tf_agents.bandits.environments.wheel_py_environment.WheelPyEnvironment

Implements the Wheel Bandit environment.

Inherits From: BanditPyEnvironment, PyEnvironment

This environment implements the wheel bandit from Section 5.4 of 1 as a subclass of BanditPyEnvironment.

Context features are sampled uniformly at random in the unit circle in R^2. There are 5 possible actions. There exists an exploration parameter delta in (0, 1) that determines the difficulty of the problem and the need for exploration.

References:

[1]. Carlos Riquelme, George Tucker, Jasper Snoek "Deep Bayesian Bandits Showdown: An Empirical Comparison of Bayesian Deep Networks for Thompson Sampling", International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2018. https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.09127

delta float in (0, 1). Exploration parameter.
mu_base (vector of float) Mean reward for each action, if the context norm is below delta. The size of the vector is expected to be 5 (i.e., equal to the number of actions.)
std_base (vector of float) std of the Gaussian reward for each action if the context norm is below delta. The size of the vector is expected to be 5 (i.e., equal to the number of actions.)
mu_high (float) Mean reward for the optimal action if the context norm is above delta.
std_high (float) Reward std for optimal action if the context norm is above delta.
batch_size (optional) (int) Number of observations generated per call.
name (optional) The name of this environment instance.

batch_size The batch size of the environment.
batched Whether the environment is batched or not.

If the environment supports batched observations and actions, then overwrite this property to True.

A batched environment takes in a batched set of actions and returns a batched set of observations. This means for all numpy arrays in the input and output nested structures, the first dimension is the batch size.

When batched, the left-most dimension is not part of the action_spec or the observation_spec and corresponds to the batch dimension.

When batched and handle_auto_reset, it checks np.all(steps.is_last()).

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Methods

action_spec

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Defines the actions that should be provided to step().

May use a subclass of ArraySpec that specifies additional properties such as min and max bounds on the values.

Returns
An ArraySpec, or a nested dict, list or tuple of ArraySpecs.

close

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Frees any resources used by the environment.

Implement this method for an environment backed by an external process.

This method be used directly

env = Env(...)
# Use env.
env.close()

or via a context manager

with Env(...) as env:
  # Use env.

current_time_step

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Returns the current timestep.

discount_spec

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Defines the discount that are returned by step().

Override this method to define an environment that uses non-standard discount values, for example an environment with array-valued discounts.

Returns
An ArraySpec, or a nested dict, list or tuple of ArraySpecs.

get_info

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Returns the environment info returned on the last step.

Returns
Info returned by last call to step(). None by default.

Raises
NotImplementedError If the environment does not use info.

get_state

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Returns the state of the environment.

The state contains everything required to restore the environment to the current configuration. This can contain e.g.

  • The current time_step.
  • The number of steps taken in the environment (for finite horizon MDPs).
  • Hidden state (for POMDPs).

Callers should not assume anything about the contents or format of the returned state. It should be treated as a token that can be passed back to set_state() later.

Note that the returned state handle should not be modified by the environment later on, and ensuring this (e.g. using copy.deepcopy) is the responsibility of the environment.

Returns
state The current state of the environment.

observation_spec

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Defines the observations provided by the environment.

May use a subclass of ArraySpec that specifies additional properties such as min and max bounds on the values.

Returns
An ArraySpec, or a nested dict, list or tuple of ArraySpecs.

render

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Renders the environment.

Args
mode One of ['rgb_array', 'human']. Renders to an numpy array, or brings up a window where the environment can be visualized.

Returns
An ndarray of shape [width, height, 3] denoting an RGB image if mode is rgb_array. Otherwise return nothing and render directly to a display window.

Raises
NotImplementedError If the environment does not support rendering.

reset

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Starts a new sequence and returns the first TimeStep of this sequence.

Returns
A TimeStep namedtuple containing: step_type: A StepType of FIRST. reward: 0.0, indicating the reward. discount: 1.0, indicating the discount. observation: A NumPy array, or a nested dict, list or tuple of arrays corresponding to observation_spec().

reward_spec

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Defines the rewards that are returned by step().

Override this method to define an environment that uses non-standard reward values, for example an environment with array-valued rewards.

Returns
An ArraySpec, or a nested dict, list or tuple of ArraySpecs.

seed

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Seeds the environment.

Args
seed Value to use as seed for the environment.

set_state

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Restores the environment to a given state.

See definition of state in the documentation for get_state().

Args
state A state to restore the environment to.

should_reset

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Whether the Environmet should reset given the current timestep.

By default it only resets when all time_steps are LAST.

Args
current_time_step The current TimeStep.

Returns
A bool indicating whether the Environment should reset or not.

step

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Updates the environment according to the action and returns a TimeStep.

If the environment returned a TimeStep with StepType.LAST at the previous step the implementation of _step in the environment should call reset to start a new sequence and ignore action.

This method will start a new sequence if called after the environment has been constructed and reset has not been called. In this case action will be ignored.

If should_reset(current_time_step) is True, then this method will reset by itself. In this case action will be ignored.

Args
action A NumPy array, or a nested dict, list or tuple of arrays corresponding to action_spec().

Returns
A TimeStep namedtuple containing: step_type: A StepType value. reward: A NumPy array, reward value for this timestep. discount: A NumPy array, discount in the range [0, 1]. observation: A NumPy array, or a nested dict, list or tuple of arrays corresponding to observation_spec().

time_step_spec

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Describes the TimeStep fields returned by step().

Override this method to define an environment that uses non-standard values for any of the items returned by step(). For example, an environment with array-valued rewards.

Returns
A TimeStep namedtuple containing (possibly nested) ArraySpecs defining the step_type, reward, discount, and observation structure.

__enter__

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Allows the environment to be used in a with-statement context.

__exit__

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Allows the environment to be used in a with-statement context.