If you’d like to dive in right away, you can work through our tutorial⁠(opens in a new window). You can also help out while learning by reproducing a result⁠(opens in a new window).

Reinforcement learning (RL) is the subfield of machine learning concerned with decision making and motor control. It studies how an agent can learn how to achieve goals in a complex, uncertain environment. It’s exciting for two reasons:

OpenAI Gym provides a diverse suite of environments that range from easy to difficult and involve many different kinds of data. We’re starting out with the following collections:

Over time, we plan to greatly expand this collection of environments. Contributions from the community are more than welcome.