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by ta_tunestub 1222 days ago
Yep, there are many reimplementations. Here is a reimplementation that swaps out a neural net with a GBDT to address compute costs:

https://github.com/cgreer/alpha-zero-boosted

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How does the performance of this version compare?
Depends on game/environment and—since it's using a GBDT and not a NN—how good you are at feature extraction/selection for your problem.

High level, I'd say it's a good way to test a new environment w/out spending time/effort on GPUs until you understand the problem well, and then you can switch to the time/money costly GPU world.

Imagine its perfect for Computer Backgammon, but overfits higher dimensional spaces ;)