Title
Emergent Complexity via Multi-Agent Competition.
Abstract
Reinforcement learning algorithms can train agents that solve problems in complex, interesting environments. Normally, the complexity of the trained agent is closely related to the complexity of the environment. This suggests that a highly capable agent requires a complex environment for training. In this paper, we point out that a competitive multi-agent environment trained with self-play can produce behaviors that are far more complex than the environment itself. We also point out that such environments come with a natural curriculum, because for any skill level, an environment full of agents of this level will have the right level of difficulty. This work introduces several competitive multi-agent environments where agents compete in a 3D world with simulated physics. The trained agents learn a wide variety of complex and interesting skills, even though the environment themselves are relatively simple. The skills include behaviors such as running, blocking, ducking, tackling, fooling opponents, kicking, and defending using both arms and legs. A highlight of the learned behaviors can be found here: https://goo.gl/eR7fbX
Year
Venue
Field
2017
international conference on learning representations
Computer science,Curriculum,Artificial intelligence,Reinforcement learning
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1710.03748
22
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.74
21
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Trapit Bansal11318.33
Jakub Pachocki21227.50
Szymon Sidor31125.33
Ilya Sutskever4258141120.24
Igor Mordatch578035.58