Learning Atari Game strategies using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Mentor: Dr. Piyush Rai, IITK

Stretch: Oct’16 - Nov’16

Complete Project: Deep Reinforcement Learning

Created an AI agent which learnt to play a number of Atari Games and defeated Atari hard-coded AIs, using same set of hyper parameters. Implemented Q Learning algorithm described in seminal papers by Google Deepmind and used a Convolutional Double Dueling Deep Neural Q-network to approximate the Q value function. Used Bellman Equation and followed deep policy network based approach to implement Monte Carlo policy gradients.