Enterprise AI Capabilities Assessment
Can Large Language Models Master Complex Card Games?
Complex games serve as critical benchmarks for AI, with LLMs showing remarkable potential. This study explores their ability to master intricate card games, evaluating learning from high-quality data, multi-game mastery, and general capability retention. Our findings highlight strong learning and versatility, positioning LLMs as powerful tools in advanced AI domains.
Quantifiable Advances in Gaming AI
Our research demonstrates how LLMs, through supervised fine-tuning, achieve significant performance gains and multi-game mastery in complex card game environments. This translates to robust, adaptable AI systems.
Complex Card Games Assessed
Peak Win Rate (DouDizhu)
Multiple Games Mastered Simultaneously
General Capability Retention
Deep Analysis & Enterprise Applications
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Mastering Complex Card Games with High-Quality Data
Our findings show that Large Language Models (LLMs) can achieve performance comparable to strong game AIs in complex card games like DouDizhu, GuanDan, and Riichi Mahjong. This mastery is contingent on supervised fine-tuning using sufficient volumes of high-quality gameplay interaction data. As training progresses, LLMs continuously improve their strategic knowledge, demonstrating robust learning capabilities.
For instance, in DouDizhu, models show a continuous improvement in win rate, closely approaching the teacher model's performance. Even in Riichi Mahjong, where a dedicated teacher model was unavailable, LLMs achieved performance comparable to a strong Mahjong AI using expert human data. This indicates that LLMs possess the inherent learning capacity to adapt to the intricate rules and complex decision spaces of these games.
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Peak DouDizhu Win Rate Achieved (Mixed Model)
Enterprise Process Flow: High-Quality Data Generation for LLMs
Trajectory Generation (Teacher Models/Experts)
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High-Quality Data Filtering
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Supervised Fine-Tuning Data Generation (Prompt Engineering)
Simultaneous Multi-Game Mastery and Inter-Game Influence
A significant finding is the ability of LLMs to master multiple complex card games simultaneously. When fine-tuned on a mixed dataset of eight games, LLMs demonstrated superior performance compared to models trained on individual games or base models. This suggests a powerful capacity for transfer learning across different game environments.
We observed mutual enhancement between games with similar rules, such as DouDizhu and GuanDan, leading to improved performance when trained together. Conversely, conflicts can arise between games with dissimilar rules. This highlights the nuanced interplay of knowledge transfer, where rule similarities primarily dictate the extent of positive influence.
The ability to adapt to diverse game logic within a single model represents a considerable advantage for developing versatile AI agents in complex, dynamic environments.
| Model Type | DouDizhu Win Rate | GuanDan Round Win Rate | Riichi Mahjong Avg. Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Base Model (Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct) | 0.087 | 0.000 | 0.04 |
| Fine-tuned (Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-mix) | 0.852
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0.634
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1.08
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Maintaining General Capabilities While Mastering Games
A critical concern with specialized fine-tuning is the potential degradation of general capabilities. Our study confirms that LLMs experience a decline in knowledge-based question answering, mathematics, and coding skills after mastering complex games. However, this decline is not irreversible.
By integrating a certain amount of general instruction data during the fine-tuning process, the models can largely restore their general capabilities. This "mixed data training" approach effectively balances specialized game performance with broader intelligence, offering a pathway to robust, multi-faceted AI systems suitable for enterprise applications requiring both specialized task proficiency and general reasoning.
Case Study: Mitigating General Capability Decline in LLMs
Challenge: After fine-tuning on complex card games, LLMs showed significant performance drops in general knowledge (MMLU-Pro), math (Math-500), and coding (HumanEval) benchmarks, with GLM models showing more degradation than LLaMA. This "catastrophic forgetting" can limit real-world enterprise utility.
Solution: A targeted re-training strategy involved further fine-tuning the game-mastered models on a mixed dataset comprising 20k knowledge data, 20k mathematics data, 20k coding data, and 8k game data. This balanced approach successfully mitigated the decline, restoring a significant portion of the LLMs' general capabilities.
Impact: This demonstrates a viable method for developing highly specialized AI agents that retain broad general intelligence, crucial for dynamic business environments where tasks vary in nature and complexity. For example, an LLM agent could manage inventory, then switch to a complex logistics optimization task, retaining its core intelligence.
LLMs as General-Purpose Learners: A Paradigm Shift
The core advantage of LLMs over traditional specialized game AIs lies in their nature as general-purpose learners. While both approaches require selecting appropriate game features, traditional reinforcement learning methods necessitate designing game-specific network architectures—a labor-intensive step for each new game. This lack of architectural flexibility limits their scalability across diverse domains.
LLMs, in contrast, eliminate the need for such bespoke network design. A single LLM architecture can perform well across multiple games simply by adapting its prompt templates and fine-tuning on game-specific data. This inherent flexibility is paramount, enabling rapid deployment and adaptation across a wide array of enterprise applications without requiring extensive re-engineering.
For example, DouZero, DanZero, and Mortal each have unique network architectures tailored to individual games, with DouZero even needing separate designs for different roles. LLMs, however, can handle multiple roles within multiple complex games using the same underlying architecture, showcasing their significant general learning ability and versatility.
Architectural Reusability Across Games
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