""" This file is used only to evaluate our trained policy/actor after training in main.py with ppo.py. I wrote this file to demonstrate that our trained policy exists independently of our learning algorithm, which resides in ppo.py. Thus, we can test our trained policy without relying on ppo.py. """ def _log_summary(ep_len, ep_ret, ep_num): """ Print to stdout what we've logged so far in the most recent episode. Parameters: None Return: None """ # Round decimal places for more aesthetic logging messages ep_len = str(round(ep_len, 2)) ep_ret = str(round(ep_ret, 2)) # Print logging statements print(flush=True) print(f"-------------------- Episode #{ep_num} --------------------", flush=True) print(f"Episodic Length: {ep_len}", flush=True) print(f"Episodic Return: {ep_ret}", flush=True) print(f"------------------------------------------------------", flush=True) print(flush=True) def rollout(policy, env, render): """ Returns a generator to roll out each episode given a trained policy and environment to test on. Parameters: policy - The trained policy to test env - The environment to evaluate the policy on render - Specifies whether to render or not Return: A generator object rollout, or iterable, which will return the latest episodic length and return on each iteration of the generator. Note: If you're unfamiliar with Python generators, check this out: https://wiki.python.org/moin/Generators If you're unfamiliar with Python "yield", check this out: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/231767/what-does-the-yield-keyword-do """ # Rollout until user kills process while True: obs, _ = env.reset() done = False # number of timesteps so far t = 0 # Logging data ep_len = 0 # episodic length ep_ret = 0 # episodic return while not done: t += 1 # Render environment if specified, off by default if render: env.render() # Query deterministic action from policy and run it action = policy(obs).detach().numpy() obs, rew, terminated, truncated, _ = env.step(action) done = terminated | truncated # Sum all episodic rewards as we go along ep_ret += rew # Track episodic length ep_len = t # returns episodic length and return in this iteration yield ep_len, ep_ret def eval_policy(policy, env, render=False): """ The main function to evaluate our policy with. It will iterate a generator object "rollout", which will simulate each episode and return the most recent episode's length and return. We can then log it right after. And yes, eval_policy will run forever until you kill the process. Parameters: policy - The trained policy to test, basically another name for our actor model env - The environment to test the policy on render - Whether we should render our episodes. False by default. Return: None NOTE: To learn more about generators, look at rollout's function description """ # Rollout with the policy and environment, and log each episode's data for ep_num, (ep_len, ep_ret) in enumerate(rollout(policy, env, render)): _log_summary(ep_len=ep_len, ep_ret=ep_ret, ep_num=ep_num)