Super-Exponential Regret for UCT, AlphaGo and Variants

Abstract
We improve the proofs of the lower bounds of Coquelin and Munos (2007) that demonstrate that UCT can have regret (with exp terms) on the -chain environment, and that a `polynomial' UCT variant has regret on the same environment -- the original proofs contain an oversight for rewards bounded in , which we fix in the present draft. We also adapt the proofs to AlphaGo's MCTS and its descendants (e.g., AlphaZero, Leela Zero) to also show regret.
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