{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/recurrent-environment-simulators","title":"Recurrent Environment Simulators","arxiv_id":"1704.02254","date":"2017-04-07","proceeding":null,"authors":["Silvia Chiappa","Sébastien Racaniere","Daan Wierstra","Shakir Mohamed"],"abstract":"Models that can simulate how environments change in response to actions can\nbe used by agents to plan and act efficiently. We improve on previous\nenvironment simulators from high-dimensional pixel observations by introducing\nrecurrent neural networks that are able to make temporally and spatially\ncoherent predictions for hundreds of time-steps into the future. We present an\nin-depth analysis of the factors affecting performance, providing the most\nextensive attempt to advance the understanding of the properties of these\nmodels. We address the issue of computationally inefficiency with a model that\ndoes not need to generate a high-dimensional image at each time-step. We show\nthat our approach can be used to improve exploration and is adaptable to many\ndiverse environments, namely 10 Atari games, a 3D car racing environment, and\ncomplex 3D mazes.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1704.02254v2","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.02254v2.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"recurrent-environment-simulators","repo_url":"https://github.com/fomorians/forward-models","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"tf","reach":{"status":"unanswered"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"atari-games","task_name":"Atari Games"},{"task_slug":"car-racing","task_name":"Car Racing"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":"https://app.syntology.ai/?focus=1704.02254","mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}