README.md

Reinforcement Learning 2048

An AI BOT playing game 2048 by using reinforcement learning

Overview

Demo

The Elements of 2048 Reinforcement Learning problem

• Objective: Get the highest score / max tile. i.e. Live as long as it can while maintaining good board state.

• State: An 4x4 grid with numbers of tiles in value of power of 2.
• Action: Shift board UP, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT
• Reward: Increment of score or score with other metrics.

Usage

Dependencies

• tensorflow
• numpy
• pyyaml

Basic Game Play

$ python3 RL2048/Game/Play.py
Play mode:
1. Keyboard (use w, a, s, d, exit with ^C or ^D)
2. Random

 select:

• Keyboard mode
• Random mode

Training model

$ python3 RL2048/Learning/backward.py

• TRAIN_MODE.NORMAL: Normal training process
  • Use only NN itself
• TRAIN_MODE.WITH_RANDOM
  • With a little chance to move randomly

Statistics Report

$ python3 RL2048/Report/Statistics.py

• Success Rate of Tiles
• Scores Diagram
• Loss Diagram (TODO)

Default file locations

• Model (ckpt): ./model
• Last game status: training_game.yaml
• Training log: training.log
• Statistics report: ./report/StatisticsResult.md

If you have trouble that can't find RL2048 module. (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'RL2048')

You sould make sure your workspace is in the main directory of this project. Then execute code like this.

export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:/path/to/this/project/ReinforcementLearning2048; python3 RL2048/Learning/backward.py

Or add the following lines to every top of the codes.

import sys
sys.path.append('/path/to/this/project/ReinforcementLearning2048')

Policy Gradient

Heuristic: Artificial Intelligence: How many artifact, how many intelligence!

Epsilon Decay

With a decaly probability that take control by "Teacher".

Random

Traditonal Tree-search algorithm

The Monte Carlo tree search algorithm

• Monotonicity
• Smoothness
• Free Tiles
• Z-shape

(Minimax search with alpha-beta pruning)

Result of Policy Gradient

We found that Policy Gradient is not a good approach for 2048.

The main point is 2048 has a "local confort zone". That sometimes you need to take a negative action to move since the direction that you desired is invalid.

Problems

• Network is too stupid that it keep taking invalid aciton. = =
• Loss become too small and it seems that Network learned nothing in the first 100 round. -> Too small problem solved. But still learned nothing.

MCTS Policy Gradient

Random Policy Gradient

idea:

• Use Random build a history and use DQN to observe the pattern.
• Use MCTS build a experience history, then teach DQN how to play directly.

Deep Q-Learning (DQN)

Improvement/Adjustment

1. Grid preprocessing
   • one-hot
2. Feed a batch of status-action pair
3. Loss function
4. Q-Learning gamma
5. Experience

Notes

• Reinforcement Learning Notes
• There is a more elegant way to store a class object in yaml format by defining it as a subclass of yaml.YAMLObject. (PyYAML Documentation - Constructors, representers, resolvers section)

Links

Similar Project

Use Machine Learning

• tjwei/2048-NN - Max tile 16384, 94% win rate
• georgwiese/2048-rl
  • slides
• nneonneo/2048-ai
• SergioIommi/DQN-2048 - with Keras
• navjindervirdee/2048-deep-reinforcement-learning - Max tile 4096, 10% win rate

Use Traditional AI

• daviddwlee84/2048-AI-BOT - This was me and my friend Tom attending AI competition in 2014.
• ovolve/2048-AI - 90% win rate
  • demo
• jdleesmiller/twenty48
  • Blog
    • The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States with Combinatorics
    • The Mathematics of 2048: Counting States by Exhaustive Enumeration
    • The Mathematics of 2048: Optimal Play with Markov Decision Processes
    • The Mathematics of 2048: Minimum Moves to Win with Markov Chains

Simple Game Play

• Python
  • yangshun/2048-python
  • luliyucoordinate/Python2048
• JavaScript
  • gabrielecirulli/2048 - almost 10k stars
    • demo
  • GetMIT

Article and Paper

• Stackoverflow - What is the optimal algorithm for the game 2048?
• MIT - Deep Reinforcement Learning for 2048
• Reddit - TDL, N-Tuple Network - 97% win rate
  • paper
  • demo
• Stanford - AI Plays 2048

AlphaGo

• DeepMind - AlphaGo Zero: Learning from scratch
• AlphaGo Zero Explained In One Diagram
• How to build your own AlphaZero AI using Python and Keras

Others

• Key listener in Python