Kirsten:DataStudy

In March of this year NAIL's Kirsten Richardson participated in a DSG (data study group) ran by the Alan Turing Institute. The DSG was in partnership with DSTL (the government's defence science and technology laboratory) and was the first DSG to be focused on a particular area of data science (in this case deep reinforcement learning) as well as the first DSG to be held virtually.

The DSG participants were divided into four teams and Kirsten was selected as the group facilitator for one of these four teams. The challenge was to use reinforcement learning and concepts from game theory to train multiple competing agents to play a computerised version of the military strategy game 'The Hunting of the Plark' developed by Montvieux specifically for AI test bedding and based on the eponymous paper game designed by John Salt at Cranfield University. DSTL were particularly interested in how well RL agents can perform when confronted with unfamiliar domain parameterisations and new opponents, and so a tournament was ran each day with a new game configuration. Results and trialled methods have been compiled into a report titled 'Multi-agent RL algorithm performance in unfamiliar domains' which can be found on the Alan Turing website here (to come).

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