agents VS gym

im trying to follow this tutorial = https://github.com/tensorflow/agents/blob/master/docs/tutorials/9_c51_tutorial.ipynb

I followed the TensorFlow tutorial for agents and the multi armed bandit tutorial and now I'm trying to make one of the already implemented agents, from the examples, work on my own environment. Basically my environment exists of 5 actions and 5 observations. Applying one action i results in the same state i. One action contains another step of sending that action number to a different program via a socket and the answer from the program is interpreted for the reward. My environment seems to be working, I used the little test script below to test the observe and action functions. I know this is not a full proof but showed its atleast working.

Depending on what task you pick the "best" algo will vary. There are also a bunch of variations and tricks for each of those, some of which have been given new names over time. If you are working on a project I would suggest whichever one has the simplest and most extendable implementation. If you really want to compare all of them you can use libraries that have them all implemented, such as tfagents.

I'm using a simple training loop, based on this.

Hello everyone, I published my python project a month ago, it's a command line interface for training, tuning and reusing reinforcement learning algorithms in tensorflow 2.x. It's similar to stable-baselines, tf-agents, and not so many others. It seems like it's not getting enough attention despite the README, license, and everything else.

Well it seems it doesn't flatten anything, just passes OrderedDict as input dense. Not sure but apparently it's keras that makes that a list of tensors. You can dig around places like https://github.com/tensorflow/agents/blob/v0.8.0/tf_agents/networks/network.py https://github.com/tensorflow/agents/blob/v0.8.0/tf_agents/agents/dqn/dqn_agent.py https://github.com/openai/gym/blob/master/gym/spaces/dict.py if you want to be really sure.

2- You could go the reinforcement learning approach by controlling these parameters using an agent. This would mean that the parameters would have to change on the fly, which I am not sure if appropriate. If so, creating a gym environment is not so hard, which would then use something like tf.agents , rlax or any other rl framework of your liking.

Not the same style and looks somehow more complicated but i want to mention tf.agents if you don't know about it already.

A co-founder announced they disbanded their robots team a couple years ago: https://venturebeat.com/business/openai-disbands-its-robotic...

That was the same time they depreciated OpenAI Gym: https://github.com/openai/gym

This includes single-agent Gymnasium wrappers for DM Control, DM Lab, Behavior Suite, Arcade Learning Environment, OpenAI Gym V21 & V26. Multi-agent PettingZoo wrappers support DM Control Soccer, OpenSpiel and Melting Pot. For more information, read the release notes here:

When I browse fetch_env.py, I have a question about the following code snippet:

Nvm, this works for me '!pip install setuptools==65.5.0' Source: https://github.com/openai/gym/issues/3176

how would this interact/compare with https://github.com/openai/gym?

If you'd like to learn more about reinforcement learning or play with a number of samples in controlled environments, I highly recommend you look at the documentation for OpenAI's Gym library and particularly the basic usage page. OpenAI's Gym provides a standardized environment for performing reinforcement learning on classic Atari games and a few other platforms and should be an educational resource. If you'd like a more detailed example, check out this tutorial on Paperspace's blog.

Frozen Lake is an OpenAI Gym environment in which an agent is rewarded for traversing a frozen surface from a start position to a goal position without falling through any perilous holes in the ice.

typically a more relaxed approach is taken via reinforcement learning, but it requires that you can simulate the game via a given gamestate. take a look at e.g. https://www.gymlibrary.dev/