{"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/rethinking-of-alphastar","title":"Rethinking of AlphaStar","arxiv_id":"2108.03452","date":"2021-08-07","proceeding":null,"authors":["Ruo-Ze Liu"],"abstract":"We present a different view for AlphaStar (AS), the program achieving Grand-Master level in the game StarCraft II. It is considered big progress for AI research. However, in this paper, we present problems with the AS, some of which are the defects of it, and some of which are important details that are neglected in its article. These problems arise two questions. One is that what can we get from the built of AS? The other is that does the battle between it with humans fair? After the discussion, we present the future research directions for these problems. Our study is based on a reproduction code of the AS, and the codes are available online.","url_abs":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.03452v3","url_pdf":"https://arxiv.org/pdf/2108.03452v3.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":"rethinking-of-alphastar","repo_url":"https://github.com/liuruoze/Raw-vs-Human-in-AlphaStar","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null},{"paper_slug":"rethinking-of-alphastar","repo_url":"https://github.com/liuruoze/mini-AlphaStar","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"pytorch","reach":{"status":"ok","spdx":"Apache-2.0"}}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"starcraft","task_name":"Starcraft"},{"task_slug":"starcraft-ii","task_name":"Starcraft II"}],"methods":[{"method_slug":"1x1-convolution","method_name":"1x1 Convolution"},{"method_slug":"absolute-position-encodings","method_name":"Absolute Position Encodings"},{"method_slug":"accumulating-eligibility-trace","method_name":"Accumulating Eligibility Trace"},{"method_slug":"adam","method_name":"Adam"},{"method_slug":"alphastar","method_name":"AlphaStar"},{"method_slug":"attention","method_name":"Attention"},{"method_slug":"average-pooling","method_name":"Average Pooling"},{"method_slug":"bpe","method_name":"BPE"},{"method_slug":"batch-normalization","method_name":"Batch Normalization"},{"method_slug":"bottleneck-residual-block","method_name":"Bottleneck Residual Block"},{"method_slug":"convolution","method_name":"Convolution"},{"method_slug":"dense-connections","method_name":"Dense Connections"},{"method_slug":"dropout","method_name":"Dropout"},{"method_slug":"feedforward-network","method_name":"Feedforward Network"},{"method_slug":"glu","method_name":"Gated Linear Unit"},{"method_slug":"global-average-pooling","method_name":"Global Average Pooling"},{"method_slug":"kaiming-initialization","method_name":"Kaiming Initialization"},{"method_slug":"lstm","method_name":"LSTM"},{"method_slug":"label-smoothing","method_name":"Label Smoothing"},{"method_slug":"layer-normalization","method_name":"Layer Normalization"},{"method_slug":"linear-layer","method_name":"Linear Layer"},{"method_slug":"max-pooling","method_name":"Max Pooling"},{"method_slug":"multi-head-attention","method_name":"Multi-Head Attention"},{"method_slug":"pointer-net","method_name":"Pointer Network"},{"method_slug":"position-wise-feed-forward-layer","method_name":"Position-Wise Feed-Forward Layer"},{"method_slug":"relu","method_name":"ReLU"},{"method_slug":"residual-block","method_name":"Residual Block"},{"method_slug":"residual-connection","method_name":"Residual Connection"},{"method_slug":"scatter-connection","method_name":"Scatter Connection"},{"method_slug":"sigmoid-activation","method_name":"Sigmoid Activation"},{"method_slug":"softmax","method_name":"Softmax"},{"method_slug":"td-lambda","method_name":"TD Lambda"},{"method_slug":"tanh-activation","method_name":"Tanh Activation"},{"method_slug":"transformer","method_name":"Transformer"},{"method_slug":"v-trace","method_name":"V-trace"}],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}