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Learn Unity ML-Agents - Fundamentals of Unity Machine Learning

By : Micheal Lanham

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Learn Unity ML-Agents - Fundamentals of Unity Machine Learning

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By: Micheal Lanham

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Overview of this book

Unity Machine Learning agents allow researchers and developers to create games and simulations using the Unity Editor, which serves as an environment where intelligent agents can be trained with machine learning methods through a simple-to-use Python API. This book takes you from the basics of Reinforcement and Q Learning to building Deep Recurrent Q-Network agents that cooperate or compete in a multi-agent ecosystem. You will start with the basics of Reinforcement Learning and how to apply it to problems. Then you will learn how to build self-learning advanced neural networks with Python and Keras/TensorFlow. From there you move o n to more advanced training scenarios where you will learn further innovative ways to train your network with A3C, imitation, and curriculum learning models. By the end of the book, you will have learned how to build more complex environments by building a cooperative and competitive multi-agent ecosystem.

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Introducing Machine Learning and ML-Agents

Machine Learning

ML-Agents

Running a sample

Creating an environment

Academy, Agent, and Brain

Summary

The Bandit and Reinforcement Learning

Reinforcement Learning

Contextual bandits and state

Exploration and exploitation

MDP and the Bellman equation

Q-Learning and connected agents

Exercises

Summary

Deep Reinforcement Learning with Python

Installing Python and tools

ML-Agents external brains

Neural network foundations

Deep Q-learning

Proximal policy optimization

Exercises

Summary

Going Deeper with Deep Learning

Agent training problems

Convolutional neural networks

Experience replay

Partial observability, memory, and recurrent networks

Asynchronous actor – critic training

Exercises

Summary

Playing the Game

Multi-agent environments

Adversarial self-play

Decisions and On-Demand Decision Making

Imitation learning

Curriculum Learning

Exercises

Summary

Terrarium Revisited – A Multi-Agent Ecosystem

What was/is Terrarium?

Building the Agent ecosystem

Basic Terrarium – Plants and Herbivores

Carnivore: the hunter

Next steps

Exercises

Summary

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Exercises

"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."

– Aritstotle

Be sure to complete the following questions or exercises on your own:

Extend the bandit cube maze in the last section with your own design. Make sure to keep all the cubes connected so that the agent has a clear path to the end.
Think of another problem in gaming, simulation, or otherwise, where you could use RL and the Q-Learning algorithm to help an agent learn to solve this problem. This is just a thought exercise, but give yourself a huge pat on the back if you build a demo.
Add new properties for the Exploration Epsilon minimum and the amount of change per decision step. Remember, these are the parameters we hard-coded in order to decrease the epsilon-greedy exploration value.
Add the ability to show the Q values on the individual BanditCube objects. If...