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a French computer scientist, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freelancer freelance] programmer in the field of [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]] in [[Games|games]], and former associate professor (Maître de Conférences) of computer science at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_de_Gaulle_University_%E2%80%93_Lille_III Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III], and a member of the [http://www.grappa.univ-lille3.fr/ GRAPPA] and [http://sequel.futurs.inria.fr/ SequeL] research groups, in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lille Lille], France <ref>[http://remi.coulom.free.fr/ Rémi Coulom's Home Page]</ref> . Rémi contributed to computer chess with his famous chess program [[The Crazy Bishop]], the [[Bayesian Elo Rating]] system <ref>[https://www.remi-coulom.fr/Bayesian-Elo/ Bayesian Elo Rating]</ref> and the [[Treemap]] search-tree visualization. The Crazy Bishop was one of the pioneers in supporting the [[Chess Engine Communication Protocol]].
His more recent research interests focus to on the more challenging domain of [[Go|Computer Go]]domains. His [[Lines of Action]] program [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=530 Lola] and [[Go|Computer Go ]] playing program [[Crazy Stone]] deal with [[Monte-Carlo Tree Search]] and [[Neural Networks]], and as of May 2016, [[Deep Learning]] <ref>[https://www.remi-coulom.fr/CrazyStone/ Crazy Stone]</ref>. His generic [[AlphaZero]] implementation dubbed [[CrazyZero]] has networks trained to play Go, [[Shogi]], [[Gomoku]], [[Othello]], [[Renju]], and Chess <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=70578&start=14 Re: On-line engine blitz tourney April] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], April 27, 2019</ref>. Rémi is further co-author of [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=530 Erica] in supervising primary author [[Shih-Chieh Huang|Aja Huang]]. At the [[Advances in Computer Games 13]] conference in [[Tilburg University|Tilburg]], 2011, Rémi introduced [[CLOP]], Confident Local Optimization for [[Automated Tuning|Noisy Black-Box Parameter Tuning]] <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40237 CLOP for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Optimization] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], September 01, 2011</ref> <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>. Rémi Coulom was board member of the [[ICGA]] as Programmers Representative, superseded in November 2011 by [[Mark Lefler]]. He also did the excellent [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/about.php Web site development] of the [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/ ICGA Tournament Database].
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* [[Rémi Coulom]], [[Philippe Rolet]], [[Nataliya Sokolovska]], [[Olivier Teytaud]] ('''2011'''). ''[http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00517157/en/ Handling Expensive Optimization with Large Noise]''. [http://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/51/71/57/PDF/foga10noise.pdf 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]]
* [[Daniel Shawul]], [[Rémi Coulom]] ('''2013'''). ''Paired Comparisons with Ties: Modeling Game Outcomes in Chess''. <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?topic_view=threads&p=471004&t=44180 Re: EloStat, Bayeselo and Ordo] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], June 25, 2012</ref> <ref>[http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72087&start=3 Re: Understanding and Pushing the Limits of the Elo Rating Algorithm] by [[Daniel Shawul]], [[CCC]], October 15, 2019</ref>
* [[Ingo Althöfer]], [[Raymond Georg Snatzke]] ('''2014'''). ''The codecentric Go Challenge 2014: Franz-Josef Dickhut vs. CRAZY STONE''. [[ICGA Journal#37_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4]] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz-Josef_Dickhut Franz-Josef Dickhut from Wikipedia]</ref> <ref>[https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/10/codecentric-go-challenge-2014-interviews-franz-josef-dickhut-remi-coulom/ codecentric go challenge 2014: Interviews with Franz-Josef Dickhut and Rémi Coulom - codecentric Blog] by [[Raymond Georg Snatzke]] , October 1, 2014</ref> <ref>[https://blog.codecentric.de/en/2014/11/codecentric-go-challenge-2014-final-interviews/ codecentric go challenge 2014: Final Interviews - codecentric Blog] by [[Raymond Georg Snatzke]], November 27, 2014</ref>
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=377802 Report on Massy'2004 and Announce of FCCC'2004] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], July 19, 2004 » [[FCCC 2004]]
* [http://www.open-aurec.com/wbforum/viewtopic.php?t=949 ELOStat algorithm ?] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Winboard Forum]], December 10, 2004
==2005 ...==
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=406574 Question to 64 bit experts] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], January 19, 2005
* [https://www.stmintz.com/ccc/index.php?id=411278 bayeselo: new Elo-rating tool, applied to CCT7] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], February 13, 2005 » [[CCT7]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40237 CLOP for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Optimization] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], September 01, 2011
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=50680 Anybody tried Logistello's book learning for chess?] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], December 29, 2013 » [[Book Learning]], [[Michael Buro]]
==2015 ...==
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=58775 Game AI Forum + ICGA Tournaments moving from univ-lille3.fr] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], January 02, 2016
* [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/computer-go-archive/_eCHs8_rMfs/Jx9kVfOCDAAJ Game Over] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [http://computer-go.org/pipermail/computer-go/ The Computer-go Archives], January 27, 2016 » [[AlphaGo]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66025&start=3 Re: To TPU or not to TPU...] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], December 16, 2017 <ref>[https://github.com/andravin Andrew Lavin], [https://github.com/scott-gray Scott Gray] ('''2015'''). ''Fast Algorithms for Convolutional Neural Networks''. [https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.09308 arXiv:1509.09308]</ref> <ref>[https://petewarden.com/2015/04/20/why-gemm-is-at-the-heart-of-deep-learning/ Why GEMM is at the heart of deep learning] « [https://github.com/petewarden Pete Warden's] [https://petewarden.com/ blog], April 20, 2015</ref>
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=70578&start=14 Re: On-line engine blitz tourney April] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[CCC]], April 27, 2019 » [[CrazyZero]]
* [http://www.talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=70605 Question to Remi about CrazyZero] by [[Harm Geert Muller]], [[CCC]], April 28, 2019
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=694 My home-made CUDA kernel for convolutions] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Game-AI Forum]], November 09, 2019 » [[Deep Learning]]
* [https://www.game-ai-forum.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=695 TD(1)] by [[Rémi Coulom]], [[Computer Chess Forums|Game-AI Forum]], November 20, 2019 » [[Automated Tuning]]
=External Links=
[[Category:Go Programmer|Coulom]]
[[Category:Lines of Action Programmer|Coulom]]
[[Category:Videos|Coulom]]
