Are there any online competitions for Reinforcement Learning?

Question

Kaggle is limited to only supervised learning problems. There used to be www.rl-competition.org but they've stopped.

Is there anything else I can do other than locally trying out different algorithms for various RL problems?

Answer 1

AICrowd has numerous challenges in the domain, with some very interesting challenges running currently. Here is a short list:

• https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges?&categories=reinforcement-learning (Complete list with RL tag)
• https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/neurips-2020-procgen-competition
• https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/neurips-2020-flatland-challenge
• https://www.aicrowd.com/challenges/neurips-2019-minerl-competition

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

There's a list of ongoing and past RL competitions here. The ongoing competitions according to that list are

• AWS DeepRacer League
• Connect X
• GOSEEK Challenge

Answer 3

Kaggle recently started adding 'Simulation' competitions, which are well-suited for reinforcement learning.

The first competition that's live (no prizes) is ConnectX, like a generalised Connect Four.

The first competition with prize money is likely to be the next iteration of TwoSigma's Halite. There's a page for it here, but it hasn't been launched yet: https://www.kaggle.com/c/halite/overview

I created a site that lists ongoing machine learning competitions including Reinforcement Learning competitions - you can also sign up to the email list in case you want to get emails (roughly monthly) when new competitions launch. As of right now (May 2020) there are a few live RL competitions on there - the KDD cup, and AWS DeepRacer.

Answer 4

OpenAI has leaderboards for their gym-environments, if you want to compete with other people on runtime and efficiency.