DQN

DQNPolicy

class ding.policy.dqn.DQNPolicy(cfg: dict, model: Optional[Union[type, torch.nn.modules.module.Module]] = None, enable_field: Optional[List[str]] = None)

Overview:

Policy class of DQN algorithm, extended by Double DQN/Dueling DQN/PER/multi-step TD.

Config:

ID	Symbol	Type	Default Value	Description	Other(Shape)
1	type	str	dqn	RL policy register name, refer to registry POLICY_REGISTRY	This arg is optional, a placeholder
2	cuda	bool	False	Whether to use cuda for network	This arg can be diff- erent from modes
3	on_policy	bool	False	Whether the RL algorithm is on-policy or off-policy
4	priority	bool	False	Whether use priority(PER)	Priority sample, update priority
5	priority_IS _weight	bool	False	Whether use Importance Sampling Weight to correct biased update. If True, priority must be True.
6	discount_ factor	float	0.97, [0.95, 0.999]	Reward’s future discount factor, aka. gamma	May be 1 when sparse reward env
7	nstep	int	1, [3, 5]	N-step reward discount sum for target q_value estimation
8	learn.update per_collect	int	3	How many updates(iterations) to train after collector’s one collection. Only valid in serial training	This args can be vary from envs. Bigger val means more off-policy
9	learn.multi _gpu	bool	False	whether to use multi gpu during
10	learn.batch_ size	int	64	The number of samples of an iteration
11	learn.learning _rate	float	0.001	Gradient step length of an iteration.
12	learn.target_ update_freq	int	100	Frequence of target network update.	Hard(assign) update
13	learn.ignore_ done	bool	False	Whether ignore done for target value calculation.	Enable it for some fake termination env
14	collect.n_sample	int	[8, 128]	The number of training samples of a call of collector.	It varies from different envs
15	collect.unroll _len	int	1	unroll length of an iteration	In RNN, unroll_len>1
16	other.eps.type	str	exp	exploration rate decay type	Support [‘exp’, ‘linear’].
17	other.eps. start	float	0.95	start value of exploration rate	[0,1]
18	other.eps. end	float	0.1	end value of exploration rate	[0,1]
19	other.eps. decay	int	10000	decay length of exploration	greater than 0. set decay=10000 means the exploration rate decay from start value to end value during decay length.

_forward_collect(data: Dict[int, Any], eps: float) → Dict[int, Any]

Overview:

Forward computation graph of collect mode(collect training data), with eps_greedy for exploration.

Arguments:

• data (Dict[str, Any]): Dict type data, stacked env data for predicting policy_output(action), values are torch.Tensor or np.ndarray or dict/list combinations, keys are env_id indicated by integer.

• eps (float): epsilon value for exploration, which is decayed by collected env step.

Returns:

• output (Dict[int, Any]): The dict of predicting policy_output(action) for the interaction with env and the constructing of transition.

ArgumentsKeys:

• necessary: obs

ReturnsKeys

• necessary: logit, action

_forward_eval(data: Dict[int, Any]) → Dict[int, Any]

Overview:

Forward computation graph of eval mode(evaluate policy performance), at most cases, it is similar to self._forward_collect.

Arguments:

• data (Dict[str, Any]): Dict type data, stacked env data for predicting policy_output(action), values are torch.Tensor or np.ndarray or dict/list combinations, keys are env_id indicated by integer.

Returns:

• output (Dict[int, Any]): The dict of predicting action for the interaction with env.

ArgumentsKeys:

• necessary: obs

ReturnsKeys

• necessary: action

_forward_learn(data: Dict[str, Any]) → Dict[str, Any]

Overview:

Forward computation graph of learn mode(updating policy).

Arguments:

• data (Dict[str, Any]): Dict type data, a batch of data for training, values are torch.Tensor or np.ndarray or dict/list combinations.

Returns:

• info_dict (Dict[str, Any]): Dict type data, a info dict indicated training result, which will be recorded in text log and tensorboard, values are python scalar or a list of scalars.

ArgumentsKeys:

• necessary: obs, action, reward, next_obs, done

• optional: value_gamma, IS

ReturnsKeys:

• necessary: cur_lr, total_loss, priority

• optional: action_distribution

_get_train_sample(data: List[Dict[str, Any]]) → List[Dict[str, Any]]

Overview:

For a given trajectory(transitions, a list of transition) data, process it into a list of sample that can be used for training directly. A train sample can be a processed transition(DQN with nstep TD) or some continuous transitions(DRQN).

Arguments:

• data (List[Dict[str, Any]): The trajectory data(a list of transition), each element is the same format as the return value of self._process_transition method.

Returns:

• samples (dict): The list of training samples.

Note

We will vectorize process_transition and get_train_sample method in the following release version. And the user can customize the this data processing procecure by overriding this two methods and collector itself.

_init_collect() → None

Overview:

Collect mode init method. Called by self.__init__, initialize algorithm arguments and collect_model, enable the eps_greedy_sample for exploration.

_init_eval() → None

Overview:

Evaluate mode init method. Called by self.__init__, initialize eval_model.

_init_learn() → None

Overview:

Learn mode init method. Called by self.__init__, initialize the optimizer, algorithm arguments, main and target model.

_load_state_dict_learn(state_dict: Dict[str, Any]) → None

Overview:

Load the state_dict variable into policy learn mode.

Arguments:

• state_dict (Dict[str, Any]): the dict of policy learn state saved before.

Tip

If you want to only load some parts of model, you can simply set the strict argument in load_state_dict to False, or refer to ding.torch_utils.checkpoint_helper for more complicated operation.

_process_transition(obs: Any, policy_output: Dict[str, Any], timestep: collections.namedtuple) → Dict[str, Any]

Overview:

Generate a transition(e.g.: <s, a, s’, r, d>) for this algorithm training.

Arguments:

• obs (Any): Env observation.

• policy_output (Dict[str, Any]): The output of policy collect mode(self._forward_collect), including at least action.

• timestep (namedtuple): The output after env step(execute policy output action), including at least obs, reward, done, (here obs indicates obs after env step).

Returns:

• transition (dict): Dict type transition data.

_state_dict_learn() → Dict[str, Any]

Overview:

Return the state_dict of learn mode, usually including model and optimizer.

Returns:

• state_dict (Dict[str, Any]): the dict of current policy learn state, for saving and restoring.

default_model() → Tuple[str, List[str]]

Overview:

Return this algorithm default model setting for demonstration.

Returns:

• model_info (Tuple[str, List[str]]): model name and mode import_names

Note

The user can define and use customized network model but must obey the same inferface definition indicated by import_names path. For DQN, ding.model.template.q_learning.DQN