Leela is a
computer Go
Computer Go is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to creating a computer program that plays the traditional board game Go. The field is sharply divided into two eras. Before 2015, the programs of the era were weak. The best ...
software developed by Belgian programmer
Gian-Carlo Pascutto,
the author of chess engine
Sjeng. It won the third place for 19x19 board Go and the second place for 9x9 board Go at the
Computer Olympiad in 2008,
and won the eighth place in the 1st World AI Go Tournament in August 2017. According to its website, it has "Strength over 9 dan on 19 x 19, depending on hardware". The program was named "Leela" because the author wanted a pleasant female name that contrasted with the prevailing style at the time, typified by names like "Shredder", "Tiger", and "Rebel".
A version featuring
deep learning
Deep learning is a subset of machine learning that focuses on utilizing multilayered neural networks to perform tasks such as classification, regression, and representation learning. The field takes inspiration from biological neuroscience a ...
technology was released for free in February 2017. It was the first
Go engine close to professional level freely available on a personal computer.
Leela should not be confused with
Leela Zero, a stronger program developed by Pascutto and collaborators beginning in late 2017.
See also
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Leela Zero, an open-source Go-playing program based on
DeepMind
DeepMind Technologies Limited, trading as Google DeepMind or simply DeepMind, is a British–American artificial intelligence research laboratory which serves as a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc. Founded in the UK in 2010, it was acquired by Go ...
's
AlphaGo Zero paper, also developed by Gian-Carlo Pascutto
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Leela Chess Zero
Leela Chess Zero (abbreviated as LCZero, lc0) is a free, open-source chess engine and volunteer computing project based on Google's AlphaZero engine. It was spearheaded by Gary Linscott, a developer for the Stockfish chess engine, and adapted ...
, an open-source chess-playing program that was adapted from Leela Zero
References
External links
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Leelaon
Sensei's Library
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Go engines
Freeware