhuman player, starting with truly random self-play games to apply reinforcement learning based on the outcome of that games. However, there are derived approaches, such as Albert Silver's Deus X, trying to take a short-cut by initially using supervised learning techniques, such as feeding in high quality games played by other strong chess playing entities, or huge records of positions with a given preferred move. The unsupervised training of the NN is about to minimize the L2-norm of the mean squared error loss of the value output and the policy loss. Further there are experiments to train the value head against not the game outcome, but against the accumulated value for a position after exploring some number of nodes with UCT [13].

The distributed training is realized with an sophisticated client-server model. The client, written entirely in the Go programming language, incorporates Lc0 to produce self-play games.Controlled by the server, the client may download the latest network, will start self-playing, and uploading games to the server, who on the other hand will regularly produce and distribute new neural network weights after a certain amount of games available from contributors. The training software consists of Python code, the pipeline requires NumPy and TensorFlow running on Linux [14]. The server is written in Go along with Python and shell scripts.

Structure Diagrams

Lc0diagram.png

Related to TCEC clone discussions concerning Deus X and Allie aka AllieStein,
Alexander Lyashuk published diagrams with all components of the affected engines,
The above shows the common legend, and the structure of all Leela Chess Zero's components based on current Lc0 engine [15]

Lczero.png

Same diagram, but initial LCZero engine, which played TCEC Season 12 [16]

See also

UCT
PUCT

Forum Posts

2018

Re: Announcing lczero by Daniel Shawul, CCC, January 21, 2018 » Rollout Paradigm
LCZero update (2) by Rein Halbersma, CCC, March 25, 2018
Re: TCEC season 13, 2 NN engines will be participating, Leela and Deus X by Gian-Carlo Pascutto, CCC, August 03, 2018
Re: Has Silver written any code for "his" ZeusX? by Alexander Lyashuk, LCZero Forum, August 02, 2018
Re: How good is the RTX 2080 Ti for Leela? by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, September 16, 2018
Re: How good is the RTX 2080 Ti for Leela? by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, September 17, 2018 [18]
Re: How good is the RTX 2080 Ti for Leela? by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, October 28, 2018
Re: How good is the RTX 2080 Ti for Leela? by Ankan Banerjee, CCC, November 15, 2018
Re: 2900 Elo points progress, 10 million games, 330 nets by crem, CCC, November 25, 2018

2019

Re: Lc0 Evaluation Explanation by Alexander Lyashuk, CCC, September 03, 2019

Blog Posts

2018

Lessons from AlphaZero: Connect Four by Aditya Prasad, Oracle Blog, June 13, 2018
Lessons from AlphaZero (part 3): Parameter Tweaking by Aditya Prasad, Oracle Blog, June 20, 2018
Lessons From AlphaZero (part 4): Improving the Training Target by Vish Abrams, Oracle Blog, June 27, 2018
Lessons From Alpha Zero (part 5): Performance Optimization by Anthony Young, Oracle Blog, July 03, 2018
Lessons From Alpha Zero (part 6) — Hyperparameter Tuning by Anthony Young, Oracle Blog, July 11, 2018

2019

External Links

Chess Engine

Misc

References

  1. Leela Chess Zero (@LeelaChessZero) | Twitter
  2. GitHub - gcp/leela-zero: Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper
  3. David Silver, Thomas Hubert, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou, Matthew Lai, Arthur Guez, Marc Lanctot, Laurent Sifre, Dharshan Kumaran, Thore Graepel, Timothy Lillicrap, Karen Simonyan, Demis Hassabis (2017). Mastering Chess and Shogi by Self-Play with a General Reinforcement Learning Algorithm. arXiv:1712.01815
  4. David Silver, Thomas Hubert, Julian Schrittwieser, Ioannis Antonoglou, Matthew Lai, Arthur Guez, Marc Lanctot, Laurent Sifre, Dharshan Kumaran, Thore Graepel, Timothy Lillicrap, Karen Simonyan, Demis Hassabis (2018). A general reinforcement learning algorithm that masters chess, shogi, and Go through self-play. Science, Vol. 362, No. 6419
  5. AlphaZero paper, and Lc0 v0.19.1 by crem, LCZero blog, December 07, 2018
  6. lc0 transition · LeelaChessZero/lc0 Wiki · GitHub
  7. Re: TCEC season 13, 2 NN engines will be participating, Leela and Deus X by Gian-Carlo Pascutto, CCC, August 03, 2018
  8. NVIDIA cuDNN | NVIDIA Developer
  9. Re: My failed attempt to change TCEC NN clone rules by Adam Treat, CCC, September 19, 2019
  10. lc0/board.h at master · LeelaChessZero/lc0 · GitHub
  11. Technical Explanation of Leela Chess Zero · LeelaChessZero/lc0 Wiki · GitHub
  12. Squeeze-and-Excitation Networks – Towards Data Science by Paul-Louis Pröve, October 17, 2017
  13. Lessons From AlphaZero (part 4): Improving the Training Target by Vish Abrams, Oracle Blog, June 27, 2018
  14. GitHub - LeelaChessZero/lczero-training: For code etc relating to the network training process.
  15. My failed attempt to change TCEC NN clone rules by Alexander Lyashuk, CCC, September 14, 2019 » TCEC
  16. My failed attempt to change TCEC NN clone rules by Alexander Lyashuk, CCC, September 14, 2019 » TCEC
  17. GeForce 20 series from Wikipedia
  18. Multiply–accumulate operation - Wikipedia
  19. GeForce RTX 2070 Graphics Card | NVIDIA

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