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		joshdance on Nov 20, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Our NIPS 2017 “Learning to Run” Approach Had the same thought. :) I wonder if anyone has done a challenge using that game which has simpler inputs I believe?

qwert7890 on Nov 20, 2017 [–]

Simplest RL algorithm (Q-learning) achieves 100m in QWOP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e27TUmMkOA0

Although it found and exploited a local maximum of "knee scraping" technique (which humans can replicate) :)

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