The idea came to me by checking for trends from the megafauzi tunes, since the values of the divisor for this specific formula were as follows:
stc: 15990
mtc: 16117
ltc: 14805
vltc: 12719
new vltc passed by Muzhen: 12076
This shows a clear trend related to time control, the higher it is, the lower the optimum value for the divisor seems to be.
So I tried a simple formula, using educated guesses based on some calculations, tests show it works pretty fine, and it can still be further tuned at VLTC in the future to scale even better.
Passed STC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 431360 W: 110791 L: 109898 D: 210671
Ptnml(0-2): 1182, 50846, 110698, 51805, 1149
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/663770409819650825aa269f
Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 114114 W: 29109 L: 28625 D: 56380
Ptnml(0-2): 105, 12628, 31101, 13124, 99
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/66378c099819650825aa73f6https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5223
bench: 2273551
This adds the functions `update_refutations` and `update_quiet_histories` to better distinguish the two. `update_quiet_stats` now just calls both of these functions.
The functional side of this patch is two-fold:
1. Stop refutations being updated when we carry out multicut
2. Update pawn history every time we update other quiet histories
Yellow STC:
LLR: -2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 238976 W: 61506 L: 61415 D: 116055
Ptnml(0-2): 846, 28628, 60456, 28705, 853
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/66321b5ed01fb9ac9bcdca83
However, it passed in <-1.75, 0.25> bounds:
$ python3 sprt.py --wins 61506 --losses 61415 --draws 116055 --elo0 -1.75 --elo1 0.25
ELO: 0.132 +- 0.998 [-0.865, 1.13]
LLR: 4.15 [-1.75, 0.25] (-2.94, 2.94)
H1 Accepted
Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <-1.75,0.25>
Total: 399126 W: 100730 L: 100896 D: 197500
Ptnml(0-2): 116, 44328, 110843, 44158, 118
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/66357b0473559a8aa857ba6fcloses#5215
Bench 2370967
Saves a (currently) 800 KB allocation and deallocation when running
`eval`, not particularly significant and zero impact on play but not
necessary either.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5201
No functional change
Adds size in memory as well as layer sizes as in
info string NNUE evaluation using nn-ae6a388e4a1a.nnue (132MiB, (22528, 3072, 15, 32, 1))
info string NNUE evaluation using nn-baff1ede1f90.nnue (6MiB, (22528, 128, 15, 32, 1))
For example, the size in MiB is useful to keep the fishtest memory sizes up-to-date,
the L1-L3 sizes give a useful hint about the architecture used.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5193
No functional change
For each thread persist an accumulator cache for the network, where each
cache contains multiple entries for each of the possible king squares.
When the accumulator needs to be refreshed, the cached entry is used to more
efficiently update the accumulator, instead of rebuilding it from scratch.
This idea, was first described by Luecx (author of Koivisto) and
is commonly referred to as "Finny Tables".
When the accumulator needs to be refreshed, instead of filling it with
biases and adding every piece from scratch, we...
1. Take the `AccumulatorRefreshEntry` associated with the new king bucket
2. Calculate the features to activate and deactivate (from differences
between bitboards in the entry and bitboards of the actual position)
3. Apply the updates on the refresh entry
4. Copy the content of the refresh entry accumulator to the accumulator
we were refreshing
5. Copy the bitboards from the position to the refresh entry, to match
the newly updated accumulator
Results at STC:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/662301573fe04ce4cefc1386
(first version)
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6627fa063fe04ce4cefc6560
(final)
Non-Regression between first and final:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/662801e33fe04ce4cefc660a
STC SMP:
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/662808133fe04ce4cefc667c
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5183
No functional change
Parameters Tune, adding also another tunable parameter (npmDiv) to be
variable for different nets (bignet, smallnet, psqtOnly smallnet). P.s:
The changed values are only the parameters where there is agreement
among the different time controls, so in other words, the tunings are
telling us that changing these specific values to this specific
direction is good in all time controls, so there shouldn't be a high
risk of regressing at longer time controls.
Passed STC:
LLR: 2.97 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 39552 W: 10329 L: 9999 D: 19224
Ptnml(0-2): 156, 4592, 9989, 4844, 195
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/661be9a0bd68065432a088c0
Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 56394 W: 14439 L: 14078 D: 27877
Ptnml(0-2): 30, 6152, 15480, 6497, 38
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/661c746296961e72eb565406
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5187
Bench: 1836777
Previously it was possible to also get the node counter after running a bench with perft, i.e.
`./stockfish bench 1 1 5 current perft`, caused by a small regression from the uci refactoring.
```
Nodes searched: 4865609
===========================
Total time (ms) : 18
Nodes searched : 4865609
Nodes/second : 270311611
````
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5188
No functional change
We change the definition of "age" from "age of this position" to "age of this TT entry".
In this way, despite being on the same position, when we save into TT, we always prefer the new entry as compared to the old one.
Passed STC:
LLR: 2.94 (-2.94,2.94) <0.00,2.00>
Total: 152256 W: 39597 L: 39110 D: 73549
Ptnml(0-2): 556, 17562, 39398, 18063, 549
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/6620faee3fe04ce4cefbf215
Passed LTC:
LLR: 2.95 (-2.94,2.94) <0.50,2.50>
Total: 51564 W: 13242 L: 12895 D: 25427
Ptnml(0-2): 24, 5464, 14463, 5803, 28
https://tests.stockfishchess.org/tests/view/66231ab53fe04ce4cefc153ecloses#5184
Bench 1479416
It makes more sense to not (potentially) change the developers alsr entropy setting to make the test run through. This should be an active choice even if the test then might fail locally for them.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5182
No functional change
the recent refactoring has shown some limitations of our testing, hence we add a couple of more tests including:
* expected mate score
* expected mated score
* expected in TB win score
* expected in TB loss score
* expected info line output
* expected info line output (wdl)
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5181
No functional change
Fix another case of 9032c6cbe7
* TB values can have a distance of 0, mainly when we are in a tb position but haven't found mate.
* Add a missing whitespace to UCIEngine::on_update_no_moves()
Closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5172
No functional change
Also fixes searchmoves.
Drop the need of a Position object in uci.cpp.
A side note, it is still required for the static functions,
but these should be moved to a different namespace/class
later on, since sf kinda relies on them.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5169
No functional change
The assignment (ss + 1)->excludedMove = Move::none() can be simplified away because when that line is reached, (ss + 1)->excludedMove is always already none. The only moment stack[x]->excludedMove is modified, is during singular search, but it is reset to none right after the singular search is finished.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5153
No functional change
The same functionality is available by using COMPCXX and having another variable which does the same is just confusing.
There was only one mention on Stockfish Wiki about this which has been changed to COMPCXX.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5154
No functional change
Part 2 of the Split UCI into UCIEngine and Engine refactor.
This creates function callbacks for search to use when an update should occur.
The benching in uci.cpp for example does this to extract the total nodes
searched.
No functional change
This is another refactor which aims to decouple uci from stockfish. A new engine
class manages all engine related logic and uci is a "small" wrapper around it.
In the future we should also try to remove the need for the Position object in
the uci and replace the options with an actual options struct instead of using a
map. Also convert the std::string's in the Info structs a string_view.
closes#5147
No functional change
In the last couple of months we sometimes saw duplicated prereleases uploaded to GitHub, possibly due to some racy behavior when concurrent jobs create a prerelease. This now creates an empty prerelease at the beginning of the CI and the binaries are later just attached to this one.
closes https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/pull/5144
No functional change
