Super Mario A-Star Agent Revisited

Since the first Mario AI Competition in 2009 where Mario AI Framework made a debut, there is a continuous interest to use the game and the framework for research in AI. Decent amount of these papers is using the A-Star algorithm along with the game forward model and some results are directly dependi...

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Main Authors: Sosvald, David, Topfer, Michal, Holan, Jan, Cerny, Vojtech, Gemrot, Jakub
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence
Backtracking
computational intelligence
Conferences
Games
intelligent agents
performance evaluation
Planning
Shape
software performance
Visualization
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Summary:Since the first Mario AI Competition in 2009 where Mario AI Framework made a debut, there is a continuous interest to use the game and the framework for research in AI. Decent amount of these papers is using the A-Star algorithm along with the game forward model and some results are directly depending on the quality of the best known A-Star-based agent by Robin Baumgarten. In this paper, we are revisiting and improving the implementation of Mario AI Framework's forward model by two orders of magnitude and also presenting a new A-Star-based agent that outperforms the current state-of-the-art agent by a large margin.
ISSN:2375-0197
DOI:10.1109/ICTAI52525.2021.00161