README.md

DotaClient on K8s

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DotaClient is a reinforcement learning system to train RL agents to play Dota 2 through self-play.

• Video: (Youtube) 1v1 self play, 9 Mar 2019, uses fountain for regen!.
• Video: (Youtube) 1v1 self play, 29 jan 2019.

This is built upon the DotaService project, that exposes the game of Dota2 as a (grpc) service for synchronous play.

• Distributed Agents self-playing Dota 2.
• Experience/Model Broker (rmq).
• Distributed Optimizer (PyTorch)

Prerequisites

• Kubeflow's PyTorch Operator
• Kubernetes Cluster (e.g. GKE).
• Build the dota docker image
• Build the dotaservice docker image
• Build the rabbitmq docker image
• Install ksonnet

Launch distributed dota training

cd ks-app
ks show default  # Shows the full manifest
ks param list  # Lists all parameters
ks apply default  # Launches everything you need

Note: A typical job has 40 agents per optimizer. One optimizer does around 1000 steps/s.