Source code for tianshou.policy.a2c

import torch
from torch import nn
import torch.nn.functional as F

from tianshou.data import Batch
from tianshou.policy import PGPolicy


[docs]class A2CPolicy(PGPolicy): """Implementation of Synchronous Advantage Actor-Critic. arXiv:1602.01783 :param torch.nn.Module actor: the actor network following the rules in :class:`~tianshou.policy.BasePolicy`. (s -> logits) :param torch.nn.Module critic: the critic network. (s -> V(s)) :param torch.optim.Optimizer optim: the optimizer for actor and critic network. :param torch.distributions.Distribution dist_fn: for computing the action, defaults to ``torch.distributions.Categorical``. :param float discount_factor: in [0, 1], defaults to 0.99. :param float vf_coef: weight for value loss, defaults to 0.5. :param float ent_coef: weight for entropy loss, defaults to 0.01. :param float max_grad_norm: clipping gradients in back propagation, defaults to ``None``. """ def __init__(self, actor, critic, optim, dist_fn=torch.distributions.Categorical, discount_factor=0.99, vf_coef=.5, ent_coef=.01, max_grad_norm=None, **kwargs): super().__init__(None, optim, dist_fn, discount_factor) self.actor = actor self.critic = critic self._w_vf = vf_coef self._w_ent = ent_coef self._grad_norm = max_grad_norm
[docs] def __call__(self, batch, state=None, **kwargs): """Compute action over the given batch data. :return: A :class:`~tianshou.data.Batch` which has 4 keys: * ``act`` the action. * ``logits`` the network's raw output. * ``dist`` the action distribution. * ``state`` the hidden state. More information can be found at :meth:`~tianshou.policy.BasePolicy.__call__`. """ logits, h = self.actor(batch.obs, state=state, info=batch.info) if isinstance(logits, tuple): dist = self.dist_fn(*logits) else: dist = self.dist_fn(logits) act = dist.sample() return Batch(logits=logits, act=act, state=h, dist=dist)
[docs] def learn(self, batch, batch_size=None, repeat=1, **kwargs): losses, actor_losses, vf_losses, ent_losses = [], [], [], [] for _ in range(repeat): for b in batch.split(batch_size): self.optim.zero_grad() result = self(b) dist = result.dist v = self.critic(b.obs) a = torch.tensor(b.act, device=dist.logits.device) r = torch.tensor(b.returns, device=dist.logits.device) a_loss = -(dist.log_prob(a) * (r - v).detach()).mean() vf_loss = F.mse_loss(r[:, None], v) ent_loss = dist.entropy().mean() loss = a_loss + self._w_vf * vf_loss - self._w_ent * ent_loss loss.backward() if self._grad_norm: nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_( self.model.parameters(), max_norm=self._grad_norm) self.optim.step() actor_losses.append(a_loss.item()) vf_losses.append(vf_loss.item()) ent_losses.append(ent_loss.item()) losses.append(loss.item()) return { 'loss': losses, 'loss/actor': actor_losses, 'loss/vf': vf_losses, 'loss/ent': ent_losses, }