arXiv Machine Learning

Reinforcement Learning in Super Mario Bros: Curriculum, Pedagogy, and Optimal Level Design in World 1-1

arXiv:2606. 29511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: World 1-1 of Super Mario Bros is widely celebrated as a masterclass in game design: its progressive structure is credited with teaching players core mechanics through the level itself.

arXiv AI
Jul 10

Principled Analysis of Deep Reinforcement Learning Evaluation and Design Paradigms

arXiv:2607. 07769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Starting from the utilization of deep neural networks to approximate the state-action value function that led to winning one of the most challenging games, to algorithmic advancements that allowed solving problems without even explicitly stating the rules of the challenge at hand, reinforcement learning research has been the center of remarkable scientific progress for the past decade.

By Ezgi Korkmaz
OpenAI Blog
Jul 4, 2018

Learning Montezuma’s Revenge from a single demonstration

We’ve trained an agent to achieve a high score of 74,500 on Montezuma’s Revenge from a single human demonstration, better than any previously published result. Our algorithm is simple: the agent plays a sequence of games starting from carefully chosen states from the demonstration, and learns from them by optimizing the game score using PPO, the same reinforcement learning algorithm that underpins OpenAI Five.

arXiv AI
Jun 2

MindGames Arena Generalization Track: In2AI Solution with Delayed Per-Step Reward Attribution

arXiv:2606. 00017v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Training language model agents for multi-agent strategic interaction presents a core difficulty: the quality of any action may depend on future events that never materialize, on moves that violate game rules, or on decisions made by other players.

By Aliaksei Korshuk, Alexander Buyantuev, Ilya Makarov