AI RESEARCH
PokeRL: Reinforcement Learning for Pokemon Red
arXiv CS.LG
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ArXi:2604.10812v1 Announce Type: new Pokemon Red is a long-horizon JRPG with sparse rewards, partial observability, and quirky control mechanics that make it a challenging benchmark for reinforcement learning. While recent work has shown that PPO agents can clear the first two gyms using heavy reward shaping and engineered observations