Tianshou/docs/index.rst
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Hindsight Experience Replay as a replay buffer (#753)
## 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).


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.. Tianshou documentation master file, created by
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Welcome to Tianshou!
====================
**Tianshou** (`天授 <https://baike.baidu.com/item/%E5%A4%A9%E6%8E%88>`_) is a reinforcement learning platform based on pure PyTorch. Unlike existing reinforcement learning libraries, which are mainly based on TensorFlow, have many nested classes, unfriendly API, or slow-speed, Tianshou provides a fast-speed framework and pythonic API for building the deep reinforcement learning agent. The supported interface algorithms include:
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.DQNPolicy` `Deep Q-Network <https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/dqn/DQNNaturePaper.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.DQNPolicy` `Double DQN <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.06461.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.DQNPolicy` `Dueling DQN <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.06581.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.BranchingDQNPolicy` `Branching DQN <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1711.08946.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.C51Policy` `Categorical DQN <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06887.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.RainbowPolicy` `Rainbow DQN <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.02298.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.QRDQNPolicy` `Quantile Regression DQN <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.10044.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.IQNPolicy` `Implicit Quantile Network <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.06923.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.FQFPolicy` `Fully-parameterized Quantile Function <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.02140.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.PGPolicy` `Policy Gradient <https://papers.nips.cc/paper/1713-policy-gradient-methods-for-reinforcement-learning-with-function-approximation.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.NPGPolicy` `Natural Policy Gradient <https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2001/file/4b86abe48d358ecf194c56c69108433e-Paper.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.A2CPolicy` `Advantage Actor-Critic <https://openai.com/blog/baselines-acktr-a2c/>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.TRPOPolicy` `Trust Region Policy Optimization <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.05477.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.PPOPolicy` `Proximal Policy Optimization <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.06347.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.DDPGPolicy` `Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.02971.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.TD3Policy` `Twin Delayed DDPG <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.09477.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.SACPolicy` `Soft Actor-Critic <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.05905.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.REDQPolicy` `Randomized Ensembled Double Q-Learning <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.05982.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.DiscreteSACPolicy` `Discrete Soft Actor-Critic <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.07207.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.ImitationPolicy` Imitation Learning
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.BCQPolicy` `Batch-Constrained deep Q-Learning <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.02900.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.CQLPolicy` `Conservative Q-Learning <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.04779.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.TD3BCPolicy` `Twin Delayed DDPG with Behavior Cloning <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.06860.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.DiscreteBCQPolicy` `Discrete Batch-Constrained deep Q-Learning <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.01708.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.DiscreteCQLPolicy` `Discrete Conservative Q-Learning <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.04779.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.DiscreteCRRPolicy` `Critic Regularized Regression <https://arxiv.org/pdf/2006.15134.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.GAILPolicy` `Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1606.03476.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.PSRLPolicy` `Posterior Sampling Reinforcement Learning <https://www.ece.uvic.ca/~bctill/papers/learning/Strens_2000.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.policy.ICMPolicy` `Intrinsic Curiosity Module <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1705.05363.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.data.PrioritizedReplayBuffer` `Prioritized Experience Replay <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1511.05952.pdf>`_
* :meth:`~tianshou.policy.BasePolicy.compute_episodic_return` `Generalized Advantage Estimator <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02438.pdf>`_
* :class:`~tianshou.data.HERReplayBuffer` `Hindsight Experience Replay <https://arxiv.org/pdf/1707.01495.pdf>`_
Here is Tianshou's other features:
* Elegant framework, using only ~3000 lines of code
* State-of-the-art `MuJoCo benchmark <https://github.com/thu-ml/tianshou/tree/master/examples/mujoco>`_
* Support vectorized environment (synchronous or asynchronous) for all algorithms: :ref:`parallel_sampling`
* Support super-fast vectorized environment `EnvPool <https://github.com/sail-sg/envpool/>`_ for all algorithms: :ref:`envpool_integration`
* Support recurrent state representation in actor network and critic network (RNN-style training for POMDP): :ref:`rnn_training`
* Support any type of environment state/action (e.g. a dict, a self-defined class, ...): :ref:`self_defined_env`
* Support :ref:`customize_training`
* Support n-step returns estimation :meth:`~tianshou.policy.BasePolicy.compute_nstep_return` and prioritized experience replay :class:`~tianshou.data.PrioritizedReplayBuffer` for all Q-learning based algorithms; GAE, nstep and PER are very fast thanks to numba jit function and vectorized numpy operation
* Support :doc:`/tutorials/tictactoe`
* Support both `TensorBoard <https://www.tensorflow.org/tensorboard>`_ and `W&B <https://wandb.ai/>`_ log tools
* Support multi-GPU training :ref:`multi_gpu`
* Comprehensive `unit tests <https://github.com/thu-ml/tianshou/actions>`_, including functional checking, RL pipeline checking, documentation checking, PEP8 code-style checking, and type checking
中文文档位于 `https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/zh/master/ <https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/zh/master/>`_
Installation
------------
Tianshou is currently hosted on `PyPI <https://pypi.org/project/tianshou/>`_ and `conda-forge <https://github.com/conda-forge/tianshou-feedstock>`_. It requires Python >= 3.6.
You can simply install Tianshou from PyPI with the following command:
.. code-block:: bash
$ pip install tianshou
If you use Anaconda or Miniconda, you can install Tianshou from conda-forge through the following command:
.. code-block:: bash
$ conda -c conda-forge install tianshou
You can also install with the newest version through GitHub:
.. code-block:: bash
$ pip install git+https://github.com/thu-ml/tianshou.git@master --upgrade
After installation, open your python console and type
::
import tianshou
print(tianshou.__version__)
If no error occurs, you have successfully installed Tianshou.
Tianshou is still under development, you can also check out the documents in stable version through `tianshou.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ <https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/en/stable/>`_.
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
:caption: Tutorials
tutorials/get_started
tutorials/dqn
tutorials/concepts
tutorials/batch
tutorials/tictactoe
tutorials/logger
tutorials/benchmark
tutorials/cheatsheet
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
:caption: API Docs
api/tianshou.data
api/tianshou.env
api/tianshou.policy
api/tianshou.trainer
api/tianshou.exploration
api/tianshou.utils
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 1
:caption: Community
contributing
contributor
Indices and tables
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* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`