Submission

[achyutS1281]

Pacathon Submission

What is your team name?

Team Name: Achyut

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Who is on your team?

Name	BU Email	BU ID	GitHub Account
Achyut Shastri	shastria@bu.edu	U01696765	achyutS1281

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How does your Pacman work?

It was trained on a BFS search to find nearby pellets. It then uses this information to carve a pth to the most pellets. It also had punishments for if it got stuck in a corner or revisited tiles it had already gone to using a Heat map. Additionally, it uses an exponential decay function to normalize the results of finding the nearest pellet and feeding it into the algorithm.

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Checklist:

I ensure that I:

• [ Y] have included my model's weights (the .json file) in my commit
• [ Y] have configured the tournament behavior to use those weights
• [ Y] copied over any code needed to run my model (e.g., all inputs to the neural network)
• [ Y] tested the tournament at least once before submission (just to make sure everything is working)
• [Y ] have not intentionally modified the game state in any way

[CJCrafter]

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