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Task: safe-rl

Safe RL: Constraint-Handling Mechanism Design

Objective

Design a constraint-handling mechanism for safe reinforcement learning. Your code goes in custom_lag.py, a subclass of PPO registered as CustomLag. Reference implementations (PPOLag using Lagrange multiplier, CPPOPID using PID controller) are provided as read-only.

Background

Safe RL aims to maximize reward while satisfying safety constraints (keeping episode cost below a limit). The key challenge is how to adaptively balance reward and cost: the Lagrangian approach converts the constrained problem to an unconstrained dual problem via a multiplier lambda, while PID methods use control theory for more responsive constraint satisfaction. You must design: (1) a multiplier update rule in _update(), and (2) an advantage combination formula in _compute_adv_surrogate().

Evaluation

Evaluated on 3 Safety-Gymnasium environments to test generalization:

  • SafetyPointGoal1-v0: point robot navigating to goals while avoiding hazards
  • SafetyCarGoal1-v0: car robot (non-holonomic) navigating to goals while avoiding hazards
  • SafetyPointButton1-v0: point robot pressing goal buttons while avoiding hazards

Metrics: episode reward (higher is better) and episode cost (lower is better, target <= 25.0). Each environment trains for 2M steps.

Baselines

  • naive: no constraint handling (pure PPO, ignores cost)
  • ppo_lag: Lagrangian multiplier updated via Adam optimizer
  • pid_lag: PID controller for multiplier update

omnisafe/omnisafe/algorithms/on_policy/naive_lagrange/custom_lag.py [EDITABLE — lines 20–20, lines 48–70 only]

     1: """Custom Lagrangian-based safe PPO for MLS-Bench.
     2: 
     3: EDITABLE section: imports + constraint handling methods.
     4: FIXED sections: algorithm registration, learn() with metrics reporting.
     5: """
     6: 
     7: from __future__ import annotations
     8: 
     9: import time
    10: 
    11: import numpy as np
    12: import torch
    13: 
    14: from omnisafe.algorithms import registry
    15: from omnisafe.algorithms.on_policy.base.ppo import PPO
    16: 
    17: # ===================================================================
    18: # EDITABLE: Custom imports
    19: # ===================================================================
    20: 
    21: 
    22: # ===================================================================
    23: # FIXED: Algorithm class definition
    24: # ===================================================================
    25: @registry.register
    26: class CustomLag(PPO):
    27:     """Custom Lagrangian-based safe RL algorithm.
    28: 
    29:     Extends PPO with constraint handling for safe reinforcement learning.
    30:     The agent must design:
    31:       1. _init: Initialize constraint handler state (call super()._init() first)
    32:       2. _init_log: Register logging keys (call super()._init_log() first)
    33:       3. _upda
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## Seed 42

### SafetyPointGoal1-v0 (scripts/point_goal.sh)
Training metrics (last epochs):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=95 ep_ret=23.8128 ep_cost=52.2700 ep_len=1000.0
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=96 ep_ret=23.8560 ep_cost=53.2600 ep_len=1000.0
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=97 ep_ret=23.8106 ep_cost=49.9100 ep_len=1000.0
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=98 ep_ret=23.9105 ep_cost=49.6300 ep_len=1000.0
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=99 ep_ret=23.8626 ep_cost=50.6700 ep_len=1000.0
Final evaluation:
  TEST_METRICS ep_ret=23.8626 ep_cost=50.6700 ep_len=1000.0

### SafetyCarGoal1-v0 (scripts/car_goal.sh)
Training metrics (last epochs):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=95 ep_ret=30.3073 ep_cost=60.2400 ep_len=1000.0
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=96 ep_ret=30.2801 ep_cost=56.3100 ep_len=1000.0
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=97 ep_ret=30.1435 ep_cost=50.5000 ep_len=1000.0
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=98 ep_ret=30.7288 ep_cost=49.6900 ep_len=1000.0
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=99 ep_ret=30.6637 ep_cos
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   122          # Standard Lagrangian: penalize cost advantage
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[Test #2] (0 tests remaining; call submit(n=N) to choose which test result to submit as final)

[NOTE] This was your last test. You MUST now call submit(n=X) to choose which test result to submit as your final answer.


## Seed 42

### SafetyPointGoal1-v0 (scripts/point_goal.sh)
Training metrics (last epochs):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=95 ep_ret=23.8128 ep_cost=52.2700 ep_len=1000.0
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=96 ep_ret=23.8560 ep_cost=53.2600 ep_len=1000.0
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TRAIN_METRICS epoch=98 ep_ret=23.9105 ep_cost=49.6300 ep_len=1000.0
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=99 ep_ret=23.8626 ep_cost=50.6700 ep_len=1000.0
Final evaluation:
  TEST_METRICS ep_ret=23.8626 ep_cost=50.6700 ep_len=1000.0

### SafetyCarGoal1-v0 (scripts/car_goal.sh)
Training metrics (last epochs):
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=95 ep_ret=30.3073 ep_cost=60.2400 ep_len=1000.0
TRAIN_METRICS epoch=96 ep_ret=30.2801 ep_cost=56.3100 ep_len=1000.0
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