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Baby A3C: solving Atari environments in 180 lines

Sam Greydanus | October 2017 | MIT License

Results after training on 40M frames:

breakout-v4.gif pong-v4.gif spaceinvaders-v4.gif

Usage

If you're working on OpenAI's Breakout-v4 environment:

  • To train: python baby-a3c.py --env Breakout-v4
  • To test: python baby-a3c.py --env Breakout-v4 --test True
  • To render: python baby-a3c.py --env Breakout-v4 --render True

About

Make things as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Frustrated by the number of deep RL implementations that are clunky and opaque? In this repo, I've stripped a high-performance A3C model down to its bare essentials. Everything you'll need is contained in 180 lines...

  • If you are trying to learn deep RL, the code is compact, readable, and commented
  • If you want quick results, I've included pretrained models
  • If something goes wrong, there's not a mountain of code to debug
  • If you want to try something new, this is a simple and strong baseline
  • Here's a quick intro to A3C that I wrote
Breakout-v4 Pong-v4 SpaceInvaders-v4
*Mean episode rewards @ 40M frames 140 ± 20 18.2 ± 1 470 ± 30
*Mean episode rewards @ 80M frames 190 ± 20 17.9 ± 1 550 ± 30

*same (default) hyperparameters across all environments

Architecture

self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(channels, 32, 3, stride=2, padding=1)
self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(32, 32, 3, stride=2, padding=1)
self.conv3 = nn.Conv2d(32, 32, 3, stride=2, padding=1)
self.conv4 = nn.Conv2d(32, 32, 3, stride=2, padding=1)
self.gru = nn.GRUCell(32 * 5 * 5, memsize) # *see below
self.critic_linear, self.actor_linear = nn.Linear(memsize, 1), nn.Linear(memsize, num_actions)

*we use a GRU cell because it has fewer params, uses one memory vector instead of two, and attains the same performance as an LSTM cell.

Environments that work

(Use pip freeze to check your environment settings)

  • Mac OSX (test mode only) or Linux (train and test)
  • Python 3.6
  • NumPy 1.13.1+
  • Gym 0.9.4+
  • SciPy 0.19.1 (just on two lines -> workarounds possible)
  • PyTorch 0.4.0

Known issues

  • I recently ported this code to Python 3.6 / PyTorch 0.4. If you want to run on Python 2.7 / PyTorch 0.2, then look at one of my earlier commits to this repo (there are different pretrained models as well)

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