[HN Gopher] Adversarial policies beat professional-level Go AIs
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       Adversarial policies beat professional-level Go AIs
        
       Author : seegodanddie
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2022-11-02 18:15 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (goattack.alignmentfund.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (goattack.alignmentfund.org)
        
       | kadoban wrote:
       | This is less an adversarial policy and more just a bug or bad
       | config in katago.
       | 
       | It should probably reject friendly-pass mode (which is a flag
       | iirc) and refuse to pass in tromp-tailor rules except under
       | extreme circumstances.
        
       | tasuki wrote:
       | Ehh, I'm generally hesitant to call bullshit, but I'm afraid I've
       | got to do that here.
       | 
       | The TL;DR is that they win on a rules technicality. (I think by
       | using a ruleset which isn't used by KataGo)
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       | > However, KataGo plays a pass move before it has finished
       | securing its territory, allowing the adversary to pass in turn
       | and end the game. This results in a win for the adversary under
       | the standard Tromp-Taylor ruleset for computer Go, as the
       | adversary gets points for its corner territory (devoid of victim
       | stones) whereas the victim does not receive points for its
       | unsecured territory because of the presence of the adversary's
       | stones.
       | 
       | KataGo has finished securing its territory under virtually all
       | rulesets but Tromp-Taylor. Tromp-Taylor is a fine ruleset
       | (courtesy of our own https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tromp),
       | but not one you'd use to, like, play against someone on the
       | internet, or in real life.
       | 
       | When they induce KataGo to play bad moves, like Lee Sedol did in
       | the only game he won against AlphaGo, they'll have my attention.
        
         | AdamGleave wrote:
         | One of the authors here! I think from a perspective of _humans
         | playing Go_ this result is not very interesting since, as you
         | say, Tromp-Taylor isn 't the kind of ruleset humans like to
         | play under. But KataGo was trained under (modified) Tromp-
         | Taylor which we also evaluate under, so we think from an AI
         | security and robustness stand point it's interesting that it
         | fails at the rule set it was trained on.
         | 
         | > When they induce KataGo to play bad moves, like Lee Sedol did
         | in the only game he won against AlphaGo, they'll have my
         | attention.
         | 
         | That said, we are working to do exactly this! In particular, we
         | found in the paper that we could patch the victim to not pass
         | except in the end-game and defeat this adversarial policy. But,
         | when we repeat the attack, we do eventually find an adversarial
         | policy that can exploit the victim -- and this doesn't depend
         | on the rule set. That part is still a work in progress, we've
         | only got it working against a victim without search for
         | example, but we hope to put out an updated revision including
         | this in a month or two!
        
           | pmontra wrote:
           | > That part is still a work in progress
           | 
           | I hope to see the result soon.
        
         | platz wrote:
         | Not exactly what I would call a rousing win for black
         | https://i.imgur.com/9777fD3.png
         | 
         | > A player's score is the number of points of her color, plus
         | the number of empty points that reach only her color.
         | 
         | No one ever plays games to completion like this.
        
           | comboy wrote:
           | > No one ever plays games to completion like this.
           | 
           | Oh I wish.
        
       | hzhou321 wrote:
       | How silly is this.
        
       | yccs27 wrote:
       | Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33449600
        
       | throwaway777845 wrote:
        
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