README.md

PyTorch implementation of reinforcement learning algorithms

This repository contains:

1. policy gradient methods (TRPO, PPO, A2C)
2. Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL)

Important notes

• The code now works for PyTorch 0.4. For PyTorch 0.3, please check out the 0.3 branch.
• To run mujoco environments, first install mujoco-py and gym.
• If you have a GPU, I recommend setting the OMP_NUM_THREADS to 1 (PyTorch will create additional threads when performing computations which can damage the performance of multiprocessing. This problem is most serious with Linux, where multiprocessing can be even slower than a single thread):

export OMP_NUM_THREADS=1

Features

• Support discrete and continous action space.
• Support multiprocessing for agent to collect samples in multiple environments simultaneously. (x8 faster than single thread)
• Fast Fisher vector product calculation. For this part, Ankur kindly wrote a blog explaining the implementation details.

Policy gradient methods

• Trust Region Policy Optimization (TRPO) -> examples/trpo_gym.py
• Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) -> examples/ppo_gym.py
• Synchronous A3C (A2C) -> examples/a2c_gym.py

Example

• python examples/ppo_gym.py --env-name Hopper-v2

Reference

• ikostrikov/pytorch-trpo
• openai/baselines

Generative Adversarial Imitation Learning (GAIL)

To save trajectory

• python gail/save_expert_traj.py --model-path assets/learned_models/Hopper-v2_ppo.p

To do imitation learning

• python gail/gail_gym.py --env-name Hopper-v2 --expert-traj-path assets/expert_traj/Hopper-v2_expert_traj.p