stable-baselines3 VS Ray

The latest release (v3.0.0) of Upkie's software brings a functional sim-to-real reinforcement learning pipeline based on Stable Baselines3, with standard sim-to-real tricks. The pipeline trains on the Gymnasium environments distributed in upkie.envs (setup: pip install upkie) and is implemented in the PPO balancer. Here is a policy running on an Upkie:

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.

I am wondering why there is so few algorithms in Stable Baselines 3 (SB3, https://github.com/DLR-RM/stable-baselines3/tree/master)? I was expecting some algorithms like ICM, HIRO, DIAYN, ... Why there is no model-based, skill-chaining, hierarchical-RL, ... algorithms implemented there?

Discord is more focused, and they have a page for people who wants to contribute https://github.com/DLR-RM/stable-baselines3/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

Therefore, I debugged this error to the ReplayBuffer that was imported from `SB3`. This is the problem function -

Have you ever wanted to use dm-control with stable-baselines3? Within Reinforcement learning (RL), a number of APIs are used to implement environments, with limited ability to convert between them. This makes training agents across different APIs highly difficult, and has resulted in a fractured ecosystem.

Changelog: https://github.com/DLR-RM/stable-baselines3/releases/tag/v1.8.0

Great project! One question though, is there any reason why you are not using existing RL models instead of creating your own, such as stable baselines?

22. Ray | Github | tutorial

Training times for GSM8k are mentioned here: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/tree/master/doc/source/te...

Here's a reference from RLlib that points to docs and an example, and here's one from one of my projects that includes all my own implementations

RLlib

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https://ray.io (just dropping the link)

I've wondered whether it's easier to add data analyst stuff to Elixir that Python seems to have, or add features to Python that Erlang (and by extension Elixir) provides out of the box.

By what I can see, if you want multiprocessing on Python in an easier way (let's say running async), you have to use something like ray core[0], then if you want multiple machines you need redis(?). Elixir/Erlang supports this out of the box.

Explorer[1] is an interesting approach, where it uses Rust via Rustler (Elixir library to call Rust code) and uses Polars as its dataframe library. I think Rustler needs to be reworked for this usecase, as it can be slow to return data. I made initial improvements which drastically improves encoding (https://github.com/elixir-nx/explorer/pull/282 and https://github.com/elixir-nx/explorer/pull/286, tldr 20+ seconds down to 3).

[0] https://github.com/ray-project/ray

Adding these for anyone who had a similar question about Ray vs dask 1, 2, 3