An agent capable of learning to play the game of Q*bert designed for ECSE-526 Artificial Intelligence.
To compile the agent program, run the make command from the top-level directory. This will generate the agent.exe program. Note that this requires the Arcade Learning Environment to be installed, and only the g++ compiler is supported.
To run the agent program, execute ./agent.exe. This will run the subsumption-v2 agent with an inverse_proportional exploration policy and a seed of 123. To change the seed, use the -s <random_seed> argument. To enable the game display, use the -x flag. For a full list of possible arguments, use the -h flag.
The learning parameters for each (agent, exploration policy) pair are stored in the params/ directory. These parameters are loaded on start-up and saved after every episode. In addition, the results of a run are stored in the results/ directory. To reset the agent's utilities, simply delete the corresponding parameter files.