Facebook AI Researchers Achieve a 107x Speedup for Training Virtual Agents

Originally published at: Facebook AI Researchers Achieve a 107x Speedup for Training Virtual Agents | NVIDIA Technical Blog

Navigating a new indoor space without any prior knowledge or even a map is a challenging task for a human, let alone a robot.  To help develop intelligent machines that interact more effectively with complex 3D environments, Facebook researchers developed a GPU-accelerated deep reinforcement learning model that achieves near 100 percent success in navigating a variety…