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MDP environments for the OpenAI Gym

Machine Learning 2017-09-27 v1

Abstract

The OpenAI Gym provides researchers and enthusiasts with simple to use environments for reinforcement learning. Even the simplest environment have a level of complexity that can obfuscate the inner workings of RL approaches and make debugging difficult. This whitepaper describes a Python framework that makes it very easy to create simple Markov-Decision-Process environments programmatically by specifying state transitions and rewards of deterministic and non-deterministic MDPs in a domain-specific language in Python. It then presents results and visualizations created with this MDP framework.

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@article{arxiv.1709.09069,
  title  = {MDP environments for the OpenAI Gym},
  author = {Andreas Kirsch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.09069},
  year   = {2017}
}

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6 pages, 2 figures

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