Yet another 3 fix (#160)

1. DQN learn should keep eps=0

2. Add a warning of env.seed in VecEnv

3. fix #162 of multi-dim action

docs/tutorials/cheatsheet.rst

@@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ where ``env_fns`` is a list of callable env hooker. The above code can be writte
     env_fns = [lambda x=i: MyTestEnv(size=x) for i in [2, 3, 4, 5]]
     venv = SubprocVectorEnv(env_fns)
 
+.. warning::
+
+    If you use your own environment, please make sure the ``seed`` method is set up properly, e.g.,
+
+    ::
+
+        def seed(self, seed):
+            np.random.seed(seed)
+
+    Otherwise, the outputs of these envs may be the same with each other.
+
 .. _preprocess_fn:
 
 Handle Batched Data Stream in Collector

docs/tutorials/dqn.rst

@@ -40,6 +40,17 @@ Here, we set up 8 environments in ``train_envs`` and 100 environments in ``test_
 
 For the demonstration, here we use the second block of codes.
 
+.. warning::
+
+    If you use your own environment, please make sure the ``seed`` method is set up properly, e.g.,
+
+    ::
+
+        def seed(self, seed):
+            np.random.seed(seed)
+
+    Otherwise, the outputs of these envs may be the same with each other.
+
 .. _build_the_network:
 
 Build the Network

test/base/env.py

@@ -1,20 +1,30 @@
 import gym
 import time
-from gym.spaces.discrete import Discrete
+import numpy as np
+from gym.spaces import Discrete, MultiDiscrete, Box
 
 
 class MyTestEnv(gym.Env):
     """This is a "going right" task. The task is to go right ``size`` steps.
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, size, sleep=0, dict_state=False, ma_rew=0):
+    def __init__(self, size, sleep=0, dict_state=False, ma_rew=0,
+                 multidiscrete_action=False):
         self.size = size
         self.sleep = sleep
         self.dict_state = dict_state
         self.ma_rew = ma_rew
-        self.action_space = Discrete(2)
+        self._md_action = multidiscrete_action
+        self.observation_space = Box(shape=(1, ), low=0, high=size - 1)
+        if multidiscrete_action:
+            self.action_space = MultiDiscrete([2, 2])
+        else:
+            self.action_space = Discrete(2)
         self.reset()
 
+    def seed(self, seed=0):
+        np.random.seed(seed)
+
     def reset(self, state=0):
         self.done = False
         self.index = state
@@ -29,9 +39,12 @@ class MyTestEnv(gym.Env):
 
     def _get_dict_state(self):
         """Generate a dict_state if dict_state is True."""
-        return {'index': self.index} if self.dict_state else self.index
+        return {'index': self.index, 'rand': np.random.rand()} \
+            if self.dict_state else self.index
 
     def step(self, action):
+        if self._md_action:
+            action = action[0]
         if self.done:
             raise ValueError('step after done !!!')
         if self.sleep > 0:

test/base/test_batch.py

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-import torch
 import copy
+import torch
 import pickle
 import pytest
 import numpy as np

test/base/test_collector.py

@@ -113,8 +113,12 @@ def test_collector_with_dict_state():
     env_fns = [lambda x=i: MyTestEnv(size=x, sleep=0, dict_state=True)
                for i in [2, 3, 4, 5]]
     envs = VectorEnv(env_fns)
+    envs.seed(666)
+    obs = envs.reset()
+    assert not np.isclose(obs[0]['rand'], obs[1]['rand'])
     c1 = Collector(policy, envs, ReplayBuffer(size=100),
                    Logger.single_preprocess_fn)
+    c1.seed(0)
     c1.collect(n_step=10)
     c1.collect(n_episode=[2, 1, 1, 2])
     batch = c1.sample(10)

test/discrete/test_pg.py

@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ def get_args():
     parser.add_argument('--task', type=str, default='CartPole-v0')
     parser.add_argument('--seed', type=int, default=1626)
     parser.add_argument('--buffer-size', type=int, default=20000)
-    parser.add_argument('--lr', type=float, default=3e-4)
+    parser.add_argument('--lr', type=float, default=1e-3)
     parser.add_argument('--gamma', type=float, default=0.9)
     parser.add_argument('--epoch', type=int, default=10)
     parser.add_argument('--step-per-epoch', type=int, default=1000)

tianshou/env/basevecenv.py

@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ class BaseVectorEnv(ABC, gym.Env):
         obs, rew, done, info = envs.step([1] * 8)  # step synchronously
         envs.render()  # render all environments
         envs.close()  # close all environments
+
+    .. warning::
+
+        If you use your own environment, please make sure the ``seed`` method
+        is set up properly, e.g.,
+        ::
+
+            def seed(self, seed):
+                np.random.seed(seed)
+
+        Otherwise, the outputs of these envs may be the same with each other.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, env_fns: List[Callable[[], gym.Env]]) -> None:

tianshou/policy/modelfree/a2c.py

@@ -108,8 +108,9 @@ class A2CPolicy(PGPolicy):
                 v = self.critic(b.obs).flatten()
                 a = to_torch_as(b.act, v)
                 r = to_torch_as(b.returns, v)
-                a_loss = -(dist.log_prob(a).flatten() * (r - v).detach()
-                           ).mean()
+                log_prob = dist.log_prob(a).reshape(
+                    r.shape[0], -1).transpose(0, 1)
+                a_loss = -(log_prob * (r - v).detach()).mean()
                 vf_loss = F.mse_loss(r, v)
                 ent_loss = dist.entropy().mean()
                 loss = a_loss + self._w_vf * vf_loss - self._w_ent * ent_loss

tianshou/policy/modelfree/dqn.py

@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ class DQNPolicy(BasePolicy):
         if self._target and self._cnt % self._freq == 0:
             self.sync_weight()
         self.optim.zero_grad()
-        q = self(batch).logits
+        q = self(batch, eps=0.).logits
         q = q[np.arange(len(q)), batch.act]
         r = to_torch_as(batch.returns, q).flatten()
         if hasattr(batch, 'update_weight'):

tianshou/policy/modelfree/pg.py

@@ -90,7 +90,9 @@ class PGPolicy(BasePolicy):
                 dist = self(b).dist
                 a = to_torch_as(b.act, dist.logits)
                 r = to_torch_as(b.returns, dist.logits)
-                loss = -(dist.log_prob(a).flatten() * r).sum()
+                log_prob = dist.log_prob(a).reshape(
+                    r.shape[0], -1).transpose(0, 1)
+                loss = -(log_prob * r).mean()
                 loss.backward()
                 self.optim.step()
                 losses.append(loss.item())

tianshou/policy/modelfree/ppo.py

@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ class PPOPolicy(PGPolicy):
                     to_torch_as(b.act, v[0])))
         batch.v = torch.cat(v, dim=0).flatten()  # old value
         batch.act = to_torch_as(batch.act, v[0])
-        batch.logp_old = torch.cat(old_log_prob, dim=0).flatten()
+        batch.logp_old = torch.cat(old_log_prob, dim=0)
         batch.returns = to_torch_as(batch.returns, v[0])
         if self._rew_norm:
             mean, std = batch.returns.mean(), batch.returns.std()
@@ -147,8 +147,8 @@ class PPOPolicy(PGPolicy):
             for b in batch.split(batch_size):
                 dist = self(b).dist
                 value = self.critic(b.obs).flatten()
-                ratio = (dist.log_prob(b.act).flatten()
-                         - b.logp_old).exp().float()
+                ratio = (dist.log_prob(b.act) - b.logp_old).exp().float()
+                ratio = ratio.reshape(ratio.size(0), -1).transpose(0, 1)
                 surr1 = ratio * b.adv
                 surr2 = ratio.clamp(1. - self._eps_clip,
                                     1. + self._eps_clip) * b.adv

tianshou/utils/net/common.py

@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class Net(nn.Module):
     def forward(self, s, state=None, info={}):
         """s -> flatten -> logits"""
         s = to_torch(s, device=self.device, dtype=torch.float32)
-        s = s.flatten(1)
+        s = s.reshape(s.size(0), -1)
         logits = self.model(s)
         return logits, state