README.md

ppo-pytorch

This is a PyTorch implementation of PPO algorithm, which is designed for flexible modification and high performance in continuous control tasks.

Requirements

• pytorch 1.4.0
• tensorboard
• numpy
• tqdm
• gym
• baselines
• pybullet (optional)

Setup

You can use the provided requirements.txt file to install necessary dependencies.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt

Training PPO agents

For example, to train a ppo agent using 12 processes for pybullet ant locomotion task as follows:

$ python train.py --task-id=AntBulletEnv-v0 --num-processes=12 --num-env-steps=5000000

You can also monitor the training process and perform hyper-parameters tuning using tensorboard:

$ tensorboard --logdir=log

Here is what it looks like:

reward	action

Experimental Results

It takes about half an hour for 5M training steps in a six cores MacBook Pro.

HalfCheetahBulletEnv	AntBulletEnv

Reference

John Schulman, Philipp Moritz, Sergey Levine, Michael I. Jordan, and Pieter Abbeel. High-dimensional continuous control using generalized advantage estimation. CoRR, abs/1506.02438, 2015.

John Schulman, Filip Wolski, Prafulla Dhariwal, Alec Radford, and Oleg Klimov. Proximal policy optimization algorithms. arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.06347, 2017.

https://github.com/ikostrikov/pytorch-a2c-ppo-acktr-gail