This work introduces JSON-Bag VF, a game-agnostic approach to training value functions for game-playing agents using JSON-Bag prototypes that can be enhanced with Random Forest-based feature selection and a method to select game-stage-specific features.
Abstract
JSON Bag-of-Tokens (JSON-Bag) is a recently proposed method to generically represent game trajectories by tokenizing their JSON descriptions. We introduce JSON-Bag VF, a game-agnostic approach to training value functions for game-playing agents using JSON-Bag prototypes. We show that this approach can be enhanced with Random Forest-based feature selection and a method to select game-stage-specific features. We evaluate JSON-Bag VF with One-step-look-ahead (JSON-Bag OSLA) on six tabletop games over different combinations of prototype-tokenization and feature selections. JSON-Bag OSLA outperforms baseline OSLA agents in most games. Our analysis also shows that feature selection significantly improves JSON-Bag VF and that feature selection is the most important factor in JSON-Bag VF performance, over prototype-tokenization.
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