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==Instances==

* [[Amoeba]]

* [[BBChess (SI)#DifferentialEvolution|Differential Evolution in BBChess]]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_complexity Time complexity] issues with increasing number of weights to tune

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[[Reinforcement Learning|Reinforcement learning]], in particular [[Temporal Difference Learning|temporal difference learning]], has a long history in tuning evaluation weights in game programming, first seeen in the late 50s by [[Arthur Samuel]] in his [[Checkers]] player <ref>[[Arthur Samuel]] ('''1959'''). ''[http://domino.watson.ibm.com/tchjr/journalindex.nsf/600cc5649e2871db852568150060213c/39a870213169f45685256bfa00683d74!OpenDocument Some Studies in Machine Learning Using the Game of Checkers]''. IBM Journal July 1959</ref>. In self play against a stable copy of itself, after each move, the weights of the evaluation function were adjusted in a way that the [[Score|score]] of the [[Root|root position]] after a [[Quiescence Search|quiescence search]] became closer to the score of the full search. This TD method was generalized and formalized by [[Richard Sutton]] in 1988 <ref>[[Richard Sutton]] ('''1988'''). ''Learning to Predict by the Methods of Temporal Differences''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Vol. 3, No. 1, [http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/papers/sutton-88.pdf pdf]</ref>, who introduced the decay parameter '''λ''', where proportions of the score came from the outcome of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Carlo_method Monte Carlo] simulated games, tapering between [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping#Artificial_intelligence_and_machine_learning bootstrapping] (λ = 0) and Monte Carlo (λ = 1). [[Temporal Difference Learning#TDLamba|TD-λ]] was famously applied by [[Gerald Tesauro]] in his [[Backgammon]] program [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TD-Gammon TD-Gammon] <ref>[[Gerald Tesauro]] ('''1992'''). ''Temporal Difference Learning of Backgammon Strategy''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icml/ml1992.html#Tesauro92 ML 1992]</ref> <ref>[[Gerald Tesauro]] ('''1994'''). ''TD-Gammon, a Self-Teaching Backgammon Program, Achieves Master-Level Play''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/journals/neco/neco6.html#Tesauro94 Neural Computation Vol. 6, No. 2]</ref>, its [[Minimax|minimax]] adaption [[Temporal Difference Learning#TDLeaf|TD-Leaf]] was successful used in eval tuning of chess programs <ref>[[Don Beal]], [[Martin C. Smith]] ('''1999'''). ''Learning Piece-Square Values using Temporal Differences.'' [[ICGA Journal#22_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4]]</ref>, with [[KnightCap]] <ref>[[Jonathan Baxter]], [[Andrew Tridgell]], [[Lex Weaver]] ('''1998'''). ''Experiments in Parameter Learning Using Temporal Differences''. [[ICGA Journal#21_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 21, No. 2]], [http://cs.anu.edu.au/%7ELex.Weaver/pub_sem/publications/ICCA-98_equiv.pdf pdf]</ref> and [[CilkChess]] <ref>[http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/chess/ The Cilkchess Parallel Chess Program]</ref> as prominent samples.

==1970 ...==

* [[Arnold K. Griffith]] ('''1974'''). ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0004370274900277 A Comparison and Evaluation of Three Machine Learning Procedures as Applied to the Game of Checkers]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 5, No. 2

==1980 ...==

* [[Thomas Nitsche]] ('''1982'''). ''A Learning Chess Program.'' [[Advances in Computer Chess 3]]

* [[Paul E. Utgoff]], [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Clouse:Jeffery_A= Jeffery A. Clouse] ('''1991'''). ''[http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cs_faculty_pubs/193/ Two Kinds of Training Information for Evaluation Function Learning]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Massachusetts_Amherst University of Massachusetts, Amherst], Proceedings of the AAAI 1991

* [[Gerald Tesauro]] ('''1992'''). ''Temporal Difference Learning of Backgammon Strategy''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/icml/ml1992.html#Tesauro92 ML 1992]

* [[Peter Mysliwietz]] ('''1994'''). ''Konstruktion und Optimierung von Bewertungsfunktionen beim Schach.'' Ph.D. thesis (German)

==1995 ...==

* [[Johannes Fürnkranz]], [[Miroslav Kubat]] (eds.) ('''2001'''). ''[https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=720 Machines that Learn to Play Games]''. Advances in Computation: Theory and Practice, Vol. 8,. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_Publishers NOVA Science Publishers]

: [[Gerald Tesauro]] ('''2001'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=644397 Comparison Training of Chess Evaluation Functions]''. » [[SCP]], [[Deep Blue]]

* [[Yngvi Björnsson]], [[Tony Marsland]] ('''2001'''). ''Learning Search Control in Adversary Games''. [[Advances in Computer Games 9]], pp. 157-174. [http://www.ru.is/faculty/yngvi/pdf/BjornssonM01b.pdf pdf]

* [[Michael Buro]] ('''2002'''). ''Improving Mini-max Search by Supervised Learning.'' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 134, No. 1, [http://www.cs.ualberta.ca/~mburo/ps/logaij.pdf pdf]

* [[Levente Kocsis]], [[Csaba Szepesvári]], [[Mark Winands]] ('''2005'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11922155_4 RSPSA: Enhanced Parameter Optimization in Games]''. [[Advances in Computer Games 11]], [http://www.sztaki.hu/~szcsaba/papers/rspsa_acg.pdf pdf]

'''2006'''

* [[Levente Kocsis]], [[Csaba Szepesvári]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10994-006-6888-8 Universal Parameter Optimisation in Games Based on SPSA]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Learning_%28journal%29 Machine Learning], Special Issue on Machine Learning and Games, Vol. 63, No. 3

* [[Makoto Miwa]], [[Daisaku Yokoyama]], [[Takashi Chikayama]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://www.springerlink.com/content/6180u7h3t312468u/ Automatic Construction of Static Evaluation Functions for Computer Game Players]''. ALT ’06

* [[Borko Bošković]], [[Sašo Greiner]], [[Janez Brest]], [[Viljem Žumer]] ('''2006'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1688532 A Differential Evolution for the Tuning of a Chess Evaluation Function]''. [[IEEE|IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation]]

* [[Kunihito Hoki]] ('''2006'''). ''Optimal control of minimax search result to learn positional evaluation''. [[Conferences#GPW|11th Game Programming Workshop]] (Japanese)

'''2007'''

* [[Shogo Takeuchi]], [[Tomoyuki Kaneko]], [[Kazunori Yamaguchi]], [[Satoru Kawai]] ('''2007'''). ''Visualization and Adjustment of Evaluation Functions Based on Evaluation Values and Win Probability''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/aaai/aaai2007.html AAAI 2007], [https://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/2007/AAAI07-136.pdf pdf]

* [[Wei-Lun Kao]] ('''2009'''). ''The Automatically Tuning System of Evaluation Function for Computer Chinese Chess''. Master thesis, [[National Chiao Tung University]], [https://ir.nctu.edu.tw/bitstream/11536/43333/1/553001.pdf pdf] (Chinese)

==2010 ...==

* [[Amine Bourki]], [[Matthieu Coulm]], [[Philippe Rolet]], [[Olivier Teytaud]], [[Paul Vayssière]] ('''2010'''). ''[http://hal.inria.fr/inria-00467796/en/ Parameter Tuning by Simple Regret Algorithms and Multiple Simultaneous Hypothesis Testing]''. [http://hal.inria.fr/docs/00/46/77/96/PDF/tosubmit.pdf pd]

* [[Eli David|Omid David]], [[Moshe Koppel]], [[Nathan S. Netanyahu]] ('''2010'''). ''Genetic Algorithms for Automatic Search Tuning''. [[ICGA Journal#33_2|ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 2]]

* [[Borko Bošković]] ('''2010'''). ''[http://labraj.uni-mb.si/en/PhD_Thesis_Defence_%28Borko_Bo%C5%A1kovi%C4%87%29 Differential Evolution for the Tuning of a Chess Evaluation Function]''. Ph.D. thesis, [[University of Maribor]]

'''2011'''

* [[Eli David|Omid David]], [[Moshe Koppel]], [[Nathan S. Netanyahu]] ('''2011'''). ''Expert-Driven Genetic Algorithms for Simulating Evaluation Functions''. Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, Vol. 12, No. 1, [https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.06841 arXiv:1711.06841]

* [[Borko Bošković]], [[Janez Brest]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://www.informatica.si/index.php/informatica/article/view/353 Tuning Chess Evaluation Function Parameters using Differential Evolution]''. Informatica, Vol. 35, No. 2

* [[Eduardo Vázquez-Fernández]], [[Carlos Artemio Coello Coello]], [[Feliú Davino Sagols Troncoso]] ('''2011'''). ''An Evolutionary Algorithm for Tuning a Chess Evaluation Function''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/cec/cec2011.html#Vazquez-FernandezCT11 CEC 2011], [http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~ccoello/conferences/eduardo-cec2011-final.pdf.gz pdf]

* [[Eduardo Vázquez-Fernández]], [[Carlos Artemio Coello Coello]], [[Feliú Davino Sagols Troncoso]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2001882 An Adaptive Evolutionary Algorithm Based on Typical Chess Problems for Tuning a Chess Evaluation Function]''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/gecco/gecco2011c.html#Vazquez-FernandezCT11 GECCO 2011], [http://delta.cs.cinvestav.mx/~ccoello/conferences/vazquez-gecco2011.pdf.gz pdf]

* [[Rémi Coulom]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://remi.coulom.free.fr/CLOP/ CLOP: Confident Local Optimization for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Tuning]''. [[Advances in Computer Games 13]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=421995 CLOP for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Optimization] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], September 01, 2011</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40987 CLOP slides] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], November 03, 2011</ref>

* [[Kunihito Hoki]], [[Tomoyuki Kaneko]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-31866-5_16 The Global Landscape of Objective Functions for the Optimization of Shogi Piece Values with a Game-Tree Search]''. [[Advances in Computer Games 13]] » [[Shogi]]

* [[Amir Ban]] ('''2012'''). ''[http://www.ratio.huji.ac.il/node/2362 Automatic Learning of Evaluation, with Applications to Computer Chess]''. Discussion Paper 613, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_University_of_Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem] - Center for the Study of Rationality, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givat_Ram Givat Ram]

* [[Thitipong Kanjanapa]], [[Kanako Komiya]], [[Yoshiyuki Kotani]] ('''2012'''). ''Design and Implementation of Bonanza Method for the Evaluation in the Game of Arimaa''. [http://www.ipsj.or.jp/english/index.html IPSJ SIG Technical Report], Vol. 2012-GI-27, No. 4, [http://arimaa.com/arimaa/papers/KanjanapaThitipong/IPSJ-GI12027004.pdf pdf] » [[Arimaa]]

'''2013'''

* [[Wen-Jie Tseng]], [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[I-Chen Wu]], [[Ching-Hua Kuo]], [[Bo-Han Lin]] ('''2013'''). ''[https://kaigi.org/jsai/webprogram/2013/paper-138.html A Supervised Learning Method for Chinese Chess Programs]''. [http://2013.conf.ai-gakkai.or.jp/english-info JSAI2013], [https://kaigi.org/jsai/webprogram/2013/pdf/138.pdf pdf]

* [[Akira Ura]], [[Makoto Miwa]], [[Yoshimasa Tsuruoka]], [[Takashi Chikayama]] ('''2013'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-09165-5_18 Comparison Training of Shogi Evaluation Functions with Self-Generated Training Positions and Moves]''. [[CG 2013]], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6ad0/7167425539cf64e6bf420d7a28a1fc1047d6.pdf slides as pdf]

* [[Tomáš Hřebejk]] ('''2013'''). ''Arimaa challenge - Static Evaluation Function''. Master Thesis, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_University_in_Prague Charles University in Prague], [http://arimaa.com/arimaa/papers/ThomasHrebejk/Arimaa.pdf pdf] » [[Arimaa]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58472 thesis on eval function learning in Arimaa] by [[Jon Dart]], [[CCC]], December 04, 2015</ref>

* [[Yoshikuni Sato]], [[Makoto Miwa]], [[Shogo Takeuchi]], [[Daisuke Takahashi]] ('''2013'''). ''[http://www.aaai.org/ocs/index.php/AAAI/AAAI13/paper/view/6402 Optimizing Objective Function Parameters for Strength in Computer Game-Playing]''. [http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/aaai/aaai2013.html#SatoMTT13 AAAI 2013]

'''2014'''

* [[Kunihito Hoki]], [[Tomoyuki Kaneko]] ('''2014'''). ''[https://www.jair.org/papers/paper4217.html Large-Scale Optimization for Evaluation Functions with Minimax Search]''. [https://www.jair.org/vol/vol49.html JAIR Vol. 49], [https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eb9c/173576577acbb8800bf96aba452d77f1dc19.pdf pdf] » [[Shogi]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=55084 MMTO for evaluation learning] by [[Jon Dart]], [[CCC]], January 25, 2015</ref>

* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=glcep6EAAAAJ&hl=en Aryan Mokhtari], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7mrPM4kAAAAJ&hl=en Alejandro Ribeiro] ('''2014'''). ''RES: Regularized Stochastic BFGS Algorithm''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.7625 arXiv:1401.7625] <ref> [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broyden%E2%80%93Fletcher%E2%80%93Goldfarb%E2%80%93Shanno_algorithm Broyden–Fletcher–Goldfarb–Shanno algorithm from Wikipedia]</ref>

* <span id="ROCK"></span>[http://www.asl.ethz.ch/the-lab/people/person-detail.html?persid=184943 Jemin Hwangbo], [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christian-gehring-1b958395/ Christian Gehring], [http://www.asl.ethz.ch/the-lab/people/person-detail.html?persid=186652 Hannes Sommer], [http://www.asl.ethz.ch/the-lab/people/person-detail.html?persid=29981 Roland Siegwart], [http://www.adrl.ethz.ch/doku.php/adrl:people:jbuchli Jonas Buchli] ('''2014'''). ''ROCK∗ — Efficient black-box optimization for policy learning''. [http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=7028729 Humanoids, 2014] » [[Automated Tuning#Rockstar|Rockstar]]

* [https://arxiv.org/find/cs/1/au:+Martens_J/0/1/0/all/0/1 James Martens] ('''2014, 2017'''). ''New insights and perspectives on the natural gradient method''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.1193 arXiv:1412.1193]

==2015 ...==

* [https://scholar.google.nl/citations?user=yyIoQu4AAAAJ Diederik P. Kingma], [https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=ymzxRhAAAAAJ&hl=en Jimmy Lei Ba] ('''2015'''). ''Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1412.6980v8 arXiv:1412.6980v8], [http://www.iclr.cc/doku.php?id=iclr2015:main ICLR 2015] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=61948 Arasan 19.2] by [[Jon Dart]], [[CCC]], November 03, 2016 » [[Arasan#Tuning|Arasan's Tuning]]</ref>

* [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=glcep6EAAAAJ&hl=en Aryan Mokhtari], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=7mrPM4kAAAAJ&hl=en Alejandro Ribeiro] ('''2015'''). ''Global Convergence of Online Limited Memory BFGS''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Machine_Learning_Research Journal of Machine Learning Research], Vol. 16, [http://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume16/mokhtari15a/mokhtari15a.pdf pdf] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited-memory_BFGS Limited-memory BFGS from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62012&start=6 Re: CLOP: when to stop?] by [[Álvaro Begué]], [[CCC]], November 08, 2016</ref>

'''2016'''

* [[Diogo Real]], [[Alan Blair]] ('''2016'''). ''[https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7743850/ Learning a multi-player chess game with TreeStrap]''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/cec/cec2016.html CEC 2016]

'''2017'''

* [http://ruder.io/ Sebastian Ruder] ('''2017'''). ''[http://ruder.io/optimizing-gradient-descent/ An overview of gradient descent optimization algorithms]''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.04747v2 arXiv:1609.04747v2] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=64189&start=46 Re: Texel tuning method question] by [[Jon Dart]], [[CCC]], July 23, 2017</ref>

* [[Takafumi Nakamichi]], [[Takeshi Ito]] ('''2018'''). ''Adjusting the evaluation function for weakening the competency level of a computer shogi program''. [[ICGA Journal#40_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 1]]

* [[Hung-Jui Chang]], [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[Gang-Yu Fan]], [[Chih-Wen Hsueh]], [[Tsan-sheng Hsu]] ('''2018'''). ''Using Chinese dark chess endgame databases to validate and fine-tune game evaluation functions''. [[ICGA Journal#40_2|ICGA Journal, Vol. 40, No. 2]] » [[Chinese Dark Chess]], [[Endgame Tablebases]]

=Forum Posts=

* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=487022 "learning" or "tuning" programs] by [[Sean Mintz]], [[CCC]], February 15, 2006

* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=49450 Adjusting weights the Deep Blue way] by [[Tony van Roon-Werten]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], August 29, 2008 » [[Deep Blue]]

* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=49818 Tuning the eval] by [[Daniel Anulliero]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], January 02, 2009

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27266 Insanity... or Tal style?] by [[Miguel A. Ballicora]], [[CCC]], April 01, 2009

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=421995 CLOP for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Optimization] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], September 01, 2011 <ref>[[Rémi Coulom]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://remi.coulom.free.fr/CLOP/ CLOP: Confident Local Optimization for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Tuning]''. [[Advances in Computer Games 13]]</ref>

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40964 Tuning again] by [[Ed Schroder]], [[CCC]], November 01, 2011

* [http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1954 Ban: Automatic Learning of Evaluation [...]] by [[Mark Watkins|BB+]], [[Computer Chess Forums|OpenChess Forum]], May 10, 2012 <ref>[[Amir Ban]] ('''2012'''). ''[http://www.ratio.huji.ac.il/node/2362 Automatic Learning of Evaluation, with Applications to Computer Chess]''. Discussion Paper 613, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_University_of_Jerusalem The Hebrew University of Jerusalem] - Center for the Study of Rationality, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Givat_Ram Givat Ram]</ref>

'''2014'''

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66221 tuning info] by [[Marco Belli]], [[CCC]], January 03, 2018

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66681 3 million games for training neural networks] by [[Álvaro Begué]], [[CCC]], February 24, 2018 » [[Neural Networks]]

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67831 Introducing PET] by [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]], [[CCC]], June 27, 2018 » [[Strategic Test Suite]]

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=68326 Texel tuning speed] by [[Vivien Clauzon]], [[CCC]], August 29, 2018 » [[Texel's Tuning Method]]

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=68753 methods for tuning coefficients] by [[Stuart Cracraft]], [[CCC]], October 28, 2018

* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=69035 Particle Swarm Optimization Code] by [[Erik Madsen]], [[CCC]], November 24, 2018 » [[MadChess]]

=External Links=

: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_tuning Engine tuning from Wikipedia]

: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-tuning Self-tuning from Wikipedia]

* [http://rebel13.nl/rebel13/pet.html Practical Engine Tuning] by [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]], June 2018 » [[Strategic Test Suite]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=67831 Introducing PET] by [[Ed Schroder|Ed Schröder]], [[CCC]], June 27, 2018</ref>

==Optimization==

* [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/optimization optimization - Wiktionary]

: [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/optimize optimize - Wiktionary]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_optimization Mathematical optimization from Wikipedia]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimization_problem Optimization problem from Wikipedia]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_optimization Global optimization from Wikipedia]

* [http://remi.coulom.free.fr/CLOP/ CLOP for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Optimization] by [[Rémi Coulom]] » [[CLOP]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=35049 Tool for automatic black-box parameter optimization released] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], June 20, 2010</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=421995 CLOP for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Optimization] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], September 01, 2011</ref>

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate_gradient_method Conjugate gradient method from Wikipedia]

: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_maximization Entropy maximization from Wikipedia]

: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_programming Linear programming from Wikipedia]

: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplex_algorithm Simplex algorithm from Wikipedia]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_evolution Differential evolution from Wikipedia]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient_descent Gradient descent from Wikipedia]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_climbing Hill climbing from Wikipedia]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited-memory_BFGS Limited-memory BFGS from Wikipedia] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=62012&start=6 Re: CLOP: when to stop?] by [[Álvaro Begué]], [[CCC]], November 08, 2016</ref>

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_function Loss function from Wikipedia]

* [http://macechess.blogspot.de/2013/03/population-based-incremental-learning.html Population Based Incremental Learning (PBIL)] by [[Thomas Petzke]], March 16, 2013 » [[iCE]]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated_annealing Simulated annealing from Wikipedia]

* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_optimization Stochastic optimization from Wikipedia]

: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simultaneous_perturbation_stochastic_approximation Simultaneous perturbation stochastic approximation (SPSA) - Wikipedia]

: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_approximation Stochastic approximation from Wikipedia]

: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_gradient_descent Stochastic gradient descent from Wikipedia]

* <span id="Rockstar"></span>[https://github.com/lantonov/Rockstar Rockstar: Implementation of ROCK* algorithm (Gaussian kernel regression + natural gradient descent) for optimisation | GitHub] by [[Lyudmil Antonov]] and [[Joona Kiiski]] » [[Automated Tuning#ROCK|ROCK*]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=65045 ROCK* black-box optimizer for chess] by [[Jon Dart]], [[CCC]], August 31, 2017</ref>

* [https://github.com/zamar/spsa SPSA Tuner for Stockfish Chess Engine | GitHub] by [[Joona Kiiski]] » [[Stockfish]], [[Stockfish's Tuning Method]]

==Misc==

* [[:Category:The Next Step Quintet|The Next Step Quintet]] feat. [http://www.tivonpennicott.com/ Tivon Pennicott] - [http://www.discogs.com/Next-Step-Quintet-The-Next-Step-Quintet/release/4970720 Regression], [https://el-gr.facebook.com/KerameioBar KerameioBar] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athens Athens], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece Greece], September 2014, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube YouTube] Video