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A 178K Neural Net that beats Pokémon Roguelike
178K neural net beats Pokémon roguelike with clever 1386-dim state encoding.
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178K Parameter Neural Net That Wins Poke(rogue)like
by farcaster·Jun 4, 2026·4 points·0 comments
AI Analysis
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178K parameter model beats a Pokemon roguelike after the author rage-quit hundreds of times.
Strengths
- •178K parameters achieving Elite Four clears with PPO is impressively efficient.
- •Sparse vector state encoding with type-coverage hints shows thoughtful feature engineering.
Weaknesses
- •RL game agents are extremely common — countless similar projects exist.
- •9% success rate is modest and the game itself is a simple roguelike.
Category
Target Audience
RL hobbyists and game AI enthusiasts
Similar To
OpenAI Gym projects · Stable Baselines3 demos
Post Description
After losing hundreds of games of https://pokelike.xyz/ it occurred to me that the state space was small enough that maybe a small neural net trained with PPO could beat it somewhat consistently. After some reward engineering it works! The PPO-trained neural net can beat 9% of all runs all the way to the Elite Four!
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