Computer Science Extended Essay

"How effective are different configurations of a neural network in playing space invaders?"

Summer 2023 to Spring 2024

The Extended Essay is the culminating project that IB Diploma students start in their first year and finish in the second year. Students can research and write up to 4000 words on a subject of their choice, from theatre to history. For my Extended Essay, I chose to do my own experiment and wrote about reinforcement learning models.

I tested different shapes of neural networks and their effectiveness in playing Atari Space Invaders. I used Python and TensorFlow to make the machine learning models and OpenAI Gym for the game environment.

You can read my report here: