Introducing ELF: An extensive, lightweight and flexible platform for game research

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Introduced ELF (Extensive, Lightweight, and Flexible) platform for game research, enabling AI model training in diverse game environments (board games, Atari, custom RTS). ELF supports high-performance computing with minimal resources (laptop with GPU), handles concurrency automatically, and offers a clean Python interface for batch processing of game states. It includes Mini-RTS, a fast RTS engine for research, and has shown faster simulation and training speeds than OpenAI Gym. The platform's architecture involves a C++ simulator communicating with Python AI models, with flexible pairing of game instances and actor models for rapid algorithm prototyping.