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Obstacle Tower: A Generalization Challenge in Vision, Control, and Planning

Authors
Arthur Juliani, Ahmed Khalifa, Vincent-Pierre Berges, Jonathan Harper, Hunter Henry, Adam Crespi, Julian Togelius, Danny Lange

The rapid pace of research in Deep Reinforcement Learning has been driven by the presence of fast and challenging simulation environments. These environments often take the form of games; with tasks ranging from simple board games to classic home console games to modern strategy games. We propose a new benchmark called Obstacle Tower: a high visual fidelity, 3D, 3rd person, procedurally generated game environment. An agent in the Obstacle Tower must learn to solve both low-level control and high-level planning problems in tandem while learning from pixels and a sparse reward signal. Unlike other similar benchmarks such as the ALE, evaluation of agent performance in Obstacle Tower is based on an agent's ability to perform well on unseen instances of the environment. In this paper, we outline the environment and provide a set of initial baseline results produced by current state-of-the-art Deep RL methods as well as human players. In all cases, these algorithms fail to produce agents capable of performing anywhere near human level on a set of evaluations designed to test both memorization and generalization ability. As such, we believe that the Obstacle Tower has the potential to serve as a helpful Deep RL benchmark now and into the future.

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