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davechurchill / StarcraftAITournamentManager

Tournament Manager Software for StarCraft AI Competitions
MIT License
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support of machine learning library #20

Closed sijiaxu closed 6 years ago

sijiaxu commented 6 years ago

because it is much more efficient to use other language(ie. python) to write some machine learning code on top of some library(ie. tensorflow), but the official AIIDE tournament machine seems do not support such python library. so I has several questions:

  1. do you have plan to do such things in future?
  2. is the submitted AI folder has space limitation? for example, can i put a pre-config python version in the AI folder which may occupy about 30m.
  3. other recommended alternative?

@davechurchill @richard-kelly

Thanks

davechurchill commented 6 years ago

Nothing stops you from running machine learning software on any of the client machines. In fact, we supported it for the tournament this year - we just don't include those libraries with the tournament software since it would be too difficult to keep track of all the different libraries. Once you install the libraries on the machine, just modify the bot launch batch file to run whatever python you need on the client machine and it should work just fine.

sijiaxu commented 6 years ago

ok，do you mean I should submit the bot with a pre-configured python version which can install on the tournament machine only once? By the way, which bot this year used this pre-install function?

davechurchill commented 6 years ago

You write the code - we will provide the libraries. So you would say "this program requires python 3.6.x and tensorflow installed" and we will install those libraries

sijiaxu commented 6 years ago

oh，that's great! Thanks

davechurchill commented 6 years ago

If you look at the 'compete' page on the website: http://www.cs.mun.ca/~dchurchill/starcraftaicomp/compete.shtml

It says your submission must include:

"A readme file containing compilation instructions, including any environment variables or external libraries (boost, etc) used in your bot, with links to the official download pages for those libraries (we will have the latest version of boost and all versions of BWAPI installed)"

So as long as you tell us with your submission which libraries or software packages you need, and you give us an official release version to run, it's fine.