[CEEC 2015] Poker Expected Hand Strength Generalization Competition

[Diego Perez]

Apologies for cross-postings CEEC 2015 Competitions   We are glad to announce that CEEC 2015 is hosting the new competition "Poker Expected Hand Strength Generalization", beside the following competitions:     - The Spelunky AI Competition - The General Video Game Playing Competition    ---- 7th Computer Science & Electronic Engineering Conference, University of Essex, Colchester, UK http://ceec.uk/ Important Dates: Competition Submission Deadline:1st September 2015 Conference Date: 24th and 25th September 2015 The Poker Expected Hand Strength Generalization Competition   Poker Hands have been used extensively as datasets – they provide both a fun and interesting way of linking purely categorical data to classes – an example is here. We are taking this a step further and asking you to predict the mean strength of a 2-card hand plus a five card board under any table size given as few data instances as possible. Each seven card combination plus the number of players in the table is used as input, while a real number is given as output. The competitor’s goal is to train an algorithm that learns to generalise as well as possible, given as little data as possible and we will thus provide the data-generating functions. Ranking will be multi-objective, taking into account both the amount of data used and the regression accuracy, with generalization ability always tramping pure performance!   Submission deadline: 1st September, 2015 Official Webpage: http://poker.ceec.uk/   For more information please visit the competitions websites : - The Spelunky AI Competition - The General Video Game Playing Competition - Poker Expected Hand Strength Generalization   or the main conference website http://ceec.uk/