tf_agents.policies.ActorPolicy

Class to build Actor Policies.

Inherits From: TFPolicy

tf_agents.policies.ActorPolicy(
    time_step_spec: tf_agents.trajectories.TimeStep,
    action_spec: tf_agents.typing.types.NestedTensorSpec,
    actor_network: tf_agents.networks.Network,
    policy_state_spec: tf_agents.typing.types.NestedTensorSpec = (),
    info_spec: tf_agents.typing.types.NestedTensorSpec = (),
    observation_normalizer: Optional[tf_agents.utils.tensor_normalizer.TensorNormalizer] = None,
    clip: bool = True,
    training: bool = False,
    observation_and_action_constraint_splitter: Optional[types.Splitter] = None,
    name: Optional[Text] = None
)

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Used in the tutorials

time_step_spec A TimeStep spec of the expected time_steps.
action_spec A nest of BoundedTensorSpec representing the actions.
actor_network An instance of a tf_agents.networks.network.Network to be used by the policy. The network will be called with call(observation, step_type, policy_state) and should return (actions_or_distributions, new_state).
policy_state_spec A nest of TensorSpec representing the policy_state. If not set, defaults to actor_network.state_spec.
info_spec A nest of TensorSpec representing the policy info.
observation_normalizer An object to use for observation normalization.
clip Whether to clip actions to spec before returning them. Default True. Most policy-based algorithms (PCL, PPO, REINFORCE) use unclipped continuous actions for training.
training Whether the network should be called in training mode.
observation_and_action_constraint_splitter A function used to process observations with action constraints. These constraints can indicate, for example, a mask of valid/invalid actions for a given state of the environment. The function takes in a full observation and returns a tuple consisting of 1) the part of the observation intended as input to the network and 2) the constraint. An example observation_and_action_constraint_splitter could be as simple as: def observation_and_action_constraint_splitter(observation): return observation['network_input'], observation['constraint'] Note: when using observation_and_action_constraint_splitter, make sure the provided actor_network is compatible with the network-specific half of the output of the observation_and_action_constraint_splitter. In particular, observation_and_action_constraint_splitter will be called on the observation before passing to the network. If observation_and_action_constraint_splitter is None, action constraints are not applied.
name The name of this policy. All variables in this module will fall under that name. Defaults to the class name.

ValueError if actor_network is not of type network.Network.
NotImplementedError if observation_and_action_constraint_splitter is not None but action_spec is not discrete.

action_spec Describes the TensorSpecs of the Tensors expected by step(action).

action can be a single Tensor, or a nested dict, list or tuple of Tensors.

collect_data_spec Describes the Tensors written when using this policy with an environment.
emit_log_probability Whether this policy instance emits log probabilities or not.
info_spec Describes the Tensors emitted as info by action and distribution.

info can be an empty tuple, a single Tensor, or a nested dict, list or tuple of Tensors.

observation_and_action_constraint_splitter

observation_normalizer

policy_state_spec Describes the Tensors expected by step(_, policy_state).

policy_state can be an empty tuple, a single Tensor, or a nested dict, list or tuple of Tensors.

policy_step_spec Describes the output of action().
time_step_spec Describes the TimeStep tensors returned by step().
trajectory_spec Describes the Tensors written when using this policy with an environment.
validate_args Whether action & distribution validate input and output args.

Methods

action

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action(
    time_step: tf_agents.trajectories.TimeStep,
    policy_state: tf_agents.typing.types.NestedTensor = (),
    seed: Optional[types.Seed] = None
) -> tf_agents.trajectories.PolicyStep

Generates next action given the time_step and policy_state.

Args
time_step A TimeStep tuple corresponding to time_step_spec().
policy_state A Tensor, or a nested dict, list or tuple of Tensors representing the previous policy_state.
seed Seed to use if action performs sampling (optional).

Returns
A PolicyStep named tuple containing: action: An action Tensor matching the action_spec. state: A policy state tensor to be fed into the next call to action. info: Optional side information such as action log probabilities.

Raises
RuntimeError If subclass init didn't call super().init. ValueError or TypeError: If validate_args is True and inputs or outputs do not match time_step_spec, policy_state_spec, or policy_step_spec.

distribution

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distribution(
    time_step: tf_agents.trajectories.TimeStep,
    policy_state: tf_agents.typing.types.NestedTensor = ()
) -> tf_agents.trajectories.PolicyStep

Generates the distribution over next actions given the time_step.

Args
time_step A TimeStep tuple corresponding to time_step_spec().
policy_state A Tensor, or a nested dict, list or tuple of Tensors representing the previous policy_state.

Returns
A PolicyStep named tuple containing:

action: A tf.distribution capturing the distribution of next actions. state: A policy state tensor for the next call to distribution. info: Optional side information such as action log probabilities.

Raises
ValueError or TypeError: If validate_args is True and inputs or outputs do not match time_step_spec, policy_state_spec, or policy_step_spec.

get_initial_state

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get_initial_state(
    batch_size: Optional[types.Int]
) -> tf_agents.typing.types.NestedTensor

Returns an initial state usable by the policy.

Args
batch_size Tensor or constant: size of the batch dimension. Can be None in which case no dimensions gets added.

Returns
A nested object of type policy_state containing properly initialized Tensors.

update

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update(
    policy,
    tau: float = 1.0,
    tau_non_trainable: Optional[float] = None,
    sort_variables_by_name: bool = False
) -> tf.Operation

Update the current policy with another policy.

This would include copying the variables from the other policy.

Args
policy Another policy it can update from.
tau A float scalar in [0, 1]. When tau is 1.0 (the default), we do a hard update. This is used for trainable variables.
tau_non_trainable A float scalar in [0, 1] for non_trainable variables. If None, will copy from tau.
sort_variables_by_name A bool, when True would sort the variables by name before doing the update.

Returns
An TF op to do the update.