A local approach to forward model learning: Results on the game of life game

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Autoren

  • Simon M. Lucas
  • Alexander Dockhorn
  • Vanessa Volz
  • Chris Bamford
  • Raluca D. Gaina
  • Ivan Bravi
  • Diego Perez-Liebana
  • Sanaz Mostaghim
  • Rudolf Kruse

Externe Organisationen

  • Queen Mary University of London
  • Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksIEEE Conference on Games 2019, CoG 2019
Herausgeber (Verlag)IEEE Computer Society
ISBN (elektronisch)9781728118840
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - Aug. 2019
Extern publiziertJa
Veranstaltung2019 IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2019 - London, Großbritannien / Vereinigtes Königreich
Dauer: 20 Aug. 201923 Aug. 2019

Publikationsreihe

NameIEEE Conference on Computatonal Intelligence and Games, CIG
Band2019-August
ISSN (Print)2325-4270
ISSN (elektronisch)2325-4289

Abstract

This paper investigates the effect of learning a forward model on the performance of a statistical forward planning agent. We transform Conway's Game of Life simulation into a single-player game where the objective can be either to preserve as much life as possible or to extinguish all life as quickly as possible.In order to learn the forward model of the game, we formulate the problem in a novel way that learns the local cell transition function by creating a set of supervised training data and predicting the next state of each cell in the grid based on its current state and immediate neighbours. Using this method we are able to harvest sufficient data to learn perfect forward models by observing only a few complete state transitions, using either a look-up table, a decision tree, or a neural network.In contrast, learning the complete state transition function is a much harder task and our initial efforts to do this using deep convolutional auto-encoders were less successful.We also investigate the effects of imperfect learned models on prediction errors and game-playing performance, and show that even models with significant errors can provide good performance.

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A local approach to forward model learning: Results on the game of life game. / Lucas, Simon M.; Dockhorn, Alexander; Volz, Vanessa et al.
IEEE Conference on Games 2019, CoG 2019. IEEE Computer Society, 2019. 8848002 (IEEE Conference on Computatonal Intelligence and Games, CIG; Band 2019-August).

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschungPeer-Review

Lucas, SM, Dockhorn, A, Volz, V, Bamford, C, Gaina, RD, Bravi, I, Perez-Liebana, D, Mostaghim, S & Kruse, R 2019, A local approach to forward model learning: Results on the game of life game. in IEEE Conference on Games 2019, CoG 2019., 8848002, IEEE Conference on Computatonal Intelligence and Games, CIG, Bd. 2019-August, IEEE Computer Society, 2019 IEEE Conference on Games, CoG 2019, London, Großbritannien / Vereinigtes Königreich, 20 Aug. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2019.8848002
Lucas, S. M., Dockhorn, A., Volz, V., Bamford, C., Gaina, R. D., Bravi, I., Perez-Liebana, D., Mostaghim, S., & Kruse, R. (2019). A local approach to forward model learning: Results on the game of life game. In IEEE Conference on Games 2019, CoG 2019 Artikel 8848002 (IEEE Conference on Computatonal Intelligence and Games, CIG; Band 2019-August). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/CIG.2019.8848002
Lucas SM, Dockhorn A, Volz V, Bamford C, Gaina RD, Bravi I et al. A local approach to forward model learning: Results on the game of life game. in IEEE Conference on Games 2019, CoG 2019. IEEE Computer Society. 2019. 8848002. (IEEE Conference on Computatonal Intelligence and Games, CIG). doi: 10.1109/CIG.2019.8848002
Lucas, Simon M. ; Dockhorn, Alexander ; Volz, Vanessa et al. / A local approach to forward model learning : Results on the game of life game. IEEE Conference on Games 2019, CoG 2019. IEEE Computer Society, 2019. (IEEE Conference on Computatonal Intelligence and Games, CIG).
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