Poster
Forward Modeling for Partial Observation Strategy Games - A StarCraft Defogger
Gabriel Synnaeve · Zeming Lin · Jonas Gehring · Dan Gant · Vegard Mella · Vasil Khalidov · Nicolas Carion · Nicolas Usunier
Room 517 AB #128
Keywords: [ Game Playing ]
We formulate the problem of defogging as state estimation and future state prediction from previous, partial observations in the context of real-time strategy games. We propose to employ encoder-decoder neural networks for this task, and introduce proxy tasks and baselines for evaluation to assess their ability of capturing basic game rules and high-level dynamics. By combining convolutional neural networks and recurrent networks, we exploit spatial and sequential correlations and train well-performing models on a large dataset of human games of StarCraft: Brood War. Finally, we demonstrate the relevance of our models to downstream tasks by applying them for enemy unit prediction in a state-of-the-art, rule-based StarCraft bot. We observe improvements in win rates against several strong community bots.
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