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"""Evaluate how ACT's chunk-execution modes hold up under observation latency and cube displacement.
The rollout loop, seeding and success bookkeeping are LeRobot's own `eval_policy`, and the env,
policy and processors are built the way `lerobot-eval` builds them. This file adds two layers:
* `ChunkExecutor` decides which predicted actions reach the robot: the rest of each chunk, the
next k actions, or LeRobot's `ACTTemporalEnsembler`. It feeds the policy observations that are
`delay` control steps old and time-aligns every chunk it executes.
* `CubeDisplacement` moves the cube once per episode and records when each task stage is first
reached.
Episodes are split into independent tasks (condition x seed block) and run in parallel worker
processes. Each worker keeps its envs in-process: LeRobot's AsyncVectorEnv workers are started
with the "forkserver" context and never import gym_aloha, so they cannot create the ALOHA env.
Example, from the repo root inside the LeRobot environment:
python scripts/chunk_eval.py --checkpoint /tmp/policy --grid validation --seeds 1000:1050 --out out/val
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import argparse
import json
import os
import time
from collections import deque
from concurrent.futures import ProcessPoolExecutor, as_completed
from dataclasses import asdict, dataclass
from multiprocessing import get_context
from pathlib import Path
import gymnasium as gym
import numpy as np
import torch
from lerobot.policies.act.configuration_act import ACTConfig
from lerobot.policies.act.modeling_act import ACTTemporalEnsembler
from lerobot.policies.pretrained import PreTrainedPolicy
# Initial cube positions are sampled uniformly from this x/y region (gym_aloha.utils.sample_box_pose).
CUBE_REGION = ((0.0, 0.2), (0.4, 0.6))
# Control steps, approved 2026-09-28. The first plan was 70-100, but in 50 official-checkpoint episodes
# the earliest right-gripper contact came at step 84 (full chunk), so 50-75 keeps every move before contact.
DISPLACEMENT_WINDOW = (50, 75)
MODES = (("full", None), ("replan", 50), ("replan", 25), ("replan", 10), ("te", None))
DELAYS = (0, 2, 5, 10, 20) # control steps at 50 Hz: 0, 40, 100, 200, 400 ms
DISPLACEMENTS_CM = (2, 4, 6)
@dataclass(frozen=True)
class Condition:
mode: str # "full", "replan" or "te"
k: int | None = None # actions executed per prediction in "replan" mode
delay: int = 0 # observation latency in control steps
displacement_cm: float = 0.0
te_coeff: float = 0.01 # temporal-ensembling weight exp(-c * i), i = 0 for the oldest prediction (ACT's default)
@property
def name(self) -> str:
mode = f"replan{self.k}" if self.mode == "replan" else self.mode
if self.mode == "te" and self.te_coeff != 0.01:
mode = f"te{self.te_coeff:g}" # e.g. te0, te-0.05; the default keeps the plain "te" name
return f"{mode}_d{self.delay:02d}_m{self.displacement_cm:g}"
def parse_modes(names: list[str] | None) -> list[tuple[str, int | None]]:
"""'full', 'te' or 'replan<k>' -> (mode, k); None -> the default MODES."""
if not names:
return list(MODES)
out = []
for n in names:
if n in ("full", "te"):
out.append((n, None))
elif n.startswith("replan") and n[6:].isdigit():
out.append(("replan", int(n[6:])))
else:
raise ValueError(f"unknown mode {n!r}")
return out
def build_grid(name: str, modes: list[tuple[str, int | None]] | None = None,
te_coeffs: tuple[float, ...] = (0.0, -0.05)) -> list[Condition]:
modes = modes or list(MODES)
if name == "validation":
return [Condition(mode, k) for mode, k in modes]
if name == "core":
delay_sweep = [Condition(mode, k, delay=d) for mode, k in modes for d in DELAYS]
displacement_sweep = [Condition(mode, k, displacement_cm=m) for mode, k in modes for m in DISPLACEMENTS_CM]
return delay_sweep + displacement_sweep
if name == "te_weights":
# Does favoring recent predictions let temporal ensembling react to a moved cube, and at
# what latency cost? The default (0.01) runs are in the core grid.
return [Condition("te", delay=d, displacement_cm=m, te_coeff=c)
for c in te_coeffs for d, m in ((0, 0), (0, 6), (20, 0))]
raise ValueError(f"unknown grid {name!r}")
class ChunkExecutor(PreTrainedPolicy):
"""Runs an ACT policy's action chunks when the newest usable observation is `delay` steps old.
At control step t the policy sees o_s with s = max(0, t - delay): there is no older frame during
the first `delay` steps of an episode. A chunk predicted from o_s holds the actions for steps
s, s+1, ..., s+H-1, so execution starts at index t - s.
Modes:
full execute the rest of the chunk, then predict again (H - delay actions per prediction)
replan execute k actions, then predict again
te predict every step and combine all predictions for the current step with ACT's
exponential weights (LeRobot's ACTTemporalEnsembler, horizon H - delay)
With delay = 0 these reproduce LeRobot's ACT with n_action_steps = H, n_action_steps = k, and
temporal_ensemble_coeff = te_coeff with n_action_steps = 1.
It subclasses PreTrainedPolicy because LeRobot's eval_policy only accepts PreTrainedPolicy
instances; training-side methods are passed through to the wrapped policy.
"""
config_class = ACTConfig
name = "act_chunk_executor"
def __init__(self, policy: PreTrainedPolicy, mode: str, delay: int = 0, k: int | None = None, te_coeff: float = 0.01):
super().__init__(policy.config)
horizon = policy.config.chunk_size
if mode not in ("full", "replan", "te"):
raise ValueError(f"unknown mode {mode!r}")
if not 0 <= delay < horizon:
raise ValueError(f"delay must be in [0, {horizon}), got {delay}")
if mode == "replan" and (k is None or k < 1 or delay + k > horizon):
raise ValueError(f"replan needs 1 <= k <= {horizon - delay}, got k={k}")
self.policy = policy
self.mode, self.delay, self.k, self.te_coeff, self.horizon = mode, delay, k, te_coeff, horizon
self.n_predictions = 0
self.reset()
def get_optim_params(self):
return self.policy.get_optim_params()
def forward(self, batch: dict):
return self.policy.forward(batch)
def predict_action_chunk(self, batch: dict, **kwargs) -> torch.Tensor:
return self.policy.predict_action_chunk(batch)
def reset(self) -> None:
self.policy.reset()
self.t = 0
self.history: deque[tuple[int, dict]] = deque(maxlen=self.delay + 1)
self.queue: deque[torch.Tensor] = deque()
self.ensembler = (
ACTTemporalEnsembler(self.te_coeff, self.horizon - self.delay) if self.mode == "te" else None
)
def _predict(self) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, int]:
s, batch = self.history[0]
self.n_predictions += 1
return self.predict_action_chunk(batch), self.t - s
@torch.no_grad()
def select_action(self, batch: dict, **kwargs) -> torch.Tensor:
self.history.append((self.t, batch))
if self.mode == "te":
chunk, offset = self._predict()
action = self.ensembler.update(chunk[:, offset : offset + self.horizon - self.delay])
else:
if not self.queue:
chunk, offset = self._predict()
n = self.horizon - offset if self.mode == "full" else self.k
self.queue.extend(chunk[:, offset : offset + n].transpose(0, 1))
action = self.queue.popleft()
self.t += 1
return action
class CubeDisplacement(gym.Wrapper):
"""Moves the cube once per seeded episode and records when each reward stage is first reached.
The move happens at a step drawn uniformly from `window` (inclusive). Its direction is drawn
uniformly among the directions that keep the cube inside CUBE_REGION, so the new position is
one the policy saw during training. All draws depend only on the episode seed, so every
execution mode faces the same perturbation. Episodes begun by vector-env autoreset
(seed=None) are not recorded.
ALOHA transfer-cube rewards: 1 right gripper touches the cube, 2 cube lifted, 3 left gripper
touches it, 4 transfer succeeded (the episode terminates).
"""
def __init__(self, env: gym.Env, displacement_m: float, window: tuple[int, int] = DISPLACEMENT_WINDOW,
seed_offset: int = 10_000, log_steps: int = 0):
super().__init__(env)
self.displacement_m = displacement_m
self.window = window
self.log_steps = log_steps # log right-arm joints and gripper-cube distance for the first N steps
self.seed_offset = seed_offset
self.records: list[dict] = []
self._episode: dict | None = None
self._t = 0
def _physics(self):
return self.env.unwrapped._env.physics
def _log_row(self) -> list[float]:
physics = self._physics()
grip = physics.named.data.xpos["vx300s_right/gripper_link"]
box = physics.named.data.xpos["box"]
right_arm = physics.data.qpos[8:14] # vx300s_right waist ... wrist_rotate
return [self._t, *np.round(right_arm, 5).tolist(), round(float(np.linalg.norm(grip - box)), 5)]
def _cube_xy(self) -> np.ndarray:
return self._physics().data.qpos[-7:-5].copy() # the cube's free joint is the last 7 qpos
def _sample_delta(self, rng: np.random.Generator, xy: np.ndarray) -> np.ndarray:
(x0, x1), (y0, y1) = CUBE_REGION
for _ in range(10_000):
theta = rng.uniform(0.0, 2.0 * np.pi)
delta = self.displacement_m * np.array([np.cos(theta), np.sin(theta)])
x, y = xy + delta
if x0 <= x <= x1 and y0 <= y <= y1:
return delta
raise RuntimeError(f"no direction keeps a {self.displacement_m} m move inside {CUBE_REGION}")
def _move_cube(self, delta: np.ndarray) -> None:
# Edit the state in place and recompute derived quantities. physics.reset_context() is
# not an option here: it resets the whole simulation, arms included, before yielding.
physics = self._physics()
(x0, x1), (y0, y1) = CUBE_REGION
qpos = physics.data.qpos
qpos[-7] = np.clip(qpos[-7] + delta[0], x0, x1)
qpos[-6] = np.clip(qpos[-6] + delta[1], y0, y1)
physics.data.qvel[-6:] = 0.0
physics.forward()
def reset(self, *, seed=None, options=None):
obs, info = self.env.reset(seed=seed, options=options)
self._t = 0
self._episode = None
if seed is None:
return obs, info
rng = np.random.default_rng(seed + self.seed_offset)
t_move = int(rng.integers(self.window[0], self.window[1] + 1))
start_xy = self._cube_xy()
moving = self.displacement_m > 0
delta = self._sample_delta(rng, start_xy) if moving else np.zeros(2)
self._episode = {
"seed": int(seed),
"cube_start_xy": start_xy.round(4).tolist(),
"t_move": t_move if moving else None,
"delta_m": delta.round(4).tolist(),
"reward_before_move": None,
"first_step_at_reward": {},
}
if self.log_steps:
self._episode["trajectory"] = [self._log_row()] # rows: step, 6 right-arm joints, gripper-cube distance
self.records.append(self._episode)
return obs, info
def step(self, action):
ep = self._episode
if ep is not None and ep["t_move"] is not None and self._t == ep["t_move"]:
ep["reward_before_move"] = max(map(int, ep["first_step_at_reward"]), default=0)
qpos = self._physics().data.qpos
arms_before, xy_before = qpos[:-7].copy(), qpos[-7:-5].copy()
self._move_cube(np.asarray(ep["delta_m"]))
ep["moved_m"] = round(float(np.linalg.norm(qpos[-7:-5] - xy_before)), 4)
ep["arms_unchanged_by_move"] = bool(np.array_equal(qpos[:-7], arms_before))
obs, reward, terminated, truncated, info = self.env.step(action)
self._t += 1
if ep is not None:
for level in range(1, int(reward) + 1):
ep["first_step_at_reward"].setdefault(str(level), self._t)
if self.log_steps and self._t <= self.log_steps and not (terminated or truncated):
ep["trajectory"].append(self._log_row())
return obs, reward, terminated, truncated, info
_LOADED: dict[str, tuple] = {}
def _load(checkpoint: str, device: str) -> tuple:
"""Build env config, policy and processors once per worker, the way lerobot-eval does."""
if checkpoint not in _LOADED:
from lerobot.configs.policies import PreTrainedConfig
from lerobot.envs import make_env_pre_post_processors
from lerobot.envs.configs import AlohaEnv
from lerobot.policies import make_policy, make_pre_post_processors
env_cfg = AlohaEnv(task="AlohaTransferCube-v0")
policy_cfg = PreTrainedConfig.from_pretrained(checkpoint)
policy_cfg.pretrained_path = Path(checkpoint)
policy_cfg.device = device
policy = make_policy(cfg=policy_cfg, env_cfg=env_cfg, rename_map={})
policy.eval()
preprocessor, postprocessor = make_pre_post_processors(
policy_cfg=policy_cfg,
pretrained_path=checkpoint,
preprocessor_overrides={
"device_processor": {"device": device},
"rename_observations_processor": {"rename_map": {}},
},
)
env_pre, env_post = make_env_pre_post_processors(env_cfg=env_cfg, policy_cfg=policy_cfg)
_LOADED[checkpoint] = (env_cfg, policy, preprocessor, postprocessor, env_pre, env_post)
return _LOADED[checkpoint]
def run_task(task: dict) -> dict:
"""Evaluate one condition on one block of seeds and write the episodes to task['out_path']."""
from lerobot.envs import make_env
from lerobot.scripts.lerobot_eval import eval_policy
from lerobot.utils.random_utils import set_seed
torch.set_num_threads(1)
torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = True # as in lerobot-eval
if task["deterministic"]:
# Fixed kernels, so reruns of a condition give identical episodes. The cuBLAS setting
# must be in place before this worker first touches CUDA, which happens in _load().
os.environ.setdefault("CUBLAS_WORKSPACE_CONFIG", ":4096:8")
torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = False
torch.backends.cudnn.deterministic = True
torch.use_deterministic_algorithms(True, warn_only=True)
else:
torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = True # as in lerobot-eval
set_seed(1000)
cond = Condition(**task["condition"])
env_cfg, policy, preprocessor, postprocessor, env_pre, env_post = _load(task["checkpoint"], task["device"])
vec = make_env(env_cfg, n_envs=task["n_envs"], use_async_envs=False)[env_cfg.type][0]
vec.envs = [CubeDisplacement(e, cond.displacement_cm / 100.0, window=tuple(task['window']),
log_steps=task.get('log_steps', 0)) for e in vec.envs]
executor = ChunkExecutor(policy, cond.mode, delay=cond.delay, k=cond.k, te_coeff=cond.te_coeff)
videos_dir = Path(task["out_path"]).with_suffix("") if task["n_videos"] else None
start = time.time()
with torch.no_grad():
info = eval_policy(
env=vec,
policy=executor,
env_preprocessor=env_pre,
env_postprocessor=env_post,
preprocessor=preprocessor,
postprocessor=postprocessor,
n_episodes=task["n_seeds"],
max_episodes_rendered=task["n_videos"],
videos_dir=videos_dir,
start_seed=task["seed_start"],
)
records = {r["seed"]: r for env in vec.envs for r in env.records}
vec.close()
episodes = []
for ep in info["per_episode"]:
extra = {k: v for k, v in records.get(ep["seed"], {}).items() if k != "seed"}
episodes.append(
{
"condition": cond.name,
**asdict(cond),
"seed": ep["seed"],
"success": bool(ep["success"]),
"max_reward": float(ep["max_reward"]),
"sum_reward": float(ep["sum_reward"]),
**extra,
}
)
result = {
"condition": cond.name,
"checkpoint": task["checkpoint_label"],
"seed_start": task["seed_start"],
"n_seeds": task["n_seeds"],
"n_envs": task["n_envs"],
"n_predictions": executor.n_predictions,
"eval_s": round(time.time() - start, 1),
"video_paths": info.get("video_paths", []),
"episodes": episodes,
}
out = Path(task["out_path"])
out.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
tmp = out.with_suffix(".tmp")
tmp.write_text(json.dumps(result, indent=1))
tmp.replace(out)
return {k: result[k] for k in ("condition", "seed_start", "n_seeds", "eval_s")} | {
"n_success": sum(e["success"] for e in episodes)
}
def _sync_to_hub(out_dir: Path, repo_id: str, path_in_repo: str, message: str) -> None:
from huggingface_hub import HfApi
HfApi().upload_folder(
folder_path=str(out_dir),
repo_id=repo_id,
repo_type="dataset",
path_in_repo=path_in_repo,
commit_message=message,
allow_patterns=["*.json", "*.mp4"],
)
def main() -> None:
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter)
parser.add_argument("--checkpoint", required=True, help="local pretrained_model directory")
parser.add_argument("--checkpoint-label", default=None, help="name recorded in the results")
parser.add_argument("--grid", choices=("validation", "core", "te_weights"), required=True)
parser.add_argument("--only", nargs="*", default=None, help="run only these condition names from the grid")
parser.add_argument("--modes", nargs="*", default=None, help="execution modes, e.g. full replan50 replan25 replan10 te")
parser.add_argument("--te-coeffs", nargs="*", type=float, default=[0.0, -0.05],
help="ensembling coefficients for --grid te_weights (0.01, ACT's default, is in the core grid)")
parser.add_argument("--window", default=f"{DISPLACEMENT_WINDOW[0]}:{DISPLACEMENT_WINDOW[1]}",
help="displacement step window start:end (inclusive)")
parser.add_argument("--seeds", default="1000:1200", help="start:stop, stop exclusive")
parser.add_argument("--block", type=int, default=25, help="seeds per task")
parser.add_argument("--n-envs", type=int, default=5, help="envs per task (one batched forward pass)")
parser.add_argument("--workers", type=int, default=min(8, os.cpu_count() or 1))
parser.add_argument("--device", default="cuda")
parser.add_argument("--videos-per-condition", type=int, default=0)
parser.add_argument("--log-trajectory", type=int, default=0, metavar="N",
help="log right-arm joints and gripper-cube distance for the first N steps of each episode")
parser.add_argument("--deterministic", action=argparse.BooleanOptionalAction, default=True,
help="deterministic GPU kernels so reruns are identical (default on; --no-deterministic matches lerobot-eval)")
parser.add_argument("--out", required=True, type=Path)
parser.add_argument("--hub-repo", default=None, help="dataset repo to sync results to, e.g. user/act-chunking-study")
parser.add_argument("--sync-every", type=int, default=16, help="sync to the Hub after this many finished tasks")
args = parser.parse_args()
seed_start, seed_stop = map(int, args.seeds.split(":"))
if args.block % args.n_envs:
raise SystemExit("--block must be a multiple of --n-envs so every batch uses consecutive seeds")
hub_path = f"results/{args.out.name}" # results for --out X live at results/X in the dataset repo
if args.hub_repo:
import shutil
import tempfile
from huggingface_hub import snapshot_download
with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as tmp:
try: # resume: fetch results a previous job already uploaded
snapshot_download(args.hub_repo, repo_type="dataset", allow_patterns=[f"{hub_path}/**"], local_dir=tmp)
except Exception as exc: # noqa: BLE001 - a missing repo or folder just means a fresh start
print(f"no previous results fetched ({type(exc).__name__})")
if (Path(tmp) / hub_path).exists():
shutil.copytree(Path(tmp) / hub_path, args.out, dirs_exist_ok=True)
window = tuple(map(int, args.window.split(":")))
grid = build_grid(args.grid, parse_modes(args.modes), tuple(args.te_coeffs))
if args.only:
unknown = set(args.only) - {c.name for c in grid}
if unknown:
raise SystemExit(f"not in grid {args.grid}: {sorted(unknown)}")
grid = [c for c in grid if c.name in args.only]
tasks = []
for cond in grid:
for i, start in enumerate(range(seed_start, seed_stop, args.block)):
n = min(args.block, seed_stop - start)
out_path = args.out / cond.name / f"seeds_{start}-{start + n - 1}.json"
if out_path.exists():
continue
tasks.append(
{
"condition": asdict(cond),
"checkpoint": args.checkpoint,
"checkpoint_label": args.checkpoint_label or args.checkpoint,
"device": args.device,
"seed_start": start,
"n_seeds": n,
"n_envs": min(args.n_envs, n),
"n_videos": args.videos_per_condition if i == 0 else 0,
"deterministic": args.deterministic,
"window": list(window),
"log_steps": args.log_trajectory,
"out_path": str(out_path),
}
)
total = len(grid) * len(range(seed_start, seed_stop, args.block))
print(f"{len(tasks)} of {total} tasks to run with {args.workers} workers", flush=True)
meta = {
"grid": args.grid,
"seeds": args.seeds,
"deterministic": args.deterministic,
"window": list(window),
"modes": [c for c in dict.fromkeys(f"replan{k}" if m == "replan" else m for m, k in parse_modes(args.modes))],
"checkpoint": args.checkpoint_label or args.checkpoint,
"torch": torch.__version__,
"device_name": torch.cuda.get_device_name(0) if torch.cuda.is_available() else args.device,
}
try:
import lerobot
meta["lerobot"] = lerobot.__version__
except Exception: # noqa: BLE001
pass
args.out.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
(args.out / "meta.json").write_text(json.dumps(meta, indent=1))
done = 0
started = time.time()
with ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=args.workers, mp_context=get_context("spawn")) as pool:
futures = [pool.submit(run_task, t) for t in tasks]
for fut in as_completed(futures):
summary = fut.result()
done += 1
elapsed = time.time() - started
print(f"[{done}/{len(tasks)} {elapsed / 60:.1f} min] {summary}", flush=True)
if args.hub_repo and done % args.sync_every == 0:
_sync_to_hub(args.out, args.hub_repo, hub_path, f"{hub_path}: {done}/{len(tasks)} tasks")
if args.hub_repo:
_sync_to_hub(args.out, args.hub_repo, hub_path, f"{hub_path}: finished")
print(f"finished {len(tasks)} tasks in {(time.time() - started) / 60:.1f} min", flush=True)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()