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Multiprocessed Keras PPO bot playing Pong on OpenAI's gym

This code is a PPO implementation of a bot playing Atari Pong from game images

The net is written for Keras (using Tensorflow backend, but this is easily modified)

My bot plays in green (right)

Requirements

• Tensorflow (GPU)
• Numpy
• gym (Atari)
• multiprocessing
• matplotlib and ffmpeg or Pillow if you want to create gifs of the game

The code has only been tested with

• Python 3.7
• Tensorflow-gpu 1.13

How to begin the training

• Clone this repository: git clone https://github.com/CSautier/PongBot
• Launch the game: python PongBot.py

How to resume the training

Launch the game with the load option: python PongBot.py --load True

What to expect of the training

I've got a GTX 1060, and can run 5 processes at once. If your GPU has more memory than mine (3Gb) you can increase the number of processes: python PongBot.py --processes 10 (for instance). You will get the feeling of some progress in about an hour, but it takes approximately 2 hours until you actually win some games 4 to win all of them. It is difficult to evaluate the progress after that.

I get a Cuda Memory Error or OOM

This means your GPU is not powerful enough to run as many processes. Try launching the training with fewer processes: python PongBot.py --processes 2. If you still have this problem you should try the non-multiprocessing version, or you could force Keras to run the processes with a CPU (not recommanded and not tested).

I get a You need a pretrained net to do this

This means you are trying to load a pretrained weight without actually having one.

Useful resources

• https://openai.com/
• https://github.com/Grzego/async-rl
• https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06347.pdf

Feel free to use as much of this code as you want but mention my github if you found this useful.
For more information, you can contact me on my github.