This repository exists as a quick starting point to setup your own repository that uses the AI-Toolbox library. This is what I use myself so hopefully it should help you as well.

It is for Linux only!

This repository is meant to be copied rather than cloned (or at least, once you clone it, you should change the git remote to what you plan to use for your own work). For this reason, I generally update this repository using force-push rather than normal commits. Just a warning.

This repository uses CMake as the build framework; this allows it to seamlessly integrate with the CMake setup of AI-Toolbox.

Using this setup repository has the same requirements of AI-Toolbox (obviously, since that's what it is meant to use). You can look them up on the project's main page.

The DO_ME_FIRST.sh script does all the setup work for you; you can either read it and do what it says, or just execute it (run chmod +x ./DO_ME_FIRST.sh). It basically:

• Detaches your clone of this repository from this remote.
• Initializes the git submodules so that AI-Toolbox can be added.
• Adds AI-Toolbox as a submodule into the deps/ folder (this automatically clones it as well).

This project contains the setup I generally use to produce my own research, so it is quite opinionated as it is basically my workflow. You are welcome to change it if it doesn't suit you.

The main entry point is the src/CMakeLists.txt file. It contains predefined functions (AddExperimentMDP, AddExperimentPOMDP and AddExperimentFMDP) which are used to create new executables.

These assume that the files to compile are in the form of {name}_main.cpp. If you do not want to follow this, either modify the CMakeList file to suit you, or rewrite it from scratch however you prefer.

An example experiment file already exists in the src/ folder, and it is already setup to compile if you want to check that everything is working correctly.

Compile the project (please keep the name the build folder build as the experiment running/plotting code expects it like that).

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

The resulting executables are placed in the build/src folder, and you can call them manually from there or do whatever you want with them.

However, this repository also contains, in the plot/ folder, some utilities for parallel experiment running with multiple flags.

FEEL FREE TO DISREGARD THE ENTIRE THING IF IT IS TOO MESSY OR YOU DO NOT NEED IT. It is just what I usually use.

If you are interested in using this system, please read the README.md file in the plot/ folder.