ray/rllib/agents/ppo/ppo.py

"""
Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)
==================================

This file defines the distributed Trainer class for proximal policy
optimization.
See `ppo_[tf|torch]_policy.py` for the definition of the policy loss.

Detailed documentation: https://docs.ray.io/en/master/rllib-algorithms.html#ppo
"""

import logging
from typing import Type

from ray.rllib.agents import with_common_config
from ray.rllib.agents.ppo.ppo_tf_policy import PPOTFPolicy
from ray.rllib.agents.trainer import Trainer
from ray.rllib.evaluation.worker_set import WorkerSet
from ray.rllib.execution.rollout_ops import ParallelRollouts, ConcatBatches, \
    StandardizeFields, SelectExperiences
from ray.rllib.execution.train_ops import TrainOneStep, MultiGPUTrainOneStep
from ray.rllib.execution.metric_ops import StandardMetricsReporting
from ray.rllib.policy.policy import Policy
from ray.rllib.policy.sample_batch import DEFAULT_POLICY_ID
from ray.rllib.utils.annotations import override
from ray.rllib.utils.deprecation import DEPRECATED_VALUE
from ray.rllib.utils.metrics.learner_info import LEARNER_INFO, \
    LEARNER_STATS_KEY
from ray.rllib.utils.typing import TrainerConfigDict
from ray.util.iter import LocalIterator

logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)

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# Adds the following updates to the (base) `Trainer` config in
# rllib/agents/trainer.py (`COMMON_CONFIG` dict).
DEFAULT_CONFIG = with_common_config({
    # Should use a critic as a baseline (otherwise don't use value baseline;
    # required for using GAE).
    "use_critic": True,
    # If true, use the Generalized Advantage Estimator (GAE)
    # with a value function, see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02438.pdf.
    "use_gae": True,
    # The GAE (lambda) parameter.
    "lambda": 1.0,
    # Initial coefficient for KL divergence.
    "kl_coeff": 0.2,
    # Size of batches collected from each worker.
    "rollout_fragment_length": 200,
    # Number of timesteps collected for each SGD round. This defines the size
    # of each SGD epoch.
    "train_batch_size": 4000,
    # Total SGD batch size across all devices for SGD. This defines the
    # minibatch size within each epoch.
    "sgd_minibatch_size": 128,
    # Whether to shuffle sequences in the batch when training (recommended).
    "shuffle_sequences": True,
    # Number of SGD iterations in each outer loop (i.e., number of epochs to
    # execute per train batch).
    "num_sgd_iter": 30,
    # Stepsize of SGD.
    "lr": 5e-5,
    # Learning rate schedule.
    "lr_schedule": None,
    # Coefficient of the value function loss. IMPORTANT: you must tune this if
    # you set vf_share_layers=True inside your model's config.
    "vf_loss_coeff": 1.0,
    "model": {
        # Share layers for value function. If you set this to True, it's
        # important to tune vf_loss_coeff.
        "vf_share_layers": False,
    },
    # Coefficient of the entropy regularizer.
    "entropy_coeff": 0.0,
    # Decay schedule for the entropy regularizer.
    "entropy_coeff_schedule": None,
    # PPO clip parameter.
    "clip_param": 0.3,
    # Clip param for the value function. Note that this is sensitive to the
    # scale of the rewards. If your expected V is large, increase this.
    "vf_clip_param": 10.0,
    # If specified, clip the global norm of gradients by this amount.
    "grad_clip": None,
    # Target value for KL divergence.
    "kl_target": 0.01,
    # Whether to rollout "complete_episodes" or "truncate_episodes".
    "batch_mode": "truncate_episodes",
    # Which observation filter to apply to the observation.
    "observation_filter": "NoFilter",

    # Deprecated keys:
    # Share layers for value function. If you set this to True, it's important
    # to tune vf_loss_coeff.
    # Use config.model.vf_share_layers instead.
    "vf_share_layers": DEPRECATED_VALUE,
})

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class UpdateKL:
    """Callback to update the KL based on optimization info.

    This is used inside the execution_plan function. The Policy must define
    a `update_kl` method for this to work. This is achieved for PPO via a
    Policy mixin class (which adds the `update_kl` method),
    defined in ppo_[tf|torch]_policy.py.
    """

    def __init__(self, workers):
        self.workers = workers

    def __call__(self, fetches):
        def update(pi, pi_id):
            assert LEARNER_STATS_KEY not in fetches, \
                ("{} should be nested under policy id key".format(
                    LEARNER_STATS_KEY), fetches)
            if pi_id in fetches:
                kl = fetches[pi_id][LEARNER_STATS_KEY].get("kl")
                assert kl is not None, (fetches, pi_id)
                # Make the actual `Policy.update_kl()` call.
                pi.update_kl(kl)
            else:
                logger.warning("No data for {}, not updating kl".format(pi_id))

        # Update KL on all trainable policies within the local (trainer)
        # Worker.
        self.workers.local_worker().foreach_policy_to_train(update)


def warn_about_bad_reward_scales(config, result):
    if result["policy_reward_mean"]:
        return result  # Punt on handling multiagent case.

    # Warn about excessively high VF loss.
    learner_info = result["info"][LEARNER_INFO]
    if DEFAULT_POLICY_ID in learner_info:
        scaled_vf_loss = config["vf_loss_coeff"] * \
            learner_info[DEFAULT_POLICY_ID][LEARNER_STATS_KEY]["vf_loss"]

        policy_loss = learner_info[DEFAULT_POLICY_ID][LEARNER_STATS_KEY][
            "policy_loss"]
        if config.get("model", {}).get("vf_share_layers") and \
                scaled_vf_loss > 100:
            logger.warning(
                "The magnitude of your value function loss is extremely large "
                "({}) compared to the policy loss ({}). This can prevent the "
                "policy from learning. Consider scaling down the VF loss by "
                "reducing vf_loss_coeff, or disabling vf_share_layers.".format(
                    scaled_vf_loss, policy_loss))

    # Warn about bad clipping configs
    if config["vf_clip_param"] <= 0:
        rew_scale = float("inf")
    else:
        rew_scale = round(
            abs(result["episode_reward_mean"]) / config["vf_clip_param"], 0)
    if rew_scale > 200:
        logger.warning(
            "The magnitude of your environment rewards are more than "
            "{}x the scale of `vf_clip_param`. ".format(rew_scale) +
            "This means that it will take more than "
            "{} iterations for your value ".format(rew_scale) +
            "function to converge. If this is not intended, consider "
            "increasing `vf_clip_param`.")

    return result


class PPOTrainer(Trainer):
    @classmethod
    @override(Trainer)
    def get_default_config(cls) -> TrainerConfigDict:
        return DEFAULT_CONFIG

    @override(Trainer)
    def validate_config(self, config: TrainerConfigDict) -> None:
        """Validates the Trainer's config dict.

        Args:
            config (TrainerConfigDict): The Trainer's config to check.

        Raises:
            ValueError: In case something is wrong with the config.
        """
        # Call super's validation method.
        super().validate_config(config)

        if isinstance(config["entropy_coeff"], int):
            config["entropy_coeff"] = float(config["entropy_coeff"])

        if config["entropy_coeff"] < 0.0:
            raise DeprecationWarning("entropy_coeff must be >= 0.0")

        # SGD minibatch size must be smaller than train_batch_size (b/c
        # we subsample a batch of `sgd_minibatch_size` from the train-batch for
        # each `sgd_num_iter`).
        # Note: Only check this if `train_batch_size` > 0 (DDPPO sets this
        # to -1 to auto-calculate the actual batch size later).
        if config["train_batch_size"] > 0 and \
                config["sgd_minibatch_size"] > config["train_batch_size"]:
            raise ValueError("`sgd_minibatch_size` ({}) must be <= "
                             "`train_batch_size` ({}).".format(
                                 config["sgd_minibatch_size"],
                                 config["train_batch_size"]))

        # Check for mismatches between `train_batch_size` and
        # `rollout_fragment_length` and auto-adjust `rollout_fragment_length`
        # if necessary.
        # Note: Only check this if `train_batch_size` > 0 (DDPPO sets this
        # to -1 to auto-calculate the actual batch size later).
        num_workers = config["num_workers"] or 1
        calculated_min_rollout_size = \
            num_workers * config["num_envs_per_worker"] * \
            config["rollout_fragment_length"]
        if config["train_batch_size"] > 0 and \
                config["train_batch_size"] % calculated_min_rollout_size != 0:
            new_rollout_fragment_length = config["train_batch_size"] // (
                num_workers * config["num_envs_per_worker"])
            logger.warning(
                "`train_batch_size` ({}) cannot be achieved with your other "
                "settings (num_workers={} num_envs_per_worker={} "
                "rollout_fragment_length={})! Auto-adjusting "
                "`rollout_fragment_length` to {}.".format(
                    config["train_batch_size"], config["num_workers"],
                    config["num_envs_per_worker"],
                    config["rollout_fragment_length"],
                    new_rollout_fragment_length))
            config["rollout_fragment_length"] = new_rollout_fragment_length

        # Episodes may only be truncated (and passed into PPO's
        # `postprocessing_fn`), iff generalized advantage estimation is used
        # (value function estimate at end of truncated episode to estimate
        # remaining value).
        if config["batch_mode"] == "truncate_episodes" and \
                not config["use_gae"]:
            raise ValueError(
                "Episode truncation is not supported without a value "
                "function (to estimate the return at the end of the truncated"
                " trajectory). Consider setting "
                "batch_mode=complete_episodes.")

        # Multi-agent mode and multi-GPU optimizer.
        if config["multiagent"]["policies"] and \
                not config["simple_optimizer"]:
            logger.info(
                "In multi-agent mode, policies will be optimized sequentially"
                " by the multi-GPU optimizer. Consider setting "
                "simple_optimizer=True if this doesn't work for you.")

    @override(Trainer)
    def get_default_policy_class(self,
                                 config: TrainerConfigDict) -> Type[Policy]:
        if config["framework"] == "torch":
            from ray.rllib.agents.ppo.ppo_torch_policy import PPOTorchPolicy
            return PPOTorchPolicy
        else:
            return PPOTFPolicy

    @staticmethod
    @override(Trainer)
    def execution_plan(workers: WorkerSet, config: TrainerConfigDict,
                       **kwargs) -> LocalIterator[dict]:
        assert len(kwargs) == 0, (
            "PPO execution_plan does NOT take any additional parameters")

        rollouts = ParallelRollouts(workers, mode="bulk_sync")

        # Collect batches for the trainable policies.
        rollouts = rollouts.for_each(
            SelectExperiences(local_worker=workers.local_worker()))
        # Concatenate the SampleBatches into one.
        rollouts = rollouts.combine(
            ConcatBatches(
                min_batch_size=config["train_batch_size"],
                count_steps_by=config["multiagent"]["count_steps_by"],
            ))
        # Standardize advantages.
        rollouts = rollouts.for_each(StandardizeFields(["advantages"]))

        # Perform one training step on the combined + standardized batch.
        if config["simple_optimizer"]:
            train_op = rollouts.for_each(
                TrainOneStep(
                    workers,
                    num_sgd_iter=config["num_sgd_iter"],
                    sgd_minibatch_size=config["sgd_minibatch_size"]))
        else:
            train_op = rollouts.for_each(
                MultiGPUTrainOneStep(
                    workers=workers,
                    sgd_minibatch_size=config["sgd_minibatch_size"],
                    num_sgd_iter=config["num_sgd_iter"],
                    num_gpus=config["num_gpus"],
                    _fake_gpus=config["_fake_gpus"]))

        # Update KL after each round of training.
        train_op = train_op.for_each(lambda t: t[1]).for_each(
            UpdateKL(workers))

        # Warn about bad reward scales and return training metrics.
        return StandardMetricsReporting(train_op, workers, config) \
            .for_each(lambda result: warn_about_bad_reward_scales(
                config, result))