Section: New Software and Platforms

TorchCraft

Machine learning framework for games

Functional Description

TorchCraft is a library that enables deep learning research on Real-Time Strategy (RTS) games such as StarCraft: Brood War, by making it easier to control these games from a machine learning framework, here Torch. This white paper argues for using RTS games as a benchmark for AI research, and describes the design and components of TorchCraft.

• Participants: Gabriel Synnaeve, Nantas Nardelli, Alex Auvolat, Soumith Chintala, Timothée Lacroix, Zeming Lin, Florian Richoux, Nicolas Usunier

• Contact: Florian Richoux

• URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.00625