def update(self, rollouts: Sequence[StepSequence]):
r"""
Train the particles $mu$.
:param rollouts: rewards collected from the rollout
"""
policy_grads = []
parameters = []
for i in range(self.num_particles):
# Get the rollouts associated to the i-th particle
concat_ros = StepSequence.concat(rollouts[i])
concat_ros.torch()
act_stats = compute_action_statistics(concat_ros,
self.expl_strats[i])
act_stats_fixed = compute_action_statistics(
concat_ros, self.fixed_expl_strats[i])
klds = to.distributions.kl_divergence(act_stats.act_distr,
act_stats_fixed.act_distr)
entropy = act_stats.act_distr.entropy()
log_prob = act_stats.log_probs
concat_ros.rewards = concat_ros.rewards - (
0.1 * klds.mean(1)).view(-1) - 0.1 * entropy.mean(1).view(-1)
# Update the advantage estimator's parameters and return advantage estimates
adv = self.particles[i].critic.update(rollouts[i],
use_empirical_returns=True)
# Estimate policy gradients
self.optimizers[i].zero_grad()
policy_grad = -to.mean(log_prob * adv.detach())
policy_grad.backward() # step comes later than usual
# Collect flattened parameter and gradient vectors
policy_grads.append(self.expl_strats[i].param_grad)
parameters.append(self.expl_strats[i].param_values)
parameters = to.stack(parameters)
policy_grads = to.stack(policy_grads)
Kxx, dx_Kxx = self.kernel(parameters)
grad_theta = (to.mm(Kxx, policy_grads / self.temperature) +
dx_Kxx) / self.num_particles
for i in range(self.num_particles):
self.expl_strats[i].param_grad = grad_theta[i]
self.optimizers[i].step()
self.updatecount += 1
def test_action_statistics(env: SimEnv, policy: Policy):
sigma = 1.0 # with lower values like 0.1 we can observe violations of the tolerances
# Create an action-based exploration strategy
explstrat = NormalActNoiseExplStrat(policy, std_init=sigma)
# Sample a deterministic rollout
ro_policy = rollout(env,
policy,
eval=True,
max_steps=1000,
stop_on_done=False,
seed=0)
ro_policy.torch(to.get_default_dtype())
# Run the exploration strategy on the previously sampled rollout
if policy.is_recurrent:
if isinstance(policy, TwoHeadedPolicy):
act_expl, _, _ = explstrat(ro_policy.observations)
else:
act_expl, _ = explstrat(ro_policy.observations)
# Get the hidden states from the deterministic rollout
hidden_states = ro_policy.hidden_states
else:
if isinstance(policy, TwoHeadedPolicy):
act_expl, _ = explstrat(ro_policy.observations)
else:
act_expl = explstrat(ro_policy.observations)
hidden_states = [
0.0
] * ro_policy.length # just something that does not violate the format
ro_expl = StepSequence(
actions=act_expl[:-1], # truncate act due to last obs
observations=ro_policy.observations,
rewards=ro_policy.rewards, # don't care but necessary
hidden_states=hidden_states,
)
ro_expl.torch()
# Compute action statistics and the ground truth
actstats = compute_action_statistics(ro_expl, explstrat)
gt_logprobs = Normal(loc=ro_policy.actions,
scale=sigma).log_prob(ro_expl.actions)
gt_entropy = Normal(loc=ro_policy.actions, scale=sigma).entropy()
to.testing.assert_allclose(actstats.log_probs,
gt_logprobs,
rtol=1e-4,
atol=1e-5)
to.testing.assert_allclose(actstats.entropy,
gt_entropy,
rtol=1e-4,
atol=1e-5)
def update(self, rollouts: Sequence[StepSequence]):
# Turn the batch of rollouts into a list of steps
concat_ros = StepSequence.concat(rollouts)
concat_ros.torch(data_type=to.get_default_dtype())
with to.no_grad():
# Compute the action probabilities using the old (before update) policy
act_stats = compute_action_statistics(concat_ros, self._expl_strat)
log_probs_old = act_stats.log_probs
act_distr_old = act_stats.act_distr
# Compute value predictions using the old old (before update) value function
v_pred_old = self._critic.values(concat_ros)
# Attach advantages and old log probs to rollout
concat_ros.add_data('log_probs_old', log_probs_old)
concat_ros.add_data('v_pred_old', v_pred_old)
# For logging the gradient norms
policy_grad_norm = []
value_fcn_grad_norm = []
# Compute the value targets (empirical discounted returns) for all samples before fitting the V-fcn parameters
adv = self._critic.gae(concat_ros) # done with to.no_grad()
v_targ = discounted_values(rollouts, self._critic.gamma).view(
-1, 1) # empirical discounted returns
concat_ros.add_data('adv', adv)
concat_ros.add_data('v_targ', v_targ)
# Iterations over the whole data set
for e in range(self.num_epoch):
for batch in tqdm(concat_ros.split_shuffled_batches(
self.batch_size,
complete_rollouts=self._policy.is_recurrent
or isinstance(self._critic.value_fcn, RecurrentPolicy)),
total=num_iter_from_rollouts(
None, concat_ros, self.batch_size),
desc=f'Epoch {e}',
unit='batches',
file=sys.stdout,
leave=False):
# Reset the gradients
self.optim.zero_grad()
# Compute log of the action probabilities for the mini-batch
log_probs = compute_action_statistics(
batch, self._expl_strat).log_probs.to(self.policy.device)
# Compute value predictions for the mini-batch
v_pred = self._critic.values(batch)
# Compute combined loss and backpropagate
loss = self.loss_fcn(log_probs, batch.log_probs_old, batch.adv,
v_pred, batch.v_pred_old, batch.v_targ)
loss.backward()
# Clip the gradients if desired
policy_grad_norm.append(
self.clip_grad(self._expl_strat.policy,
self.max_grad_norm))
value_fcn_grad_norm.append(
self.clip_grad(self._critic.value_fcn, self.max_grad_norm))
# Call optimizer
self.optim.step()
if to.isnan(self._expl_strat.noise.std).any():
raise RuntimeError(
f'At least one exploration parameter became NaN! The exploration parameters are'
f'\n{self._expl_strat.std.detach().numpy()}')
# Update the learning rate if a scheduler has been specified
if self._lr_scheduler is not None:
self._lr_scheduler.step()
# Additional logging
if self.log_loss:
with to.no_grad():
# Compute value predictions using the new (after the updates) value function approximator
v_pred = self._critic.values(concat_ros).to(self.policy.device)
v_loss_old = self._critic.loss_fcn(
v_pred_old.to(self.policy.device),
v_targ.to(self.policy.device)).to(self.policy.device)
v_loss_new = self._critic.loss_fcn(v_pred, v_targ).to(
self.policy.device)
value_fcn_loss_impr = v_loss_old - v_loss_new # positive values are desired
# Compute the action probabilities using the new (after the updates) policy
act_stats = compute_action_statistics(concat_ros,
self._expl_strat)
log_probs_new = act_stats.log_probs
act_distr_new = act_stats.act_distr
loss_after = self.loss_fcn(log_probs_new, log_probs_old, adv,
v_pred, v_pred_old, v_targ)
kl_avg = to.mean(kl_divergence(
act_distr_old,
act_distr_new)) # mean seeking a.k.a. inclusive KL
# Compute explained variance (after the updates)
explvar = explained_var(v_pred, v_targ)
self.logger.add_value('explained var',
explvar.detach().numpy())
self.logger.add_value('V-fcn loss improvement',
value_fcn_loss_impr.detach().numpy())
self.logger.add_value('loss after',
loss_after.detach().numpy())
self.logger.add_value('KL(old_new)', kl_avg.item())
# Logging
self.logger.add_value(
'avg expl strat std',
to.mean(self._expl_strat.noise.std.data).detach().numpy())
self.logger.add_value('expl strat entropy',
self._expl_strat.noise.get_entropy().item())
self.logger.add_value('avg policy grad norm',
np.mean(policy_grad_norm))
self.logger.add_value('avg V-fcn grad norm',
np.mean(value_fcn_grad_norm))
if self._lr_scheduler is not None:
self.logger.add_value('learning rate', self._lr_scheduler.get_lr())
def update(self, rollouts: Sequence[StepSequence]):
# Turn the batch of rollouts into a list of steps
concat_ros = StepSequence.concat(rollouts)
concat_ros.torch(data_type=to.get_default_dtype())
# Update the advantage estimator's parameters and return advantage estimates
adv = self._critic.update(rollouts, use_empirical_returns=False)
with to.no_grad():
# Compute the action probabilities using the old (before update) policy
act_stats = compute_action_statistics(concat_ros, self._expl_strat)
log_probs_old = act_stats.log_probs
act_distr_old = act_stats.act_distr
# Attach advantages and old log probs to rollout
concat_ros.add_data('adv', adv)
concat_ros.add_data('log_probs_old', log_probs_old)
# For logging the gradient norms
policy_grad_norm = []
# Iterations over the whole data set
for e in range(self.num_epoch):
for batch in tqdm(concat_ros.split_shuffled_batches(
self.batch_size,
complete_rollouts=self._policy.is_recurrent),
total=num_iter_from_rollouts(
None, concat_ros, self.batch_size),
desc=f'Epoch {e}',
unit='batches',
file=sys.stdout,
leave=False):
# Reset the gradients
self.optim.zero_grad()
# Compute log of the action probabilities for the mini-batch
log_probs = compute_action_statistics(
batch, self._expl_strat).log_probs
# Compute policy loss and backpropagate
loss = self.loss_fcn(log_probs, batch.log_probs_old, batch.adv)
loss.backward()
# Clip the gradients if desired
policy_grad_norm.append(
self.clip_grad(self._expl_strat.policy,
self.max_grad_norm))
# Call optimizer
self.optim.step()
if to.isnan(self._expl_strat.noise.std).any():
raise RuntimeError(
f'At least one exploration parameter became NaN! The exploration parameters are'
f'\n{self._expl_strat.std.detach().numpy()}')
# Update the learning rate if a scheduler has been specified
if self._lr_scheduler is not None:
self._lr_scheduler.step()
# Additional logging
if self.log_loss:
with to.no_grad():
act_stats = compute_action_statistics(concat_ros,
self._expl_strat)
log_probs_new = act_stats.log_probs
act_distr_new = act_stats.act_distr
loss_after = self.loss_fcn(log_probs_new, log_probs_old, adv)
kl_avg = to.mean(kl_divergence(
act_distr_old,
act_distr_new)) # mean seeking a.k.a. inclusive KL
self.logger.add_value('loss after',
loss_after.detach().numpy())
self.logger.add_value('KL(old_new)', kl_avg.item())
# Logging
self.logger.add_value(
'avg expl strat std',
to.mean(self._expl_strat.noise.std.data).detach().numpy())
self.logger.add_value('expl strat entropy',
self._expl_strat.noise.get_entropy().item())
self.logger.add_value('avg policy grad norm',
np.mean(policy_grad_norm))
if self._lr_scheduler is not None:
self.logger.add_value('learning rate', self._lr_scheduler.get_lr())
def update(self, rollouts: Sequence[StepSequence]):
# Turn the batch of rollouts into a list of steps
concat_ros = StepSequence.concat(rollouts)
concat_ros.torch(data_type=to.get_default_dtype())
# Compute the value targets (empirical discounted returns) for all samples before fitting the V-fcn parameters
adv = self._critic.gae(concat_ros) # done with to.no_grad()
v_targ = discounted_values(rollouts, self._critic.gamma).view(-1, 1).to(self.policy.device) # empirical discounted returns
with to.no_grad():
# Compute value predictions and the GAE using the old (before the updates) value function approximator
v_pred = self._critic.values(concat_ros)
# Compute the action probabilities using the old (before update) policy
act_stats = compute_action_statistics(concat_ros, self._expl_strat)
log_probs_old = act_stats.log_probs
act_distr_old = act_stats.act_distr
loss_before = self.loss_fcn(log_probs_old, adv, v_pred, v_targ)
self.logger.add_value('loss before', loss_before, 4)
concat_ros.add_data('adv', adv)
concat_ros.add_data('v_targ', v_targ)
# For logging the gradients' norms
policy_grad_norm = []
for batch in tqdm(concat_ros.split_shuffled_batches(
self.batch_size,
complete_rollouts=self._policy.is_recurrent or isinstance(self._critic.vfcn, RecurrentPolicy)),
total=num_iter_from_rollouts(None, concat_ros, self.batch_size),
desc='Updating', unit='batches', file=sys.stdout, leave=False):
# Reset the gradients
self.optim.zero_grad()
# Compute log of the action probabilities for the mini-batch
log_probs = compute_action_statistics(batch, self._expl_strat).log_probs
# Compute value predictions for the mini-batch
v_pred = self._critic.values(batch)
# Compute combined loss and backpropagate
loss = self.loss_fcn(log_probs, batch.adv, v_pred, batch.v_targ)
loss.backward()
# Clip the gradients if desired
policy_grad_norm.append(self.clip_grad(self.expl_strat.policy, self.max_grad_norm))
# Call optimizer
self.optim.step()
# Update the learning rate if a scheduler has been specified
if self._lr_scheduler is not None:
self._lr_scheduler.step()
if to.isnan(self.expl_strat.noise.std).any():
raise RuntimeError(f'At least one exploration parameter became NaN! The exploration parameters are'
f'\n{self.expl_strat.std.item()}')
# Logging
with to.no_grad():
# Compute value predictions and the GAE using the new (after the updates) value function approximator
v_pred = self._critic.values(concat_ros).to(self.policy.device)
adv = self._critic.gae(concat_ros) # done with to.no_grad()
# Compute the action probabilities using the new (after the updates) policy
act_stats = compute_action_statistics(concat_ros, self._expl_strat)
log_probs_new = act_stats.log_probs
act_distr_new = act_stats.act_distr
loss_after = self.loss_fcn(log_probs_new, adv, v_pred, v_targ)
kl_avg = to.mean(
kl_divergence(act_distr_old, act_distr_new)) # mean seeking a.k.a. inclusive KL
explvar = explained_var(v_pred, v_targ) # values close to 1 are desired
self.logger.add_value('loss after', loss_after, 4)
self.logger.add_value('KL(old_new)', kl_avg, 4)
self.logger.add_value('explained var', explvar, 4)
ent = self.expl_strat.noise.get_entropy()
self.logger.add_value('avg expl strat std', to.mean(self.expl_strat.noise.std), 4)
self.logger.add_value('expl strat entropy', to.mean(ent), 4)
self.logger.add_value('avg grad norm policy', np.mean(policy_grad_norm), 4)
if self._lr_scheduler is not None:
self.logger.add_value('avg lr', np.mean(self._lr_scheduler.get_last_lr()), 6)
