Primary author and project maintainer (https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo):

David J Wu ("lightvector")

Many thanks to these additional authors:

Tycho Tatitscheff ("tychota") - for documentation and build improvements

Bernd Schmidt ("bernds") - for minor build improvements

Loren Puchalla Fiore ("lpuchallafiore") - for a wide variety of code refactors and fixes

"TFiFiE" - for minor build improvements

"iopq" - for a fix to python script imports

Brett Harrison - coauthor of part of the original game board code

Annie Wagner ("featurecat") - slight readme edits

Martin Häcker ("dwt") - minor bugfix, MacOS support, commandline improvements

"yenw" - simple compile fix on MacOS.

Adrian Petrescu ("apetresc") - MacOS support

Anson Hu ("farmersrice") - frontend features and logic

Sander Land ("sanderland") - many options for analysis engine, various bugfixes and other work

Alexander Noack ("shammyx") - minor customization for resign logic

"yffbit" - minor optimization for benson's algorithm

Michael Reilly ("OmnipotentEntity") - workaround for CUDA on some cmake versions and other work

Hiraoka ("kaorahi") - for help optimizing Eigen backend and other work

Akita Noek ("anoek") - for some minor performance and api suggestions, minor cuda work

Harald Han - for some work on CUDNN8 support

"inbae" - for removing boost filesystem dependencies, major contributions to pytorch training

"rimathia" - for a minor bugfix

"Jonathan_Go" - for help with client proxy support

Jonathan Roy ("roy7") - for various search refactors

Kensuke Matsuzaki ("zakki") - catching a buffer overrun bug

Kuang-che Wu ("kcwu") - minor improvement to distributed logging

"yzyray" - minor bugfix, improvements to gtp extensions

"fuhaoda" - code optimizations, testing, and other improvements

"y-ich" - for GPU optimization suggestions and other minor features

Yule Hou ("hyln9") - For implementing TensorRT backend and various testing and work.

"rooklift" - various documentation improvements

Viktor Pogrebniak ("avtomaton") - for improvements on the config system

Adam Gleave - for improvements on the config system

Emanuel-de-Jong - For minor improvement to GTP command.

"simon300000" - For minor update to .gitignore.

Dave Jarvis - For improved inline documentation for GTP example config.

Yuji Ichikiwa - For a minor fix to include paths.

"hzyhhzy" - For a minor fix for rules parsing.

Thaddee Tyl ("espadrine") - Reporting and fixing of issue with half library intrinsics.

Sebastian H ("nerai") - Minor code cleanup

Jochen Voss ("seehuhn") - Typo fix in doc

"kinfkong" - Added trt build configuration option

"TTXS123OK" - Minor code style improvement.

Chin-Chang Yang - For a very useful GPU backend error testing command.

Separately from the authors of the content in this repo, additional special thanks to:

Junyan Xu ("alreadydone") - for much testing and troubleshooting for Windows support

"petgo3" - for bugfinding and advice on supporting KGS api

"sbbdms" - for much testing of cpuct and uncertainty parameters

"Medwin", "shengke" and others - for many tests and ideas and parameters

"lionfenfen", and Yi XiaoTian - For major ideas and techniques for improving neural net training in KataGo.

Reid McIlroy-Young ("reidmcy") - for discussion of AlphaZero and policy conditioning and optimism

"jaysephjw", and "gcmutator" - for finding some typos.