HUMAN & MACHINE INTELLIGENCE

RESEARCH

Forward Modeling for Partial Observation Strategy Games - A StarCraft Defogger

December 03, 2018

Abstract

We formulate the problem of defogging as state estimation and future state prediction from previous, partial observations in the context of real-time strategy games. We propose to employ encoder-decoder neural networks for this task, and introduce proxy tasks and baselines for evaluation to assess their ability of capturing basic game rules and high-level dynamics. By combining convolutional neural networks and recurrent networks, we exploit spatial and sequential correlations and train well-performing models on a large dataset of human games of StarCraft: Brood War. Finally, we demonstrate the relevance of our models to downstream tasks by applying them for enemy unit prediction in a state-of-the-art, rule-based StarCraft bot. We observe improvements in win rates against several strong community bots.

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AUTHORS

Written by

Gabriel Synnaeve

Daniel Gant

Jonas Gehring

Nicolas Carion

Nicolas Usunier

Vasil Khalidov

Vegard Mella

Zeming Lin

Publisher

NIPS

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