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Past exam of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2020 Artificial intelligence 3 e Solution by
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Propagate an entire utility pair from a child chosen to maximize the component of the player whose turn it is. This is the two-player case of max-n search. At a terminal node let . At an A-node chooseand at a B-node replace by . Do not maximize the two coordinates independently: their separate maxima may belong to incompatible outcomes. Fix a tie rule, such as the first child in the specified order. The rule recursively gives a pure strategy subgame perfect equilibrium in a finite perfect-information game: backward induction makes the moving player's selected continuation a best response at every node.[ref]
CS 188 stochastic and general game notes. §3.4, entire utility tuples selected by the moving player's component
In the original Figure 2, each of the three children of the root belongs to B. The left B-node prefers its first leaf because , the middle B-node prefers its first leaf because , and the right B-node prefers its second leaf because . Their propagated utility pairs, from left to right, areAt the root A compares and chooses the left child. Thus the root pair is , with play following the root's left branch and then that B-node's first branch. No tie affects this outcome.
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