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Application of DQN-IRL Framework in Doudizhu’s Sparse Reward

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When applying Artificial Intelligence into the traditional Chinese poker game Doudizhu, it is faced with many challenging issues resulted from the characteristics of Doudizhu. One of these challenging issues is the sparse reward, due to the truth that a valid feedback could be obtained only at the end of a round of the game. Against this, in this paper, a deep neural framework, DQN-IRL, is proposed to address the challenging issue of sparse reward in Doudizhu. The experimental results proves the efficiency of DQN-IRL (Inverse Reinforcement Learning) in terms of winning rate.

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All authors contributed to the study conception and design. Material preparation, data collection and analysis were performed by YK and HS. Code is modified by HS, XW and YR. The first draft of the manuscript was written by HS and all authors commented on previous versions of the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.

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Kong, Y., Shi, H., Wu, X. et al. Application of DQN-IRL Framework in Doudizhu’s Sparse Reward. Neural Process Lett 55, 9467–9482 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11063-023-11209-0

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