Generic Heuristic Approach to General Game Playing

General Game Playing (GGP) is a specially designed environment for creating and testing competitive agents which can play variety of games. The fundamental motivation is to advance the development of various artificial intelligence methods operating together in a previously unknown environment. This approach extrapolates better on real world problems and follows artificial intelligence paradigms better than dedicated single-game optimized solutions. This paper presents a universal method of constructing the heuristic evaluation function for any game playable within the GGP framework. The algorithm embraces distinctive discovery of candidate features to be included in the evaluation function and learning their correlations with actions performed by the players and the game score. Our method integrates well with the UCT algorithm which is currently the state-of-the-art approach in GGP.