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Hoki Lab
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The lab explores game informatics through machine learning, game tree search, and consultation methods.

AboutAbout the lab
Tackling game informatics with machine learning and search
The Hoki Lab studies game informatics.
The lab works on machine learning, game tree search, and consultation methods.
Associate Professor Hoki won the 23rd World Computer Shogi Championship.
At the University of Electro-Communications, research in game informatics began in earnest in August 2010.
Key terms
- Game tree search
- A method that expands the possible branches of future moves from a game position into a tree and examines them to find good moves
- Consultation method
- An approach that gathers multiple judgments and reaches a single conclusion, as in a majority vote
- Machine learning
- A technology in which computers learn rules from data and acquire ways of making judgments
ResearchResearch themes
Centered on game informatics, the lab studies machine learning, game tree search, and consultation methods. At the University of Electro-Communications, this research began in earnest in August 2010.
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- Associate ProfessorKunihito Hoki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Shogi Game Position” Oliver Orschiedt / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Search and Learning in Game Informatics: “Shogi board pieces and komadai” Oliver Orschiedt / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ito Lab): “Kyoto Shogi-initial position” Surligne / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Hashiyama Lab): “Robot-human-face onscreen” Steve Jurvetson from Menlo Park, USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Inaba Lab): “Storytelling ( )” Steve Snodgrass from Shreveport, USA / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Ueno Lab): “Bayesian network” Sachs K, Gifford D, Jaakkola T, Sorger P, Lauffenburger DA. / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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