I am training a REINFORCE algorithm on the CartPole environment. Due to the simple nature of the environment, I expect it to learn quickly. However, that doesn’t happen.
#I referred to this when writing the code - https://github.com/DeepReinforcementLearning/DeepReinforcementLearningInAction/blob/master/Chapter%204/Ch4_book.ipynb
import numpy as np
import gym
import torch
from torch import nn
env = gym.make('CartPole-v0')
learning_rate = 0.0001
episodes = 10000
def discount_rewards(reward, gamma = 0.99):
return torch.pow(gamma, torch.arange(len(reward)))*reward
def normalize_rewards(disc_reward):
return disc_reward/(disc_reward.max())
class NeuralNetwork(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, state_size, action_size):
super(NeuralNetwork, self).__init__()
self.state_size = state_size
self.action_size = action_size
self.linear_relu_stack = nn.Sequential(
nn.Linear(state_size, 300),
nn.ReLU(),
nn.Linear(300, 128),
nn.ReLU(),
nn.Linear(128, 128),
nn.ReLU(),
nn.Linear(128, action_size),
nn.Softmax()
)
def forward(self,x):
x = self.linear_relu_stack(x)
return x
model = NeuralNetwork(env.observation_space.shape[0], env.action_space.n)
opt = torch.optim.Adam(params = model.parameters(), lr = learning_rate)
score = []
for i in range(episodes):
print("i = ", i)
state = env.reset()
done = False
transitions = []
tot_rewards = 0
while not done:
act_proba = model(torch.from_numpy(state))
action = np.random.choice(np.array([0,1]), p = act_proba.data.numpy())
next_state, reward, done, info = env.step(action)
tot_rewards += 1
transitions.append((state, action, tot_rewards))
if i%50==0:
print("i = ", i, ",reward = ", tot_rewards)
score.append(tot_rewards)
reward_batch = torch.Tensor([r for (s,a,r) in transitions])
disc_rewards = discount_rewards(reward_batch)
nrml_disc_rewards = normalize_rewards(disc_rewards)
state_batch = torch.Tensor([s for (s,a,r) in transitions])
action_batch = torch.Tensor([a for (s,a,r) in transitions])
pred_batch = model(state_batch)
prob_batch = pred_batch.gather(dim=1, index=action_batch.long().view(-1, 1)).squeeze()
loss = -(torch.sum(torch.log(prob_batch)*nrml_disc_rewards))
opt.zero_grad()
loss.backward()
opt.step()