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Record W3167763832 · doi:10.21428/594757db.8472938b

General Deep Reinforcement Learning in NES Games

2021· article· en· W3167763832 on OpenAlexaff
David Gregory LeBlanc, Greg Lee

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicReinforcement Learning in Robotics
Canadian institutionsAcadia University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsReinforcement learningDomain (mathematical analysis)Computer scienceVideo gameArtificial intelligenceEntertainmentField (mathematics)Deep learningDomain knowledgeFocus (optics)HyperparameterHuman–computer interactionMultimedia

Abstract

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The techniques involved in general game playing with Artificial Intelligence (AI) have advanced to meet the challenges of the most popular video game and board game domains. Until recently, the video game domains used as testbeds have been relatively simple. That is, the most complex console-wide domain that has been solved using Deep Reinforcement Learning is the Atari domain, which is decades behind modern video game domains. This work explores a more complex domain (the Nintendo Entertainment System, or NES) and the associated difficulties in developing deep reinforcement learning agents for it. To understand these difficulties, we trained agents on NES games with little to no expert knowledge provided to the agents. After developing some understanding of the challenges of the domain, we suggest areas on which to focus to solve this domain, work which will hopefully lead the field to solving ever more complex environments both real world and theoretical. This paper determines some of the necessary changes in hyperparameters and reward functions to solve the NES domain compared to the more popular Atari domain while using game pixel data as the only inputs to the agents’ neural networks.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.013

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.249
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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