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| author | Liu, Tian Cann, Alex Colbert, Ian Saeedi, Mehdi |
| author_facet | Liu, Tian Cann, Alex Colbert, Ian Saeedi, Mehdi |
| contents | While the rapid advancements in the reinforcement learning (RL) research community have been remarkable, the adoption in commercial video games remains slow. In this paper, we outline common challenges the Game AI community faces when using RL-driven NPCs in practice, and highlight the intersection of RL with traditional behavior trees (BTs) as a crucial juncture to be explored further. Although the BT+RL intersection has been suggested in several research papers, its adoption is rare. We demonstrate the viability of this approach using AMD Schola -- a plugin for training RL agents in Unreal Engine -- by creating multi-task NPCs in a complex 3D environment inspired by the commercial video game ``The Last of Us". We provide detailed methodologies for jointly training RL models with BTs while showcasing various skills. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Combining Reinforcement Learning and Behavior Trees for NPCs in Video Games with AMD Schola Liu, Tian Cann, Alex Colbert, Ian Saeedi, Mehdi Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning While the rapid advancements in the reinforcement learning (RL) research community have been remarkable, the adoption in commercial video games remains slow. In this paper, we outline common challenges the Game AI community faces when using RL-driven NPCs in practice, and highlight the intersection of RL with traditional behavior trees (BTs) as a crucial juncture to be explored further. Although the BT+RL intersection has been suggested in several research papers, its adoption is rare. We demonstrate the viability of this approach using AMD Schola -- a plugin for training RL agents in Unreal Engine -- by creating multi-task NPCs in a complex 3D environment inspired by the commercial video game ``The Last of Us". We provide detailed methodologies for jointly training RL models with BTs while showcasing various skills. |
| title | Combining Reinforcement Learning and Behavior Trees for NPCs in Video Games with AMD Schola |
| topic | Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14154 |