LittlePly chess agent shares history representation between policy and value heads

andreisavu · x · 2026-11-08

Part of andreisavu's long thread on the LittlePly chess agent project: the live agent already shares a history representation between policy and value, and the current training experiment includes auxiliary objectives. The author also clarifies that live game outcomes cannot validate an undeployed checkpoint, and that telemetry coverage varies by game — an absent record doesn't prove a component was inactive.

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