# Copyright (c) 2022-2026, The Isaac Lab Project Developers (https://github.com/isaac-sim/IsaacLab/blob/main/CONTRIBUTORS.md). # All rights reserved. # # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause """Early stopping for benchmark training based on a success metric. Framework-specific implementations that monitor a metric from ``extras["log"]`` and stop training when it stabilizes above a threshold: - **rsl_rl**: ``env.step`` wrapper + exception (no callback API in rsl_rl). - **rl_games**: ``AlgoObserver`` subclass, sets ``max_epochs`` for clean exit. """ from __future__ import annotations import argparse import os import statistics from typing import TYPE_CHECKING from scripts.benchmarks.utils import get_success_rate_log if TYPE_CHECKING: from rl_games.common.algo_observer import AlgoObserver from rsl_rl.runners import OnPolicyRunner from isaaclab_rl.rsl_rl import RslRlVecEnvWrapper DEFAULT_SUCCESS_THRESHOLD = 0.3 DEFAULT_SUCCESS_WINDOW = 20 class EarlyStopConverged(Exception): """Raised by :class:`RslRlEarlyStopWrapper` when the metric has converged.""" class SuccessRateTracker: """Accumulates a per-iteration success-rate metric and checks trailing-window convergence. Args: threshold: Minimum value to consider a pass. window: Consecutive iterations above *threshold* to trigger convergence. num_steps_per_env: Steps per RL iteration (for boundary detection). """ def __init__(self, threshold: float, window: int, num_steps_per_env: int): self.threshold = threshold self.window = window self.num_steps_per_env = num_steps_per_env self.history: list[float] = [] self._step_count = 0 self._iter_sum = 0.0 self._iter_count = 0 def record_step(self, extras: dict) -> None: """Record one env step.""" val = get_success_rate_log(extras.get("log", {})) if val is not None: self._iter_sum += val.item() if hasattr(val, "item") else float(val) self._iter_count += 1 self._step_count += 1 def end_iteration(self) -> float | None: """Finalize the current iteration. Returns mean metric, or ``None`` if no data.""" if self._iter_count == 0: return None mean = self._iter_sum / self._iter_count self.history.append(mean) self._iter_sum = 0.0 self._iter_count = 0 return mean @property def at_iteration_boundary(self) -> bool: """Whether the tracker has seen exactly a full iteration's worth of steps. Assumes :meth:`record_step` is called exactly once per env step. This holds for all current framework integrations (rsl_rl's patched ``env.step`` and rl_games' ``AlgoObserver.process_infos``) — both pair a single step with a single record. Integrations that call :meth:`record_step` more or fewer times per env step will break iteration accounting. """ return self.num_steps_per_env > 0 and self._step_count % self.num_steps_per_env == 0 @property def converged(self) -> bool: if len(self.history) < self.window: return False return all(v >= self.threshold for v in self.history[-self.window :]) @property def current_iteration(self) -> int: return len(self.history) @property def tail_mean(self) -> float: if not self.history: return 0.0 tail = self.history[-self.window :] if len(self.history) >= self.window else self.history return statistics.mean(tail) class RslRlEarlyStopWrapper: """Context manager that wraps ``env.step`` to track a success metric during rsl_rl training. Always records the metric into :attr:`tracker` so the caller can log the tail mean / converged-at iteration regardless of whether early stopping is enabled. When ``stop_on_convergence=True``, the wrapper also raises :class:`EarlyStopConverged` on the first iteration where the trailing window is above threshold, performs runner cleanup (checkpoint save + logger flush), and suppresses the exception so the caller sees a normal return from :meth:`rsl_rl.runners.OnPolicyRunner.learn`. Args: env: ``RslRlVecEnvWrapper`` instance. runner: ``OnPolicyRunner`` instance. threshold: Minimum metric value to pass. window: Consecutive iterations above threshold to trigger stop. num_steps_per_env: Steps per RL iteration. stop_on_convergence: If ``True``, raise :class:`EarlyStopConverged` when the metric converges. If ``False``, only track the metric without interrupting training. """ def __init__( self, env: RslRlVecEnvWrapper, runner: OnPolicyRunner, threshold: float, window: int, num_steps_per_env: int, stop_on_convergence: bool = True, ): self.env = env self.runner = runner self.tracker = SuccessRateTracker(threshold, window, num_steps_per_env) self.stop_on_convergence = stop_on_convergence self._orig_step = env.step def __enter__(self): self.env.step = self._step return self def __exit__(self, exc_type, exc_val, exc_tb): self.env.step = self._orig_step if exc_type is EarlyStopConverged: self._runner_cleanup() print( f"[INFO] Early stop: success rate converged at iteration " f"{self.tracker.current_iteration} (tail mean {self.tracker.tail_mean:.4f})" ) return True return False def _step(self, actions): result = self._orig_step(actions) self.tracker.record_step(result[3]) # rsl_rl: (obs, rew, dones, extras) if self.tracker.at_iteration_boundary: self.tracker.end_iteration() if self.stop_on_convergence and self.tracker.converged: # relies on rsl_rl's rollout loop not catching arbitrary exceptions; if upstream # ever wraps env.step in a broad except, this exception will be swallowed raise EarlyStopConverged() return result def _runner_cleanup(self): """Save final checkpoint and flush the TensorBoard writer.""" if self.runner.logger.writer is not None: it = self.runner.current_learning_iteration self.runner.save(os.path.join(self.runner.logger.log_dir, f"model_{it}.pt")) self.runner.logger.stop_logging_writer() @property def framework_iteration_count(self) -> int: """Number of training iterations the rsl_rl runner has recorded as completed. Note: ``current_learning_iteration`` is set AFTER rollout + policy update, so mid-rollout (including the instant our early-stop exception fires) this counter lags :attr:`tracker` by 1 iteration. """ return self.runner.current_learning_iteration + 1 class RlGamesEarlyStopObserver: """``AlgoObserver`` that tracks a success metric during rl_games training. Always records the metric into :attr:`tracker` so the caller can log the tail mean / converged-at iteration regardless of whether early stopping is enabled. When ``stop_on_convergence=True``, the observer also sets ``algo.max_epochs`` on the first iteration where the trailing window is above threshold, which forces a clean exit from :meth:`rl_games.torch_runner.Runner.run`. All other observer calls are delegated to *base_observer*. Args: base_observer: Original ``AlgoObserver`` to delegate to. threshold: Minimum metric value to pass. window: Consecutive iterations above threshold to trigger stop. stop_on_convergence: If ``True``, set ``algo.max_epochs`` when the metric converges. If ``False``, only track the metric without interrupting training. """ def __init__( self, base_observer: AlgoObserver, threshold: float, window: int, stop_on_convergence: bool = True, ): self._base = base_observer self.threshold = threshold self.window = window self.stop_on_convergence = stop_on_convergence self.algo = None self.tracker: SuccessRateTracker | None = None def before_init(self, base_name, config, experiment_name): self._base.before_init(base_name, config, experiment_name) def after_init(self, algo): self._base.after_init(algo) self.algo = algo num_steps = getattr(algo, "horizon_length", algo.config.get("horizon_length", 16)) self.tracker = SuccessRateTracker(self.threshold, self.window, num_steps) def process_infos(self, infos, done_indices): self._base.process_infos(infos, done_indices) if self.tracker is not None and isinstance(infos, dict) and "episode" in infos: # rl_games remaps extras["log"] → extras["episode"] self.tracker.record_step({"log": infos["episode"]}) def after_steps(self): self._base.after_steps() if self.tracker is None: return self.tracker.end_iteration() if self.stop_on_convergence and self.tracker.converged and self.algo is not None: print( f"[INFO] Early stop: success rate converged at iteration " f"{self.tracker.current_iteration} (tail mean {self.tracker.tail_mean:.4f})" ) self.algo.max_epochs = self.tracker.current_iteration def after_clear_stats(self): self._base.after_clear_stats() def after_print_stats(self, frame, epoch_num, total_time): self._base.after_print_stats(frame, epoch_num, total_time) @property def framework_iteration_count(self) -> int | None: """Number of training iterations the rl_games algo has recorded. rl_games increments ``algo.epoch_num`` at the start of each iteration, so after iter N completes this value equals N (matching :attr:`tracker`'s count exactly). Returns ``None`` before :meth:`after_init` has attached to an algo. """ return None if self.algo is None else self.algo.epoch_num def add_success_cli_args(parser: argparse.ArgumentParser) -> None: """Register the success-metric CLI args on *parser*. Adds ``--check_success``, ``--success_threshold``, and ``--success_window``. Use :func:`build_success_kwargs` to resolve the parsed values into a kwargs dict for the wrapper constructors. """ parser.add_argument( "--check_success", action="store_true", help="Early-stop when the normalized success metric converges." ) parser.add_argument( "--success_threshold", type=float, default=None, help=f"Override the success threshold (default: {DEFAULT_SUCCESS_THRESHOLD}).", ) parser.add_argument( "--success_window", type=int, default=None, help=f"Override the convergence window (default: {DEFAULT_SUCCESS_WINDOW}).", ) def build_success_kwargs(args_cli: argparse.Namespace) -> dict: """Resolve success-metric CLI args into kwargs for the wrapper constructors. Returns a dict with ``threshold``, ``window``, and ``stop_on_convergence``, suitable to splat into :class:`RslRlEarlyStopWrapper` or :class:`RlGamesEarlyStopObserver`. """ return { "threshold": ( args_cli.success_threshold if args_cli.success_threshold is not None else DEFAULT_SUCCESS_THRESHOLD ), "window": args_cli.success_window if args_cli.success_window is not None else DEFAULT_SUCCESS_WINDOW, "stop_on_convergence": args_cli.check_success, } def get_success_tracker( args_cli: argparse.Namespace, live_tracker: SuccessRateTracker | None, log_data: dict[str, list[float]], ) -> SuccessRateTracker | None: """Return a tracker with recorded history, or ``None`` if neither source has data. Prefers *live_tracker* (from the training wrapper/observer). If it never ran or recorded no iterations, falls back to building a post-hoc tracker by replaying the success metric series out of TensorBoard *log_data* (from :func:`scripts.benchmarks.utils.parse_tf_logs`). Args: args_cli: Parsed arg namespace with the ``--success_*`` flags. live_tracker: Tracker attached to the early-stop wrapper/observer (or ``None``). log_data: Mapping of TB tag -> list of scalars for the current run. """ if live_tracker is not None and live_tracker.history: return live_tracker history = get_success_rate_log(log_data) if not history: return None kwargs = build_success_kwargs(args_cli) tracker = SuccessRateTracker(kwargs["threshold"], kwargs["window"], num_steps_per_env=0) tracker.history = list(history) return tracker