Tianshou - An elegant PyTorch deep reinforcement learning library.

Last update: Jan 05, 2023

Overview

Tianshou (天授) 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 modularized framework and pythonic API for building the deep reinforcement learning agent with the least number of lines of code. The supported interface algorithms currently include:

Here is Tianshou's other features:

Elegant framework, using only ~4000 lines of code
State-of-the-art MuJoCo benchmark for REINFORCE/A2C/TRPO/PPO/DDPG/TD3/SAC algorithms
Support parallel environment simulation (synchronous or asynchronous) for all algorithms Usage
Support recurrent state representation in actor network and critic network (RNN-style training for POMDP) Usage
Support any type of environment state/action (e.g. a dict, a self-defined class, ...) Usage
Support customized training process Usage
Support n-step returns estimation and prioritized experience replay for all Q-learning based algorithms; GAE, nstep and PER are very fast thanks to numba jit function and vectorized numpy operation
Support multi-agent RL Usage
Support both TensorBoard and W&B log tools
Support multi-GPU training Usage
Comprehensive documentation, PEP8 code-style checking, type checking and unit tests

In Chinese, Tianshou means divinely ordained and is derived to the gift of being born with. Tianshou is a reinforcement learning platform, and the RL algorithm does not learn from humans. So taking "Tianshou" means that there is no teacher to study with, but rather to learn by themselves through constant interaction with the environment.

“天授”意指上天所授，引申为与生具有的天赋。天授是强化学习平台，而强化学习算法并不是向人类学习的，所以取“天授”意思是没有老师来教，而是自己通过跟环境不断交互来进行学习。

Installation

Tianshou is currently hosted on PyPI and conda-forge. It requires Python >= 3.6.

You can simply install Tianshou from PyPI with the following command:

$ pip install tianshou

If you use Anaconda or Miniconda, you can install Tianshou from conda-forge through the following command:

$ conda install -c conda-forge tianshou

You can also install with the newest version through GitHub:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/thu-ml/[email protected] --upgrade

After installation, open your python console and type

import tianshou
print(tianshou.__version__)

If no error occurs, you have successfully installed Tianshou.

Documentation

The tutorials and API documentation are hosted on tianshou.readthedocs.io.

The example scripts are under test/ folder and examples/ folder.

中文文档位于 https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/zh/master/。

Why Tianshou?

Comprehensive Functionality

RL Platform	# of Alg. ⁽¹⁾	Custom Env	Batch Training	RNN Support	Nested Observation	Backend
Baselines	9	✔️ (gym)	➖ ⁽²⁾	✔️	❌	TF1
Stable-Baselines	11	✔️ (gym)	➖ ⁽²⁾	✔️	❌	TF1
Stable-Baselines3	7⁽³⁾	✔️ (gym)	➖ ⁽²⁾	❌	✔️	PyTorch
Ray/RLlib	16	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	TF/PyTorch
SpinningUp	6	✔️ (gym)	➖ ⁽²⁾	❌	❌	PyTorch
Dopamine	7	❌	❌	❌	❌	TF/JAX
ACME	14	✔️ (dm_env)	✔️	✔️	✔️	TF/JAX
keras-rl	7	✔️ (gym)	❌	❌	❌	Keras
rlpyt	11	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	PyTorch
ChainerRL	18	✔️ (gym)	✔️	✔️	❌	Chainer
Sample Factory	1⁽⁴⁾	✔️ (gym)	✔️	✔️	✔️	PyTorch

Tianshou	20	✔️ (gym)	✔️	✔️	✔️	PyTorch

^{(1): access date: 2021-08-08}

^{(2): not all algorithms support this feature}

^{(3): TQC and QR-DQN in sb3-contrib instead of main repo}

^{(4): super fast APPO!}

High quality software engineering standard

RL Platform	Documentation	Code Coverage	Type Hints
Baselines	❌	❌	❌
Stable-Baselines			❌
Stable-Baselines3			✔️
Ray/RLlib		➖ ⁽¹⁾	✔️
SpinningUp		❌	❌
Dopamine		❌	❌
ACME		➖ ⁽¹⁾	✔️
keras-rl		➖ ⁽¹⁾	❌
rlpyt			❌
ChainerRL			❌
Sample Factory	➖		❌

Tianshou			✔️

^{(1): it has continuous integration but the coverage rate is not available}

Reproducible and High Quality Result

Tianshou has its unit tests. Different from other platforms, the unit tests include the full agent training procedure for all of the implemented algorithms. It would be failed once if it could not train an agent to perform well enough on limited epochs on toy scenarios. The unit tests secure the reproducibility of our platform. Check out the GitHub Actions page for more detail.

The Atari/Mujoco benchmark results are under examples/atari/ and examples/mujoco/ folders. Our Mujoco result can beat most of existing benchmark.

Modularized Policy

We decouple all of the algorithms roughly into the following parts:

__init__: initialize the policy;
forward: to compute actions over given observations;
process_fn: to preprocess data from replay buffer (since we have reformulated all algorithms to replay-buffer based algorithms);
learn: to learn from a given batch data;
post_process_fn: to update the replay buffer from the learning process (e.g., prioritized replay buffer needs to update the weight);
update: the main interface for training, i.e., process_fn -> learn -> post_process_fn.

Within this API, we can interact with different policies conveniently.

Quick Start

This is an example of Deep Q Network. You can also run the full script at test/discrete/test_dqn.py.

First, import some relevant packages:

import gym, torch, numpy as np, torch.nn as nn
from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
import tianshou as ts

Define some hyper-parameters:

task = 'CartPole-v0'
lr, epoch, batch_size = 1e-3, 10, 64
train_num, test_num = 10, 100
gamma, n_step, target_freq = 0.9, 3, 320
buffer_size = 20000
eps_train, eps_test = 0.1, 0.05
step_per_epoch, step_per_collect = 10000, 10
logger = ts.utils.TensorboardLogger(SummaryWriter('log/dqn'))  # TensorBoard is supported!
# For other loggers: https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/en/master/tutorials/logger.html

Make environments:

# you can also try with SubprocVectorEnv
train_envs = ts.env.DummyVectorEnv([lambda: gym.make(task) for _ in range(train_num)])
test_envs = ts.env.DummyVectorEnv([lambda: gym.make(task) for _ in range(test_num)])

Define the network:

from tianshou.utils.net.common import Net
# you can define other net by following the API:
# https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/en/master/tutorials/dqn.html#build-the-network
env = gym.make(task)
state_shape = env.observation_space.shape or env.observation_space.n
action_shape = env.action_space.shape or env.action_space.n
net = Net(state_shape=state_shape, action_shape=action_shape, hidden_sizes=[128, 128, 128])
optim = torch.optim.Adam(net.parameters(), lr=lr)

Setup policy and collectors:

policy = ts.policy.DQNPolicy(net, optim, gamma, n_step, target_update_freq=target_freq)
train_collector = ts.data.Collector(policy, train_envs, ts.data.VectorReplayBuffer(buffer_size, train_num), exploration_noise=True)
test_collector = ts.data.Collector(policy, test_envs, exploration_noise=True)  # because DQN uses epsilon-greedy method

Let's train it:

result = ts.trainer.offpolicy_trainer(
    policy, train_collector, test_collector, epoch, step_per_epoch, step_per_collect,
    test_num, batch_size, update_per_step=1 / step_per_collect,
    train_fn=lambda epoch, env_step: policy.set_eps(eps_train),
    test_fn=lambda epoch, env_step: policy.set_eps(eps_test),
    stop_fn=lambda mean_rewards: mean_rewards >= env.spec.reward_threshold,
    logger=logger)
print(f'Finished training! Use {result["duration"]}')

Save / load the trained policy (it's exactly the same as PyTorch nn.module):

torch.save(policy.state_dict(), 'dqn.pth')
policy.load_state_dict(torch.load('dqn.pth'))

Watch the performance with 35 FPS:

policy.eval()
policy.set_eps(eps_test)
collector = ts.data.Collector(policy, env, exploration_noise=True)
collector.collect(n_episode=1, render=1 / 35)

Look at the result saved in tensorboard: (with bash script in your terminal)

$ tensorboard --logdir log/dqn

You can check out the documentation for advanced usage.

It's worth a try: here is a test on a laptop (i7-8750H + GTX1060). It only uses 3 seconds for training an agent based on vanilla policy gradient on the CartPole-v0 task: (seed may be different across different platform and device)

$ python3 test/discrete/test_pg.py --seed 0 --render 0.03

Contributing

Tianshou is still under development. More algorithms and features are going to be added and we always welcome contributions to help make Tianshou better. If you would like to contribute, please check out this link.

Citing Tianshou

If you find Tianshou useful, please cite it in your publications.

@article{weng2021tianshou,
  title={Tianshou: A Highly Modularized Deep Reinforcement Learning Library},
  author={Weng, Jiayi and Chen, Huayu and Yan, Dong and You, Kaichao and Duburcq, Alexis and Zhang, Minghao and Su, Hang and Zhu, Jun},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.14171},
  year={2021}
}

Acknowledgment

Tianshou was previously a reinforcement learning platform based on TensorFlow. You can check out the branch priv for more detail. Many thanks to Haosheng Zou's pioneering work for Tianshou before version 0.1.1.

We would like to thank TSAIL and Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Tsinghua University for providing such an excellent AI research platform.

Comments

RNN support
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I see on README that RNN support is on your TODO list. However, the module API seems to support RNN ( forward(obs, state) method). Could you please provide some examples on how to train RNN policy? Thanks!
enhancement good first issue
opened by miriaford 55
assignment with heterogeneous batches
In #142 , we specify the standard behavior of aggregating heterogeneous batches. Here we discuss assignment with heterogeneous batches.

In Tianshou 0.2.5, batch assignment b0[index] = b1 requires that b0 and b1 are homogeneous (they have the same structure), but sometimes we need to deal with assignment with heterogeneous batches.

Consider the following examples with reserved keys:

x = Batch(a=[1, 2, 3, 4], b=Batch()) y = Batch(a=Batch(), b=[5, 8]) x[np.array([0, 1])] = y

x = Batch(a=[1, 2, 3, 4], b=Batch()) y = Batch(b=[5, 8]) x[np.array([0, 1])] = y

x = Batch(a=[1, 2, 3, 4]) y = Batch(a=Batch(), b=[5, 8]) x[np.array([0, 1])] = y

What are the natural answers to these code snippets?

Just raising exceptions is a possible solution, but I think it is not enough. From the rationale of reserved keys, I think assignment with heterogeneous batches should be allowed when they have clear meaning.

An example of usage is in async simulation: I reset all environments and gather the initial observation & actions, but do not know about the reward & info, so I have a data = Batch(obs=xxx, act=xxx, info=Batch()). After one round of async simulation, environments 1 and 3 returned their next observations, so I have stepped_data = Batch(obs_next=xxx, info=xxx, rew=xxx). Then I have to set them back to the data, by data[np.array([1, 3])] = stepped_data.

For any key chain k, there are 3 cases:

data[k] is non-reserved but stepped_data[k] is reserved or does not exist (e.g. k='obs'), then I expect that data[k] is not changed after the assignment data[index] = stepped_data

data[k] is reserved or does not exist but stepped_data[k] is non-reserved (e.g. k='obs_next'), then I expect that data[k] will be filled with zeros first, and then data[k][index] = stepped_data[k] works.

both data[k] and stepped_data[k] are non-reserved, this is easy, just do the assignment data[k][index] = stepped_data[k].

discussion
opened by youkaichao 44
W&B: add artifacts support
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This PR fixes existing bugs in WandbLogger and adds support for artifacts.

When using WandbLogger, you can now resume your runs from any device. Example usage is in the examples/atari/atari_dqn_wandb.py:

cd examples/atari python atari_dqn_wandb.py # terminate run. The run is executable on any device via python atari_dqn_wandb.py --resume_id {your run id}

Let me know if I missed something. This is still a WIP. I'll add some more advanced visualization features.

Bug fix

It seems like the atari_dqn task is passing floats to logger.write method which crashes the script. I've handled the use case but it is hacky. We might need to modify the trainer to always pass dicts
opened by AyushExel 36
Pettingzoo
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Tested with tic-tac-toe, piston ball (discrete and continuous)
opened by mahi97 35
Add CachedReplayBuffer and ReplayBufferManager
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.

Add ReplayBufferManager (handle a list of buffers) and CachedReplayBuffer;

Make sure the reserved keys cannot be edited by methods like buffer.done = xxx;

Add set_batch method for manually choosing the batch the ReplayBuffer wants to handle;

Add sample_index method, same as sample but only return index instead of both index and batch data;

Add prev (one-step previous transition index), next (one-step next transition index) and unfinished_index (the last modified index whose done==False);

Separate alloc_fn method for allocating new memory for self._meta when a new (key, value) pair comes in;

Move buffer's documentation to docs/tutorials/concepts.rst.
opened by ChenDRAG 31
Standardize the behavior of Batch aggregation (stack/cat) when dealing with reserved keys
Currently, we use Batch() to indicate that a key reserves the place in Batch and it will have value later on. It works fine in most cases, but now we have noticed that it is problematic.

The critic problem is: how to treat Batch(c=Batch())? There are two opinions:

Batch(c=Batch()) means hierarchical key reservation, and should be treated as empty. But the problem is, we want to enable the concatenation of Batches with other empty Batches, which is seemingly natural. But considering Batch.cat([Batch(a=np.random.rand(3, 4)), Batch(a=Batch(c=Batch()))]), we would want to treat Batch(c=Batch()) as non-empty.

Batch(c=Batch()) is not empty, and there is no need to support hierarchical key reservation. This makes the implementation straightforward, but does not support hierarchical key reservation. Unfortunately, there are some use cases of hierarchical key reservation in Tianshou.

I think the critical problem is how to reserve keys and support hierarchical key reservation.

@Trinkle23897 @duburcqa
discussion
opened by youkaichao 28
Batching with a variable action space

I am trying to train an agent for a board game, Blokus, which has a potentially large (~32K) action space, while only a small fraction of them are valid by the rule per step. I am implementing the environment which provides all valid actions as observation per step (the shape of observation differs every step). Next I plan to train a DQN agent, but I am not sure how replay buffer batches work with a variable action space. I have read the tic-tac-toe example in the docs. What should I change from tic-tac-toe to adapt to a variable number of actions per step? Thanks!
question

opened by dzy1997 27
Async Sampling
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import tianshou, torch, sys print(tianshou.__version__, torch.__version__, sys.version, sys.platform)

hello~ In most envs, env step cost almost the same time, so SubprocVectorEnv and RayVectorEnv run almost linear scale up. However in my env， each step cost very different time， e.g. 90% step cost 1s, but 10% cost 10s. So when I run 10 SubprocVectorEnv，there are almost no speeding up, because almose envery step, there is a slow step cost 10s, and other 9 fast step cost 1s, but the step 'blocked' to wait for all 10 envs step finished. I think if the 10 envs step independently, the total time can almost linear scale up. But it seems that I have to change collector too much. Do you have any suggestion? Thanks very much for you great work on tianshou~
enhancement good first issue discussion
opened by magicly 25
Make trainer resumable

This is my simple idea: put everything (best_epoch and so on) in a class (TrainLog), and load/save all these things with hooked functions. I use a param epoch-per-save to save all these things every epoch-per-save epoch.

But the problem is that the loggers log every n step/epoch, and we restart our training process from k * epoch-per-save * step-per-epoch env_step, so the loggers will write reduplicative log. I wonder if we can log only when saving the training data.

opened by StephenArk30 24
Add offline trainer and discrete BCQ algorithm

Discrete BCQ: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.01708 Offline trainer discussion: https://github.com/thu-ml/tianshou/issues/248#issuecomment-744921908

Will implement a test_imitation.py in the next PR.

opened by zhujl1991 24

How to restore from h5 file saved by PrioritizedVectorReplayBuffer?

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import tianshou, gym, torch, numpy, sys
print(tianshou.__version__, gym.__version__, torch.__version__, numpy.__version__, sys.version, sys.platform)
0.4.9 0.25.0 1.11.0+cu113 1.20.3 3.9.7 (default, Sep 16 2021, 16:59:28) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] win32

When I run the following statement, it prompts: KeyError: 'weight', how can I modify it?

data, idx = source.sample(0)

buff = PrioritizedVectorReplayBuffer.load_hdf5(buffer_path)

for buf_id, source in enumerate(buff.buffers):  # move data from buff to (old) buffer
    data, idx = source.sample(0)  # get all data
    train_collector.buffer.add(
        data, buffer_ids=np.full(shape=len(idx), fill_value=(buf_id % args.training_num)))
del buff

bug

opened by jaried 23

RecurrentCritic example
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I tried to use PPO+LSTM and got RecurrentActorProb working with PPO.

However, I was not able to make RecurrentCritic work with PPO. There was no concrete example anywhere in the documentation. If someone has I would be interested in a full example with PPO with both recurrent critic and recurrent actor.
opened by jaak-s 0
Problems with using tianshou to train pettingzoo's waterworld environment.
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import tianshou, gym, torch, numpy, sys, pettingzoo print(pettingzoo.__version__, tianshou.__version__, gym.__version__, torch.__version__, numpy.__version__, sys.version, sys.platform)

Versions: -->print(pettingzoo.version, tianshou.version, gym.version, torch.version, numpy.version, sys.version, sys.platform) -->1.22.0 0.4.10 0.26.2 1.11.0+cpu 1.22.0 3.8.13 (default, Mar 28 2022, 06:59:08) [MSC v.1916 64 bit (AMD64)] win32

Requesting help, I've been stuck for days!!! First, I watched "tianshou's documentation on the pettingzoo environment", which is what I learned through. Then, I tried to use tianshou to train pettingzoo's waterworld environment, but there was a problem that I could not solve.

Next I will show the code I used, please help me to see if I am using tianshou wrongly. My code：Click

Only round(step_per_collect*update_per_step)>=1, which means that the error occurs after the step starts collecting. Once steps are collected everything will lead to the following error: The error: Click

I hope to be able to solve my problem, there is a great possibility that there is a problem with the way I use tianshou, but I really can not find the cause of the problem, I hope to get help, thank you very much!
opened by boninggogogo 0
Gymnasium Integration
Changes:

Disclaimer in README

Replaced all occurences of Gym with Gymnasium

Removed code that is now dead since we no longer need to support the old step API

Updated type hints to only allow new step API

Increased required version of envpool to support Gymnasium

Increased required version of PettingZoo to support Gymnasium

Updated PettingZooEnv to only use the new step API, removed hack to also support old API

I had to add some # type: ignore comments, due to new type hinting in Gymnasium. I'm not that familiar with type hinting but I believe that the issue is on the Gymnasium side and we are looking into it.

Had to update MyTestEnv to support options kwarg

Skip NNI tests because they still use OpenAI Gym

Still need to do:

Update the Jupyter notebooks in docs

Check the entire code base for more dead code (from compatibility stuff)

Check the reset functions of all environments/wrappers in code base to make sure they use the options kwarg

Someone might want to check test_env_finite.py
opened by Markus28 3

[Illegal moves] Illegal moves made by tictactoe agent

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import tianshou, gym, torch, numpy, sys
print(tianshou.__version__, gym.__version__, torch.__version__, numpy.__version__, sys.version, sys.platform)

Versions: 0.4.10 0.26.3 1.13.1+cu117 1.23.5 3.9.15 | packaged by conda-forge | (main, Nov 22 2022, 15:55:03)

Hi,

I followed the script https://github.com/Farama-Foundation/PettingZoo/blob/master/tutorials/Tianshou/2_training_agents.py to train a tictactoe agent. After training the model, I tried to play against the trained agent, but it seems that the agent is making illegal moves. My code

state_shape = env.observation_space["observation"].shape
action_shape = env.action_space.n

net = Net(state_shape=state_shape,
          action_shape=action_shape,
          hidden_sizes=[128, 128, 128, 128],
             device="cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu",
            ).to("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu")
optim = torch.optim.Adam(net.parameters(), lr=1e-4)
policy = DQNPolicy(
            model=net,
            optim=optim,
            discount_factor=0.9,
            estimation_step=3,
            target_update_freq=320,
        )

policy.load_state_dict(torch.load(train_path))
agents = env.agents
agent = agents[0]
new_game = True

policy.eval()
while not done:
    action = env.action_space.sample()
    if new_game:
        action = env.action_space.sample()
    else:
        observation['obs'] = observation['obs'].reshape(-1, int(np.prod(state_shape)))  # Reshape observation
        action = policy(Batch(**observation)).act[0]

    observation, reward, done, truncated, info = env.step(action)
    
    if not done:
        player_action = int(input('User input starts with 1 to 7: ')) - 1
        observation, reward, done, truncated, info = env.step(player_action)
        observation['info'] = info

    new_game = False

The game:

I've checked the mask. It looks correct.

Anyone able to help?

question

opened by wei-ann-Github 2

How to implement simple action mask for multiple policies?

I'm using a custom env which requires action mask for some situation (like when obs[0] = 0).

I only found mask implementation in DQN where action needs to be transformed into dict.

Since I'm experimenting on multiple discrete policies such as SAC/DQN/A2C/PPO, is there a universal method to implement mask on action in forward function of these policies?

example like below: environment has "0/1/2" three actions, when obs[0] = 0, action 0 and 2 are unavailable and action 1 is available.

def action_masks(self): if obs[0] == 0: return [False, True, False] else: return [True, True, True]
question

opened by adiyaDalat 1

Releases(v0.4.11)

v0.4.11(Dec 24, 2022)
Enhancement

Hindsight Experience Replay as a replay buffer (#753, @Juno-T)

Fix Atari PPO example (#780, @nuance1979)

Update experiment details of MuJoCo benchmark (#779, @ChenDRAG)

Tiny change since the tests are more than unit tests (#765, @fzyzcjy)

Bug Fix

Multi-agent: gym->gymnasium; render() update (#769, @WillDudley)

Updated atari wrappers (#781, @Markus28)

Fix info not pass issue in PGPolicy (#787, @Trinkle23897)

Source code(tar.gz)
Source code(zip)
tianshou-0.4.11-py3-none-any.whl(159.82 KB)
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v0.4.10(Oct 17, 2022)
Enhancement

Changes to support Gym 0.26.0 (#748, @Markus28)

Added pre-commit (#752, @Markus28)

Added support for new PettingZoo API (#751, @Markus28)

Fix docs tictactoc dummy vector env (#749, @5cat)

Bug fix

Fix 2 bugs and refactor RunningMeanStd to support dict obs norm (#695, @Trinkle23897)

Do not allow async simulation for test collector (#705, @CWHer)

Fix venv wrapper reset retval error with gym env (#712, @Trinkle23897)

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v0.4.9(Jul 4, 2022)
Bug Fix

Fix save_checkpoint_fn return value to checkpoint_path (#659, @Trinkle23897)

Fix an off-by-one bug in trainer iterator (#659, @Trinkle23897)

Fix a bug in Discrete SAC evaluation; default to deterministic mode (#657, @nuance1979)

Fix a bug in trainer about test reward not logged because self.env_step is not set for offline setting (#660, @nuance1979)

Fix exception with watching pistonball environments (#663, @ycheng517)

Use env.np_random.integers instead of env.np_random.randint in Atari examples (#613, @ycheng517)

API Change

Upgrade gym to >=0.23.1, support seed and return_info arguments for reset (#613, @ycheng517)

New Features

Add BranchDQN for large discrete action spaces (#618, @BFAnas)

Add show_progress option for trainer (#641, @michalgregor)

Added support for clipping to DQNPolicy (#642, @michalgregor)

Implement TD3+BC for offline RL (#660, @nuance1979)

Add multiDiscrete to discrete gym action space wrapper (#664, @BFAnas)

Enhancement

Use envpool in vizdoom example (#634, @Trinkle23897)

Add Atari (discrete) SAC examples (#657, @nuance1979)

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tianshou-0.4.9-py3-none-any.whl(152.88 KB)
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v0.4.8(May 5, 2022)
Bug fix

Fix action scaling bug in SAC (#591, @ChenDRAG)

Enhancement

Add write_flush in two loggers, fix argument passing in WandbLogger (#581, @Trinkle23897)

Update Multi-agent RL docs and upgrade pettingzoo (#595, @ycheng517)

Add learning rate scheduler to BasePolicy (#598, @alexnikulkov)

Add Jupyter notebook tutorials using Google Colaboratory (#599, @ChenDRAG)

Unify utils.network: change action_dim to action_shape (#602, @Squeemos)

Update Mujoco bemchmark's webpage (#606, @ChenDRAG)

Add Atari results (#600, @gogoduan) (#616, @ChenDRAG)

Convert RL Unplugged Atari datasets to tianshou ReplayBuffer (#621, @nuance1979)

Implement REDQ (#623, @Jimenius)

Improve data loading from D4RL and convert RL Unplugged to D4RL format (#624, @nuance1979)

Add vecenv wrappers for obs_norm to support running mujoco experiment with envpool (#628, @Trinkle23897)

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tianshou-0.4.8-py3-none-any.whl(146.86 KB)
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v0.4.7(Mar 21, 2022)
Bug Fix

Add map_action_inverse for fixing the error of storing random action (#568)

API Change

Update WandbLogger implementation and update Atari examples, use Tensorboard SummaryWritter as core with wandb.init(..., sync_tensorboard=True) (#558, #562)

Rename save_fn to save_best_fn to avoid ambiguity (#575)

(Internal) Add tianshou.utils.deprecation for a unified deprecation wrapper. (#575)

New Features

Implement Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL), add Mujoco examples (#550)

Add Trainers as generators: OnpolicyTrainer, OffpolicyTrainer, and OfflineTrainer; remove duplicated code and merge into base trainer (#559)

Enhancement

Add imitation baselines for offline RL (#566)

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tianshou-0.4.7-py3-none-any.whl(140.71 KB)
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v0.4.6.post1(Feb 25, 2022)

This release is to fix the conda pkg publish, support more gym version instead of only the newest one, and keep compatibility of internal API. See #536.
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v0.4.6(Feb 25, 2022)
Bug Fix

Fix casts to int by to_torch_as(...) calls in policies when using discrete actions (#521)

API Change

Change venv internal API name of worker: send_action -> send, get_result -> recv (align with envpool) (#517)

New Features

Add Intrinsic Curiosity Module (#503)

Implement CQLPolicy and offline_cql example (#506)

Pettingzoo environment support (#494)

Enable venvs.reset() concurrent execution (#517)

Enhancement

Remove reset_buffer() from reset method (#501)

Add atari ppo example (#523, #529)

Add VizDoom PPO example and results (#533)

Upgrade gym version to >=0.21 (#534)

Switch atari example to use EnvPool by default (#534)

Documentation

Update dqn tutorial and add envpool to docs (#526)

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tianshou-0.4.6-py3-none-any.whl(133.92 KB)
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v0.4.5(Nov 28, 2021)
Bug Fix

Fix tqdm issue (#481)

Fix atari wrapper to be deterministic (#467)

Add writer.flush() in TensorboardLogger to ensure real-time logging result (#485)

Enhancement

Implements set_env_attr and get_env_attr for vector environments (#478)

Implement BCQPolicy and offline_bcq example (#480)

Enable test_collector=None in 3 trainers to turn off testing during training (#485)

Fix an inconsistency in the implementation of Discrete CRR. Now it uses Critic class for its critic, following conventions in other actor-critic policies (#485)

Update several offline policies to use ActorCritic class for its optimizer to eliminate randomness caused by parameter sharing between actor and critic (#485)

Move Atari offline RL examples to examples/offline and tests to test/offline (#485)

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tianshou-0.4.5-py3-none-any.whl(126.49 KB)
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v0.4.4(Oct 13, 2021)
API Change

add a new class DataParallelNet for multi-GPU training (#461)

add ActorCritic for deterministic parameter grouping for share-head actor-critic network (#458)

collector.collect() now returns 4 extra keys: rew/rew_std/len/len_std (previously this work is done in logger) (#459)

rename WandBLogger -> WandbLogger (#441)

Bug Fix

fix logging in atari examples (#444)

Enhancement

save_fn() will be called at the beginning of trainer (#459)

create a new page for logger (#463)

add save_data and restore_data in wandb, allow more input arguments for wandb init, and integrate wandb into test/modelbase/test_psrl.py and examples/atari/atari_dqn.py (#441)

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tianshou-0.4.4-py3-none-any.whl(122.50 KB)
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v0.4.3(Sep 2, 2021)
Bug Fix

fix a2c/ppo optimizer bug when sharing head (#428)

fix ppo dual clip implementation (#435)

Enhancement

add Rainbow (#386)

add WandbLogger (#427)

add env_id in preprocess_fn (#391)

update README, add new chart and bibtex (#406)

add Makefile, now you can use make commit-checks to automatically perform almost all checks (#432)

add isort and yapf, apply to existing codebase (#432)

add spelling check by using make spelling (#432)

update contributing.rst (#432)

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tianshou-0.4.3-py3-none-any.whl(121.00 KB)
tianshou-0.4.3.tar.gz(90.37 KB)
v0.4.2(Jun 26, 2021)
Enhancement

Add model-free dqn family: IQN (#371), FQF (#376)

Add model-free on-policy algorithm: NPG (#344, #347), TRPO (#337, #340)

Add offline-rl algorithm: CQL (#359), CRR (#367)

Support deterministic evaluation for onpolicy algorithms (#354)

Make trainer resumable (#350)

Support different state size and fix exception in venv.__del__ (#352, #384)

Add vizdoom example (#384)

Add numerical analysis tool and interactive plot (#335, #341)

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tianshou-0.4.2-py3-none-any.whl(117.03 KB)
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v0.4.1(Apr 4, 2021)
API Change

Add observation normalization in BaseVectorEnv (norm_obs, obs_rms, update_obs_rms and RunningMeanStd) (#308)

Add policy.map_action to bound with raw action (e.g., map from (-inf, inf) to [-1, 1] by clipping or tanh squashing), and the mapped action won't store in replaybuffer (#313)

Add lr_scheduler in on-policy algorithms, typically for LambdaLR (#318)

Note

To adapt with this version, you should change the action_range=... to action_space=env.action_space in policy initialization.

Bug Fix

Fix incorrect behaviors (error when n/ep==0 and reward shown in tqdm) with on-policy algorithm (#306, #328)

Fix q-value mask_action error for obs_next (#310)

Enhancement

Release SOTA Mujoco benchmark (DDPG/TD3/SAC: #305, REINFORCE: #320, A2C: #325, PPO: #330) and add corresponding notes in /examples/mujoco/README.md

Fix numpy>=1.20 typing issue (#323)

Add cross-platform unittest (#331)

Add a test on how to deal with finite env (#324)

Add value normalization in on-policy algorithms (#319, #321)

Separate advantage normalization and value normalization in PPO (#329)

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tianshou-0.4.1-py3-none-any.whl(110.04 KB)
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v0.4.0(Mar 2, 2021)
This release contains several API and behavior changes.

API Change

Buffer

Add ReplayBufferManager, PrioritizedReplayBufferManager, VectorReplayBuffer, PrioritizedVectorReplayBuffer, CachedReplayBuffer (#278, #280);

Change buffer.add API from buffer.add(obs, act, rew, done, obs_next, info, policy, ...) to buffer.add(batch, buffer_ids) in order to add data more efficient (#280);

Add set_batch method in buffer (#278);

Add sample_index method, same as sample but only return index instead of both index and batch data (#278);

Add prev (one-step previous transition index), next (one-step next transition index) and unfinished_index (the last modified index whose done==False) (#278);

Add internal method _alloc_by_keys_diff in batch to support any form of keys pop up (#280);

Collector

Rewrite the original Collector, split the async function to AsyncCollector: Collector only supports sync mode, AsyncCollector support both modes (#280);

Drop collector.collect(n_episode=List[int]) because the new collector can collect episodes without bias (#280);

Move reward_metric from Collector to trainer (#280);

Change Collector.collect logic: AsyncCollector.collect's semantic is the same as previous version, where collect(n_step or n_episode) will not collect exact n_step or n_episode transitions; Collector.collect(n_step or n_episode)'s semantic now changes to exact n_step or n_episode collect (#280);

Policy

Add policy.exploration_noise(action, batch) -> action method instead of implemented in policy.forward() (#280);

Add Timelimit.truncate handler in compute_*_returns (#296);

remove ignore_done flag (#296);

remove reward_normalization option in offpolicy-algorithm (will raise Error if set to True) (#298);

Trainer

Change collect_per_step to step_per_collect (#293);

Add update_per_step and episode_per_collect (#293);

onpolicy_trainer now supports either step_collect or episode_collect (#293)

Add BasicLogger and LazyLogger to log data more conveniently (#295)

Bug Fix

Fix VectorEnv action_space seed randomness -- when call env.seed(seed), it will call env.action_space.seed(seed); otherwise using Collector.collect(..., random=True) will produce different result each time (#300, #303).

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v0.3.2(Feb 16, 2021)
Bug Fix

fix networks under utils/discrete and utils/continuous cannot work well under CUDA+torch<=1.6.0 (#289)

fix 2 bugs of Batch: creating keys in Batch.__setitem__ now throws ValueError instead of KeyError; _create_value now allows placeholder with stack=False option (#284)

Enhancement

Add QR-DQN algorithm (#276)

small optimization for Batch.cat and Batch.stack (#284), now it is almost as fast as v0.2.3

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tianshou-0.3.2-py3-none-any.whl(92.48 KB)
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v0.3.1(Jan 20, 2021)
API Change

change utils.network args to support any form of MLP by default (#275), remove layer_num and hidden_layer_size, add hidden_sizes (a list of int indicate the network architecture)

add HDF5 save/load method for ReplayBuffer (#261)

add offline_trainer (#263)

move Atari-related network to examples/atari/atari_network.py (#275)

Bug Fix

fix a potential bug in discrete behavior cloning policy (#263)

Enhancement

update SAC mujoco result (#246)

add C51 algorithm with benchmark result (#266)

enable type checking in utils.network (#275)

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tianshou-0.3.1-py3-none-any.whl(91.16 KB)
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v0.3.0.post1(Oct 8, 2020)

Several bug fix (trainer, test and docs)
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v0.3.0(Sep 26, 2020)
Since at this point, the code has largely changed from v0.2.0, we release version 0.3 from now on.

API Change

add policy.updating and clarify collecting state and updating state in training (#224)

change train_fn(epoch) to train_fn(epoch, env_step) and test_fn(epoch) to test_fn(epoch, env_step) (#229)

remove out-of-the-date API: collector.sample, collector.render, collector.seed, VectorEnv (#210)

Bug Fix

fix a bug in DDQN: target_q could not be sampled from np.random.rand (#224)

fix a bug in DQN atari net: it should add a ReLU before the last layer (#224)

fix a bug in collector timing (#224)

fix a bug in the converter of Batch: deepcopy a Batch in to_numpy and to_torch (#213)

ensure buffer.rew has a type of float (#229)

Enhancement

Anaconda support: conda install -c conda-forge tianshou (#228)

add PSRL (#202)

add SAC discrete (#216)

add type check in unit test (#200)

format code and update function signatures (#213)

add pydocstyle and doc8 check (#210)

several documentation fix (#210)

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v0.3.0rc0(Sep 23, 2020)

This is a pre-release for testing anaconda.
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tianshou-0.3.0rc0-py3-none-any.whl(80.96 KB)
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v0.2.7(Sep 8, 2020)
API Change

exact n_episode for a list of n_episode limitation and save fake data in cache_buffer when self.buffer is None (#184)

add save_only_last_obs for replay buffer in order to save the memory. (#184)

remove default value in batch.split() and add merge_last argument (#185)

fix tensorboard logging: h-axis stands for env step instead of gradient step; add test results into tensorboard (#189)

add max_batchsize in onpolicy algorithms (#189)

keep only sumtree in segment tree implementation (#193)

add __contains__ and pop in batch: key in batch, batch.pop(key, deft) (#189)

remove dict return support for collector preprocess_fn (#189)

remove **kwargs in ReplayBuffer (#189)

add no_grad argument in collector.collect (#204)

Enhancement

add DQN Atari examples (#187)

change the type-checking order in batch.py and converter.py in order to meet the most often case first (#189)

Numba acceleration for GAE, nstep, and segment tree (#193)

add policy.eval() in all test scripts' "watch performance" (#189)

add test_returns (both GAE and nstep) (#189)

improve the code-coverage (from 90% to 95%) and remove the dead code (#189)

polish examples/box2d/bipedal_hardcore_sac.py (#207)

Bug fix

fix a bug in MAPolicy: buffer.rew = Batch() doesn't change buffer.rew (thanks mypy) (#207)

~~set policy.eval() before collector.collect (#204)~~ This is a bug

fix shape inconsistency for torch.Tensor in replay buffer (#189)

potential bugfix for subproc.wait (#189)

fix RecurrentActorProb (#189)

fix some incorrect type annotation (#189)

fix a bug in tictactoe set_eps (#193)

dirty fix for asyncVenv check_id test

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tianshou-0.2.7-py3-none-any.whl(76.32 KB)
v0.2.6(Aug 19, 2020)
API Change

Replay buffer allows stack_num = 1 (#165)

add policy.update to enable post process and remove collector.sample (#180)

Remove collector.close and rename VectorEnv to DummyVectorEnv (#179)

Enhancement

Enable async simulation for all vector envs (#179)

Improve PER (#159): use segment tree and enable all Q-learning algorithms to use PER

unify single-env and multi-env in collector (#157)

Pickle compatible for replay buffer and improve buffer.get (#182): fix #84 and make buffer more efficient

Add ShmemVectorEnv implementation (#174)

Add Dueling DQN implementation (#170)

Add profile workflow (#143)

Add BipedalWalkerHardcore-v3 SAC example (#177) (about 1 hour it is well-trained)

Bug fix

fix #162 of multi-dim action (#160)

Note: 0.3 is coming soon!

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tianshou-0.2.6-py3-none-any.whl(73.89 KB)
v0.2.5(Jul 22, 2020)
New feature

Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning: https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/tictactoe.html (#122)

Documentation

Add a tutorial of Batch class to standardized the behavior of Batch: https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/batch.html (#142)

Bugfix

Fix inconsistent shape in A2CPolicy and PPOPolicy. Please be careful when dealing with log_prob (#155)

Fix list of tensors inside Batch, e.g., Batch(a=[np.zeros(3), torch.zeros(3)]) (#147)

Fix buffer update when stack_num > 0 (#154)

Remove useless kwargs

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v0.2.4.post1(Jul 14, 2020)
Several bug fix and enhancement:

remove deprecated API append (#126)

Batch.cat_ and Batch.stack_ is now working well with inconsistent keys (#130)

Batch.is_empty now correctly recognizes empty over empty Batch (#128)

reconstruct collector: remove multiple buffer case, change the internal data to Batch, and add reward_metric for MARL usage (#125)

add Batch.update to mimic dict.update (#128)

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v0.2.4(Jul 10, 2020)
Algorithm Implementation

n_step returns for all Q-learning based algorithms; (#51)

Auto alpha tuning in SAC (#80)

Reserve policy._state to support saving hidden states in replay buffer (#19)

Add sample_avail argument in ReplayBuffer to sample only available index in RNN training mode (#19)

New Feature

Batch.cat (#87), Batch.stack (#93), Batch.empty (#106, #110)

Advanced slicing method of Batch (#106)

Batch(kwargs, copy=True) will perform a deep copy (#110)

Add random=True argument in collector.collect to perform sampling with random policy (#78)

API Change

Batch.append -> Batch.cat

Remove atari wrapper to examples, since it is not a key feature in tianshou (#124)

Add some pre-defined nets in tianshou.utils.net. Since we only define API instead of a class, we do not present it in tianshou.net. (#123)

Docs

Add cheatsheet: https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials/cheatsheet.html
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v0.2.3(Jun 1, 2020)
Enhancement

Multimodal obs (also support any type obs) (#38, #69)

Batch over Batch

preprocess_fn (#42)

Type annotation

batch.to_torch, batch.to_numpy

pickle support for batch

Fixed Bugs

SAC/PPO diag gaussian

PPO orthogonal init

DQN zero eps

Fix type infer in replay buffer

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tianshou-0.2.3-py3-none-any.whl(51.24 KB)
v0.2.2(Apr 26, 2020)
Algorithm Implementation

Generalized Advantage Estimation (GAE);

Update PPO algorithm with arXiv:1811.02553 and arXiv:1912.09729;

Vanilla Imitation Learning (BC & DA, with continuous/discrete action space);

Prioritized DQN;

RNN-style policy network;

Fix SAC with torch==1.5.0

API change

change __call__ to forward in policy;

Add save_fn in trainer;

Add __repr__ in tianshou.data, e.g. print(buffer)

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tianshou-0.2.2-py3-none-any.whl(45.44 KB)
v0.2.1(Apr 7, 2020)

First version with full documentation. Support algorithms: DQN/VPG/A2C/DDPG/PPO/TD3/SAC
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Tianshou - An elegant PyTorch deep reinforcement learning library.

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v0.4.11(Dec 24, 2022)

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v0.4.10(Oct 17, 2022)

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v0.4.9(Jul 4, 2022)

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v0.4.8(May 5, 2022)

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v0.4.7(Mar 21, 2022)

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v0.4.6.post1(Feb 25, 2022)

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v0.4.5(Nov 28, 2021)

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v0.4.4(Oct 13, 2021)

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v0.4.3(Sep 2, 2021)

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v0.4.2(Jun 26, 2021)

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v0.4.1(Apr 4, 2021)

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v0.4.0(Mar 2, 2021)

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v0.3.2(Feb 16, 2021)

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v0.3.1(Jan 20, 2021)

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v0.3.0.post1(Oct 8, 2020)

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v0.3.0rc0(Sep 23, 2020)