14 KiB
Basic Guide
This guide will show you how to use a pre-trained model in an example Unity environment (3D Ball) and show you how to train the model yourself.
If you are not familiar with the Unity Engine, we highly recommend the Roll-a-ball tutorial to learn all the basic concepts of Unity.
Setting up the ML-Agents Toolkit within Unity
In order to use the ML-Agents toolkit within Unity, you first need to change a few Unity settings.
- Launch Unity
- On the Projects dialog, choose the Open option at the top of the window.
- Using the file dialog that opens, locate the
UnitySDK
folder within the ML-Agents toolkit project and click Open. - Go to Edit > Project Settings > Player
- For each of the platforms you target (PC, Mac and Linux Standalone,
iOS or Android):
- Expand the Other Settings section.
- Select Scripting Runtime Version to Experimental (.NET 4.6 Equivalent or .NET 4.x Equivalent)
- Go to File > Save Project
Running a Pre-trained Model
We include pre-trained models for our agents (.nn
files) and we use the
Unity Inference Engine to run these models
inside Unity. In this section, we will use the pre-trained model for the
3D Ball example.
-
In the Project window, go to the
Assets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/Scenes
folder and open the3DBall
scene file. -
In the Project window, go to the
Assets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/Prefabs
folder. ExpandGame
and click on thePlatform
prefab. You should see thePlatform
prefab in the Inspector window.Note: The platforms in the
3DBall
scene were created using thePlatform
prefab. Instead of updating all 12 platforms individually, you can update thePlatform
prefab instead. -
In the Project window, drag the 3DBallLearning Brain located in
Assets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/Brains
into theBrain
property underBall 3D Agent (Script)
component in the Inspector window. -
You should notice that each
Platform
under eachGame
in the Hierarchy windows now contains 3DBallLearning asBrain
. Note : You can modify multiple game objects in a scene by selecting them all at once using the search bar in the Scene Hierarchy. -
In the Project window, click on the 3DBallLearning Brain located in
Assets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/Brains
. You should see the properties in the Inspector window. -
In the Project window, open the
Assets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/TFModels
folder. -
Drag the
3DBallLearning
model file from theAssets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/TFModels
folder to the Model field of the 3DBallLearning Brain in the Inspector window. Note : All of the brains should now have3DBallLearning
as the TensorFlow model in theModel
property -
Select the InferenceDevice to use for this model (CPU or GPU). Note: CPU is faster for the majority of ML-Agents toolkit generated models
-
Click the Play button and you will see the platforms balance the balls using the pre-trained model.
Using the Basics Jupyter Notebook
The notebooks/getting-started.ipynb
Jupyter notebook
contains a simple walk-through of the functionality of the Python API. It can
also serve as a simple test that your environment is configured correctly.
Within Basics
, be sure to set env_name
to the name of the Unity executable
if you want to use an executable or to
None
if you want to interact with the current scene in the Unity Editor.
Before building the environment or interacting with it in the editor, select Ball3DAcademy
in the Hierarchy window of the Unity editor and make sure the 3DBallLearningBrain
is in the Broadcast Hub of the Ball3DAcademy
component.
More information and documentation is provided in the Python API page.
Training the Brain with Reinforcement Learning
Setting up the environment for training
To set up the environment for training, you will need to specify which agents are contributing
to the training and which Brain is being trained. You can only perform training with
a Learning Brain
.
-
Each platform agent needs an assigned
Learning Brain
. In this example, each platform agent was created using a prefab. To update all of the brains in each platform agent at once, you only need to update the platform agent prefab. In the Project window, go to theAssets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/Prefabs
folder. ExpandGame
and click on thePlatform
prefab. You should see thePlatform
prefab in the Inspector window. In the Project window, drag the 3DBallLearning Brain located inAssets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/Brains
into theBrain
property underBall 3D Agent (Script)
component in the Inspector window.Note: The Unity prefab system will modify all instances of the agent properties in your scene. If the agent does not synchronize automatically with the prefab, you can hit the Revert button in the top of the Inspector window.
-
In the Hierarchy window, select
Ball3DAcademy
. -
In the Project window, go to
Assets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/Brains
folder and drag the 3DBallLearning Brain to theBrains
property underBraodcast Hub
in theBall3DAcademy
object in the Inspector window.Note: Assigning a Brain to an agent (dragging a Brain into the
Brain
property of the agent) means that the Brain will be making decision for that agent. Whereas dragging a Brain into the Broadcast Hub means that the Brain will be exposed to the Python process.
Training the environment
-
Open a command or terminal window.
-
Navigate to the folder where you cloned the ML-Agents toolkit repository. Note: If you followed the default installation, then you should be able to run
mlagents-learn
from any directory. -
Run
mlagents-learn <trainer-config-path> --run-id=<run-identifier> --train
where:<trainer-config-path>
is the relative or absolute filepath of the trainer configuration. The defaults used by example environments included inMLAgentsSDK
can be found inconfig/trainer_config.yaml
.<run-identifier>
is a string used to separate the results of different training runs--train
tellsmlagents-learn
to run a training session (rather than inference)
-
If you cloned the ML-Agents repo, then you can simply run
mlagents-learn config/trainer_config.yaml --run-id=firstRun --train
-
When the message "Start training by pressing the Play button in the Unity Editor" is displayed on the screen, you can press the ▶️ button in Unity to start training in the Editor.
Note: Alternatively, you can use an executable rather than the Editor to perform training. Please refer to this page for instructions on how to build and use an executable.
ml-agents$ mlagents-learn config/trainer_config.yaml --run-id=first-run --train
▄▄▄▓▓▓▓
╓▓▓▓▓▓▓█▓▓▓▓▓
,▄▄▄m▀▀▀' ,▓▓▓▀▓▓▄ ▓▓▓ ▓▓▌
▄▓▓▓▀' ▄▓▓▀ ▓▓▓ ▄▄ ▄▄ ,▄▄ ▄▄▄▄ ,▄▄ ▄▓▓▌▄ ▄▄▄ ,▄▄
▄▓▓▓▀ ▄▓▓▀ ▐▓▓▌ ▓▓▌ ▐▓▓ ▐▓▓▓▀▀▀▓▓▌ ▓▓▓ ▀▓▓▌▀ ^▓▓▌ ╒▓▓▌
▄▓▓▓▓▓▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▓▓▓ ▓▀ ▓▓▌ ▐▓▓ ▐▓▓ ▓▓▓ ▓▓▓ ▓▓▌ ▐▓▓▄ ▓▓▌
▀▓▓▓▓▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▓▓▄ ▓▓ ▓▓▌ ▐▓▓ ▐▓▓ ▓▓▓ ▓▓▓ ▓▓▌ ▐▓▓▐▓▓
^█▓▓▓ ▀▓▓▄ ▐▓▓▌ ▓▓▓▓▄▓▓▓▓ ▐▓▓ ▓▓▓ ▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▄ ▓▓▓▓`
'▀▓▓▓▄ ^▓▓▓ ▓▓▓ └▀▀▀▀ ▀▀ ^▀▀ `▀▀ `▀▀ '▀▀ ▐▓▓▌
▀▀▀▀▓▄▄▄ ▓▓▓▓▓▓, ▓▓▓▓▀
`▀█▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▌
¬`▀▀▀█▓
INFO:mlagents.learn:{'--curriculum': 'None',
'--docker-target-name': 'Empty',
'--env': 'None',
'--help': False,
'--keep-checkpoints': '5',
'--lesson': '0',
'--load': False,
'--no-graphics': False,
'--num-runs': '1',
'--run-id': 'first-run',
'--save-freq': '50000',
'--seed': '-1',
'--slow': False,
'--train': True,
'--worker-id': '0',
'<trainer-config-path>': 'config/trainer_config.yaml'}
INFO:mlagents.envs:Start training by pressing the Play button in the Unity Editor.
Note: If you're using Anaconda, don't forget to activate the ml-agents environment first.
If mlagents-learn
runs correctly and starts training, you should see something
like this:
INFO:mlagents.envs:
'Ball3DAcademy' started successfully!
Unity Academy name: Ball3DAcademy
Number of Brains: 1
Number of Training Brains : 1
Reset Parameters :
Unity brain name: 3DBallLearning
Number of Visual Observations (per agent): 0
Vector Observation space size (per agent): 8
Number of stacked Vector Observation: 1
Vector Action space type: continuous
Vector Action space size (per agent): [2]
Vector Action descriptions: ,
INFO:mlagents.envs:Hyperparameters for the PPO Trainer of brain 3DBallLearning:
batch_size: 64
beta: 0.001
buffer_size: 12000
epsilon: 0.2
gamma: 0.995
hidden_units: 128
lambd: 0.99
learning_rate: 0.0003
max_steps: 5.0e4
normalize: True
num_epoch: 3
num_layers: 2
time_horizon: 1000
sequence_length: 64
summary_freq: 1000
use_recurrent: False
summary_path: ./summaries/first-run-0
memory_size: 256
use_curiosity: False
curiosity_strength: 0.01
curiosity_enc_size: 128
model_path: ./models/first-run-0/3DBallLearning
INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: 3DBallLearning: Step: 1000. Mean Reward: 1.242. Std of Reward: 0.746. Training.
INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: 3DBallLearning: Step: 2000. Mean Reward: 1.319. Std of Reward: 0.693. Training.
INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: 3DBallLearning: Step: 3000. Mean Reward: 1.804. Std of Reward: 1.056. Training.
INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: 3DBallLearning: Step: 4000. Mean Reward: 2.151. Std of Reward: 1.432. Training.
INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: 3DBallLearning: Step: 5000. Mean Reward: 3.175. Std of Reward: 2.250. Training.
INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: 3DBallLearning: Step: 6000. Mean Reward: 4.898. Std of Reward: 4.019. Training.
INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: 3DBallLearning: Step: 7000. Mean Reward: 6.716. Std of Reward: 5.125. Training.
INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: 3DBallLearning: Step: 8000. Mean Reward: 12.124. Std of Reward: 11.929. Training.
INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: 3DBallLearning: Step: 9000. Mean Reward: 18.151. Std of Reward: 16.871. Training.
INFO:mlagents.trainers: first-run-0: 3DBallLearning: Step: 10000. Mean Reward: 27.284. Std of Reward: 28.667. Training.
After training
You can press Ctrl+C to stop the training, and your trained model will be at
models/<run-identifier>/<brain_name>.nn
where
<brain_name>
is the name of the Brain corresponding to the model.
(Note: There is a known bug on Windows that causes the saving of the model to
fail when you early terminate the training, it's recommended to wait until Step
has reached the max_steps parameter you set in trainer_config.yaml.) This file
corresponds to your model's latest checkpoint. You can now embed this trained
model into your Learning Brain by following the steps below, which is similar to
the steps described
above.
- Move your model file into
UnitySDK/Assets/ML-Agents/Examples/3DBall/TFModels/
. - Open the Unity Editor, and select the 3DBall scene as described above.
- Select the 3DBallLearning Learning Brain from the Scene hierarchy.
- Drag the
<brain_name>.nn
file from the Project window of the Editor to the Model placeholder in the 3DBallLearning inspector window. - Press the ▶️ button at the top of the Editor.
Next Steps
- For more information on the ML-Agents toolkit, in addition to helpful background, check out the ML-Agents Toolkit Overview page.
- For a more detailed walk-through of our 3D Balance Ball environment, check out the Getting Started page.
- For a "Hello World" introduction to creating your own Learning Environment, check out the Making a New Learning Environment page.
- For a series of YouTube video tutorials, checkout the Machine Learning Agents PlayList page.