Brood War Solved via Self-Play RL by a 300M Parameter Model, Researcher Announces
jsuarez · x · 2026-09-26
Researcher jsuarez (syhw) says his quest begun in 2016—to solve StarCraft: Brood War with self-play RL from scratch—has been completed, by a model with only 300M parameters. Unlike the massive AlphaStar effort for StarCraft II, this project emphasizes pure from-scratch self-play, marking a notable milestone for small-scale RL agents.
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