"""SmolVLA as a stochastic policy for RL (ReinFlow-style noise injection), plus a critic. SmolVLA turns Gaussian noise x_0 into a 50-step action chunk with 10 Euler steps of a learned velocity field (VLAFlowMatching.sample_actions). Here each step adds Gaussian noise of a learned per-step, per-joint size to the six real action dimensions: x_{k+1} = x_k + dt * v(x_k, t_k) + sigma_k * eps_k so the probability of the chain x_1 ... x_10 given x_0 is a product of Gaussians that can be computed and differentiated (ReinFlow). With the noise off this is exactly SmolVLA's sampling. Trained: the action expert (`vlm_with_expert.lm_expert`) and the action and time projections (`action_in_proj`, `action_out_proj`, `action_time_mlp_in`, `action_time_mlp_out`), and a critic (an MLP on the frozen backbone's pooled prefix output and the normalized state); optionally the noise sizes. Frozen: the vision-language backbone and `state_proj`, which feeds it, so the prefix (images, instruction, state) is computed without gradients. The noise and the critic are only for training; `save()` writes a plain SmolVLA checkpoint with the baseline's own processors (normalization). Numerics (sim/reports/rl/check): the backbone runs in bfloat16 and gives batch-size-dependent results, and small noise sizes turn tiny differences in the mean into large log-probability differences. So the prefix (KV cache, pad mask, pooled features, state) of every decision is kept from sampling time and reused in the update (`split_prefix` / `stack_prefix`), and the action expert runs in float32 (`expert_fp32`, also needed for small updates to register at all). The noise size falls geometrically from `sigma_start` (first denoising step, where the flow turns it into a coherent change of the whole chunk) to `sigma_end` (last step, which adds it directly to the joint targets as frame-to-frame jitter). """ from __future__ import annotations import math import shutil import sys from pathlib import Path import torch from torch import nn HERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent sys.path.insert(0, str(HERE)) TRAINED = ("vlm_with_expert.lm_expert.", "action_in_proj.", "action_out_proj.", "action_time_mlp_in.", "action_time_mlp_out.") def gauss_logp(x: torch.Tensor, mean: torch.Tensor, sigma: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor: """Log density of each element of x under N(mean, sigma^2): (B, T, A) -> (B, T, A). Kept per element: PPO clips each element's ratio (as per-token ratios in language-model PPO); the sum over the 300 values of a step is far too sharp with the small noise of the last denoising steps.""" z = (x - mean) / sigma return -0.5 * z * z - torch.log(sigma) - 0.5 * math.log(2 * math.pi) class Critic(nn.Module): def __init__(self, feat_dim: int, state_dim: int, hidden: int = 256): super().__init__() self.net = nn.Sequential(nn.Linear(feat_dim + state_dim, hidden), nn.Tanh(), nn.Linear(hidden, hidden), nn.Tanh(), nn.Linear(hidden, 1)) def forward(self, feat, state): return self.net(torch.cat([feat, state], dim=-1)).squeeze(-1) class FlowRL(nn.Module): def __init__(self, path: str, instruction: str, sigma_start=0.1, sigma_end=0.002, learn_sigma=False, expert_fp32=True): super().__init__() from eval_policy import load_policy policy, pre, post, device = load_policy(path, expert_fp32=expert_fp32) self.policy, self.pre, self.post, self.device = policy, pre, post, device self.src_path = Path(path) self.model = policy.model cfg = policy.config self.n_steps, self.chunk, self.adim = cfg.num_steps, cfg.chunk_size, cfg.action_feature.shape[0] self.max_adim = cfg.max_action_dim self.instruction = instruction for p in policy.parameters(): p.requires_grad_(False) self.trained_names = [] for name, p in self.model.named_parameters(): if name.startswith(TRAINED): p.requires_grad_(True) self.trained_names.append(name) frac = torch.linspace(0.0, 1.0, self.n_steps, device=device)[:, None] init = math.log(sigma_start) + frac * (math.log(sigma_end) - math.log(sigma_start)) self.log_sigma = nn.Parameter(init.expand(self.n_steps, self.adim).clone(), requires_grad=learn_sigma) self.sigma_min, self.sigma_max = 0.5 * min(sigma_start, sigma_end), 1.5 * max(sigma_start, sigma_end) hidden = self.model.vlm_with_expert.config.text_config.hidden_size self.critic = Critic(hidden, self.adim).to(device) policy.eval() # ------------------------------------------------------------------ inputs def sigma(self) -> torch.Tensor: return self.log_sigma.exp().clamp(self.sigma_min, self.sigma_max) def policy_params(self): return [p for n, p in self.model.named_parameters() if p.requires_grad] def batch(self, obs_list: list[dict]) -> dict: """Observations (numpy, as eval_policy builds them) through the policy's own preprocessor, stacked.""" from lerobot.policies.utils import prepare_observation_for_inference items = [] with torch.no_grad(): for o in obs_list: ob = prepare_observation_for_inference(dict(o), self.device, self.instruction, "so101_follower") items.append(self.pre(ob)) return {k: torch.cat([it[k] for it in items]) for k, v in items[0].items() if torch.is_tensor(v)} @torch.no_grad() def prefix(self, batch: dict): """Images, instruction and state through the frozen backbone: (pad masks, KV cache, pooled features, normalized state).""" from lerobot.policies.smolvla.modeling_smolvla import make_att_2d_masks from lerobot.utils.constants import OBS_LANGUAGE_ATTENTION_MASK, OBS_LANGUAGE_TOKENS images, img_masks = self.policy.prepare_images(batch) state = self.policy.prepare_state(batch) embs, pad, att = self.model.embed_prefix(images, img_masks, batch[OBS_LANGUAGE_TOKENS], batch[OBS_LANGUAGE_ATTENTION_MASK], state=state) att2d = make_att_2d_masks(pad, att) pos = torch.cumsum(pad, dim=1) - 1 outs, kv = self.model.vlm_with_expert.forward(attention_mask=att2d, position_ids=pos, past_key_values=None, inputs_embeds=[embs, None], use_cache=self.policy.config.use_cache, fill_kv_cache=True) h, m = outs[0].float(), pad.unsqueeze(-1).float() feat = (h * m).sum(1) / m.sum(1).clamp(min=1.0) return pad, kv, feat, state[:, :self.adim].float() def _times(self, bsize: int): dt = -1.0 / self.n_steps return dt, [torch.tensor(1.0 + k * dt, dtype=torch.float32, device=self.device).expand(bsize) for k in range(self.n_steps)] # ------------------------------------------------------------------ sampling and likelihood @torch.no_grad() def sample(self, batch: dict, x0: torch.Tensor, noise: bool = True): """The chain x_0..x_n (B, n+1, T, max_adim), its log-probabilities per element (B, n, T, A), the critic's value (B,) and the prefix (pad, kv, feat, state) for the update. With noise=False, x_n is SmolVLA's own action chunk for this x_0.""" prefix = self.prefix(batch) pad, kv, feat, state = prefix bsize = x0.shape[0] dt, times = self._times(bsize) sig = self.sigma() x, chain = x0, [x0] logp = x0.new_zeros(bsize, self.n_steps, self.chunk, self.adim) for k in range(self.n_steps): v = self.model.denoise_step(pad, kv, x, times[k]) mean = x + dt * v if noise: nxt = mean.clone() eps = torch.randn(bsize, self.chunk, self.adim, device=self.device) nxt[..., :self.adim] = mean[..., :self.adim] + sig[k] * eps logp[:, k] = gauss_logp(nxt[..., :self.adim], mean[..., :self.adim], sig[k]) else: nxt = mean x = nxt chain.append(x) return torch.stack(chain, 1), logp, self.critic(feat, state), prefix @staticmethod def split_prefix(prefix, j: int): """Decision j's prefix, on the CPU.""" pad, kv, feat, state = prefix return (pad[j:j + 1].cpu(), {l: {k: t[j:j + 1].cpu() for k, t in d.items()} for l, d in kv.items()}, feat[j:j + 1].cpu(), state[j:j + 1].cpu()) def stack_prefix(self, items): """Stored prefixes of several decisions as one batch on the device.""" dev = self.device kv = {l: {k: torch.cat([it[1][l][k] for it in items]).to(dev) for k in items[0][1][l]} for l in items[0][1]} return (torch.cat([it[0] for it in items]).to(dev), kv, torch.cat([it[2] for it in items]).to(dev), torch.cat([it[3] for it in items]).to(dev)) def evaluate(self, batch: dict | None, chain: torch.Tensor, prefix=None): """Per-element log-probabilities (B, n, T, A) of a stored chain under the current weights (with gradients through the action expert and the noise sizes) and the critic's value (B,). Pass the stored `prefix` (stack_prefix) to reuse sampling time's; else it is recomputed.""" pad, kv, feat, state = prefix if prefix is not None else self.prefix(batch) bsize = chain.shape[0] dt, times = self._times(bsize) sig = self.sigma() logp = [] for k in range(self.n_steps): v = self.model.denoise_step(pad, kv, chain[:, k], times[k]) mean = chain[:, k] + dt * v logp.append(gauss_logp(chain[:, k + 1, ..., :self.adim], mean[..., :self.adim], sig[k])) return torch.stack(logp, 1), self.critic(feat, state) @torch.no_grad() def actions(self, chain: torch.Tensor): """The executed chunk in LeRobot units (B, T, 6): the last chain step through the policy's own postprocessor (unnormalization), as eval_policy applies it to every action.""" x = chain[:, -1, :, :self.adim] bsize = x.shape[0] a = self.post(x.reshape(bsize * self.chunk, self.adim)) return a.reshape(bsize, self.chunk, self.adim).float().cpu().numpy() def x0(self, bsize: int, generators=None) -> torch.Tensor: """Initial noise as SmolVLA draws it (sample_noise); with per-episode CUDA generators seeded like eval_policy's torch.manual_seed, the same draws as eval_policy.py.""" shape = (self.chunk, self.max_adim) if generators is None: return torch.normal(mean=0.0, std=1.0, size=(bsize, *shape), dtype=torch.float32, device=self.device) return torch.cat([torch.normal(mean=0.0, std=1.0, size=(1, *shape), dtype=torch.float32, device=self.device, generator=g) for g in generators]) # ------------------------------------------------------------------ checkpoint def save(self, out: str | Path, extra: dict | None = None): """A plain SmolVLA checkpoint (config + weights) with the baseline's processor files, and the training-only parts (noise sizes, critic) in rl_state.pt.""" out = Path(out) out.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) self.policy.save_pretrained(out) for f in self.src_path.glob("policy_*processor*"): shutil.copy2(f, out / f.name) torch.save(dict(log_sigma=self.log_sigma.detach().cpu(), critic=self.critic.state_dict(), **(extra or {})), out / "rl_state.pt")