algorithms.model.Model

class algorithms.model.Model(env: SmartGrid, hyper_parameters: dict)

Bases: ABC

A Model is a class that handles the decision-making.

It must produce decisions (actions) for all agents in the environment. Using a single Model for all agents simplifies the use, e.g., it suffices to use model = SomeModel() and actions = model.forward(obs), instead of looping over all agents. However, it is not strictly necessary to use a Model in the interaction loop: for more complex cases, different models can be used together, or functions can be used directly to produce actions, etc.

The goal of this class is to provide a standard API that other learning algorithms can follow, or at least take inspiration from, and to simplify the use of learning algorithms.

__init__(env: SmartGrid, hyper_parameters: dict)

Create a Model, i.e., an entrypoint for the learning algorithm.

Parameters:

• env – The environment that the learning algorithm will interact with. This is useful for, e.g., accessing the agents’ observations and actions spaces, knowing the number of agents, etc. Note that a Wrapper can also be used, such as a RewardAggregator.

• hyper_parameters – An optional dictionary of hyper-parameters that control the creation of the learning agents. For example, the learning rate to use, etc. The hyper-parameters themselves are specific to the implemented Model.

Methods

__init__(env, hyper_parameters)	Create a Model, i.e., an entrypoint for the learning algorithm.
backward(observations_per_agent, ...)	Learn (improve) the agents' policies, based on observations and rewards.
forward(observations_per_agent)	Decide which actions should be taken, based on observations.

abstract backward(observations_per_agent, reward_per_agent)

Learn (improve) the agents’ policies, based on observations and rewards.

This method represents the learning step.

Parameters:

• observations_per_agent – The observations per agent, similar to those in the forward() method. They describe the new situation that happened after the agents’ actions were executed in the world.

• reward_per_agent – The rewards per agent. They describe the degree to which agents’ actions were satisfying (interesting), with respect to the moral values encoded in the reward functions. If multiple reward functions are used, this is a list of dicts; otherwise, it is a dict of floats. See the Smartgrid._get_reward() for details

abstract forward(observations_per_agent)

Decide which actions should be taken, based on observations.

This method represents the decision step.

Parameters:

observations_per_agent – The observations per agent. See the SmartGrid._get_obs() method for details on its structure. These observations describe the current state of the simulator, and are the data used to take actions.

Returns:

The list of actions, one per agent, where an action is a list of action parameters. See the SmartGrid.action_space for details on the structure of action parameters.