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Add support for saving videos of policies on a environment for evaluation during and after training #523

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Problem

  • I personally found logging videos during training is really useful as another dimension of explaining experiment results.
  • Concretely, this issue advocates for adding support for saving videos of policies on a environment for evaluation during and after training, including scripts.train_rl, scripts.train_preference_comparisons, scripts.train_adversarial and scripts.train_bc.
  • Also, it would be nice to add support for uploading saved videos to Weights & Biases during and after training.

Solution

  • Write a record_and_save_video() function in imitation.util.video_wrapper that takes in a policy, eval_venv, and a logger to save the video of a policy evaluated on an environment to a designated path.
def record_and_save_video(
    output_dir: str,
    policy: policies.BasePolicy,
    eval_venv: vec_env.VecEnv,
    video_kwargs: Mapping[str, Any],
    logger: Optional[sb_logger.Logger] = None,
) -> None:
    ...
  • Upload the video to weights & biases within WandbOutputFormat.write() by adding the following:
if key != "video":
    self.wandb_module.log({key: value}, step=step)
else:
    self.wandb_module.log({"video": self.wandb_module.Video(value)})

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