pg-pong.py

# From http://karpathy.github.io/2016/05/31/rl/
""" Trains an agent with (stochastic) Policy Gradients on Pong. Uses OpenAI Gym. """
import pickle

import gymnasium as gym
import numpy as np

# hyperparameters
H = 200  # number of hidden layer neurons
batch_size = 10  # every how many episodes to do a param update?
learning_rate = 1e-4
gamma = 0.99  # discount factor for reward
decay_rate = 0.99  # decay factor for RMSProp leaky sum of grad^2
resume = True  # resume from previous checkpoint?
test = True  # test mode, turn off epsilon-greedy and render the scene
save_file = 'pong_model_bolei.p'

if test == True:
    render = True
else:
    render = False

# model initialization
D = 80 * 80  # input dimensionality: 80x80 grid
if resume:
    model = pickle.load(open(save_file, 'rb'))
else:
    model = {}
    model['W1'] = np.random.randn(H, D) / np.sqrt(D)  # "Xavier" initialization
    model['W2'] = np.random.randn(H) / np.sqrt(H)

grad_buffer = {k: np.zeros_like(v) for k, v in model.items()}  # update buffers that add up gradients over a batch
rmsprop_cache = {k: np.zeros_like(v) for k, v in model.items()}  # rmsprop memory


def sigmoid(x):
    return 1.0 / (1.0 + np.exp(-x))  # sigmoid "squashing" function to interval [0,1]


def prepro(I):
    """ prepro 210x160x3 uint8 frame into 6400 (80x80) 1D float vector """
    I = I[35:195]  # crop
    I = I[::2, ::2, 0]  # downsample by factor of 2
    I[I == 144] = 0  # erase background (background type 1)
    I[I == 109] = 0  # erase background (background type 2)
    I[I != 0] = 1  # everything else (paddles, ball) just set to 1
    return I.astype(np.float32).ravel()


def discount_rewards(r):
    """ take 1D float array of rewards and compute discounted reward """
    discounted_r = np.zeros_like(r)
    running_add = 0
    for t in reversed(range(0, r.size)):
        if r[t] != 0: running_add = 0  # reset the sum, since this was a game boundary (pong specific!)
        running_add = running_add * gamma + r[t]
        discounted_r[t] = running_add
    return discounted_r


def policy_forward(x):
    h = np.dot(model['W1'], x)
    h[h < 0] = 0  # ReLU nonlinearity
    logp = np.dot(model['W2'], h)
    p = sigmoid(logp)
    return p, h  # return probability of taking action 2, and hidden state


def policy_backward(eph, epdlogp):
    """ backward pass. (eph is array of intermediate hidden states) """
    dW2 = np.dot(eph.T, epdlogp).ravel()
    dh = np.outer(epdlogp, model['W2'])
    dh[eph <= 0] = 0  # backpro prelu
    dW1 = np.dot(dh.T, epx)
    return {'W1': dW1, 'W2': dW2}


if render:
    env = gym.make("Pong-v0", render_mode='human')
else:
    env = gym.make("Pong-v0")
observation, _ = env.reset()
prev_x = None  # used in computing the difference frame
xs, hs, dlogps, drs = [], [], [], []
running_reward = None
reward_sum = 0
episode_number = 0
while True:
    if render: env.render()

    # preprocess the observation, set input to network to be difference image
    cur_x = prepro(observation)
    x = cur_x - prev_x if prev_x is not None else np.zeros(D)
    prev_x = cur_x

    # forward the policy network and sample an action from the returned probability
    aprob, h = policy_forward(x)
    if test == True:
        action = 2 if aprob > 0.5 else 3
    else:
        action = 2 if np.random.uniform() < aprob else 3  # roll the dice!

    # record various intermediates (needed later for backprop)
    xs.append(x)  # observation
    hs.append(h)  # hidden state
    y = 1 if action == 2 else 0  # a "fake label"
    dlogps.append(
        y - aprob)  # grad that encourages the action that was taken to be taken (see http://cs231n.github.io/neural-networks-2/#losses if confused)

    # step the environment and get new measurements
    observation, reward, terminated, truncated, info = env.step(action)
    done = np.logical_or(terminated, truncated)
    reward_sum += reward

    drs.append(reward)  # record reward (has to be done after we call step() to get reward for previous action)

    if done:  # an episode finished
        episode_number += 1

        # stack together all inputs, hidden states, action gradients, and rewards for this episode
        epx = np.vstack(xs)
        eph = np.vstack(hs)
        epdlogp = np.vstack(dlogps)
        epr = np.vstack(drs)
        xs, hs, dlogps, drs = [], [], [], []  # reset array memory

        # compute the discounted reward backwards through time
        discounted_epr = discount_rewards(epr)
        # standardize the rewards to be unit normal (helps control the gradient estimator variance)
        discounted_epr -= np.mean(discounted_epr)
        discounted_epr /= np.std(discounted_epr)

        epdlogp *= discounted_epr  # modulate the gradient with advantage (PG magic happens right here.)
        grad = policy_backward(eph, epdlogp)
        for k in model: grad_buffer[k] += grad[k]  # accumulate grad over batch

        # perform rmsprop parameter update every batch_size episodes
        if episode_number % batch_size == 0 and test == False:
            for k, v in model.items():
                g = grad_buffer[k]  # gradient
                rmsprop_cache[k] = decay_rate * rmsprop_cache[k] + (1 - decay_rate) * g ** 2
                model[k] += learning_rate * g / (np.sqrt(rmsprop_cache[k]) + 1e-5)
                grad_buffer[k] = np.zeros_like(v)  # reset batch gradient buffer

        # boring bookkeeping
        running_reward = reward_sum if running_reward is None else running_reward * 0.99 + reward_sum * 0.01
        print('resetting env. episode reward total was %f. running mean: %f' % (reward_sum, running_reward))
        if episode_number % 100 == 0: pickle.dump(model, open(save_file, 'wb'))
        reward_sum = 0
        observation, _ = env.reset()  # reset env
        prev_x = None

    if reward != 0:  # Pong has either +1 or -1 reward exactly when game ends.
        print('ep %d: game finished, reward: %f' % (episode_number, reward)), ('' if reward == -1 else ' !!!!!!!!')