What's the highest ranking non-learning bot in the rumble?
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Does anybody know which (non-learning) bot holds the highest ranking in the 1v1 and melee rumbles?
What is your definition of non-learning? Do you mean perceptual?
IMO as long as you have state, you are in fact “learning”.
I think about learning more like, results in the past can influence future decisions. f.e. Linear targeting only knows about current state (radarinfo), while Circular targeting knows about current state and previous state. Both do not learn, as similar states give similar decisions, without any correlation to past results.
Well, we can loosen the limit of perceptual to allow information of k recent turns, e.g. k-perceptual. Under this definition, linear targeting will be 1-perceptual, circular targeting being 2-perceptual, and average velocity targeting with window size k will be k-perceptual.
As long as k is large enough, we can still build effective learning method. So there’s still not an absolute difference between learning of non-learning. Simple enough methods like averaging velocity is still “learning”.
