facebookresearch/ELF

• highreadme#1

  Reposition README H1 and opening paragraph to emphasize concurrent RTS RL platform

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  # ELF: An Extensive, Lightweight and Flexible Platform for Game Research
  
  Overview
  ELF is an **E**xtensive, **L**ightweight and **F**lexible platform for game research, in particular for real-time strategy (RTS) games. On the C++-side, ELF hosts multiple games in parallel with C++ threading. On the Python side, ELF returns one batch of game state at a time, making it very friendly for modern RL.

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  # ELF: A High-Performance Platform for Concurrent Real-Time Strategy (RTS) Game Research with Reinforcement Learning
  
  Overview
  ELF is an **E**xtensive, **L**ightweight and **F**lexible platform specifically designed for **scalable, concurrent real-time strategy (RTS) game research using reinforcement learning**. It excels at hosting multiple game environments in parallel via C++ threading, providing efficient batch game states to Python for modern RL algorithms.

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• hightopics#2

  Add specific topics for real-time strategy, concurrent environments, and game simulation

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  artificial-intelligence, cpp, deep-learning, gaming, neural-network, platform, python, reinforcement-learning

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  artificial-intelligence, cpp, deep-learning, gaming, neural-network, platform, python, reinforcement-learning, real-time-strategy, rts-games, game-ai, concurrent-environments, game-simulation

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• mediumabout#3

  Add a homepage URL to the repository's About section

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  https://github.com/facebookresearch/ELF

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Category GEO backends resolved for this scan: google/gemini-2.5-flash, deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

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