Abstract
General artificial intelligence requires an intelligent agent to understand or learn any intellectual tasks like a human being. Diverse and complex real-time strategy (RTS) game for artificial intelligence research is a promising stepping stone to achieve the goal. In the last decade, the strongest agents have either simplified the key elements of the game, or used expert rules with human knowledge, or focused on a specific environment. In this paper, we propose a unified learning model that can master various environments in RTS game without human knowledge. We use a multi-agent reinforcement learning algorithm that uses data from agents in a diverse league played on multiple maps to train the deep neural network model. We evaluate our model in microRTS, a simple real-time strategy game. The results show that the agent is competitive against the strong benchmarks in different environments.
B. Ling and X. Liu—These authors contribute equally.
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This work is supported by the National Key R &D Program of China under grant 2018AAA0101200, the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 62102082, 61902062, 61672154, 61972086, the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province under Grant No. 7709009016 and the Postgraduate Research & Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province of China (KYCX19_0089).
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Ling, B. et al. (2022). Master Multiple Real-Time Strategy Games with a Unified Learning Model Using Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning. In: Zhang, H., et al. Neural Computing for Advanced Applications. NCAA 2022. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1638. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-6135-9_3
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