q-learning-algorithms VS cleanrl

I learn quite some things about reinforcement learning in the last months, and I feel like I understand much better deep-Q learning algorithms (if you want, you can check my [repo](https://github.com/thomashirtz/q-learning-algorithms). I would like to change a little bit my focus towards actor-critics algorithms now. The only thing is, I feel like in comparison to Q-learning algorithms, the explanations of the papers are not as precise as for Q-learning, and explanations on the internet diverge really greatly (e.g. the original paper does not give the A2C but only the A3C for one learner).

PettingZoo 1.24.0 is now live! This release includes Python 3.11 support, updated Chess and Hanabi environment versions, and many bugfixes, documentation updates and testing expansions. We are also very excited to announce 3 tutorials using Stable-Baselines3, and a full training script using CleanRL with TensorBoard and WandB.

Here's where the problem starts: after implementing a custom environment that follows the typical gymnasium interface, and use a slightly adjusted PPO implementation from CleanRL, I cannot get the agent to learn anything at all, even though this specific implementation seems to work just fine on basic gymnasium examples. I am hoping the RL community here can help me with some useful pointers.

Try out a standard implementation with some standard parameters from here: https://github.com/vwxyzjn/cleanrl/tree/master/cleanrl

I am trying to run cleanrl on the `Pendulum-v1` environment. I did that by going here and changing the default `env-id` to ` parser.add_argument("--env-id", type=str, default="Pendulum-v1",

git clone https://github.com/vwxyzjn/cleanrl.git && cd cleanrl poetry install

Can someone please help me debug my implementation of SAC. Please let me know if you have any questions. I tried comparing my work with CleanRL and caught a couple of errors. However, my implementation does diverge a lot from theirs as I wanted to test my understanding.

Shameless self-plug: as far as implementation is concerned, I am working on a (hopefully) easier to understand Dreamer architecture under the CleanRL library, toward also re-implementing Director, Dreamer-v3, and and JAX variant for faster training.

Happy to share that CleanRL now has a new algorithm called Robust Policy Optimization — 5 lines of code change to PPO to get better performance in 57 out of 61 continuous action envs 🚀 (e.g., dm_control)