MushroomRL: Simplifying Reinforcement Learning Research

TL;DR

MushroomRL is an open-source Python library designed to streamline reinforcement learning research by providing a comprehensive, flexible framework that simplifies implementing and testing new RL algorithms and experiments.

Contribution

It introduces a modular, user-friendly library that reduces effort in RL experimentation, focusing on ease of use and comprehensive component coverage.

Findings

Facilitates rapid RL experimentation and testing

Reduces implementation effort for novel RL algorithms

Provides extensive tutorials and documentation

Abstract

MushroomRL is an open-source Python library developed to simplify the process of implementing and running Reinforcement Learning (RL) experiments. Compared to other available libraries, MushroomRL has been created with the purpose of providing a comprehensive and flexible framework to minimize the effort in implementing and testing novel RL methodologies. Indeed, the architecture of MushroomRL is built in such a way that every component of an RL problem is already provided, and most of the time users can only focus on the implementation of their own algorithms and experiments. The result is a library from which RL researchers can significantly benefit in the critical phase of the empirical analysis of their works. MushroomRL stable code, tutorials and documentation can be found at https://github.com/MushroomRL/mushroom-rl.