thu-ml/tianshou: An elegant PyTorch deep reinforcement learning library.

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开源软件名称（OpenSource Name）：

thu-ml/tianshou

开源软件地址(OpenSource Url)：

https://github.com/thu-ml/tianshou

开源编程语言(OpenSource Language)：

Python 99.7%

开源软件介绍(OpenSource Introduction)：

Tianshou (天授) is a reinforcement learning platform based on pure PyTorch. Unlike existing reinforcement learning libraries, which are mainly based on TensorFlow, have many nested classes, unfriendly API, or slow-speed, Tianshou provides a fast-speed modularized framework and pythonic API for building the deep reinforcement learning agent with the least number of lines of code. The supported interface algorithms currently include:

Here are Tianshou's other features:

Elegant framework, using only ~4000 lines of code
State-of-the-art MuJoCo benchmark for REINFORCE/A2C/TRPO/PPO/DDPG/TD3/SAC algorithms
Support vectorized environment (synchronous or asynchronous) for all algorithms Usage
Support super-fast vectorized environment EnvPool for all algorithms Usage
Support recurrent state representation in actor network and critic network (RNN-style training for POMDP) Usage
Support any type of environment state/action (e.g. a dict, a self-defined class, ...) Usage
Support customized training process Usage
Support n-step returns estimation and prioritized experience replay for all Q-learning based algorithms; GAE, nstep and PER are very fast thanks to numba jit function and vectorized numpy operation
Support multi-agent RL Usage
Support both TensorBoard and W&B log tools
Support multi-GPU training Usage
Comprehensive documentation, PEP8 code-style checking, type checking and unit tests

In Chinese, Tianshou means divinely ordained and is derived to the gift of being born with. Tianshou is a reinforcement learning platform, and the RL algorithm does not learn from humans. So taking "Tianshou" means that there is no teacher to study with, but rather to learn by themselves through constant interaction with the environment.

“天授”意指上天所授，引申为与生具有的天赋。天授是强化学习平台，而强化学习算法并不是向人类学习的，所以取“天授”意思是没有老师来教，而是自己通过跟环境不断交互来进行学习。

Installation

Tianshou is currently hosted on PyPI and conda-forge. It requires Python >= 3.6.

You can simply install Tianshou from PyPI with the following command:

$ pip install tianshou

If you use Anaconda or Miniconda, you can install Tianshou from conda-forge through the following command:

$ conda install -c conda-forge tianshou

You can also install with the newest version through GitHub:

$ pip install git+https://github.com/thu-ml/tianshou.git@master --upgrade

After installation, open your python console and type

import tianshou
print(tianshou.__version__)

If no error occurs, you have successfully installed Tianshou.

Documentation

The tutorials and API documentation are hosted on tianshou.readthedocs.io.

The example scripts are under test/ folder and examples/ folder.

中文文档位于 https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/zh/master/。

Why Tianshou?

Comprehensive Functionality

RL Platform	# of Alg. ⁽¹⁾	Custom Env	Batch Training	RNN Support	Nested Observation	Backend
Baselines	9	✔️ (gym)	➖ ⁽²⁾	✔️	❌	TF1
Stable-Baselines	11	✔️ (gym)	➖ ⁽²⁾	✔️	❌	TF1
Stable-Baselines3	7⁽³⁾	✔️ (gym)	➖ ⁽²⁾	❌	✔️	PyTorch
Ray/RLlib	16	✔️	✔️	✔️	✔️	TF/PyTorch
SpinningUp	6	✔️ (gym)	➖ ⁽²⁾	❌	❌	PyTorch
Dopamine	7	❌	❌	❌	❌	TF/JAX
ACME	14	✔️ (dm_env)	✔️	✔️	✔️	TF/JAX
keras-rl	7	✔️ (gym)	❌	❌	❌	Keras
rlpyt	11	❌	✔️	✔️	✔️	PyTorch
ChainerRL	18	✔️ (gym)	✔️	✔️	❌	Chainer
Sample Factory	1⁽⁴⁾	✔️ (gym)	✔️	✔️	✔️	PyTorch

Tianshou	20	✔️ (gym)	✔️	✔️	✔️	PyTorch

^{(1): access date: 2021-08-08}

^{(2): not all algorithms support this feature}

^{(3): TQC and QR-DQN in sb3-contrib instead of main repo}

^{(4): super fast APPO!}

High quality software engineering standard

RL Platform	Documentation	Code Coverage	Type Hints
Baselines	❌	❌	❌
Stable-Baselines			❌
Stable-Baselines3			✔️
Ray/RLlib		➖⁽¹⁾	✔️
SpinningUp		❌	❌
Dopamine		❌	❌
ACME		➖⁽¹⁾	✔️
keras-rl		➖⁽¹⁾	❌
rlpyt			❌
ChainerRL			❌
Sample Factory	➖		❌

Tianshou			✔️

^{(1): it has continuous integration but the coverage rate is not available}

Reproducible and High Quality Result

Tianshou has its unit tests. Different from other platforms, the unit tests include the full agent training procedure for all of the implemented algorithms. It would be failed once if it could not train an agent to perform well enough on limited epochs on toy scenarios. The unit tests secure the reproducibility of our platform. Check out the GitHub Actions page for more detail.

The Atari/Mujoco benchmark results are under examples/atari/ and examples/mujoco/ folders. Our Mujoco result can beat most of existing benchmark.

Modularized Policy

We decouple all of the algorithms roughly into the following parts:

__init__: initialize the policy;
forward: to compute actions over given observations;
process_fn: to preprocess data from replay buffer (since we have reformulated all algorithms to replay-buffer based algorithms);
learn: to learn from a given batch data;
post_process_fn: to update the replay buffer from the learning process (e.g., prioritized replay buffer needs to update the weight);
update: the main interface for training, i.e., process_fn -> learn -> post_process_fn.

Within this API, we can interact with different policies conveniently.

Quick Start

This is an example of Deep Q Network. You can also run the full script at test/discrete/test_dqn.py.

First, import some relevant packages:

import gym, torch, numpy as np, torch.nn as nn
from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
import tianshou as ts

Define some hyper-parameters:

task = 'CartPole-v0'
lr, epoch, batch_size = 1e-3, 10, 64
train_num, test_num = 10, 100
gamma, n_step, target_freq = 0.9, 3, 320
buffer_size = 20000
eps_train, eps_test = 0.1, 0.05
step_per_epoch, step_per_collect = 10000, 10
logger = ts.utils.TensorboardLogger(SummaryWriter('log/dqn'))  # TensorBoard is supported!
# For other loggers: https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/en/master/tutorials/logger.html

Make environments:

# you can also try with SubprocVectorEnv
train_envs = ts.env.DummyVectorEnv([lambda: gym.make(task) for _ in range(train_num)])
test_envs = ts.env.DummyVectorEnv([lambda: gym.make(task) for _ in range(test_num)])

Define the network:

from tianshou.utils.net.common import Net
# you can define other net by following the API:
# https://tianshou.readthedocs.io/en/master/tutorials/dqn.html#build-the-network
env = gym.make(task)
state_shape = env.observation_space.shape or env.observation_space.n
action_shape = env.action_space.shape or env.action_space.n
net = Net(state_shape=state_shape, action_shape=action_shape, hidden_sizes=[128, 128, 128])
optim = torch.optim.Adam(net.parameters(), lr=lr)

Setup policy and collectors:

policy = ts.policy.DQNPolicy(net, optim, gamma, n_step, target_update_freq=target_freq)
train_collector = ts.data.Collector(policy, train_envs, ts.data.VectorReplayBuffer(buffer_size, train_num), exploration_noise=True)
test_collector = ts.data.Collector(policy, test_envs, exploration_noise=True)  # because DQN uses epsilon-greedy method