Discrete-SAC-PyTorch

This repository is a PyTorch implementation of the Discrete SAC on MsPacmanNoFrameskip-v4 environment.

Soft Actor-Critic Algorithms and Applications is known to be the state-of-the-art reinforcement algorithm for continuous action settings, however to make it applicable for discrete action settings, some modifications should be carried on its derivation:

Continuous SAC	Discrete SAC

Demo

Non-Greedy Stochastic Action Selection	Greedy Action Selection

Results

x-axis: episode number.

Table of hyper-parameters

All values are based on the original paper.

Parameters	Value
lr	3e-4
batch_size	64
gamma	0.99
initial_random_steps	20000
train_period (number of steps between each optimization)	4
fixed_network_update_freq	8000

Dependencies

• gym == 0.17.3
• numpy == 1.19.2
• opencv_contrib_python == 4.4.0.44
• psutil == 5.5.1
• torch == 1.6.0

Installation

pip3 install -r requirements.txt

Usage

How to run

main.py [-h] [--mem_size MEM_SIZE] [--env_name ENV_NAME]
               [--interval INTERVAL] [--do_train] [--train_from_scratch]
               [--do_intro_env]

Variable parameters based on the configuration of the machine or user's choice

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --mem_size MEM_SIZE   The memory size.
  --env_name ENV_NAME   Name of the environment.
  --interval INTERVAL   The interval specifies how often different parameters
                        should be saved and printed, counted by episodes.
  --do_train            The flag determines whether to train the agent or play
                        with it.
  --train_from_scratch  The flag determines whether to train from scratch or
                        continue previous tries.
  --do_intro_env        Only introduce the environment then close the program.

• In order to train the agent with default arguments , execute the following command and use --do_train flag, otherwise the agent would be tested (You may change the memory capacity and the environment based on your desire.):

python3 main.py --mem_size=135000 --env_name="MsPacmanNoFrameskip-v4" --interval=100 --do_train

• If you want to keep training your previous run, execute the followoing:

python3 main.py --mem_size=135000 --env_name="MsPacmanNoFrameskip-v4" --interval=100 --do_train --train_from_scratch

Hardware requirements

• The whole training procedure was done on Google Colab and it took less than an hour of training, thus a machine with similar configuration would be sufficient.

Structure

├── Brain
│   ├── agent.py
│   └── model.py
├── Common
│   ├── config.py
│   ├── logger.py
│   ├── play.py
│   └── utils.py
├── demo
│   ├── greedy.gif
│   └── non-greedy.gif
├── equations
│   ├── continuous_alpha.png
│   ├── continuous_policy.png
│   ├── continuous_v.png
│   ├── discrete_alpha.png
│   ├── discrete_policy.png
│   └── discrete_v.png
├── main.py
├── Memory
│   └── replay_memory.py
├── models
│   └── 2020-12-07-14-38-22
│       └── params.pth
├── __pycache__
├── README.md
├── requirements.txt
└── results
    ├── alpha_loss.png
    ├── alpha.png
    ├── max_episode_reward.png
    ├── policy_loss.png
    ├── q_loss.png
    └── running_reward.png

1. Brain dir consists the neural network structure and the agent decision making core.
2. Common consists minor codes that are common for most RL codes and do auxiliary tasks like: logging, wrapping Atari environments and... .
3. main.py is the core module of the code that manges all other parts and make the agent interact with the environment.
4. Memory consists memory of the agent.

References

1. Soft Actor-Critic For Discrete Action Settings, Christodoulou, 2019
2. Soft Actor-Critic Algorithms and Applications, Haarnoja et al., 2018

Acknowledgement

1. Big thanks to the author of the reference paper and the publisher of the original code, @p-christ.
2. The @ku2482's code, sac-discrete.pytorch is a great guide to implement the Discrete SAC algorithm.