batch-ppo

Features:

• Split episodes into chunks for training. This reduces memory requirements when training from pixels and in some cases increases data efficiency.
• Use lambda variable initializers everywhere to support embedding the simulation into a larger graph.
• Upgrade to newest Gym version, including new environment names and dtypes for spaces.
• Support regularization losses returned by th...

Features:

• Represent policies as tf.distribution objects, so that the algorithms are independent of the action distribution.

Improvements:

• Move reusable components into agents.parts package.
• Add nesting tools to handle nested tuples, lists, and dicts.

Bugs:

• Fix PPO not learning on GPU by placing the optimizer on the GPU.

Features:

• Use single optimizer for PPO to train shared feature layers better.
• Allow calling methods of the process environment.

Improvements:

• Improve default and MuJoCo configs.
• Report both training and evaluation scores.

Bugs:

• Likelihood calculation halved gradients for the action standard deviation.

Features:

• Policy networks are now defined as functions mapping sequences of observations to sequences of actions. As a result, feed forward policies are faster now, and memory based agents are easier to implement. Previously, networks were restricted to be defined as RNNCells.
• All functions of the agent interface receive a tensor of agent indices now. This adds the flexibility to process...

Initial release.