An investigation into 2048 AI strategies

Philip Rodgers; John Levine

doi:10.1109/CIG.2014.6932920

An investigation into 2048 AI strategies

Philip Rodgers, John Levine

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Abstract

2048 is a recent stochastic single player game, originally written in JavaScript for playing in a web browser but now largely played on mobile devices. This paper discusses the applicability of Monte-Carlo Tree-Search (MCTS) to the problem, and also Averaged Depth Limited Search (ADLS). While MCTS plays reasonably well for a player with no domain knowledge, the ADLS player fares much better given an evaluation function that rewards board properties. Attempts to guide the roll-outs of MCTS using an evaluation function proved fruitless.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2014 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games
Place of Publication	Piscataway, NJ
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	1-2
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9781479935468
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2014.6932920
Publication status	Published - 26 Aug 2014
Event	2014 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games - Park Inn Hotel, Dortmund, Germany Duration: 26 Aug 2014 → 29 Aug 2014 https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=32016

Conference

Conference	2014 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games
Abbreviated title	CIG 2014
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Dortmund
Period	26/08/14 → 29/08/14
Internet address	https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/conferencedetails/index.html?Conf_ID=32016

Keywords

Monte Carlo methods
artificial intelligence
computer games
tree searching
mobile devices
JavaScript
Monte-Carlo Tree-Search
Averaged Depth Limited Search

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