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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. _updaTool Input
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6 "content": " def _init(self) -> None:\n super()._init()\n self._cost_limit: float = self._cfgs.lagrange_cfgs.cost_limit\n self._lagrangian_multiplier: float = 0.0\n # EMA for cost smoothing\n self._cost_ema: float = 0.0\n self._cost_ema_beta: float = 0.85\n # PID integral state with anti-windup\n self._pid_integral: float = 0.0\n # Previous cost for derivative\n self._prev_cost_ema: float = 0.0\n # Whether we've seen any cost yet\n self._initialized: bool = False\n\n def _init_log(self) -> None:\n super()._init_log()\n self._logger.register_key('Metrics/LagrangeMultiplier', min_and_max=True)\n\n def _update(self) -> None:\n Jc = self._logger.get_stats('Metrics/EpCost')[0]\n assert not np.isnan(Jc), 'cost is nan'\n\n # Update EMA\n if not self._initialized:\n self._cost_ema = Jc\n self._prev_cost_ema = Jc\n self._initialized = True\n else:\n beta = self._cost_ema_beta\n self._cost_ema = beta * self._cost_ema + (1 - beta) * Jc\n\n # Compute violation signal (smoothed)\n violation = self._cost_ema - self._cost_limit\n \n # --- Adaptive PID multiplier update ---\n # Proportional: adaptive gain that increases with violation severity\n kp_base = 0.05\n kp = kp_base + 0.15 * max(0.0, violation)\n p_term = kp * max(0.0, violation)\n \n # Integral: accumulate only when violating (anti-windup)\n ki = 0.02\n if violation > 0:\n self._pid_integral += ki * violation\n self._pid_integral = min(self._pid_integral, 5.0) # anti-windup cap\n else:\n # Decay integral when safe\n self._pid_integral *= 0.98\n \n # Derivative: on cost trend (not on violation)\n kd = 0.03\n cost_derivative = self._cost_ema - self._prev_cost_ema\n self._prev_cost_ema = self._cost_ema\n d_term = kd * max(0.0, cost_derivative) # only penalize increasing cost\n \n # Combine PID terms\n pid_output = p_term + self._pid_integral + d_term\n \n # Update multiplier with bounded step\n if violation > 0:\n self._lagrangian_multiplier += pid_output\n else:\n # Decay when safely under limit\n self._lagrangian_multiplier *= 0.95\n \n # Ensure non-negative and bound\n self._lagrangian_multiplier = max(0.0, min(self._lagrangian_multiplier, 5.0))\n\n super()._update()\n self._logger.store({'Metrics/LagrangeMultiplier': self._lagrangian_multiplier})\n\n def _compute_adv_surrogate(self, adv_r: torch.Tensor, adv_c: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n \"\"\"Combine reward and cost advantages using adaptive barrier formulation.\n \n Key innovations:\n 1. Bounded penalty via tanh (prevents reward signal collapse)\n 2. Adaptive normalization using reward advantage magnitude\n 3. Pure reward optimization when multiplier is 0 (like naive baseline)\n \"\"\"\n lam = self._lagrangian_multiplier\n \n if lam <= 1e-6:\n # When safe: optimize reward only\n return adv_r\n \n # Soft-bounded penalty (prevents over-penalization)\n # tanh bounds the effective penalty to [0, ~0.9] even for large lambda\n soft_lam = float(np.tanh(lam))\n \n # Normalize cost advantage relative to reward advantage magnitude\n # This prevents cost from dominating when reward signal is small\n adv_r_abs = adv_r.abs().mean()\n adv_c_scale = adv_c.abs().mean() + 1e-8\n normalized_adv_c = adv_c * (adv_r_abs / adv_c_scale)\n \n # Combined advantage with adaptive penalty\n # When lam is small: mostly reward, slight cost awareness\n # When lam is large: balanced reward/cost with bounded penalty\n return adv_r - soft_lam * normalized_adv_c"
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144 # When lam is small: mostly reward, slight cost awareness
145 # When lam is large: balanced reward/cost with bounded penalty
146 return adv_r - soft_lam * normalized_adv_c[Test #1] (2 tests remaining; call submit(n=N) to choose which test result to submit as final) ## 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
123 return adv_r - lam * adv_c[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 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_
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4 "content": "# ===================================================================\n# EDITABLE: Custom imports\n# ===================================================================\nfrom collections import deque\n\n# ===================================================================\n# FIXED: Algorithm class definition\n# ===================================================================\n@registry.register\nclass CustomLag(PPO):\n \"\"\"Custom Lagrangian-based safe RL algorithm.\n\n Extends PPO with constraint handling for safe reinforcement learning.\n The agent must design:\n 1. _init: Initialize constraint handler state (call super()._init() first)\n 2. _init_log: Register logging keys (call super()._init_log() first)\n 3. _update: Update lagrangian multiplier, then call super()._update()\n 4. _compute_adv_surrogate: Combine reward and cost advantages\n\n Available config:\n self._cfgs.lagrange_cfgs.cost_limit (float, default 25.0)\n self._cfgs.lagrange_cfgs.lambda_lr (float, default 0.035)\n\n Available logger:\n self._logger.get_stats('Metrics/EpCost')[0] -- current mean episode cost\n self._logger.store({'key': value}) -- log a metric value\n \"\"\"\n\n # ===============================================================\n # EDITABLE: Constraint handling mechanism\n # ===============================================================\n def _init(self) -> None:\n super()._init()\n self._cost_limit: float = self._cfgs.lagrange_cfgs.cost_limit\n self._lagrangian_multiplier: float = 0.0\n\n def _init_log(self) -> None:\n super()._init_log()\n self._logger.register_key('Metrics/LagrangeMultiplier', min_and_max=True)\n\n def _update(self) -> None:\n Jc = self._logger.get_stats('Metrics/EpCost')[0]\n assert not np.isnan(Jc), 'cost is nan'\n # Default: no multiplier update -- agent should design this\n super()._update()\n self._logger.store({'Metrics/LagrangeMultiplier': self._lagrangian_multiplier})\n\n def _compute_adv_surrogate(self, adv_r: torch.Tensor, adv_c: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:\n \"\"\"Combine reward and cost advantages.\n\n Default: only use reward advantage (ignores safety constraints entirely).\n Agent should incorporate self._lagrangian_multiplier to penalize cost.\n \"\"\"\n return adv_r",
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