a3c | Tensorflow implementation of Asynchronous Advantage Actor | Reinforcement Learning library

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a3c is a Python library typically used in Artificial Intelligence, Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning, Tensorflow applications. a3c has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. However a3c build file is not available. You can download it from GitHub.

Tensorflow implementation of Asynchronous Advantage Actor Critic (A3C) from "Asynchronous Methods for Deep Reinforcement Learning".
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              a3c saves you 133 person hours of effort in developing the same functionality from scratch.
              It has 334 lines of code, 25 functions and 3 files.
              It has high code complexity. Code complexity directly impacts maintainability of the code.

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            • Create a central agent .
            • Run an agent .
            • Initialize the critic .
            • Compute the gradients of the actor .
            • Start the unit training process .
            • Discount the value of a signal .
            • Compute the entropy of an array .
            • Build summaries .
            • Creates the critic network .
            • Create the actor network .
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            Community Discussions

            QUESTION

            RLLib tunes PPOTrainer but not A2CTrainer
            Asked 2021-Feb-11 at 18:29

            I am making a comparison between both kind of algorithms against the CartPole environment. Having the imports as:

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2021-Feb-11 at 18:29

            The A2C code fails due to the configuration you copied from the PPO trial: "sgd_minibatch_size", "kl_coeff" and many others are PPO-specific configs, which cause the problem when running using A2C.

            The error is explained in the "error.txt" in the logdir.

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65668160

            QUESTION

            How much deep a Neural Network Required for 12 inputs of ranging from -5000 to 5000 in a3c Reinforcement Learning
            Asked 2020-Nov-13 at 13:46

            I am trying to use A3C with LSTM for an environment where states has 12 inputs ranging from -5000 to 5000. I am using an LSTM layer of size 12 and then 2 fully connected hidden layers of size 256, then 1 fc for 3 action dim and 1 fc for 1 value function. The reward is in range (-1,1).

            However during initial training I am unable to get good results.

            My question is- Is this Neural Network good enough for this kind of environment.

            Below is the code for Actor Critic

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2020-Nov-13 at 13:46

            Since you have 12 inputs so make sure you dont use too many parameters, also try changing activation function. i dont use Torch so i can not understand model architecture. why your first layer is LSTM? is your data time series? try using only Dense layer,

            • 1 Dense only with 12 neurons and output layer
            • 2 Dense Layers with 12 neurons each and output layer

            As for activation function use leaky relu, since your data is -5000, or you can make your data positive only by adding 5000 to all data samples.

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63195873

            QUESTION

            sqrtf() throws a domain error, even though I guard against negative numbers
            Asked 2020-Aug-14 at 02:32

            I am normalizing a 3D vector, and the clang-9 generated code throws a SIGFPE on the sqrtf() even though I do a test before calling it.

            Note that I run with FP exceptions enabled.

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2020-Aug-14 at 00:57

            throws a domain error, even thoug I guard against negative numbers

            But if (lensq > FLT_EPSILON) is too late as earlier dx*dx + dy*dy + dz*dz caused int overflow. "and indeed overflow, causing lensq to be negative" - which is undefined behavior UB.

            Compiler can take advantage that sqrtf(lensq) can always work because it can assume dx*dx + dy*dy + dz*dz >= 0 and so lensq >= 0.0f.

            Get rid of UB.

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63404720

            QUESTION

            Multiprocessing a function from main forking main as well in python
            Asked 2020-Aug-05 at 23:13

            I am trying to do multiprocessing of a function 5 times by using python multiprocessing.Process library

            To my surprise I am also getting the prints that I have added 5 times more..my intuition is that main is also getting called 5 times.

            I added prints in the train function that I need to process 5 times I can see multiprocessing happening from the prints.But I am unable to figure it out why main is also getting called 5 times.

            Here is my code..Can someone please help a check what's wrong with this code.

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2020-Aug-05 at 23:13

            Short answer

            Since you are running this on windows, all code that is not function or class definitions should be inside the if __name__ is "__main__" block.

            Long answer

            On POSIX operating systems, the multiprocessing module is implemented using the fork() system call, which creates a copy of a process. This is very handy because the second process is completely initialized out of the box.

            Microsoft windows does not have this system call. So Python tries to mimick this by starting a new Python interpreter and importing your program as a module. For this to work well importing your program should not have side effects. The best way to achieve that is to put anything that is not a class or function definition inside the if __name__ is "__main__" block.

            Since part of your code is outside the main block, it will be executed when your program is imported in the newly created Python processes. That is why you are seeing the multiple "epoch" prints.

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63274284

            QUESTION

            RuntimeError("grad can be implicitly created only for scalar outputs")
            Asked 2020-Aug-03 at 23:08

            I have following code for train function for training an A3C. I am stuck with following error.

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2020-Aug-03 at 23:08

            The pytorch error you get means "you can only call backward on scalars, i.e 0-dimensional tensors". Here, according to your prints, policy_lossis not scalar, it's a 1x4 matrix. As a consequence, so is policy_loss + 0.5 * value_loss. Thus your call to backward yields an error.

            You probably forgot to reduce your losses to a scalar (with functions like norm or MSELoss ...). See example here

            The reason it does not work is the way the gradient propagation works internally (it's basically a Jacobian multiplication engine). You can call backward on a non-scalar tensor, but then you have to provide a gradient yourself, like :

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63218710

            QUESTION

            is there any way to merging values inside array of objects with same key value pair in javascript
            Asked 2020-Jul-13 at 15:31

            this is the json i have and im trying to merge the objects with respect to toolName

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2020-Jul-13 at 15:31

            Simple implementation using reduce

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62879048

            QUESTION

            How to add a new Orderer Organization to existing Hyperledger Fabric network
            Asked 2020-Apr-11 at 07:52

            I am trying to add a new Orderer Organization to RAFT based existing ordering service. I am using the first-network from fabric-samples as the base network. While generating crypto-material, I have modified to generate crypto-material for 1 more orderer organization. The crypto-config.yaml looks like:

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2020-Apr-11 at 07:52

            I was able to extend the first-network by adding a new Orderer Organization as follows:

            1. Start the first-network through the byfn.sh script in the fabric-samples repo in the etcdraft mode.
            2. I generated crypto-material like described in the crypto-config.yaml in the question above.
            3. Use the configtxgen tool to print the new orderer organization's MSP into JSON format.
            4. Mount or docker cp this JSON file to the running cli container.
            5. Set the environment inside the cli container corresponding to existing ordering node. Import the latest system-channel configuration. Decode it to JSON format.
            6. Edit the system channel configuration block's Orderer section to add the new orderer organization's MSP as follows:

              jq -s '.[0] * {"channel_group":{"groups":{"Orderer":{"groups": {"Orderer1Org":.[1]}}}}}' config.json orderer1org.json > config1.json

            7. Edit the system channel configuration block's Consortiums section to add the new orderer organization's MSP as follows:

              jq -s '.[0] * {"channel_group":{"groups":{"Consortiums":{"groups":{"SampleConsortium":{"groups": {"Orderer1MSP":.[1]}}}}}}}' config1.json orderer1org.json > config2.json

            8. Edit the system channel configuration block's Consenters section to add the TLS credentials for the new orderer organization's orderer.example1.com node as follows:

              cert=`base64 ../crypto/ordererOrganizations/example1.com/orderers/orderer.example1.com/tls/server.crt | sed ':a;N;$!ba;s/\n//g'`

              cat config2.json | jq '.channel_group.groups.Orderer.values.ConsensusType.value.metadata.consenters += [{"client_tls_cert": "'$cert'", "host": "orderer.example1.com", "port": 7050, "server_tls_cert": "'$cert'"}] ' > modified_config.json

            9. Encode the block, find delta, create channel update transaction, encode it as protobuf envelope and submit the channel update transaction.

            10. Fetch the latest system channel configuration block.
            11. Start one of the orderers (the one who was added to consenters list previously) using this latest fetched system channel configuration block as it's genesis.block file.
            12. Perform docker exec into the cli container. Using the environment of an existing orderer node, fetch the latest system channel configuration.
            13. Edit the system channel configuration block to add the new orderer's endpoint in the OrdererAddresses section as follows:

              cat config.json | jq '.channel_group.values.OrdererAddresses.value.addresses += ["orderer.example1.com:7050"] ' > modified_config.json

            14. Encode the block, find delta, create channel update transaction, encode it as protobuf envelope and get the block signed by Orderer1Org admin to satify the mod_policy for /Channel/OrdererAddresses resource which is set to Admins policy. This implicit meta policy expects the signature of MAJORITY Admins at that level of update. So, as the number of orderer organizations are 2 now, we need both the organization's admins to sign this system channel update transaction. Set the environment corresponding to Orderer1Org admin and run the following command:

              peer channel signconfigtx -f ordorg_update_in_envelope.pb

            15. Set the environment back to OrdererOrg admin and submit the channel update transaction. The peer channel update will automatically sign the transaction on behalf of OrdererOrg admin.

              peer channel update -f ordorg_update_in_envelope.pb -c $CHANNEL_NAME -o orderer.example.com:7050 --tls true --cafile $ORDERER_CA

            For updating any application channel, just replace the step 7 by updating the application channel configuration block's Application section to add the new orderer organization's MSP there.

            Hope this helps!

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/61122349

            QUESTION

            Glide not Loading Image from the cloud storage
            Asked 2020-Apr-07 at 00:40

            I am having an issue displaying images from my cloud storage,Glide keeps throwing this very long errors about exifinterface i have done some research concerning the issue but my problem doesnt seem to go away. i have attached my stack trace below.

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2019-Nov-06 at 09:33

            use this dependency for glide

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58726801

            QUESTION

            Is Tensorflow 2.0 with the Keras API thread-safe?
            Asked 2020-Mar-28 at 13:18
            Is Tensorflow 2.0 thread-safe?

            More specifically, is calling fit/predict or other methods on the same model from different threads safe in Tensorflow 2.0 (using Keras API)?

            I couldn't find a clear answer from the documentation or from looking online.

            I saw this question from 2017 which says that Keras (although the question mentioned a Theano backend) is thread-safe, but you have to call private method model._make_predict_function() before you call predict() (which I believe has been deprecated). However, I read this blog post from 2019 which says that it's not thread-safe.

            I also found this question from 2018 that says that Tensorflow (pre-Keras) is thread-safe but you have to make sure you use the default graph explicity (which I believe is irrelevant for Tensorflow 2.* because of eager execution). When I looked up thread-safety in eager execution I saw this article in the documents that does mention thread-safety of eager execution, but it's in relation to Java.

            And to make things more confusing, I saw an A3C implementation in Github with Keras from this year (2020) that was using locks before training the shared policy/value networks, hinting that Keras is not thread-safe and you have to acquire a lock before training a shared model. However, it looks to me like the implementation is flawed because each worker was creating and using it's own unique lock which defeats the purpose of having a lock. My conclusion is that either his code was running successfully regardless of the "lock" because Keras is thread-safe, or that he has a bug.

            I did my own final test where I ran two threads fitting the same model to different outputs (for the same constant input) and tried calling predict during the training and it seems to be working, but I'm asking this question because I want to make sure. Are there any cases where Tensorflow 2.0/Keras are not thread safe?

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2020-Mar-28 at 13:18

            According to a Keras contributor in this GitHub issue:

            Keras models can't be guaranteed to be thread-safe. Consider having independent copies of the model in each thread for CPU inference.

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60848263

            QUESTION

            Why can't Open Graph checkers detect Open Graph data?
            Asked 2019-Aug-26 at 09:22

            My page, after adding an SSL certificate (Let's Encrypt), cannot have preview fetched by Facebook or Twitter when sharing the link. I have followed The Open Graph protocol and include the following open graph tags:

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            ANSWER

            Answered 2019-Aug-26 at 09:22

            In my case, it seems that the crawler is just having a bug. I have my own canonical answer in this question, hope that helps someone: FB OpenGraph og:image not pulling images (possibly https?)

            Source https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57529664

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