README.md

RL Reward Experiments

For documentation regarding the tasks used in these experiments refer to the following repository: RL-Continuing-Tasks

Training

Usage

python search.py [options]

For documentation on algorithm parameters refer to Thesis

Option	Description	Default
--num_processes	Number of asynchronous agents	16
--steps	Total number of steps distributed across all synchronous agents in millions	16
--algorithm	Algorithm: Q (for Q-Learning) or SARSA (for SARSA)	Q
--network	Network specification: linear or deep (Architecture may depend on task. See Networks.py for detailed architecture)	linear
--reward	Type of Reward: discounted for discounted returns or average for average rewards	discounted
--task	The task ID: 1, 2 or 3	1
--lr	Learning Rate	0.0001
--beta	Beta: Used to calculate average reward when reward option is average	0.001
--df	Discount Factor: Used to weight future rewards when reward option is discounted	0.99

Logging

The command above will generate logs in the following directory: ./Code/logs/{algorithm}/{reward}/{network} The directory will contain:

• A log file for each asynchronous agent containing the reward and total avereage reward at each step
• The network parameters saved for each million steps (cumulated over all agents)
• A hyper_params file specifying:
  • The parameters chosen for the run
  • The Average reward for each saved network (over 5 sample runs of 50,000 steps)

Vizualization

After training the agent, it may be useful to observe its behavior in the environment. To do so use python visualize.py [options]

Option	Description	Default
--task	The task ID: 1, 2 or 3	1
--network	Network specification: linear or deep	linear
--param	Network parameters path

Note: Vizalusation uses Matplotlib with Qt5Agg backend. Some issues have been identidied on some platforms