Title: Studies on Imperfect-Information/Stochastic Games in Kochi University of Technology

Speakers: Kiminori Matsuzaki 松崎公紀 (Professor, School of Information) Lucien Troillet (Ph.D. Student, Graduate School of Engineering)

Date：2022/11/29 10am-12am

Location：Science and Engineering Builiding Ⅱ  / 1F Lecture hall Ⅱ

Abstract: Kochi University of Technology has two research groups working on computer games. Among them, High-level Programming Laboratory directed by Prof. Matsuzaki recently achieved several results mainly on imperfect-information games and stochastic games. In this talk, we introduce the background and objectives of our research group and discuss some recent results. The talk includes analysis of characteristics in imperfect-information games (Geister), deep neural network players for stochastic single-player game (2048), and its extension with Monte-Carlo tree search technique.

Bio: Kiminori Matsuzaki is a professor of School of Information, Kochi University of Technology from 2018. Before joining with Kochi University of Technology in 2009, he was an assistant professor in University of Tokyo. He received Ph.D. from University of Tokyo in 2007. His research interests includes parallel programming techniques, functional programming applications, and machine learning/deep learning techniques in computer games. Especially, in the last 6 years, he devoted himself to deep studies on stochastic single-player game, 2048, and its variants. Lucien Troillet is a Ph.D. student of Graduate School of Engineering, Kochi University of Technology. He received Master in Computational Science Engineering and Environmental Science & Engineering and Bachelor in environmental science and engineering from EPFL Switzerland. His current research focus is on analyzing and categorizing imperfect-information games.

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Here is a rough plan of our talk:

– brief introduction to our group (and KUT) (10min)

– background and research direction in our group (10min)

– Technical topic 1: Lucien’s presentation (30min)

– Technical topic 2: My presentation on 2048 JIP paper (20min)

– Technical topic 3: Weikai’s video at CoG (10min)

– Technical topic 4: Watanabe’s presentation (proxy: Matsuzaki) (15min)

– Summary 5 min / Q&A 10min