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OpenAI Baselines: DQN

We’re open-sourcing OpenAI Baselines, our internal effort to reproduce reinforcement learning algorithms with performanc...

Robots that learn

We’ve created a robotics system, trained entirely in simulation and deployed on a physical robot, which can learn a new...

Roboschool

We are releasing Roboschool: open-source software for robot simulation, integrated with OpenAI Gym.

Equivalence between policy gradients and soft Q-learning

Stochastic Neural Networks for hierarchical reinforcement learning

Unsupervised sentiment neuron

We’ve developed an unsupervised system which learns an excellent representation of sentiment, despite being trained only...

Spam detection in the physical world

We’ve created the world’s first Spam-detecting AI trained entirely in simulation and deployed on a physical robot.

Evolution strategies as a scalable alternative to reinforcement learning

We’ve discovered that evolution strategies (ES), an optimization technique that’s been known for decades, rivals the per...

One-shot imitation learning

Distill

We’re excited to support today’s launch of Distill, a new kind of journal aimed at excellent communication of machine le...

Learning to communicate

In this post we’ll outline new OpenAI research in which agents develop their own language.