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Training an RL agent in MVP Baseball to hit fucking bombs

MVP Baseball 2004, the greatest game on earth.

Home run derby really solid environment for RL potential since we can easily do

  • Episode = A pitch
  • Score = Distance of ball
  • Vision for timing
  • etc

After 19 hours training (likely bottknecked by vision and I didn’t bother to mess with run time speed) our agent had it’s first successful win against the computer on hardest difficulty