Available environments during training

NeurIPS 2019 : MineRL Competition
#1

Can we use other environments (such as Treechop) to train the agent before training on the Diamond env?

#2

Absolutely! During training, all MineRL environments are available (and steps in those environments are counted in the 8 million step limit just like steps in MineRLObtainDiamond-v0)

Just remember for evaluation, your agent will only be scored in MineRLObtainDiamond-v0 and other environments will not be available

#3

@BrandonHoughton In other words, during the training stage, we can use >>> 8M step in other’s environments, besides the MineRLObtainDiamond-v0.

For example, we can use 10 million step in Treechop, and we can use 20 million step on MineRLObtainIronPickaxe-v0,… etc, and we just make sure that step in ObtainDiamond-v0 < 8 million?

Is it correct? Thanks

#6

@weel2019 I believe this is not the case. The total number of steps, no matter what environment you use to train your agent, should not exceed 8M steps, if I understood Brandon’s comment correctly.

#7

Thanks, @jazzpiano3 From the rule，it’s 8M total (for all the environments). I thinks i would have misunderstood about above info.

#8

I checked the starter_kit. The parser always checks if the environment is “ObtainDiamond”. Are we allowed to modify that part in order to train on other envs?

#9

All environments are available for training! For testing the parser will fix the environment to MineRLObtainDiamond-v0

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