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Deep Q Networks (DQN)

This is a PyTorch implementation of paper Playing Atari with Deep Reinforcement Learning along with Dueling Network, Prioritized Replay and Double Q Network.

Here is the experiment and model implementation.

24from typing import Tuple
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26import torch
27from torch import nn
28
29from labml import tracker
30from labml_helpers.module import Module
31from labml_nn.rl.dqn.replay_buffer import ReplayBuffer

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Train the model

We want to find optimal action-value function.

Q^{*} (s, a) Q^{*} (s, a) = π max E [r_{t} + γ r_{t + 1} + γ^{2} r_{t + 2} + ...∣ s_{t} = s, a_{t} = a, π] = E_{s^{'} \sim ε} [r + γ a^{'} max Q^{*} (s^{'}, a^{'}) ∣ s, a]

Target network 🎯

In order to improve stability we use experience replay that randomly sample from previous experience $U (D)$ . We also use a Q network with a separate set of parameters $θ_{i}^{-}$ to calculate the target. $θ_{i}^{-}$ is updated periodically. This is according to paper Human Level Control Through Deep Reinforcement Learning.

So the loss function is, $L_{i} (θ_{i}) = E_{(s, a, r, s^{'}) \sim U (D)} [(r + γ a^{'} max Q (s^{'}, a^{'}; θ_{i}^{-}) - Q (s, a; θ_{i}))^{2}]$

Double $Q$ -Learning

The max operator in the above calculation uses same network for both selecting the best action and for evaluating the value. That is, $a^{'} max Q (s^{'}, a^{'}; θ) = Q (s^{'}, a r gm a x_{a^{'}} Q (s^{'}, a^{'}; θ); θ)$ We use double Q-learning, where the $a r gm a x$ is taken from $θ_{i}$ and the value is taken from $θ_{i}^{-}$ .

And the loss function becomes,

L_{i} (θ_{i}) = E_{(s, a, r, s^{'}) \sim U (D)} [(- r + γ Q (s^{'}, a r gm a x_{a^{'}} Q (s^{'}, a^{'}; θ_{i}); θ_{i}^{-}) Q (s, a; θ_{i}))^{2}]

34class QFuncLoss(Module):

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102    def __init__(self, gamma: float):
103        super().__init__()
104        self.gamma = gamma
105        self.huber_loss = nn.SmoothL1Loss(reduction='none')

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q - $Q (s; θ_{i})$
action - $a$
double_q - $Q (s^{'}; θ_{i})$
target_q - $Q (s^{'}; θ_{i}^{-})$
done - whether the game ended after taking the action
reward - $r$
weights - weights of the samples from prioritized experienced replay

107    def forward(self, q: torch.Tensor, action: torch.Tensor, double_q: torch.Tensor,
108                target_q: torch.Tensor, done: torch.Tensor, reward: torch.Tensor,
109                weights: torch.Tensor) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:

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$Q (s, a; θ_{i})$

121        q_sampled_action = q.gather(-1, action.to(torch.long).unsqueeze(-1)).squeeze(-1)
122        tracker.add('q_sampled_action', q_sampled_action)

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Gradients shouldn't propagate gradients $r + γ Q (s^{'}, a r gm a x_{a^{'}} Q (s^{'}, a^{'}; θ_{i}); θ_{i}^{-})$

130        with torch.no_grad():

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Get the best action at state $s^{'}$ $a r gm a x_{a^{'}} Q (s^{'}, a^{'}; θ_{i})$

134            best_next_action = torch.argmax(double_q, -1)

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Get the q value from the target network for the best action at state $s^{'}$ $Q (s^{'}, a r gm a x_{a^{'}} Q (s^{'}, a^{'}; θ_{i}); θ_{i}^{-})$

140            best_next_q_value = target_q.gather(-1, best_next_action.unsqueeze(-1)).squeeze(-1)

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Calculate the desired Q value. We multiply by (1 - done) to zero out the next state Q values if the game ended.

$r + γ Q (s^{'}, a r gm a x_{a^{'}} Q (s^{'}, a^{'}; θ_{i}); θ_{i}^{-})$

151            q_update = reward + self.gamma * best_next_q_value * (1 - done)
152            tracker.add('q_update', q_update)

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Temporal difference error $δ$ is used to weigh samples in replay buffer

155            td_error = q_sampled_action - q_update
156            tracker.add('td_error', td_error)

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We take Huber loss instead of mean squared error loss because it is less sensitive to outliers

160        losses = self.huber_loss(q_sampled_action, q_update)

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Get weighted means

162        loss = torch.mean(weights * losses)
163        tracker.add('loss', loss)
164
165        return td_error, loss

Deep Q Networks (DQN)

Train the model

Target network 🎯

Double Q-Learning

Double $Q$ -Learning