DeepMind Lab

DeepMind Lab is a remarkable 3D learning environment based on id Software's Quake III Arena. It offers a diverse suite of challenging 3D navigation and puzzle-solving tasks, making it an ideal testbed for artificial intelligence research, particularly in the field of deep reinforcement learning. The platform provides various features and capabilities that facilitate both human testing and agent training. For instance, users can run a live example of a random agent and print the values of observations at every step. It also ships with an example random agent in Python, which can serve as a starting point for implementing a learning agent. The Python API is used for agent-environment interactions, and bindings to DeepMind's "dm_env" general API for reinforcement learning are provided. Additionally, DeepMind Lab comes with different levels implementing various tasks that can be configured using Lua scripts. The platform is built from the ioquake3 game engine and utilizes tools like q3map2 and bspc for map creation. It depends on several external software libraries, and specific instructions are provided for getting started on Linux. Overall, DeepMind Lab is a valuable resource for researchers in the field of AI.