Summary of Navix: Scaling Minigrid Environments with Jax, by Eduardo Pignatelli et al.
NAVIX: Scaling MiniGrid Environments with JAX
by Eduardo Pignatelli, Jarek Liesen, Robert Tjarko Lange, Chris Lu, Pablo Samuel Castro, Laura Toni
First submitted to arxiv on: 28 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces NAVIX, a re-implementation of the MiniGrid environment in JAX, designed to overcome the limitations of existing environments that struggle to scale to high throughput. The authors highlight the importance of efficient environment simulations for rapid experimentation in Deep Reinforcement Learning (Deep RL) research. They demonstrate NAVIX’s capabilities by achieving over 200 000x speed improvements in batch mode, supporting up to 2048 agents in parallel on a single Nvidia A100 80 GB. This significant speedup reduces experiment times from one week to 15 minutes, promoting faster design iterations and more scalable RL model development. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper creates a new environment called NAVIX that makes it possible for machines to learn quickly by doing many things at the same time. Right now, this isn’t very fast because it’s limited by the computer’s processing power. The researchers made a special version of MiniGrid using JAX and tested how well it works. They found that NAVIX is much faster than before – 200,000 times faster! This means scientists can test ideas much quicker and make new discoveries more easily. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Reinforcement learning
