Inducing game rules from varying quality game play

08/04/2020
by   Alastair Flynn, et al.
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General Game Playing (GGP) is a framework in which an artificial intelligence program is required to play a variety of games successfully. It acts as a test bed for AI and motivator of research. The AI is given a random game description at runtime which it then plays. The framework includes repositories of game rules. The Inductive General Game Playing (IGGP) problem challenges machine learning systems to learn these GGP game rules by watching the game being played. In other words, IGGP is the problem of inducing general game rules from specific game observations. Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) has shown to be a promising approach to this problem though it has been demonstrated that it is still a hard problem for ILP systems. Existing work on IGGP has always assumed that the game player being observed makes random moves. This is not representative of how a human learns to play a game. With random gameplay situations that would normally be encountered when humans play are not present. To address this limitation, we analyse the effect of using intelligent versus random gameplay traces as well as the effect of varying the number of traces in the training set. We use Sancho, the 2014 GGP competition winner, to generate intelligent game traces for a large number of games. We then use the ILP systems, Metagol, Aleph and ILASP to induce game rules from the traces. We train and test the systems on combinations of intelligent and random data including a mixture of both. We also vary the volume of training data. Our results show that whilst some games were learned more effectively in some of the experiments than others no overall trend was statistically significant. The implications of this work are that varying the quality of training data as described in this paper has strong effects on the accuracy of the learned game rules; however one solution does not work for all games.

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