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Maxim Lapan
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Maxim has been working as a software developer for more than 20 years and was involved in various areas: distributed scientific computing, distributed systems and big data processing. Since 2014 he is actively using machine and deep learning to solve practical industrial tasks, such as NLP problems, RL for web crawling and web pages analysis. He has been living in Germany with his family.
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The MAgent environment

Before we jump into our first MARL example, I will describe our environment to experiment with.

Installation

If you want to play with MARL, your choice is a bit limited. All the environments that come with Gym support only one agent. There are some patches for Atari Pong, to switch it into two-player mode, but they are not standard and are an exception rather than the rule.

DeepMind, together with Blizzard, has made StarCraft II publicly available (https://github.com/deepmind/pysc2) and it makes for a very interesting and challenging environment for experimentation. However, for somebody who is taking their first steps in MARL, it might be too complex. In that regard, I found the MAgent environment from Geek.AI (https://github.com/geek-ai/MAgent) perfectly suitable: it is simple, fast, and has minimal dependency, but it still allows you to simulate different multi-agent scenarios for experimentation. It doesn't provide a Gym-compatible API, but...

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Maxim Lapan

Maxim has been working as a software developer for more than 20 years and was involved in various areas: distributed scientific computing, distributed systems and big data processing. Since 2014 he is actively using machine and deep learning to solve practical industrial tasks, such as NLP problems, RL for web crawling and web pages analysis. He has been living in Germany with his family.
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