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Introduction
This example shows how to train a Soft Actor Critic agent on the Minitaur environment.
If you've worked through the DQN Colab this should feel very familiar. Notable changes include:
- Changing the agent from DQN to SAC.
- Training on Minitaur which is a much more complex environment than CartPole. The Minitaur environment aims to train a quadruped robot to move forward.
- Using the TF-Agents Actor-Learner API for distributed Reinforcement Learning.
The API supports both distributed data collection using an experience replay buffer and variable container (parameter server) and distributed training across multiple devices. The API is designed to be very simple and modular. We utilize Reverb for both replay buffer and variable container and TF DistributionStrategy API for distributed training on GPUs and TPUs.
If you haven't installed the following dependencies, run:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install -y xvfb ffmpeg
pip install 'imageio==2.4.0'
pip install matplotlib
pip install tf-agents[reverb]
pip install pybullet
Setup
First we will import the different tools that we need.
import base64
import imageio
import IPython
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import os
import reverb
import tempfile
import PIL.Image
import tensorflow as tf
from tf_agents.agents.ddpg import critic_network
from tf_agents.agents.sac import sac_agent
from tf_agents.agents.sac import tanh_normal_projection_network
from tf_agents.environments import suite_pybullet
from tf_agents.metrics import py_metrics
from tf_agents.networks import actor_distribution_network
from tf_agents.policies import greedy_policy
from tf_agents.policies import py_tf_eager_policy
from tf_agents.policies import random_py_policy
from tf_agents.replay_buffers import reverb_replay_buffer
from tf_agents.replay_buffers import reverb_utils
from tf_agents.train import actor
from tf_agents.train import learner
from tf_agents.train import triggers
from tf_agents.train.utils import spec_utils
from tf_agents.train.utils import strategy_utils
from tf_agents.train.utils import train_utils
tempdir = tempfile.gettempdir()
2023-02-16 12:10:12.073390: W tensorflow/compiler/xla/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:64] Could not load dynamic library 'libnvinfer.so.7'; dlerror: libnvinfer.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 2023-02-16 12:10:12.073494: W tensorflow/compiler/xla/stream_executor/platform/default/dso_loader.cc:64] Could not load dynamic library 'libnvinfer_plugin.so.7'; dlerror: libnvinfer_plugin.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 2023-02-16 12:10:12.073503: W tensorflow/compiler/tf2tensorrt/utils/py_utils.cc:38] TF-TRT Warning: Cannot dlopen some TensorRT libraries. If you would like to use Nvidia GPU with TensorRT, please make sure the missing libraries mentioned above are installed properly.
Hyperparameters
env_name = "MinitaurBulletEnv-v0" # @param {type:"string"}
# Use "num_iterations = 1e6" for better results (2 hrs)
# 1e5 is just so this doesn't take too long (1 hr)
num_iterations = 100000 # @param {type:"integer"}
initial_collect_steps = 10000 # @param {type:"integer"}
collect_steps_per_iteration = 1 # @param {type:"integer"}
replay_buffer_capacity = 10000 # @param {type:"integer"}
batch_size = 256 # @param {type:"integer"}
critic_learning_rate = 3e-4 # @param {type:"number"}
actor_learning_rate = 3e-4 # @param {type:"number"}
alpha_learning_rate = 3e-4 # @param {type:"number"}
target_update_tau = 0.005 # @param {type:"number"}
target_update_period = 1 # @param {type:"number"}
gamma = 0.99 # @param {type:"number"}
reward_scale_factor = 1.0 # @param {type:"number"}
actor_fc_layer_params = (256, 256)
critic_joint_fc_layer_params = (256, 256)
log_interval = 5000 # @param {type:"integer"}
num_eval_episodes = 20 # @param {type:"integer"}
eval_interval = 10000 # @param {type:"integer"}
policy_save_interval = 5000 # @param {type:"integer"}
Environment
Environments in RL represent the task or problem that we are trying to solve. Standard environments can be easily created in TF-Agents using suites
. We have different suites
for loading environments from sources such as the OpenAI Gym, Atari, DM Control, etc., given a string environment name.
Now let's load the Minitaur environment from the Pybullet suite.
env = suite_pybullet.load(env_name)
env.reset()
PIL.Image.fromarray(env.render())
pybullet build time: May 20 2022 19:45:31 /tmpfs/src/tf_docs_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/gym/spaces/box.py:84: UserWarning: WARN: Box bound precision lowered by casting to float32 logger.warn(f"Box bound precision lowered by casting to {self.dtype}") current_dir=/tmpfs/src/tf_docs_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pybullet_envs/bullet urdf_root=/tmpfs/src/tf_docs_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pybullet_data
In this environment the goal is for the agent to train a policy that will control the Minitaur robot and have it move forward as fast as possible. Episodes last 1000 steps and the return will be the sum of rewards throughout the episode.
Let's look at the information the environment provides as an observation
which the policy will use to generate actions
.
print('Observation Spec:')
print(env.time_step_spec().observation)
print('Action Spec:')
print(env.action_spec())
Observation Spec: BoundedArraySpec(shape=(28,), dtype=dtype('float32'), name='observation', minimum=[ -3.1515927 -3.1515927 -3.1515927 -3.1515927 -3.1515927 -3.1515927 -3.1515927 -3.1515927 -167.72488 -167.72488 -167.72488 -167.72488 -167.72488 -167.72488 -167.72488 -167.72488 -5.71 -5.71 -5.71 -5.71 -5.71 -5.71 -5.71 -5.71 -1.01 -1.01 -1.01 -1.01 ], maximum=[ 3.1515927 3.1515927 3.1515927 3.1515927 3.1515927 3.1515927 3.1515927 3.1515927 167.72488 167.72488 167.72488 167.72488 167.72488 167.72488 167.72488 167.72488 5.71 5.71 5.71 5.71 5.71 5.71 5.71 5.71 1.01 1.01 1.01 1.01 ]) Action Spec: BoundedArraySpec(shape=(8,), dtype=dtype('float32'), name='action', minimum=-1.0, maximum=1.0)
The observation is fairly complex. We receive 28 values representing the angles, velocities, and torques for all the motors. In return the environment expects 8 values for the actions between [-1, 1]
. These are the desired motor angles.
Usually we create two environments: one for collecting data during training and one for evaluation. The environments are written in pure python and use numpy arrays, which the Actor Learner API directly consumes.
collect_env = suite_pybullet.load(env_name)
eval_env = suite_pybullet.load(env_name)
urdf_root=/tmpfs/src/tf_docs_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pybullet_data urdf_root=/tmpfs/src/tf_docs_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/pybullet_data
Distribution Strategy
We use the DistributionStrategy API to enable running the train step computation across multiple devices such as multiple GPUs or TPUs using data parallelism. The train step:
- Receives a batch of training data
- Splits it across the devices
- Computes the forward step
- Aggregates and computes the MEAN of the loss
- Computes the backward step and performs a gradient variable update
With TF-Agents Learner API and DistributionStrategy API it is quite easy to switch between running the train step on GPUs (using MirroredStrategy) to TPUs (using TPUStrategy) without changing any of the training logic below.
Enabling the GPU
If you want to try running on a GPU, you'll first need to enable GPUs for the notebook:
- Navigate to Edit→Notebook Settings
- Select GPU from the Hardware Accelerator drop-down
Picking a strategy
Use strategy_utils
to generate a strategy. Under the hood, passing the parameter:
use_gpu = False
returnstf.distribute.get_strategy()
, which uses CPUuse_gpu = True
returnstf.distribute.MirroredStrategy()
, which uses all GPUs that are visible to TensorFlow on one machine
use_gpu = True
strategy = strategy_utils.get_strategy(tpu=False, use_gpu=use_gpu)
INFO:tensorflow:Using MirroredStrategy with devices ('/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0', '/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:1', '/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:2', '/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:3') INFO:tensorflow:Using MirroredStrategy with devices ('/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0', '/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:1', '/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:2', '/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:3')
All variables and Agents need to be created under strategy.scope()
, as you'll see below.
Agent
To create an SAC Agent, we first need to create the networks that it will train. SAC is an actor-critic agent, so we will need two networks.
The critic will give us value estimates for Q(s,a)
. That is, it will recieve as input an observation and an action, and it will give us an estimate of how good that action was for the given state.
observation_spec, action_spec, time_step_spec = (
spec_utils.get_tensor_specs(collect_env))
with strategy.scope():
critic_net = critic_network.CriticNetwork(
(observation_spec, action_spec),
observation_fc_layer_params=None,
action_fc_layer_params=None,
joint_fc_layer_params=critic_joint_fc_layer_params,
kernel_initializer='glorot_uniform',
last_kernel_initializer='glorot_uniform')
We will use this critic to train an actor
network which will allow us to generate actions given an observation.
The ActorNetwork
will predict parameters for a tanh-squashed MultivariateNormalDiag distribution. This distribution will then be sampled, conditioned on the current observation, whenever we need to generate actions.
with strategy.scope():
actor_net = actor_distribution_network.ActorDistributionNetwork(
observation_spec,
action_spec,
fc_layer_params=actor_fc_layer_params,
continuous_projection_net=(
tanh_normal_projection_network.TanhNormalProjectionNetwork))
With these networks at hand we can now instantiate the agent.
with strategy.scope():
train_step = train_utils.create_train_step()
tf_agent = sac_agent.SacAgent(
time_step_spec,
action_spec,
actor_network=actor_net,
critic_network=critic_net,
actor_optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(
learning_rate=actor_learning_rate),
critic_optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(
learning_rate=critic_learning_rate),
alpha_optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(
learning_rate=alpha_learning_rate),
target_update_tau=target_update_tau,
target_update_period=target_update_period,
td_errors_loss_fn=tf.math.squared_difference,
gamma=gamma,
reward_scale_factor=reward_scale_factor,
train_step_counter=train_step)
tf_agent.initialize()
Replay Buffer
In order to keep track of the data collected from the environment, we will use Reverb, an efficient, extensible, and easy-to-use replay system by Deepmind. It stores experience data collected by the Actors and consumed by the Learner during training.
In this tutorial, this is less important than max_size
-- but in a distributed setting with async collection and training, you will probably want to experiment with rate_limiters.SampleToInsertRatio
, using a samples_per_insert somewhere between 2 and 1000. For example:
rate_limiter=reverb.rate_limiters.SampleToInsertRatio(samples_per_insert=3.0, min_size_to_sample=3, error_buffer=3.0)
table_name = 'uniform_table'
table = reverb.Table(
table_name,
max_size=replay_buffer_capacity,
sampler=reverb.selectors.Uniform(),
remover=reverb.selectors.Fifo(),
rate_limiter=reverb.rate_limiters.MinSize(1))
reverb_server = reverb.Server([table])
[reverb/cc/platform/tfrecord_checkpointer.cc:162] Initializing TFRecordCheckpointer in /tmpfs/tmp/tmplu0dqdcd. [reverb/cc/platform/tfrecord_checkpointer.cc:567] Loading latest checkpoint from /tmpfs/tmp/tmplu0dqdcd [reverb/cc/platform/default/server.cc:71] Started replay server on port 40383
The replay buffer is constructed using specs describing the tensors that are to be stored, which can be obtained from the agent using tf_agent.collect_data_spec
.
Since the SAC Agent needs both the current and next observation to compute the loss, we set sequence_length=2
.
reverb_replay = reverb_replay_buffer.ReverbReplayBuffer(
tf_agent.collect_data_spec,
sequence_length=2,
table_name=table_name,
local_server=reverb_server)
Now we generate a TensorFlow dataset from the Reverb replay buffer. We will pass this to the Learner to sample experiences for training.
dataset = reverb_replay.as_dataset(
sample_batch_size=batch_size, num_steps=2).prefetch(50)
experience_dataset_fn = lambda: dataset
WARNING:tensorflow:From /tmpfs/src/tf_docs_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tensorflow/python/autograph/pyct/static_analysis/liveness.py:83: Analyzer.lamba_check (from tensorflow.python.autograph.pyct.static_analysis.liveness) is deprecated and will be removed after 2023-09-23. Instructions for updating: Lambda fuctions will be no more assumed to be used in the statement where they are used, or at least in the same block. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/56089 WARNING:tensorflow:From /tmpfs/src/tf_docs_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tensorflow/python/autograph/pyct/static_analysis/liveness.py:83: Analyzer.lamba_check (from tensorflow.python.autograph.pyct.static_analysis.liveness) is deprecated and will be removed after 2023-09-23. Instructions for updating: Lambda fuctions will be no more assumed to be used in the statement where they are used, or at least in the same block. https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/56089
Policies
In TF-Agents, policies represent the standard notion of policies in RL: given a time_step
produce an action or a distribution over actions. The main method is policy_step = policy.step(time_step)
where policy_step
is a named tuple PolicyStep(action, state, info)
. The policy_step.action
is the action
to be applied to the environment, state
represents the state for stateful (RNN) policies and info
may contain auxiliary information such as log probabilities of the actions.
Agents contain two policies:
agent.policy
— The main policy that is used for evaluation and deployment.agent.collect_policy
— A second policy that is used for data collection.
tf_eval_policy = tf_agent.policy
eval_policy = py_tf_eager_policy.PyTFEagerPolicy(
tf_eval_policy, use_tf_function=True)
tf_collect_policy = tf_agent.collect_policy
collect_policy = py_tf_eager_policy.PyTFEagerPolicy(
tf_collect_policy, use_tf_function=True)
Policies can be created independently of agents. For example, use tf_agents.policies.random_py_policy
to create a policy which will randomly select an action for each time_step.
random_policy = random_py_policy.RandomPyPolicy(
collect_env.time_step_spec(), collect_env.action_spec())
Actors
The actor manages interactions between a policy and an environment.
- The Actor components contain an instance of the environment (as
py_environment
) and a copy of the policy variables. - Each Actor worker runs a sequence of data collection steps given the local values of the policy variables.
- Variable updates are done explicitly using the variable container client instance in the training script before calling
actor.run()
. - The observed experience is written into the replay buffer in each data collection step.
As the Actors run data collection steps, they pass trajectories of (state, action, reward) to the observer, which caches and writes them to the Reverb replay system.
We're storing trajectories for frames [(t0,t1) (t1,t2) (t2,t3), ...] because stride_length=1
.
rb_observer = reverb_utils.ReverbAddTrajectoryObserver(
reverb_replay.py_client,
table_name,
sequence_length=2,
stride_length=1)
We create an Actor with the random policy and collect experiences to seed the replay buffer with.
initial_collect_actor = actor.Actor(
collect_env,
random_policy,
train_step,
steps_per_run=initial_collect_steps,
observers=[rb_observer])
initial_collect_actor.run()
Instantiate an Actor with the collect policy to gather more experiences during training.
env_step_metric = py_metrics.EnvironmentSteps()
collect_actor = actor.Actor(
collect_env,
collect_policy,
train_step,
steps_per_run=1,
metrics=actor.collect_metrics(10),
summary_dir=os.path.join(tempdir, learner.TRAIN_DIR),
observers=[rb_observer, env_step_metric])
Create an Actor which will be used to evaluate the policy during training. We pass in actor.eval_metrics(num_eval_episodes)
to log metrics later.
eval_actor = actor.Actor(
eval_env,
eval_policy,
train_step,
episodes_per_run=num_eval_episodes,
metrics=actor.eval_metrics(num_eval_episodes),
summary_dir=os.path.join(tempdir, 'eval'),
)
Learners
The Learner component contains the agent and performs gradient step updates to the policy variables using experience data from the replay buffer. After one or more training steps, the Learner can push a new set of variable values to the variable container.
saved_model_dir = os.path.join(tempdir, learner.POLICY_SAVED_MODEL_DIR)
# Triggers to save the agent's policy checkpoints.
learning_triggers = [
triggers.PolicySavedModelTrigger(
saved_model_dir,
tf_agent,
train_step,
interval=policy_save_interval),
triggers.StepPerSecondLogTrigger(train_step, interval=1000),
]
agent_learner = learner.Learner(
tempdir,
train_step,
tf_agent,
experience_dataset_fn,
triggers=learning_triggers,
strategy=strategy)
WARNING:tensorflow:From /tmpfs/src/tf_docs_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tensorflow_probability/python/distributions/distribution.py:342: calling MultivariateNormalDiag.__init__ (from tensorflow_probability.python.distributions.mvn_diag) with scale_identity_multiplier is deprecated and will be removed after 2020-01-01. Instructions for updating: `scale_identity_multiplier` is deprecated; please combine it into `scale_diag` directly instead. WARNING:tensorflow:From /tmpfs/src/tf_docs_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tensorflow_probability/python/distributions/distribution.py:342: calling MultivariateNormalDiag.__init__ (from tensorflow_probability.python.distributions.mvn_diag) with scale_identity_multiplier is deprecated and will be removed after 2020-01-01. Instructions for updating: `scale_identity_multiplier` is deprecated; please combine it into `scale_diag` directly instead. WARNING:absl:WARNING: Could not serialize policy.distribution() for policy "<tf_agents.policies.actor_policy.ActorPolicy object at 0x7fc8201978b0>". Calling saved_model.distribution() will raise the following assertion error: missing a required argument: 'distribution' WARNING:absl:WARNING: Could not serialize policy.distribution() for policy "<tf_agents.policies.actor_policy.ActorPolicy object at 0x7fc8201978b0>". Calling saved_model.distribution() will raise the following assertion error: missing a required argument: 'distribution' WARNING:absl:Function `function_with_signature` contains input name(s) 0/step_type, 0/reward, 0/discount, 0/observation with unsupported characters which will be renamed to step_type, reward, discount, observation in the SavedModel. WARNING:absl:WARNING: Could not serialize policy.distribution() for policy "<tf_agents.policies.actor_policy.ActorPolicy object at 0x7fc8201978b0>". Calling saved_model.distribution() will raise the following assertion error: missing a required argument: 'distribution' WARNING:absl:Found untraced functions such as ActorDistributionNetwork_layer_call_fn, ActorDistributionNetwork_layer_call_and_return_conditional_losses, EncodingNetwork_layer_call_fn, EncodingNetwork_layer_call_and_return_conditional_losses, TanhNormalProjectionNetwork_layer_call_fn while saving (showing 5 of 14). These functions will not be directly callable after loading. INFO:tensorflow:Assets written to: /tmpfs/tmp/policies/policy/assets INFO:tensorflow:Assets written to: /tmpfs/tmp/policies/policy/assets WARNING:absl:Function `function_with_signature` contains input name(s) 0/step_type, 0/reward, 0/discount, 0/observation with unsupported characters which will be renamed to step_type, reward, discount, observation in the SavedModel. WARNING:absl:WARNING: Could not serialize policy.distribution() for policy "<tf_agents.policies.actor_policy.ActorPolicy object at 0x7fc8201978b0>". Calling saved_model.distribution() will raise the following assertion error: missing a required argument: 'distribution' WARNING:absl:Found untraced functions such as ActorDistributionNetwork_layer_call_fn, ActorDistributionNetwork_layer_call_and_return_conditional_losses, EncodingNetwork_layer_call_fn, EncodingNetwork_layer_call_and_return_conditional_losses, TanhNormalProjectionNetwork_layer_call_fn while saving (showing 5 of 14). These functions will not be directly callable after loading. INFO:tensorflow:Assets written to: /tmpfs/tmp/policies/collect_policy/assets INFO:tensorflow:Assets written to: /tmpfs/tmp/policies/collect_policy/assets WARNING:absl:Function `function_with_signature` contains input name(s) 0/step_type, 0/reward, 0/discount, 0/observation with unsupported characters which will be renamed to step_type, reward, discount, observation in the SavedModel. WARNING:absl:Found untraced functions such as ActorDistributionNetwork_layer_call_fn, ActorDistributionNetwork_layer_call_and_return_conditional_losses, EncodingNetwork_layer_call_fn, EncodingNetwork_layer_call_and_return_conditional_losses, TanhNormalProjectionNetwork_layer_call_fn while saving (showing 5 of 14). These functions will not be directly callable after loading. INFO:tensorflow:Assets written to: /tmpfs/tmp/policies/greedy_policy/assets /tmpfs/src/tf_docs_env/lib/python3.9/site-packages/tensorflow/python/saved_model/nested_structure_coder.py:521: UserWarning: Encoding a StructuredValue with type tfp.distributions.Deterministic_ACTTypeSpec; loading this StructuredValue will require that this type be imported and registered. warnings.warn("Encoding a StructuredValue with type %s; loading this " INFO:tensorflow:Assets written to: /tmpfs/tmp/policies/greedy_policy/assets INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 12 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 12 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 6 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 6 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 1 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 1 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 12 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 12 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 6 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 6 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 1 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 1 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1
Metrics and Evaluation
We instantiated the eval Actor with actor.eval_metrics
above, which creates most commonly used metrics during policy evaluation:
- Average return. The return is the sum of rewards obtained while running a policy in an environment for an episode, and we usually average this over a few episodes.
- Average episode length.
We run the Actor to generate these metrics.
def get_eval_metrics():
eval_actor.run()
results = {}
for metric in eval_actor.metrics:
results[metric.name] = metric.result()
return results
metrics = get_eval_metrics()
def log_eval_metrics(step, metrics):
eval_results = (', ').join(
'{} = {:.6f}'.format(name, result) for name, result in metrics.items())
print('step = {0}: {1}'.format(step, eval_results))
log_eval_metrics(0, metrics)
step = 0: AverageReturn = -0.139200, AverageEpisodeLength = 49.849998
Check out the metrics module for other standard implementations of different metrics.
Training the agent
The training loop involves both collecting data from the environment and optimizing the agent's networks. Along the way, we will occasionally evaluate the agent's policy to see how we are doing.
try:
%%time
except:
pass
# Reset the train step
tf_agent.train_step_counter.assign(0)
# Evaluate the agent's policy once before training.
avg_return = get_eval_metrics()["AverageReturn"]
returns = [avg_return]
for _ in range(num_iterations):
# Training.
collect_actor.run()
loss_info = agent_learner.run(iterations=1)
# Evaluating.
step = agent_learner.train_step_numpy
if eval_interval and step % eval_interval == 0:
metrics = get_eval_metrics()
log_eval_metrics(step, metrics)
returns.append(metrics["AverageReturn"])
if log_interval and step % log_interval == 0:
print('step = {0}: loss = {1}'.format(step, loss_info.loss.numpy()))
rb_observer.close()
reverb_server.stop()
INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 12 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 12 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 6 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 6 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 1 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 1 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 12 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:batch_all_reduce: 12 all-reduces with algorithm = nccl, num_packs = 1 INFO:tensorflow:Reduce to /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0 then broadcast to ('/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0',). INFO:tensorflow:Reduce to /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0 then broadcast to ('/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0',). INFO:tensorflow:Reduce to /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0 then broadcast to ('/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0',). INFO:tensorflow:Reduce to /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0 then broadcast to ('/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0',). INFO:tensorflow:Reduce to /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0 then broadcast to ('/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0',). INFO:tensorflow:Reduce to /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0 then broadcast to ('/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0',). INFO:tensorflow:Reduce to /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0 then broadcast to ('/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0',). INFO:tensorflow:Reduce to /job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0 then broadcast to ('/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0',). 2023-02-16 12:12:11.235036: W tensorflow/core/grappler/optimizers/loop_optimizer.cc:907] Skipping loop optimization for Merge node with control input: while/body/_121/while/replica_1/Losses/actor_loss/write_summary/summary_cond/branch_executed/_1824 [reverb/cc/client.cc:165] Sampler and server are owned by the same process (9138) so Table uniform_table is accessed directly without gRPC. [reverb/cc/client.cc:165] Sampler and server are owned by the same process (9138) so Table uniform_table is accessed directly without gRPC. [reverb/cc/client.cc:165] Sampler and server are owned by the same process (9138) so Table uniform_table is accessed directly without gRPC. [reverb/cc/client.cc:165] Sampler and server are owned by the same process (9138) so Table uniform_table is accessed directly without gRPC. [reverb/cc/client.cc:165] Sampler and server are owned by the same process (9138) so Table uniform_table is accessed directly without gRPC. [reverb/cc/client.cc:165] Sampler and server are owned by the same process (9138) so Table uniform_table is accessed directly without gRPC. step = 5000: loss = -52.19390869140625 step = 10000: AverageReturn = -0.577509, AverageEpisodeLength = 298.149994 step = 10000: loss = -54.52353286743164 step = 15000: loss = -34.91657257080078 step = 20000: AverageReturn = -0.488085, AverageEpisodeLength = 272.000000 step = 20000: loss = -24.72634506225586 step = 25000: loss = -17.069616317749023 step = 30000: AverageReturn = -0.302361, AverageEpisodeLength = 200.949997 step = 30000: loss = -12.155550003051758 step = 35000: loss = -7.247224807739258 step = 40000: AverageReturn = -0.830969, AverageEpisodeLength = 375.500000 step = 40000: loss = -6.8076934814453125 step = 45000: loss = -6.873663902282715 step = 50000: AverageReturn = -0.456829, AverageEpisodeLength = 297.250000 step = 50000: loss = -4.4813551902771 step = 55000: loss = -4.559931755065918 step = 60000: AverageReturn = -1.206530, AverageEpisodeLength = 547.849976 step = 60000: loss = -3.64396333694458 step = 65000: loss = -3.8310282230377197 step = 70000: AverageReturn = -1.045819, AverageEpisodeLength = 461.049988 step = 70000: loss = -3.724116325378418 step = 75000: loss = -3.320603847503662 step = 80000: AverageReturn = -0.852708, AverageEpisodeLength = 442.950012 step = 80000: loss = -4.064733505249023 step = 85000: loss = -3.1579627990722656 step = 90000: AverageReturn = -1.455890, AverageEpisodeLength = 524.400024 step = 90000: loss = -2.6803221702575684 step = 95000: loss = -2.5392370223999023 step = 100000: AverageReturn = -0.761350, AverageEpisodeLength = 412.750000 step = 100000: loss = -2.7958719730377197 [reverb/cc/platform/default/server.cc:84] Shutting down replay server
Visualization
Plots
We can plot average return vs global steps to see the performance of our agent. In Minitaur
, the reward function is based on how far the minitaur walks in 1000 steps and penalizes the energy expenditure.
steps = range(0, num_iterations + 1, eval_interval)
plt.plot(steps, returns)
plt.ylabel('Average Return')
plt.xlabel('Step')
plt.ylim()
(-1.5224814869463443, -0.05747795030474663)
Videos
It is helpful to visualize the performance of an agent by rendering the environment at each step. Before we do that, let us first create a function to embed videos in this colab.
def embed_mp4(filename):
"""Embeds an mp4 file in the notebook."""
video = open(filename,'rb').read()
b64 = base64.b64encode(video)
tag = '''
<video width="640" height="480" controls>
<source src="data:video/mp4;base64,{0}" type="video/mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag.
</video>'''.format(b64.decode())
return IPython.display.HTML(tag)
The following code visualizes the agent's policy for a few episodes:
num_episodes = 3
video_filename = 'sac_minitaur.mp4'
with imageio.get_writer(video_filename, fps=60) as video:
for _ in range(num_episodes):
time_step = eval_env.reset()
video.append_data(eval_env.render())
while not time_step.is_last():
action_step = eval_actor.policy.action(time_step)
time_step = eval_env.step(action_step.action)
video.append_data(eval_env.render())
embed_mp4(video_filename)