mini-AlphaStar

Update

This is the "v_1.02" version, and the updates are as follows:

Add relu after each downsampling conv2d in spatial encoder;
Change the bias of most conv and convtranspose from False to True (if not has a bn after or in 3rd lib);
Add "masked by the missing entries" in entity_encoder;
Formalized a lib function to be used: unit_tpye_to_unit_type_index;
Fix a TODO in calculate_unit_counts_bow() by unit_tpye_to_unit_type_index();
Change back to use All_Units_Size equals to all unit_type_index;
Add scatter entities map in spatial_encoder;

Introduction

We release the mini-AlphaStar project, which is a mini source version of the original AlphaStar program. AlphaStar is an intelligent AI proposed by DeepMind to play StarCraft II. StarCraft II is an RTS game developed by Blizzard.

"mini" means that we make the original AlphaStar hyperparameter adjustable so that it can run on a small scale.

The readme for the Chinese version is at here.

The below table shows the corresponding packages in the project.

Packages	Content
alphastarmini.core.arch	the alphaStar architecture
alphastarmini.core.sl	surpervised learning
alphastarmini.core.rl	reinforcement learning
alphastarmini.core.ma	multi-agent league traning
alphastarmini.lib	lib functions
alphastarmini.third	third party functions
res	other useful resources

Requirements

Pytorch >= 1.5, others please see requirements.txt.

Location

The codes are in these places:

Location	URL
Github	https://github.com/liuruoze/mini-AlphaStar
Gitee	https://gitee.com/liuruoze/mini-AlphaStar

Furture

There are still some todos (very few) that need to be filled up and improved.

Citing

If you find this repository useful, please cite our project:

@misc{mini-AlphaStar,
  author = {Ruo{-}Ze Liu and Wenhai Wang and Yang Yu and Tong Lu},
  title = {mini-AlphaStar},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {GitHub},
  journal = {GitHub repository},
  howpublished = {\url{https://github.com/liuruoze/mini-AlphaStar}},
}

Report

The technical report is now on arxiv named as An Introduction of mini-AlphaStar.

We will give two to three updates for the report, to make it more complete and clear.

If you find this report useful, please cite the report:

@misc{report_mini-AlphaStar,
      title={An Introduction of mini-AlphaStar}, 
      author={Ruo-Ze Liu and Wenhai Wang and Yanjie Shen and Zhiqi Li and Yang Yu and Tong Lu},
      year={2021},
      journal={CoRR},
      eprint={2104.06890},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
}

Paper

We will give a paper which may be available in the future presenting the experiments and evaluations on using it.

wwxFromTju/mini-AlphaStar