Superhuman AI for heads-up no-limit poker: Libratus beats top professionals

Abstract

Pitting artificial intelligence (AI) against top human players demonstrates just how far AI has come. Brown and Sandholm built a poker-playing AI called Libratus that decisively beat four leading human professionals in the two-player variant of poker called heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em (HUNL). Over nearly 3 weeks, Libratus played 120,000 hands of HUNL against the human professionals, using a three-pronged approach that included precomputing an overall strategy, adapting the strategy to actual gameplay, and learning from its opponent.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 26, 2018
Source ID
10.1126/science.aao1733

Entities

People

  • Noam Brown
  • Tuomas Sandholm

Organizations

  • Army Research Office
  • Carnegie Mellon University
  • National Science Foundation

Tags

Readers

  • Applied Combinatorial Optimization and Logic Circuit Design.
  • Game Theory.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy