feat(PPO_Bot): multi-round transition accumulation (UPDATE_INTERVAL=10)

- Accumulate transitions across 10 rounds (~3000) before PPO update
  (was per-round ~300 — gradient estimates were far too noisy)
- training.nim: MAX_TRANSITIONS 4096→8192, done flag on transitions,
  GAE handles episode boundaries correctly
- PPO_Bot.nim: buffer persists across rounds, update every N rounds
- training.env: lr 5e-5→1e-4, entropy 0.001, UPDATE_INTERVAL=10
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2026-08-20 15:06:00 +02:00
parent 82eeb53e5c
commit fedab54bc0
3 changed files with 71 additions and 50 deletions
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@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ var
hpLam: float32 = getEnvFloat("PPOB_LAM", 0.95'f32)
hpEpochs: int = getEnvInt("PPOB_EPOCHS", 4)
hpMiniBatchSize: int = getEnvInt("PPOB_MINI_BATCH_SIZE", 64)
hpUpdateInterval: int = getEnvInt("PPOB_UPDATE_INTERVAL", 10)
# Wire logStd tunable params into network module vars (read before initActorCritic)
logStdFloor = getEnvFloat("PPOB_LOG_STD_FLOOR", -3.0'f32)
@@ -94,6 +95,7 @@ type PPOBot = ref object of Bot
var ac = initActorCritic()
var gAdamStates: ACAdamStates # persists across rounds
var roundCounter = 0
var roundsSinceUpdate = 0
# ── Bot methods ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
@@ -105,7 +107,8 @@ method onRoundStarted*(bot: PPOBot, e: RoundStartedEvent) =
setAdjustRadarForBodyTurn(true)
setAdjustRadarForGunTurn(true)
bot.tracker = initEnemyTracker()
bot.buffer = initTrajectoryBuffer()
# Do NOT clear bot.buffer here — transitions accumulate across rounds
# until hpUpdateInterval rounds have passed (cleared in onRoundEnded).
bot.prevEnergy = 0.0'f32
bot.prevEnemyE = 0.0'f32
bot.hasLastTrans = false
@@ -115,12 +118,15 @@ method onRoundStarted*(bot: PPOBot, e: RoundStartedEvent) =
method onRoundEnded*(bot: PPOBot, e: RoundEndedEventForBot) =
inc roundCounter
inc roundsSinceUpdate
debugLog("[PO-ENTER] round=" & $roundCounter & " tid=" & $getThreadId())
# Add round-end score bonus to last transition (if any)
# Add round-end score bonus to last transition and mark it as episode boundary
let roundReward = computeRoundReward(e.results.totalScore.float32)
if bot.hasLastTrans and bot.buffer.len > 0:
bot.buffer.transitions[bot.buffer.len - 1].reward += roundReward
let lastIdx = bot.buffer.len - 1
bot.buffer.transitions[lastIdx].reward += roundReward
bot.buffer.transitions[lastIdx].done = true
# Training progress display — one line per round in the UI console
let ticks = bot.buffer.len
@@ -130,8 +136,8 @@ method onRoundEnded*(bot: PPOBot, e: RoundEndedEventForBot) =
for i in 0 ..< bot.buffer.len: rewardSum += bot.buffer.transitions[i].reward
avgR = rewardSum / ticks.float32
let avgRStr = formatFloat(avgR.float, ffDecimal, 3)
printToStdOut(&"R:{roundCounter} ticks:{ticks} avgR:{avgRStr} score:{e.results.totalScore}\n")
echo &"R:{roundCounter} ticks:{ticks} avgR:{avgRStr} score:{e.results.totalScore}"
printToStdOut(&"R:{roundCounter} ticks:{ticks} buf:{bot.buffer.len} sinceUpd:{roundsSinceUpdate}/{hpUpdateInterval} avgR:{avgRStr} score:{e.results.totalScore}\n")
echo &"R:{roundCounter} ticks:{ticks} buf:{bot.buffer.len} sinceUpd:{roundsSinceUpdate}/{hpUpdateInterval} avgR:{avgRStr} score:{e.results.totalScore}"
if bot.buffer.len == 0:
bot.hasLastTrans = false
@@ -139,7 +145,7 @@ method onRoundEnded*(bot: PPOBot, e: RoundEndedEventForBot) =
# Emit per-round game-stats JSON line
let ts = int(epochTime())
let jline = &"""{{"type":"round","round":{roundCounter},"ticks":{ticks},"avgReward":{avgR},"score":{e.results.totalScore},"ts":{ts}}}"""
let jline = &"""{{"type":"round","round":{roundCounter},"ticks":{ticks},"bufLen":{bot.buffer.len},"avgReward":{avgR},"score":{e.results.totalScore},"ts":{ts}}}"""
appendJsonLine(logFile, jline)
# PPOB_EVAL_ONLY=1 → freeze training (pure evaluation): skip ppoUpdate and
@@ -149,39 +155,44 @@ method onRoundEnded*(bot: PPOBot, e: RoundEndedEventForBot) =
writeFile(weightsRoot / "round_counter.txt", $roundCounter)
bot.buffer.clear()
bot.hasLastTrans = false
roundsSinceUpdate = 0
return
# ponytail: synchronous update. Arraymancer tensors can't cross threads under
# ORC — training-thread ppoUpdate frees/rebinds tensors owned by the bot
# thread's heap (SIGSEGV, reproduced with a lone trainer thread on a fixed
# buffer; save/channel/forward exonerated). The bot API runs events on one
# bot thread, so inline is single-threaded; ~0.5s per round, and every round
# trains (the old drop-loop trained ~1 in 60). Revert to a background thread
# only if tensors are rebuilt from plain data on that thread.
printToStdOut(&" train→ R:{roundCounter} ticks:{ticks}\n")
echo &" train→ R:{roundCounter} ticks:{ticks}"
let m = ppoUpdate(ac, bot.buffer,
lastValue = 0.0'f32,
adamStates = gAdamStates,
epochs = hpEpochs,
miniBatchSize = hpMiniBatchSize,
clipEpsilon = hpClipEpsilon,
entropyCoeff = hpEntropyCoeff,
valueLossCoeff = hpValueLossCoeff,
lr = hpLr,
maxGradNorm = hpMaxGradNorm,
gamma = hpGamma,
lam = hpLam)
# Always save weights every round so round_counter.txt stays current.
saveCheckpoint(ac, gAdamStates, weightsRoot, roundCounter)
printToStdOut(&" trained R:{roundCounter} aLoss:{formatFloat(m.actorLoss.float, ffDecimal, 4)} vLoss:{formatFloat(m.valueLoss.float, ffDecimal, 4)} gNorm:{formatFloat(m.gradNorm.float, ffDecimal, 3)}\n")
echo &" trained R:{roundCounter} aLoss:{formatFloat(m.actorLoss.float, ffDecimal, 4)} vLoss:{formatFloat(m.valueLoss.float, ffDecimal, 4)} gNorm:{formatFloat(m.gradNorm.float, ffDecimal, 3)}"
# Emit training-health JSON line
let hp = hyperparmSnapshot()
let ts2 = int(epochTime())
let jline2 = &"""{{"type":"train","round":{roundCounter},"actorLoss":{jsonFloat(m.actorLoss)},"valueLoss":{jsonFloat(m.valueLoss)},"gradNorm":{jsonFloat(m.gradNorm)},"ts":{ts2},{hp}}}"""
appendJsonLine(logFile, jline2)
bot.buffer.clear()
# Only update policy every hpUpdateInterval rounds (~3000 transitions).
if roundsSinceUpdate >= hpUpdateInterval:
# ponytail: synchronous update. Arraymancer tensors can't cross threads under
# ORC — training-thread ppoUpdate frees/rebinds tensors owned by the bot
# thread's heap (SIGSEGV, reproduced with a lone trainer thread on a fixed
# buffer; save/channel/forward exonerated). The bot API runs events on one
# bot thread, so inline is single-threaded. Revert to a background thread
# only if tensors are rebuilt from plain data on that thread.
printToStdOut(&" train→ R:{roundCounter} bufLen:{bot.buffer.len}\n")
echo &" train→ R:{roundCounter} bufLen:{bot.buffer.len}"
let m = ppoUpdate(ac, bot.buffer,
lastValue = 0.0'f32,
adamStates = gAdamStates,
epochs = hpEpochs,
miniBatchSize = hpMiniBatchSize,
clipEpsilon = hpClipEpsilon,
entropyCoeff = hpEntropyCoeff,
valueLossCoeff = hpValueLossCoeff,
lr = hpLr,
maxGradNorm = hpMaxGradNorm,
gamma = hpGamma,
lam = hpLam)
printToStdOut(&" trained R:{roundCounter} aLoss:{formatFloat(m.actorLoss.float, ffDecimal, 4)} vLoss:{formatFloat(m.valueLoss.float, ffDecimal, 4)} gNorm:{formatFloat(m.gradNorm.float, ffDecimal, 3)}\n")
echo &" trained R:{roundCounter} aLoss:{formatFloat(m.actorLoss.float, ffDecimal, 4)} vLoss:{formatFloat(m.valueLoss.float, ffDecimal, 4)} gNorm:{formatFloat(m.gradNorm.float, ffDecimal, 3)}"
# Emit training-health JSON line
let hp = hyperparmSnapshot()
let ts2 = int(epochTime())
let jline2 = &"""{{"type":"train","round":{roundCounter},"actorLoss":{jsonFloat(m.actorLoss)},"valueLoss":{jsonFloat(m.valueLoss)},"gradNorm":{jsonFloat(m.gradNorm)},"ts":{ts2},{hp}}}"""
appendJsonLine(logFile, jline2)
bot.buffer.clear()
roundsSinceUpdate = 0
bot.hasLastTrans = false
debugLog("[PO-EXIT] round=" & $roundCounter & " tid=" & $getThreadId())
@@ -314,6 +325,7 @@ method run(bot: PPOBot) =
logProb: bot.lastLogP,
reward: tickReward,
value: bot.lastValue,
done: false, # episode boundary set in onRoundEnded
)
bot.buffer.add(tr)