A Deep Reinforcement Learning Technique for Bug Detection in Video Games

Published in International Journal of Information Technology, 2023

Rani, G., Pandey, U., Wagde, A.A., Dhaka, V.S. International Journal of Information Technology, 15, 355–367, 2023.

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Proposes RLBGameTester: trains a DQN agent on Atari games, then monitors last-layer gradients during gameplay — bugs injected post-training cause sharp gradient spikes, flagging the exact iteration where the bug occurred without any human supervision.