Rémi+Coulom

a French computer scientist, [|freelance] programmer in the field of artificial intelligence in games, and former Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) of computer science at the [|Charles de Gaulle University – Lille III], and a member of the [|GRAPPA] and [|SequeL] research groups, in [|Lille], France. Rémi contributed to computer chess with his famous chess program The Crazy Bishop, the Bayesian Elo Rating system and the Treemap search-tree visualization. The Crazy Bishop was one of the pioneers in supporting the Chess Engine Communication Protocol.
 * Home * People * Rémi Coulom**
 * [[image:RemiCoulom2011.JPG width="204" height="270"]] ||~  || **Rémi Coulom**,

His more recent research interests focus to the more challenging domain of Computer Go. His Lines of Action program [|Lola] and Go playing program Crazy Stone deal with Monte-Carlo Tree Search and Neural Networks, and as of May 2016, Deep Learning. Rémi is further co-author of [|Erica] in supervising primary author Aja Huang. At the Advances in Computer Games 13 conference in Tilburg, 2011, Rémi introduced CLOP, Confident Local Optimization for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Tuning.

Rémi Coulom was board member of the ICGA as Programmers Representative, superseded in November 2011 by Mark Lefler. He also did the excellent [|Web site development] of the [|ICGA Tournament Database]. || toc =Photos=
 * Rémi Coulom ||~  ||^   ||

Massy
from the 9th French Computer Chess Championship, [|Massy], 2002
 * [[image:fccc2002-06.jpg link="http://www.ludochess.com/fccc2002/tournoi.php3"]] ||
 * Chess Wizard vs The Crazy Bishop, Frédéric Louguet, Rémi Coulom, FCCC 2002 ||
 * [[image:fccc2002.jpg width="640" link="http://www.ludochess.com/fccc2002/sr_11.jpg"]] ||
 * Stéphane, Jean-Philippe, Bernard, Sylvain, Franck, Frédéric, Bruno L, Pascal, Bruno B, Rémi, Eric ||
 * Stéphane, Jean-Philippe, Bernard, Sylvain, Franck, Frédéric, Bruno L, Pascal, Bruno B, Rémi, Eric ||

Gold with Crazy Stone
 =Open Source= Post by Rémi Coulom on open source 1997 :
 * [[image:Go9x9Turin2006.jpg link="http://www.yss-aya.com/photo/20060525torino/Htmls/PICT1076.html"]] ||
 * 11th Computer Olympiad, Go 9x9, Ken Chen, Rémi Coulom, Hiroshi Yamashita and Jaap van den Herik ||

////

////

|| =Selected Publications=

2000 ...

 * Rémi Coulom (**2002**). //Treemaps for Search-Tree Visualization//. 7th Computer Olympiad Workshop, [|pdf]
 * Rémi Coulom (**2004**). //The Massy 2004 Computer Chess Tournament//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 3 » Massy 2004

2005 ...

 * Rémi Coulom, Ken Chen (**2006**). //Crazy Stone wins 9x9 Go tournament//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2 » 11th Computer Olympiad
 * Rémi Coulom, Ken Chen (**2006**). //Gnu Go wins 19x19 Go tournament//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 29, No. 2 » 11th Computer Olympiad
 * Rémi Coulom (**2006**). //[|Efficient Selectivity and Backup Operators in Monte-Carlo Tree Search]//. CG 2006, [|pdf]
 * Rémi Coulom (**2007**). //[|Computing Elo Ratings of Move Patterns in the Game of Go]//. CGW 2007
 * Rémi Coulom (**2007**). //Computing Elo Ratings of Move Patterns in the Game of Go//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 30, No. 4, [|pdf]
 * Rémi Coulom (**2007**). //[|Monte-Carlo Tree Search in Crazy Stone]//. [|sides as pdf]
 * Rémi Coulom (**2008**). //Crazy Stone wins First UEC Cup//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 31, No. 1, [|pdf]
 * Rémi Coulom (**2008**). //[|Whole-History Rating: A Bayesian Rating System for Players of Time-Varying Strength]//. CG 2008, [|draft as pdf]
 * Rémi Coulom (**2009**). //The Monte-Carlo Revolution in Go//. JFFoS'2008: Japanese-French Frontiers of Science Symposium, [|slides as pdf]

2010 ...

 * Łukasz Lew, Rémi Coulom (**2010**). //Simulation-based Search of Combinatorial Games//. [|ICML 2010], [|pdf]
 * Shih-Chieh Huang, Rémi Coulom, Shun-Shii Lin (**2010**). //[|Monte-Carlo Simulation Balancing in Practice]//. CG 2010, [|pdf]
 * Shih-Chieh Huang, Rémi Coulom, Shun-Shii Lin (**2010**). //Monte-Carlo Simulation Balancing applied to 9x9 Go//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 33, No. 4
 * Shih-Chieh Huang, Rémi Coulom, Shun-Shii Lin (**2011**). //Time Management for Monte-Carlo Tree Search Applied to the Game of Go//. TAAI 2010, [|pdf]
 * Rémi Coulom, Philippe Rolet, Nataliya Sokolovska, Olivier Teytaud (**2011**). //[|Handling Expensive Optimization with Large Noise]//. [|pdf]
 * Rémi Coulom (**2011**). //[|CLOP: Confident Local Optimization for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Tuning]//. Advances in Computer Games 13
 * Ingo Althöfer, Raymond Georg Snatzke (**2014**). //The codecentric Go Challenge 2014: Franz-Josef Dickhut vs. CRAZY STONE//. ICGA Journal, Vol. 37, No. 4

=Forum Posts=

1997 ...

 * [|Chess C++ class library source code released] by Rémi Coulom, rgcc April 1, 1997
 * [|Ideas to reduce size of tablebases] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, August 31, 1998 » Endgame Tablebases
 * [|About releasing engine source code] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, February 15, 1999
 * [|Hash collisions and a little maths] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, February 18, 1999 » Transposition Table
 * [|Q. about Rebel extensions] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, May 18, 1999 » Extensions, Rebel
 * [|Evaluation of pawn races] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, August 21, 1999 » Pawn Race
 * [|Parallel search development on a single processor machine ?] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, August 21, 1999 » Parallel Search

2000 ...

 * [|Search tree visualization with treemaps] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, August 26, 2001
 * [|Treemap for search tree visualization : screenshots] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, September 23, 2001
 * [|Statistical significance of a match result] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, November 23, 2002 » Match Statistics
 * [|Announcement: French computer-chess meeting in Massy on June 20th] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, April 21, 2004 » Massy 2004
 * [|Position from Ramat-Gan] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, July 16, 2004 » WCCC 2004
 * [|New tool to estimate the statistical significance of match results] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, July 17, 2004 » Match Statistics
 * [|Report on Massy'2004 and Announce of FCCC'2004] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, July 19, 2004 » FCCC 2004
 * [|ELOStat algorithm ?] by Rémi Coulom, Winboard Forum, December 10, 2004
 * [|Question to 64 bit experts] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, January 19, 2005
 * [|bayeselo: new Elo-rating tool, applied to CCT7] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, February 13, 2005 » CCT7

2010 ...

 * [|Tool for automatic black-box parameter optimization released] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, June 20, 2010
 * [|CLOP for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Optimization] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, September 01, 2011
 * [|Anybody tried Logistello's book learning for chess?] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, December 29, 2013 » Book Learning, Michael Buro
 * [|Game AI Forum + ICGA Tournaments moving from univ-lille3.fr] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, January 02, 2016
 * [|Game Over] by Rémi Coulom, [|The Computer-go Archives], January 27, 2016 » AlphaGo
 * [|Re: To TPU or not to TPU...] by Rémi Coulom, CCC, December 16, 2017

=External Links= > [|Crazy Stone] > [|Crazy Sensei] > [|Bayesian Elo Rating] > [|CLOP for Noisy Black-Box Parameter Optimization] > media type="youtube" key="Kvf6C3kjEkc"
 * [|Rémi Coulom's Home Page]
 * [|Rémi Coulom from Wikipedia]
 * [|Rémi Coulom's ICGA Tournaments]
 * [|Rémi Coulom - Google Scholar Citations]
 * [|Coulom, Rémi] from [|computer-go.info]
 * [|The Mystery of Go, the Ancient Game That Computers Still Can’t Win] by [|Alan Levinovitz], [|Wired], May 12, 2014
 * [|codecentric go challenge 2014: Interviews with Franz-Josef Dickhut and Rémi Coulom - codecentric Blog] by Raymond Georg Snatzke, October 1, 2014
 * [|codecentric go challenge 2014: Final Interviews - codecentric Blog] by Raymond Georg Snatzke, November 27, 2014
 * Rémi Coulom on AlphaGo and [|Marco Gori] Lecture //Learning from Constraints//, February 29, 2016, [|YouTube] Video

=References= =What links here?= include page="Rémi Coulom" component="backlinks" limit="200"
 * Up one level**