Hands-On Reinforcement Learning for Games Hands-On Reinforcement Learning for Games

Hands-On Reinforcement Learning for Games

Implementing self-learning agents in games using artificial intelligence techniques

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Publisher Description

Explore reinforcement learning (RL) techniques to build cutting-edge games using Python libraries such as PyTorch, OpenAI Gym, and TensorFlow


Key Features

Get to grips with the different reinforcement and DRL algorithms for game development

Learn how to implement components such as artificial agents, map and level generation, and audio generation

Gain insights into cutting-edge RL research and understand how it is similar to artificial general research


Book Description

With the increased presence of AI in the gaming industry, developers are challenged to create highly responsive and adaptive games by integrating artificial intelligence into their projects. This book is your guide to learning how various reinforcement learning techniques and algorithms play an important role in game development with Python.

Starting with the basics, this book will help you build a strong foundation in reinforcement learning for game development. Each chapter will assist you in implementing different reinforcement learning techniques, such as Markov decision processes (MDPs), Q-learning, actor-critic methods, SARSA, and deterministic policy gradient algorithms, to build logical self-learning agents. Learning these techniques will enhance your game development skills and add a variety of features to improve your game agent's productivity. As you advance, you'll understand how deep reinforcement learning (DRL) techniques can be used to devise strategies to help agents learn from their actions and build engaging games.

By the end of this book, you'll be ready to apply reinforcement learning techniques to build a variety of projects and contribute to open source applications.


What you will learn

Understand how deep learning can be integrated into an RL agent

Explore basic to advanced algorithms commonly used in game development

Build agents that can learn and solve problems in all types of environments

Train a Deep Q-Network (DQN) agent to solve the CartPole balancing problem

Develop game AI agents by understanding the mechanism behind complex AI

Integrate all the concepts learned into new projects or gaming agents


Who this book is for

If you're a game developer looking to implement AI techniques to build next-generation games from scratch, this book is for you. Machine learning and deep learning practitioners, and RL researchers who want to understand how to use self-learning agents in the game domain will also find this book useful. Knowledge of game development and Python programming experience are required.

GENRE
Computing & Internet
RELEASED
2020
3 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
432
Pages
PUBLISHER
Packt Publishing
SIZE
19.2
MB

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