atlas

Research map / Learning theory and algorithms / Submodular and game algorithms

Safe and Nested Subgame Solving for Imperfect-Information Games

NeurIPS 2017 · Learning theory and algorithms › Submodular and game algorithms · approach: Opponent modeling and subgame solving · 98 citations (OpenAlex)

Read the paperCheck your idea against 108,967 papers

AI-extracted summary. Written by AI from the paper's title only (no summary yet). Numbers and claims can be wrong or missing context, so check the paper before you cite or build on it.

Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
use nested subgame solving instead of action translationoff-tree responses in NLFH · Nested solving NLFH off-tree betexploitability (mbb/h): 1,465 -> 119.1Helped
add reach-aware gifts to Maxmargin solvingMaxmargin · Small Flop Hold'em, 200 bucketsexploitability (mbb/h): 30.05 -> 29.88Helped
add reach-aware gifts to Maxmargin solvingMaxmargin · Turn Hold'em, 200 bucketsexploitability (mbb/h): 427.6 -> 424.4Helped
use estimated alternative payoffs rather than blueprint best-response valuesResolve · Small Flop Hold'em, 200 bucketsexploitability (mbb/h): 60.16 -> 11.66Helped
add distributional alternative payoffs to estimated payoffsEstimate · Large Flop Hold'em, 200 bucketsexploitability (mbb/h): 52.62 -> 49.56Helped
combine reach-aware gifts, estimated payoffs, and distributional payoffssubgame solving · Turn Hold'em, 200 bucketsexploitability (mbb/h): 684.6 -> 116.8Helped
use gifts without splitting them across subgames (ablation)Reach-Maxmargin · Turn Hold'em, 200 bucketsexploitability (mbb/h): 424.4 -> 333.4Helped
use gifts without splitting them across subgames (ablation)Reach-Estimate + Distributional · Small Flop Hold'em, 200 bucketsexploitability (mbb/h): 10.21 -> 9.560Helped
scale gifts beyond the theoretically safe allocation (ablation)Reach-Maxmargin · Flop Texas Hold'emexploitabilityMixed
use Unsafe subgame solvingblueprint strategy · Large Flop Hold'em, 30,000 bucketsexploitability (mbb/h): 0.5514 -> 396.8Hurt
use Reach-Maxmargin rather than Maxmargin for nested solvingoff-tree responses in NLFH · Nested solving NLFH off-tree betexploitability (mbb/h): 122.0 -> 119.1Helped
use estimates instead of safe blueprint valuessubgame solving · NLFH and NLTH experimentsexploitabilityHelped

Closest papers by meaning

Writing a paper in this area? scime draft is a free LaTeX editor with AI included, real-time co-authors and a check of your references and venue rules before you submit. It also imports OpenAI Prism projects.

Open scime draft

Get the next scime Dispatch and a monthly field update

Free. We send a confirmation link first; every email has a one-click unsubscribe. Privacy