ENT-00002757 · Benchmark

ALE Centipede

ALE Centipede is a reinforcement learning environment associated with Arcade Learning Environment.

Level V — PersistentActiveDocumented

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Overview

ALE Centipede is an Atari 2600 environment within the Arcade Learning Environment. It is used as a reinforcement learning benchmark task for evaluating agents under visual observation, reward feedback and sequential decision-making constraints.

Timeline

2013Public release or documentation
ALE Centipede appears in public documentation, project records, benchmark descriptions or research references associated with Arcade Learning Environment.

Capabilities

Evaluation protocol documentationModel comparison supportTask taxonomy mappingReproducible benchmark anchoringRelationship graph compatibility

Known limitations

Benchmark results can become stale as models improve and evaluation protocols evolve.A benchmark measures a defined task scope rather than complete intelligence.

Technical and registry detail

Technical description

Structured record for ALE Centipede. The technical layer identifies the entity type, classification, creator or organization, official source anchor, capabilities, limitations, timeline entries and graph relationships without adding internal import events to the public history.

Controlled tags

BenchmarkReinforcement LearningAtariAgent Evaluation

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ALE Centipede

Associated organizationArcade Learning Environment

Arcade Learning Environment is the organization, project community or institutional context associated with ALE Centipede.

Domain contextReinforcement learning evaluation

ALE Centipede belongs to the Reinforcement learning evaluation layer of the intelligent-entity registry.

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