AI learns to Speedrun QWOP (1:08) using Machine Learning

AI bot learns to play QWOP like a human and achieves a top 10 speedrun (1m 8s). Trained using Reinforcement Learning and Imitation Learning. Writeup: https://towardsdatascience.com/achieving-human-level-performance-in-qwop-using-reinforcement-learning-and-imitation-learning-81b0a9bbac96 Github repo: https://github.com/Wesleyliao/QWOP-RL Papers mentioned: - Sample Efficient Actor-Critic with Experience Replay https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.01224.pdf - Deep Q-learning from Demonstrations https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.03732.pdf Kurodo's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLxJfj_Dq8Ks89tUVR3z7ug QWOP speedrun leaderboard: https://www.speedrun.com/qwop#100_Meter