Setting up the Cliff Walking Environment for Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Caleb M. Bowyer, Ph.D. Candidate
3 min readJan 12, 2023
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The OpenAI Gym’s Cliff Walking environment is a classic reinforcement learning task in which an agent must navigate a grid world to reach a goal state while avoiding falling off of a cliff. The Cliff Walking environment is another environment within the toy text environments in Gym.

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Caleb M. Bowyer, Ph.D. Candidate

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