I'm trying to recreate very simple example of Policy Gradient, from it's origin resource Andrej Karpathy blog. In that articale, you will find example with CartPole and Policy Gradient with list of weight and Softmax activation. Here is my recreated and very simple example of CartPole policy gradient, which works perfect.
import gym
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn.preprocessing import PolynomialFeatures
import copy
NUM_EPISODES = 4000
LEARNING_RATE = 0.000025
GAMMA = 0.99
# noinspection PyMethodMayBeStatic
class Agent:
def __init__(self):
self.poly = PolynomialFeatures(1)
self.w = np.random.rand(5, 2)
def policy(self, state):
z = state.dot(self.w)
exp = np.exp(z)
return exp/np.sum(exp)
def __softmax_grad(self, softmax):
s = softmax.reshape(-1,1)
return np.diagflat(s) - np.dot(s, s.T)
def grad(self, probs, action, state):
dsoftmax = self.__softmax_grad(probs)[action,:]
dlog = dsoftmax / probs[0,action]
grad = state.T.dot(dlog[None,:])
return grad
def update_with(self, grads, rewards):
for i in range(len(grads)):
# Loop through everything that happend in the episode
# and update towards the log policy gradient times **FUTURE** reward
total_grad_effect = 0
for t, r in enumerate(rewards[i:]):
total_grad_effect += r * (GAMMA ** r)
self.w += LEARNING_RATE * grads[i] * total_grad_effect
print("Grads update: " + str(np.sum(grads[i])))
def main(argv):
env = gym.make('CartPole-v0')
np.random.seed(1)
agent = Agent()
complete_scores = []
for e in range(NUM_EPISODES):
state = env.reset()[None, :]
state = agent.poly.fit_transform(state)
rewards = []
grads = []
score = 0
while True:
probs = agent.policy(state)
action_space = env.action_space.n
action = np.random.choice(action_space, p=probs[0])
next_state, reward, done,_ = env.step(action)
next_state = next_state[None,:]
next_state = agent.poly.fit_transform(next_state.reshape(1, 4))
grad = agent.grad(probs, action, state)
grads.append(grad)
rewards.append(reward)
score += reward
state = next_state
if done:
break
agent.update_with(grads, rewards)
complete_scores.append(score)
env.close()
plt.plot(np.arange(NUM_EPISODES),
complete_scores)
plt.savefig('image1.png')
if __name__ == '__main__':
main(None)
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Question
I'm trying to do, almost the same example but with Sigmoid activation (just for simplicity). That is all I need to do. Switch activation in the model from softmax to the sigmoid. Which should work for sure (based on explanation below). But my Policy Gradient model don't learn anything and keeps random. Any suggestion?
import gym
import numpy as np
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from sklearn.preprocessing import PolynomialFeatures
NUM_EPISODES = 4000
LEARNING_RATE = 0.000025
GAMMA = 0.99
# noinspection PyMethodMayBeStatic
class Agent:
def __init__(self):
self.poly = PolynomialFeatures(1)
self.w = np.random.rand(5, 1) - 0.5
# Our policy that maps state to action parameterized by w
# noinspection PyShadowingNames
def policy(self, state):
z = np.sum(state.dot(self.w))
return self.sigmoid(z)
def sigmoid(self, x):
s = 1 / (1 + np.exp(-x))
return s
def sigmoid_grad(self, sig_x):
return sig_x * (1 - sig_x)
def grad(self, probs, action, state):
dsoftmax = self.sigmoid_grad(probs)
dlog = dsoftmax / probs
grad = state.T.dot(dlog)
grad = grad.reshape(5, 1)
return grad
def update_with(self, grads, rewards):
if len(grads) < 50:
return
for i in range(len(grads)):
# Loop through everything that happened in the episode
# and update towards the log policy gradient times **FUTURE** reward
total_grad_effect = 0
for t, r in enumerate(rewards[i:]):
total_grad_effect += r * (GAMMA ** r)
self.w += LEARNING_RATE * grads[i] * total_grad_effect
def main(argv):
env = gym.make('CartPole-v0')
np.random.seed(1)
agent = Agent()
complete_scores = []
for e in range(NUM_EPISODES):
state = env.reset()[None, :]
state = agent.poly.fit_transform(state)
rewards = []
grads = []
score = 0
while True:
probs = agent.policy(state)
action_space = env.action_space.n
action = np.random.choice(action_space, p=[1 - probs, probs])
next_state, reward, done, _ = env.step(action)
next_state = next_state[None, :]
next_state = agent.poly.fit_transform(next_state.reshape(1, 4))
grad = agent.grad(probs, action, state)
grads.append(grad)
rewards.append(reward)
score += reward
state = next_state
if done:
break
agent.update_with(grads, rewards)
complete_scores.append(score)
env.close()
plt.plot(np.arange(NUM_EPISODES),
complete_scores)
plt.savefig('image1.png')
if __name__ == '__main__':
main(None)
Plotting all the learning keeps random. Nothing helps with tuning hyper parameters. Below the sample image.
References:
UPDATE
Seems like answer below could doing some work from the graphic. But it's Not log probability, and Not even gradient of the policy. And changes whole purpose of the RL Gradient Policy. Please check references above. Following the image we next statement.
I need to take a Gradient of the Log function of my Policy (which is simply weights and sigmoid activation). Please let me know in case of any questions.
