## implementation
I implemented HER solely as a replay buffer. It is done by temporarily
directly re-writing transitions storage (`self._meta`) during the
`sample_indices()` call. The original transitions are cached and will be
restored at the beginning of the next sampling or when other methods is
called. This will make sure that. for example, n-step return calculation
can be done without altering the policy.
There is also a problem with the original indices sampling. The sampled
indices are not guaranteed to be from different episodes. So I decided
to perform re-writing based on the episode. This guarantees that the
sampled transitions from the same episode will have the same re-written
goal. This also make the re-writing ratio calculation slightly differ
from the paper, but it won't be too different if there are many episodes
in the buffer.
In the current commit, HER replay buffer only support 'future' strategy
and online sampling. This is the best of HER in term of performance and
memory efficiency.
I also add a few more convenient replay buffers
(`HERVectorReplayBuffer`, `HERReplayBufferManager`), test env
(`MyGoalEnv`), gym wrapper (`TruncatedAsTerminated`), unit tests, and a
simple example (examples/offline/fetch_her_ddpg.py).
## verification
I have added unit tests for almost everything I have implemented.
HER replay buffer was also tested using DDPG on [`FetchReach-v3`
env](https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/Gymnasium-Robotics). I used
default DDPG parameters from mujoco example and didn't tune anything
further to get this good result! (train script:
examples/offline/fetch_her_ddpg.py).
This is the third PR of 6 commits mentioned in #274, which features refactor of Collector to fix#245. You can check #274 for more detail.
Things changed in this PR:
1. refactor collector to be more cleaner, split AsyncCollector to support asyncvenv;
2. change buffer.add api to add(batch, bffer_ids); add several types of buffer (VectorReplayBuffer, PrioritizedVectorReplayBuffer, etc.)
3. add policy.exploration_noise(act, batch) -> act
4. small change in BasePolicy.compute_*_returns
5. move reward_metric from collector to trainer
6. fix np.asanyarray issue (different version's numpy will result in different output)
7. flake8 maxlength=88
8. polish docs and fix test
Co-authored-by: n+e <trinkle23897@gmail.com>
