This PR focus on refactor of logging method to solve bug of nan reward and log interval. After these two pr, hopefully fundamental change of tianshou/data is finished. We then can concentrate on building benchmarks of tianshou finally.
Things changed:
1. trainer now accepts logger (BasicLogger or LazyLogger) instead of writer;
2. remove utils.SummaryWriter;
This PR focus on some definition change of trainer to make it more friendly to use and be consistent with typical usage in research papers, typically change `collect-per-step` to `step-per-collect`, add `update-per-step` / `episode-per-collect` accordingly, and modify the documentation.
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>
This is the second commit of 6 commits mentioned in #274, which features minor refactor of ReplayBuffer and adding two new ReplayBuffer classes called CachedReplayBuffer and ReplayBufferManager. You can check #274 for more detail.
1. Add ReplayBufferManager (handle a list of buffers) and CachedReplayBuffer;
2. Make sure the reserved keys cannot be edited by methods like `buffer.done = xxx`;
3. Add `set_batch` method for manually choosing the batch the ReplayBuffer wants to handle;
4. Add `sample_index` method, same as `sample` but only return index instead of both index and batch data;
5. Add `prev` (one-step previous transition index), `next` (one-step next transition index) and `unfinished_index` (the last modified index whose done==False);
6. Separate `alloc_fn` method for allocating new memory for `self._meta` when a new `(key, value)` pair comes in;
7. Move buffer's documentation to `docs/tutorials/concepts.rst`.
Co-authored-by: n+e <trinkle23897@gmail.com>
This is the PR for QR-DQN algorithm: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.10044
1. add QR-DQN policy in tianshou/policy/modelfree/qrdqn.py.
2. add QR-DQN net in examples/atari/atari_network.py.
3. add QR-DQN atari example in examples/atari/atari_qrdqn.py.
4. add QR-DQN statement in tianshou/policy/init.py.
5. add QR-DQN unit test in test/discrete/test_qrdqn.py.
6. add QR-DQN atari results in examples/atari/results/qrdqn/.
7. add compute_q_value in DQNPolicy and C51Policy for simplify forward function.
8. move `with torch.no_grad():` from `_target_q` to BasePolicy
By running "python3 atari_qrdqn.py --task "PongNoFrameskip-v4" --batch-size 64", get best_result': '19.8 ± 0.40', in epoch 8.