MSC: A Dataset for Macro-Management in StarCraft II
  Macro-management is an important problem in StarCraft, which has been studied
for a long time. Various datasets together with assorted methods have been
proposed in the last few years. But these datasets have some defects for
boosting the academic and industrial research: 1) There're neither standard
preprocessing, parsing and feature extraction procedures nor predefined
training, validation and test set in some datasets. 2) Some datasets are only
specified for certain tasks in macro-management. 3) Some datasets are either
too small or don't have enough labeled data for modern machine learning
algorithms such as deep neural networks. So most previous methods are trained
with various features, evaluated on different test sets from the same or
different datasets, making it difficult to be compared directly. To boost the
research of macro-management in StarCraft, we release a new dataset MSC based
on the platform SC2LE. MSC consists of well-designed feature vectors,
pre-defined high-level actions and final result of each match. We also split
MSC into training, validation and test set for the convenience of evaluation
and comparison. Besides the dataset, we propose a baseline model and present
initial baseline results for global state evaluation and build order
prediction, which are two of the key tasks in macro-management. Various
downstream tasks and analyses of the dataset are also described for the sake of
research on macro-management in StarCraft II. Homepage:
https://github.com/wuhuikai/MSC.
