OpenAI Gym

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"OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research company. Officially launched in December, this research group has a billion dollars in funding from InfoSys, Amazon Web Services, and several private donors....
OpenAI today is they just released the public beta of OpenAI Gym. This toolkit is used to develop and compare reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms

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OpenAI Gym offers these environments: Classic control, Toy text, Algorithmic, Atari(based on the Arcade Learning Environment), Board games, and 2D/3D robots."


"OpenAI Gym is compatible with algorithms written in any framework, such as Tensorflow and Theano. The environments are written in Python, but we'll soon make them easy to use from any language."

OpenAI Gym (tutorial)

"classic "agent-environment loop". Each timestep, the agent chooses an action, and the environment returns an observation and a reward."

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