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Agent57: Outperforming the Atari Human Benchmark

ICML 2020 · Reinforcement learning › Visual and representation RL · approach: Scalable RL systems and environments · 226 citations (OpenAlex)

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Measured effects reported in the paper

What was changedWhereMeasuredEffect
Use Agent57 instead of prior Atari agentsAtari 57 games · Atari 57 gamesnumber of games > human: 52 -> 57Helped
Add a meta-controller to choose policies adaptively (ablation)R2D2 (Retrace) · Atari 57 gamescapped mean HNS: 94.20 -> 96.93Helped
Add separate intrinsic and extrinsic value networks (ablation)Agent57 · Atari challenging setcapped mean HNS: greater than 20%Helped
Add a meta-controller (ablation)R2D2 · Atari challenging setcapped mean HNS: close to 20% CHNSHelped
Increase BPTT window from 80 to 160 (ablation)R2D2 and Agent57 · Atari challenging setcapped mean HNSHelped
Increase BPTT window from 80 to 160 (ablation)R2D2 and Agent57 · SolarisscoreHelped
Use a fixed discount factor of 0.9999 across games (ablation)R2D2 · Atari challenging setend performanceHurt

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