This repository hosts the code published along with the following NIPS article (Experiment 4.1: Fruit Collection Task):

• https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.04208

For more information about this article, see the following blog posts:

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/hybrid-reward-architecture-achieving-super-human-ms-pac-man-performance/
• https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai/2017/06/14/divide-conquer-microsoft-researchers-used-ai-master-ms-pac-man/

We strongly suggest to use Anaconda distribution.

• Python 3.5 or higher
• pygame 1.9.2+ (pip install pygame)
• click (pip install click)
• numpy (pip install numpy -- or install Anaconda distribution)
• Keras 1.2.0+, but less than 2.0 (pip install keras==1.2)
• Theano or Tensorflow. The code is fully tested on Theano. (pip install theano)

While any run is going on, the results as well as the AI models will be saved in the ./results subfolder. For a complete run, five experiments for each method, use the following command (may take several hours depending on your machine):

./run.sh

• NOTE: Because the state-shape is relatively small, the deep RL methods of this code run faster on CPU.

Alternatively, for a single run use the following commands:

• Tabular GVF:

ipython ./tabular/train.py -- -o use_gvf True -o folder_name tabular_gvf_ -o nb_experiments 1

• Tabular no-GVF:

ipython ./tabular/train.py -- -o use_gvf False -o folder_name tabular_no-gvf_ -o nb_experiments 1

• DQN:

THEANO_FLAG="device=cpu" ipython ./dqn/train.py -- --mode hra+1 -o nb_experiments 1

• --mode can be either of dqn, dqn+1, hra, hra+1, or all.

We have also provided the code to demo Tabular GVF/NO-GVF methods. You first need to train the model using one of the above commands (Tabular GVF or no-GVF) and then run the demo. For example,

ipython ./tabular/train.py -- -o use_gvf True -o folder_name tabular_gvf_ -o nb_experiments 1
ipython ./tabular/train.py -- --demo -o folder_name tabular_gvf_

If you would like to save the results, use the --save option:

ipython ./tabular/train.py -- --demo --save -o folder_name tabular_gvf_

The rendered images will be saved in ./render directory by default.

Please refer to LICENSE.txt.