Agent57: Outperforming the Atari Human Benchmark

DeepMind's Agent57 is the first RL agent to outperform humans in all 57 Atari benchmark games. It extends previous algorithms like Never Give Up and R2D2 by meta-learning the exploration-exploitation tradeoff controls. https://ift.tt/39xTXKX https://ift.tt/3aIfim0 Abstract: Atari games have been a long-standing benchmark in the reinforcement learning (RL) community for the past decade. This benchmark was proposed to test general competency of RL algorithms. Previous work has achieved good average performance by doing outstandingly well on many games of the set, but very poorly in several of the most challenging games. We propose Agent57, the first deep RL agent that outperforms the standard human benchmark on all 57 Atari games. To achieve this result, we train a neural network which parameterizes a family of policies ranging from very exploratory to purely exploitative. We propose an adaptive mechanism to choose which policy to prioritize throughout the training process. Additionally, we utilize a novel parameterization of the architecture that allows for more consistent and stable learning. Authors: Adrià Puigdomènech Badia, Bilal Piot, Steven Kapturowski, Pablo Sprechmann, Alex Vitvitskyi, Daniel Guo, Charles Blundell Links: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/yannickilcher Twitter: https://twitter.com/ykilcher BitChute: https://ift.tt/38iX6OV Minds: https://ift.tt/37igBpB