https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.03077
State-value is optimized with Barron loss. Advantages are scaled using Barron loss derivative.
To use MSE loss for state-value and unscaled advantages set barron_alpha_c = (2, 1).
On average when used with Atari, instead of MSE / Huber loss, it does not change performance much.
This will make constraint different for each element in batch.
Set advantage_scaled_clip = False to disable.
As with Barron loss, on average I haven't observed much difference with or without it.
When kl < kl_target it is not applied.
When kl > kl_target it is scaled quadratically based on abs(kl - kl_target)
and policy and entropy maximization objectives are disabled.
I've found this implementation to be much easier to tune than original KL div penalty.
New constraint type which clips raw network output vector instead of action log probs.
See 'opt' in PPO constraint documentation.
Sometimes it helps with convergence on continuous control tasks when used with clip or kl constraints.
See PPO constraint documentation.
Entropy maximization helps in some games. See entropy_reward_scale in PPO.
In addition to original network architecture, biggger one is available. See cnn_kind in CNNActor.
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01576
See PPO_QRNN, QRNNActor, CNN_QRNNActor.
QRNN implementation requires https://github.com/salesforce/pytorch-qrnn.
With some effort QRNN could be replaced with another RNN architecture like LSTM or GRU.
pip install git+https://github.com/SSS135/ppo-pytorch
Required packages:
- PyTorch 0.4.1
- gym
- tensorboardX
- pytorch-qrnn (only if using QRNN)
Training code does not print any information to console. Instead it logs various info to Tensorboard.
CartPole-v1 for 500K steps without CUDA (--force-cuda to enable it, won't improve performance)
python example.py --env-name CartPole-v1 --steps 500_000 --tensorboard-path /tensorboard/output/path
PongNoFrameskip-v4 for 10M steps (40M emulator frames) with CUDA
python example.py --atari --env-name PongNoFrameskip-v4 --steps 10_000_000 --tensorboard-path /tensorboard/output/path
When library is imported following gym environments are registered:
Continuous versions of Acrobot and CartPole AcrobotContinuous-v1, CartPoleContinuous-v0, CartPoleContinuous-v1
CartPole with 10000 steps limit CartPoleContinuous-v2, CartPole-v2
