Michael Panchenko 3a1bc18add
Method to compute actions from observations (#991)
This PR adds a new method for getting actions from an env's observation
and info. This is useful for standard inference and stands in contrast
to batch-based methods that are currently used in training and
evaluation. Without this, users have to do some kind of gymnastics to
actually perform inference with a trained policy. I have also added a
test for the new method.

In future PRs, this method should be included in the examples (in the
the "watch" section).

To add this required improving multiple typing things and, importantly,
_simplifying the signature of `forward` in many policies!_ This is a
**breaking change**, but it will likely affect no users. The `input`
parameter of forward was a rather hacky mechanism, I believe it is good
that it's gone now. It will also help with #948 .

The main functional change is the addition of `compute_action` to
`BasePolicy`.

Other minor changes:
- improvements in typing
- updated PR and Issue templates
- Improved handling of `max_action_num`

Closes #981
2023-11-16 17:27:53 +00:00

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from typing import Any, cast
import numpy as np
from tianshou.data import Batch
from tianshou.data.batch import BatchProtocol
from tianshou.data.types import ActBatchProtocol, ObsBatchProtocol, RolloutBatchProtocol
from tianshou.policy import BasePolicy
class RandomPolicy(BasePolicy):
"""A random agent used in multi-agent learning.
It randomly chooses an action from the legal action.
"""
def forward(
self,
batch: ObsBatchProtocol,
state: dict | BatchProtocol | np.ndarray | None = None,
**kwargs: Any,
) -> ActBatchProtocol:
"""Compute the random action over the given batch data.
The input should contain a mask in batch.obs, with "True" to be
available and "False" to be unavailable. For example,
``batch.obs.mask == np.array([[False, True, False]])`` means with batch
size 1, action "1" is available but action "0" and "2" are unavailable.
:return: A :class:`~tianshou.data.Batch` with "act" key, containing
the random action.
.. seealso::
Please refer to :meth:`~tianshou.policy.BasePolicy.forward` for
more detailed explanation.
"""
mask = batch.obs.mask # type: ignore
logits = np.random.rand(*mask.shape)
logits[~mask] = -np.inf
result = Batch(act=logits.argmax(axis=-1))
return cast(ActBatchProtocol, result)
def learn(self, batch: RolloutBatchProtocol, *args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> dict[str, float]:
"""Since a random agent learns nothing, it returns an empty dict."""
return {}