AI Enabled Bridge Bidding Supporting Interactive Visualization

Abstract

With the fast progress in perfect information game problems such as AI chess and AI Go, researchers have turned to imperfect information game problems, including Texas Hold’em and Bridge. Bridge is one of the most challenging card games that have significant research value. Bridge playing is divided into two phases: bidding and playing. This paper focuses on bridge bidding and proposes a bridge bidding service framework using deep neural networks, and supports bidding visualization for the first time. The framework consists of two parts: the bidding model (BM) with a multilayer neural network, and a visualization system. The framework predicts not only reasonable bids from the existing bidding system of humans, but also provides intuitive explanations for decisions to enable human–computer information interaction. Experimental results show that this bidding AI outperforms majority of existing systems.