"""An example script showing how to define and load an `RLModule` that applies action masking This example: - Defines an `RLModule` that applies action masking. - It does so by using a `gymnasium.spaces.dict.Dict` observation space with two keys, namely `"observations"`, holding the original observations and `"action_mask"` defining the action mask for the current environment state. Note, by this definition you can wrap any `gymnasium` environment and use it for this module. - Furthermore, it derives its `TorchRLModule` from the `PPOTorchRLModule` and can therefore be easily plugged into our `PPO` algorithm. - It overrides the `forward` methods of the `PPOTorchRLModule` to apply the action masking and it overrides the `_compute_values` method for GAE computation to extract the `"observations"` from the batch `Columns.OBS` key. - It uses the custom `ActionMaskEnv` that defines for each step a new action mask that defines actions that are allowed (1.0) and others that are not (0.0). - It runs 10 iterations with PPO and finishes. How to run this script ---------------------- `python [script file name].py --num-env-runners 2` Control the number of `EnvRunner`s with the `--num-env-runners` flag. This will increase the sampling speed. For debugging, use the following additional command line options `--no-tune --num-env-runners=0` which should allow you to set breakpoints anywhere in the RLlib code and have the execution stop there for inspection and debugging. For logging to your WandB account, use: `--wandb-key=[your WandB API key] --wandb-project=[some project name] --wandb-run-name=[optional: WandB run name (within the defined project)]` Results to expect ----------------- You should expect a mean episode reward of around 0.35. The environment is a random environment paying out random rewards - so the agent cannot learn, but it can obey the action mask and should do so (no `AssertionError` should happen). After 40,000 environment steps and 10 training iterations the run should stop successfully: +-------------------------------+------------+----------------------+--------+ | Trial name | status | loc | iter | | | | | | |-------------------------------+------------+----------------------+--------+ | PPO_ActionMaskEnv_dedc8_00000 | TERMINATED | 192.168.1.178:103298 | 10 | +-------------------------------+------------+----------------------+--------+ +------------------+------------------------+------------------------+ | total time (s) | num_env_steps_sample | num_env_steps_traine | | | d_lifetime | d_lifetime | +------------------+------------------------+------------------------+ | 57.9207 | 40000 | 40000 | +------------------+------------------------+------------------------+ *------------------------+ | num_episodes_lifetim | | e | +------------------------| | 3898 | +------------------------+ """ from gymnasium.spaces import Box, Discrete from ray.rllib.algorithms.ppo import PPOConfig from ray.rllib.core.rl_module.rl_module import RLModuleSpec from ray.rllib.examples.envs.classes.action_mask_env import ActionMaskEnv from ray.rllib.examples.rl_modules.classes.action_masking_rlm import ( ActionMaskingTorchRLModule, ) from ray.rllib.examples.utils import ( add_rllib_example_script_args, run_rllib_example_script_experiment, ) parser = add_rllib_example_script_args( default_iters=10, default_timesteps=100000, default_reward=150.0, ) if __name__ == "__main__": args = parser.parse_args() if args.algo != "PPO": raise ValueError("This example only supports PPO. Please use --algo=PPO.") base_config = ( PPOConfig() .environment( env=ActionMaskEnv, env_config={ "action_space": Discrete(100), # This defines the 'original' observation space that is used in the # `RLModule`. The environment will wrap this space into a # `gym.spaces.Dict` together with an 'action_mask' that signals the # `RLModule` to adapt the action distribution inputs for the underlying # `DefaultPPORLModule`. "observation_space": Box(-1.0, 1.0, (5,)), }, ) .rl_module( # We need to explicitly specify here RLModule to use and # the catalog needed to build it. rl_module_spec=RLModuleSpec( module_class=ActionMaskingTorchRLModule, model_config={ "head_fcnet_hiddens": [64, 64], "head_fcnet_activation": "relu", }, ), ) .evaluation( evaluation_num_env_runners=1, evaluation_interval=1, # Run evaluation parallel to training to speed up the example. evaluation_parallel_to_training=True, ) ) # Run the example (with Tune). run_rllib_example_script_experiment(base_config, args)