tinygym

tinygym reimplements flashrl while using tinygrad instead of torch

🛠️ pip install tinygym or clone the repo & pip install -r requirements.txt

• If cloned (or if envs changed), compile: python setup.py build_ext --inplace

The README of flashrl is mostly valid for tinygym with the biggest difference being:

• tinygym is not fast (yet) -> Learns Pong in ~5 minutes instead of 5 seconds (on a RTX 3090)

Just like in flashrl, python train.py should look like this (with the progress bar moving ~60x slower):

Check out the onefile branch, if you want to make it fast(=try to make TinyJit work)!

Implementation differences to flashrl

The most important difference (enabled RL after 2 hours of debugging):

• Use .abs().clip(min_=1e-8) in ppo to avoid close to zero values in (value - ret)

Without this the optimizer step can result in NaNs and "RL doesn't work" 😜

To potentially enable tinygrad.TinyJit (does not work yet, hence the slowness)

• Learner does not .setup_data and
• rollout is a function (instead of a Learner-method) that fills a list with Tensors and .stacks them at the end

Since it somehow performs better

• .uniform (tinygrad default) instead of .kaiming_uniform (torch default) weight initialization for nn.Linear

Custom tinygrad-rewrites of torch.nn.init.orthogonal_ & torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_are used

You'll find a .detach() here and a .contiguous() but other than that tinygym=flashrl 🤝

Acknowledgements 🙌

I want to thank

• George Hotz and the tinygrad team for commoditizing the petaflop! Star tinygrad ⭐
• Andrej Karpathy for commoditizing RL knowledge! Star pg-pong ⭐

and last but not least...