The easiest thing to do is probably use A* to find the solution, then imitation learning on the NN to learn it. (The immediate feedback gets rid of the vanishing/exploding gradients problem).
> How to submit? Make a pull request with your player, assumed performance and (short) description. I'll then re-run training and evaluation (with a random seed) and add the result to the leader board.
> Why 1000 neurons? Since It Takes Two Neurons To Ride a Bicycle, I decided that 1000 neurons should be more than enough to solve such a simple task.
Love it. The winning design is using handcrafted weights already.
The easiest thing to do is probably use A* to find the solution, then imitation learning on the NN to learn it. (The immediate feedback gets rid of the vanishing/exploding gradients problem).
> How to submit? Make a pull request with your player, assumed performance and (short) description. I'll then re-run training and evaluation (with a random seed) and add the result to the leader board.
> Why 1000 neurons? Since It Takes Two Neurons To Ride a Bicycle, I decided that 1000 neurons should be more than enough to solve such a simple task.
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