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Reevaluating Policy Gradient Methods for Imperfect-Information Games

2025-02-13 · Max Rudolph, Nathan Lichtle, Sobhan Mohammadpour, Alexandre Bayen, J. Zico Kolter, Amy Zhang, Gabriele Farina, Eugene Vinitsky, Samuel Sokota

In the past decade, motivated by the putative failure of naive self-play deep reinforcement learning (DRL) in adversarial imperfect-information games, researchers have developed numerous DRL algorithms based on fictitious play (FP), double oracle (DO), and counterfactual regret minimization (CFR). In light of recent results of the magnetic mirror descent algorithm, we hypothesize that simpler generic policy gradient methods like PPO are competitive with or superior to these FP, DO, and CFR-based DRL approaches. To facilitate the resolution of this hypothesis, we implement and release the first broadly accessible exact exploitability computations for four large games. Using these games, we conduct the largest-ever exploitability comparison of DRL algorithms for imperfect-information games. Over 5600 training runs, FP, DO, and CFR-based approaches fail to outperform generic policy gradient methods. Code is available at https://github.com/nathanlct/IIG-RL-Benchmark and https://github.com/gabrfarina/exp-a-spiel .

📄 PDF Abstract BibTeX arXiv:2502.08938

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gabrfarina/exp-a-spiel 공식 구현 pytorch
nathanlct/iig-rl-benchmark 공식 구현 jax

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counterfactualDeep Reinforcement LearningPolicy Gradient Methods

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