We show that setting a reasonable frame skip can be critical to the performance of agents learning to play Atari 2600 games. In all of the six games in our experiments, frame skip is a strong determinant of success. For two of these games, setting a large frame skip leads to state-of-the-art performance.

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In AAAI-15 Workshop on Learning for General Competency in Video Games, 2015.

@inproceedings{braylan:aaai15ws, title={Frame Skip Is a Powerful Parameter for Learning to Play Atari}, author={Alexander Braylan and Mark Hollenbeck and Elliot Meyerson and Risto Miikkulainen}, booktitle={AAAI-15 Workshop on Learning for General Competency in Video Games}, url="http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/?braylan:aaai15ws", year={2015} }