Behaviour Suite for Reinforcement Learning
Abstract
This paper introduces the Behaviour Suite for Reinforcement Learning, or bsuite for short. bsuite is a collection of carefully-designed experiments that investigate core capabilities of reinforcement learning (RL) agents with two objectives. First, to collect clear, informative and scalable problems that capture key issues in the design of general and efficient learning algorithms. Second, to study agent behaviour through their performance on these shared benchmarks. To complement this effort, we open source github.com/deepmind/bsuite, which automates evaluation and analysis of any agent on bsuite. This library facilitates reproducible and accessible research on the core issues in RL, and ultimately the design of superior learning algorithms. Our code is Python, and easy to use within existing projects. We include examples with OpenAI Baselines, Dopamine as well as new reference implementations. Going forward, we hope to incorporate more excellent experiments from the research community, and commit to a periodic review of bsuite from a committee of prominent researchers.
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@article{arxiv.1908.03568,
title = {Behaviour Suite for Reinforcement Learning},
author = {Ian Osband and Yotam Doron and Matteo Hessel and John Aslanides and Eren Sezener and Andre Saraiva and Katrina McKinney and Tor Lattimore and Csaba Szepesvari and Satinder Singh and Benjamin Van Roy and Richard Sutton and David Silver and Hado Van Hasselt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.03568},
year = {2020}
}