"""RL fine-tuning of SmolVLA in the chess simulator (PPO over action chunks, ReinFlow-style noise). One decision = one 50-step action chunk (sim/rl_env.py). Each iteration collects --episodes episodes from --envs simulators in parallel on training scenes (--train-seed, episodes never used by any test), computes advantages over the chunks of each episode (GAE), then updates the action expert and the critic (sim/rl_policy.py; the noise sizes too with --learn-sigma) with PPO. Every element of the denoising chain (step x timestep x joint) has its own clipped likelihood ratio, as tokens do in language-model PPO: with the small noise of the last denoising steps, the probability of a whole step (300 values) changes by hundreds of nats after a single small update (sim/reports/rl/check). The first --critic-warmup iterations train only the critic. Every --val-every iterations (and before the first update) the policy runs without noise on a fixed set of validation scenes (--val-seed): the learning curve on scenes the updates never saw. Checkpoints: /iter_XXXX, /last and /best (best validation success; a later iteration wins ties). log.jsonl has one line per iteration. Run (pod): MUJOCO_GL=egl PHASE2_PROFILE=baseline SIM_OFFSAMPLES=0 .venv/bin/python sim/rl_train.py \ --policy models/baseline --out outputs/rl_pilot --iterations 30 """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import json import sys import time from pathlib import Path HERE = Path(__file__).resolve().parent sys.path.insert(0, str(HERE)) def run_episodes(pol, venv, seed: int, indices: list[int], noise: bool, early_stop: bool, check_expert: bool, record: bool, eval_noise_seeds: bool = False, measure: bool = True): """Run episodes (seed, index) on the vector env with the current policy. Returns the finished episodes: dict(info, decisions=[...], ret, ...). Each decision keeps what PPO needs when record.""" import numpy as np import torch todo = list(indices) active, episodes = {}, [] free = list(range(venv.n)) timing = run_episodes.timing = dict(prep=0.0, sample=0.0, env=0.0, reset=0.0, rounds=0) def start(workers): jobs = {} for w in workers: if todo: jobs[w] = dict(seed=seed, index=todo.pop(0), check_expert=check_expert, early_stop=early_stop, measure=measure) for w, (obs, info) in venv.reset_many(jobs).items(): gen = None if eval_noise_seeds: # the same x_0 draws as eval_policy.py gen = torch.Generator(device=pol.device) gen.manual_seed(info["torch_seed"]) active[w] = dict(obs=obs, info=info, decisions=[], ret=0.0, gen=gen) return [w for w in workers if w not in jobs] t = time.time() free = start(free) timing["reset"] += time.time() - t while active: ws = sorted(active) t0 = time.time() batch = pol.batch([active[w]["obs"] for w in ws]) gens = [active[w]["gen"] for w in ws] if eval_noise_seeds else None x0 = pol.x0(len(ws), gens) t1 = time.time() chain, logp, value, prefix = pol.sample(batch, x0, noise=noise) acts = pol.actions(chain) t2 = time.time() results = venv.step_many({w: acts[j] for j, w in enumerate(ws)}) t3 = time.time() timing["prep"] += t1 - t0 timing["sample"] += t2 - t1 timing["env"] += t3 - t2 timing["rounds"] += 1 for j, w in enumerate(ws): nxt, rew, done, info = results[w] ep = active[w] if record: ep["decisions"].append(dict(prefix=pol.split_prefix(prefix, j), chain=chain[j].cpu(), logp=logp[j].cpu(), value=float(value[j]), reward=float(rew))) ep["ret"] += float(rew) if done: ep["result"] = info ep.pop("obs") ep.pop("gen") episodes.append(ep) del active[w] free.append(w) else: ep["obs"] = nxt t = time.time() free = start(free) timing["reset"] += time.time() - t return episodes def gae(episodes, gamma: float, lam: float): for ep in episodes: adv, nxt_v = 0.0, 0.0 # every episode ends (success, failure or time limit) for d in reversed(ep["decisions"]): delta = d["reward"] + gamma * nxt_v - d["value"] adv = delta + gamma * lam * adv d["adv"], d["ret"] = adv, adv + d["value"] nxt_v = d["value"] def summarize(episodes, prefix=""): import numpy as np n = len(episodes) r = [e["result"] for e in episodes] out = {f"{prefix}episodes": n, f"{prefix}success": round(sum(x["success"] for x in r) / max(n, 1), 4), f"{prefix}return": round(float(np.mean([e["ret"] for e in episodes])), 4) if n else None, f"{prefix}clean_lift": round(sum(x["clean_lift"] for x in r) / max(n, 1), 4), f"{prefix}disturbed": round(sum(x["end"] == "disturbed" for x in r) / max(n, 1), 4), f"{prefix}toppled": round(sum(x["end"] == "toppled" for x in r) / max(n, 1), 4)} for kind in ("pawn", "knight"): k = [e for e in episodes if e["info"]["piece"] == kind] out[f"{prefix}success_{kind}"] = round(sum(e["result"]["success"] for e in k) / max(len(k), 1), 4) close = [x["close_lateral_mm"] for x in r if x.get("close_lateral_mm") is not None] out[f"{prefix}close_mm_median"] = round(float(np.median(close)), 2) if close else None return out def ppo_update(pol, opt, decisions, args, policy_on: bool): import numpy as np import torch adv = torch.tensor([d["adv"] for d in decisions], dtype=torch.float32) adv = (adv - adv.mean()) / (adv.std() + 1e-8) ret = torch.tensor([d["ret"] for d in decisions], dtype=torch.float32) old = torch.stack([d["logp"] for d in decisions]) # (N, n_steps, T, A) stats = dict(kl=[], clipfrac=[], pg_loss=[], v_loss=[], grad_norm=[]) trained = [p for p in pol.parameters() if p.requires_grad] stop = False for epoch in range(args.epochs): perm = np.random.permutation(len(decisions)) for s in range(0, len(perm), args.minibatch): idx = perm[s:s + args.minibatch] prefix = pol.stack_prefix([decisions[i]["prefix"] for i in idx]) # as at sampling time chain = torch.stack([decisions[i]["chain"] for i in idx]).to(pol.device) logp, value = pol.evaluate(None, chain, prefix=prefix) a = adv[idx].to(pol.device)[:, None, None, None] log_ratio = (logp - old[idx].to(pol.device)).clamp(-20, 20) ratio = log_ratio.exp() pg = -torch.min(ratio * a, ratio.clamp(1 - args.clip, 1 + args.clip) * a).mean() v_loss = 0.5 * ((value - ret[idx].to(pol.device)) ** 2).mean() loss = (pg if policy_on else 0.0 * pg) + args.vf_coef * v_loss opt.zero_grad(set_to_none=True) loss.backward() gn = torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(trained, args.max_grad_norm) if not policy_on: # critic warm-up: leave the policy and noise untouched for p in pol.policy_params() + [pol.log_sigma]: p.grad = None opt.step() with torch.no_grad(): kl = ((ratio - 1) - log_ratio).mean().item() stats["kl"].append(kl) stats["clipfrac"].append(((ratio - 1).abs() > args.clip).float().mean().item()) stats["pg_loss"].append(pg.item()) stats["v_loss"].append(v_loss.item()) stats["grad_norm"].append(float(gn)) if policy_on and np.mean(stats["kl"][-max(1, len(perm) // args.minibatch):]) > args.target_kl: stop = True break out = {k: round(float(np.mean(v)), 5) for k, v in stats.items() if v} out["epochs_done"] = epoch + 1 out["kl_stop"] = stop return out def main(): ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__) ap.add_argument("--policy", required=True) ap.add_argument("--out", required=True) ap.add_argument("--iterations", type=int, default=30) ap.add_argument("--envs", type=int, default=10) ap.add_argument("--episodes", type=int, default=100, help="episodes per iteration") ap.add_argument("--train-seed", type=int, default=7_700_003) ap.add_argument("--val-seed", type=int, default=9_300_003) ap.add_argument("--val-episodes", type=int, default=60) ap.add_argument("--val-every", type=int, default=5) ap.add_argument("--save-every", type=int, default=5) ap.add_argument("--seconds", type=float, default=20.0) ap.add_argument("--lr", type=float, default=3e-7) ap.add_argument("--sigma-lr", type=float, default=3e-3) ap.add_argument("--critic-lr", type=float, default=3e-4) ap.add_argument("--sigma-start", type=float, default=0.2, help="noise size at the first denoising step") ap.add_argument("--sigma-end", type=float, default=0.002, help="noise size at the last denoising step") ap.add_argument("--learn-sigma", action="store_true", help="train the noise sizes too (default: fixed schedule)") ap.add_argument("--expert-bf16", action="store_true", help="keep the action expert in bfloat16 (default float32)") ap.add_argument("--gamma", type=float, default=0.99) ap.add_argument("--lam", type=float, default=0.95) ap.add_argument("--clip", type=float, default=0.2) ap.add_argument("--epochs", type=int, default=2) ap.add_argument("--minibatch", type=int, default=16) ap.add_argument("--target-kl", type=float, default=0.02, help="per-element approximate KL") ap.add_argument("--vf-coef", type=float, default=0.5) ap.add_argument("--max-grad-norm", type=float, default=1.0) ap.add_argument("--critic-warmup", type=int, default=1) ap.add_argument("--torch-threads", type=int, default=2, help="CPU threads of this process; its idle thread pool otherwise spins and starves the simulators") args = ap.parse_args() import numpy as np import torch torch.set_num_threads(args.torch_threads) from episode import load_config from rl_env import REWARD, VecChessEnv from rl_policy import FlowRL out = Path(args.out) out.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True) (out / "args.json").write_text(json.dumps(dict(vars(args), reward=REWARD), indent=1)) cfg = load_config() torch.manual_seed(0) np.random.seed(0) pol = FlowRL(args.policy, cfg["dataset"]["instruction"], args.sigma_start, args.sigma_end, learn_sigma=args.learn_sigma, expert_fp32=not args.expert_bf16) groups = [dict(params=pol.policy_params(), lr=args.lr), dict(params=list(pol.critic.parameters()), lr=args.critic_lr)] if args.learn_sigma: groups.append(dict(params=[pol.log_sigma], lr=args.sigma_lr)) opt = torch.optim.AdamW(groups, weight_decay=0.0) venv = VecChessEnv(args.envs, cfg, args.seconds) log = (out / "log.jsonl").open("a") val_indices = list(range(args.val_episodes)) best = -1.0 def validate(it): nonlocal best t0 = time.time() eps = run_episodes(pol, venv, args.val_seed, val_indices, noise=False, early_stop=False, check_expert=False, record=False) s = summarize(eps, "val_") s["val_seconds"] = round(time.time() - t0, 1) if s["val_success"] >= best and it > 0: best = s["val_success"] pol.save(out / "best", dict(iteration=it, val=s)) return s try: row = dict(iteration=0, **validate(0)) print(json.dumps(row), flush=True) log.write(json.dumps(row) + "\n") log.flush() next_index = 0 for it in range(1, args.iterations + 1): t0 = time.time() idx = list(range(next_index, next_index + args.episodes)) next_index += args.episodes eps = run_episodes(pol, venv, args.train_seed, idx, noise=True, early_stop=True, check_expert=False, record=True, measure=False) t_roll = time.time() - t0 timing = {k: round(v, 1) for k, v in run_episodes.timing.items()} gae(eps, args.gamma, args.lam) decisions = [d for e in eps for d in e["decisions"]] upd = ppo_update(pol, opt, decisions, args, policy_on=it > args.critic_warmup) row = dict(iteration=it, decisions=len(decisions), rollout_s=round(t_roll, 1), rollout_parts=timing, update_s=round(time.time() - t0 - t_roll, 1), sigma_mean=round(float(pol.sigma().mean()), 5), **summarize(eps, "train_"), **upd) if it % args.val_every == 0 or it == args.iterations: row.update(validate(it)) if it % args.save_every == 0: pol.save(out / f"iter_{it:04d}", dict(iteration=it)) print(json.dumps(row), flush=True) log.write(json.dumps(row) + "\n") log.flush() pol.save(out / "last", dict(iteration=args.iterations)) finally: venv.close() if __name__ == "__main__": main()