DRQN-tensorflow

Deep Recurrent Q Learning using Tensorflow, openai/gym and openai/retro

This repository contains code for training a DQN or a DRQN on openai/gym Atari and openai/retro environments.

Note that training on Retro environments is completely experimental as of now and these environments have to be wrapped to reduce the action space to a more sensible subspace of all actions for each game. The wrapper currently implemented only makes sense for the SEGA Sonic environments.

Installation

You can install all dependencies by issuing following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

This will install Tensorflow without GPU support. However, I highly recommend using Tensorflow with GPU support, otherwise training will take a very long time. For more information on this topic please see https://www.tensorflow.org/install/. In order to run the retro environments, you have to gather the roms of the games you want to play and import them: https://github.com/openai/retro#roms

Running

You can start training by:

python main.py --gym=gym --steps=10000000 --train=True --network_type=dqn --env_name=Breakout-v0

This will train a DQN on Atari Breakout for 10 mio observations. For more on command line parameters please see

python main.py -h

Visualizing the training process can be done using tensorboard by:

tensorboard --logdir=out

Result after training for 10mio steps (approx. 11 hours on GTX 1080 Ti)

References

1. DQN-tensorflow

2. Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning

3. Playing FPS Games with Deep Reinforcement Learning

4. Deep Recurrent Q-Learning for Partially Observable MDPs