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Python Reinforcement Learning Projects

You're reading from   Python Reinforcement Learning Projects Eight hands-on projects exploring reinforcement learning algorithms using TensorFlow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788991612
Length 296 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani Rajalingappaa Shanmugamani
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Data preparation

Careful readers may notice that a suffix, v0, follows each game name, and come up with the following questions: What is the meaning of v0? Is it allowable to replace it with v1 or v2? Actually, this suffix has a relationship with the data preprocessing step for the screen images (observations) extracted from the Atari environment.

There are three modes for each game, for example, Breakout, BreakoutDeterministic, and BreakoutNoFrameskip, and each mode has two versions, for example, Breakout-v0 and Breakout-v4. The main difference between the three modes is the value of the frameskip parameter in the Atari environment. This parameter indicates the number of frames (steps) the one action is repeated on. This is called the frame-skipping technique, which allows us to play more games without significantly increasing the runtime.

For Breakout, frameskip is randomly...

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