Questions tagged [expectiminimax]

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Is there a difference between what is called expectimax and expectiminimax?

I am a new learner of AI and I understand expectimax way of working, however, I got a new term called expectiminimax. So, does expeciminimax differ from expectimax? Or they are the same terminology? If no, then what are the main differences between…
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An expectiminimax tree for the dice poker game

I'm currently writing a dice poker game in Python. The rules are not like the game found in The Witcher 2 but instead based upon an old mobile dice poker game that was taken off of the App Store a while ago. The rules are as follows: The player and…
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what's the difference between different ways of iterate through a list

I am currently taking cs188 courses offered by UCB. I encountered the problem when implementing the alpha-beta pruning algorithm. Two different ways of implementation is showed below. # this one works def max_value(self, gamestate, depth,…
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Can we use Expectiminimax for the card game with 2 teams?

I am going to implement Rang Card Game. it is played between 4 players with 2 on each team? The game will be played between 1 human and 3 ai agents. I want to ask is it possible to implement this game using Expectiminimax, if yes then are we going…
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Which AI algorithms can be used to play probabilistic games with possibly incomplete information?

The minimax algorithm and Monte-Carlo tree search (MCTS) can be used to implement agents which play deterministic (i.e., non-probabilistic) games, like chess or tic-tac-toe, that have complete information of the game. Are there general methods that…
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Can pruning be implemented in the expectiminimax algorithm?

I'm current using the expectiminimax algorithm, which is working great in my current situation: max -> min -> chance -> max -> min -> chance -> (repeat) I cannot in any way do max/min -> Chance -> (repeat) due to way the game works. I feel as…