{"id":114578,"date":"2020-06-24T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/365410"},"modified":"2020-06-24T18:56:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T18:56:00","slug":"video-using-deep-learning-to-combat-cheating-in-counter-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/06\/24\/video-using-deep-learning-to-combat-cheating-in-counter-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Using deep learning to combat cheating in Counter-Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this GDC 2018 talk Valve&#8217;s John McDonald discusses how the company&nbsp;has utilized deep learning&nbsp;machine learning techniques to combat cheating in <em>Counter-Strike: Global Offensive<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>According to McDonald&#8217;s practical rundown, deep learning has proven to be very effective at identifying cheating behavior without any client-side instrumentation, making it robust against malicious attack by cheaters and cheat vendors.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed how, by retraining regularly, the network continues to evolve, picking up new cheating behaviors within hours of their appearance. As a result of this approach, certain types of cheats have been reduced by a factor of one hundred.<\/p>\n<p>It was fascinating stuff, and now you can&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kTiP0zKF9bc\">watch McDonald&#8217;s whole talk for&nbsp;free&nbsp;over&nbsp;on the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In addition to this presentation, the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/\">GDC Vault<\/a>&nbsp;and its accompanying&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC0JB7TSe49lg56u6qH8y_MQ\/feed\">YouTube channel<\/a>&nbsp;offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdconf.com\/\">Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n<p>Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC&nbsp;already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/inquiry\/\">a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdcvault.com\/demo\/\">GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this GDC 2018 talk Valve&#8217;s John McDonald discusses how the company&nbsp;has utilized deep learning&nbsp;machine learning techniques to combat cheating in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. According to McDonald&#8217;s practical rundown, deep learning has proven to be very effective at identifying cheating behavior without any client-side instrumentation, making it robust against malicious attack by cheaters and cheat [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}