Handling multi-dimensional action spaces (#971)

* Handle non 1D action shape

* Revert changes of observation (out of the scope of this PR)

* Apply changes  to DictReplayBuffer

* Update tests

* Rollout buffer n-D actions space handling

* Remove error when non 1D action space

* ActorCriticPolicy return action with the proper shape

* remove useless reshape

* Update changelog

* Add tests

Co-authored-by: Antonin RAFFIN <antonin.raffin@ensta.org>

docs/misc/changelog.rst

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ Bug Fixes:
 ^^^^^^^^^^
 - Fixed the issue that ``predict`` does not always return action as ``np.ndarray`` (@qgallouedec)
 - Fixed division by zero error when computing FPS when a small number of time has elapsed in operating systems with low-precision timers.
+- Added multidimensional action space support (@qgallouedec)
 
 Deprecations:
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^

stable_baselines3/common/buffers.py

@@ -247,8 +247,7 @@ def add(
             next_obs = next_obs.reshape((self.n_envs,) + self.obs_shape)
 
         # Same, for actions
-        if isinstance(self.action_space, spaces.Discrete):
-            action = action.reshape((self.n_envs, self.action_dim))
+        action = action.reshape((self.n_envs, self.action_dim))
 
         # Copy to avoid modification by reference
         self.observations[self.pos] = np.array(obs).copy()
@@ -433,6 +432,9 @@ def add(
         if isinstance(self.observation_space, spaces.Discrete):
             obs = obs.reshape((self.n_envs,) + self.obs_shape)
 
+        # Same reshape, for actions
+        action = action.reshape((self.n_envs, self.action_dim))
+
         self.observations[self.pos] = np.array(obs).copy()
         self.actions[self.pos] = np.array(action).copy()
         self.rewards[self.pos] = np.array(reward).copy()
@@ -586,8 +588,7 @@ def add(
             self.next_observations[key][self.pos] = np.array(next_obs[key]).copy()
 
         # Same reshape, for actions
-        if isinstance(self.action_space, spaces.Discrete):
-            action = action.reshape((self.n_envs, self.action_dim))
+        action = action.reshape((self.n_envs, self.action_dim))
 
         self.actions[self.pos] = np.array(action).copy()
         self.rewards[self.pos] = np.array(reward).copy()

stable_baselines3/common/distributions.py

@@ -658,7 +658,6 @@ def make_proba_distribution(
         dist_kwargs = {}
 
     if isinstance(action_space, spaces.Box):
-        assert len(action_space.shape) == 1, "Error: the action space must be a vector"
         cls = StateDependentNoiseDistribution if use_sde else DiagGaussianDistribution
         return cls(get_action_dim(action_space), **dist_kwargs)
     elif isinstance(action_space, spaces.Discrete):

stable_baselines3/common/policies.py

@@ -336,8 +336,8 @@ def predict(
 
         with th.no_grad():
             actions = self._predict(observation, deterministic=deterministic)
-        # Convert to numpy
-        actions = actions.cpu().numpy()
+        # Convert to numpy, and reshape to the original action shape
+        actions = actions.cpu().numpy().reshape((-1,) + self.action_space.shape)
 
         if isinstance(self.action_space, gym.spaces.Box):
             if self.squash_output:
@@ -592,6 +592,7 @@ def forward(self, obs: th.Tensor, deterministic: bool = False) -> Tuple[th.Tenso
         distribution = self._get_action_dist_from_latent(latent_pi)
         actions = distribution.get_actions(deterministic=deterministic)
         log_prob = distribution.log_prob(actions)
+        actions = actions.reshape((-1,) + self.action_space.shape)
         return actions, values, log_prob
 
     def _get_action_dist_from_latent(self, latent_pi: th.Tensor) -> Distribution:

tests/test_spaces.py

@@ -33,6 +33,19 @@ def step(self, action):
         return self.observation_space.sample(), 0.0, False, {}
 
 
+class DummyMultidimensionalAction(gym.Env):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.observation_space = gym.spaces.Box(low=-1, high=1, shape=(2,), dtype=np.float32)
+        self.action_space = gym.spaces.Box(low=-1, high=1, shape=(2, 2), dtype=np.float32)
+
+    def reset(self):
+        return self.observation_space.sample()
+
+    def step(self, action):
+        return self.observation_space.sample(), 0.0, False, {}
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model_class", [SAC, TD3, DQN])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("env", [DummyMultiDiscreteSpace([4, 3]), DummyMultiBinary(8)])
 def test_identity_spaces(model_class, env):
@@ -53,22 +66,39 @@ def test_identity_spaces(model_class, env):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model_class", [A2C, DDPG, DQN, PPO, SAC, TD3])
-@pytest.mark.parametrize("env", ["Pendulum-v1", "CartPole-v1"])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("env", ["Pendulum-v1", "CartPole-v1", DummyMultidimensionalAction()])
 def test_action_spaces(model_class, env):
+    kwargs = {}
     if model_class in [SAC, DDPG, TD3]:
-        supported_action_space = env == "Pendulum-v1"
+        supported_action_space = env == "Pendulum-v1" or isinstance(env, DummyMultidimensionalAction)
+        kwargs["learning_starts"] = 2
+        kwargs["train_freq"] = 32
     elif model_class == DQN:
         supported_action_space = env == "CartPole-v1"
     elif model_class in [A2C, PPO]:
         supported_action_space = True
+        kwargs["n_steps"] = 64
 
     if supported_action_space:
-        model_class("MlpPolicy", env)
+        model = model_class("MlpPolicy", env, **kwargs)
+        if isinstance(env, DummyMultidimensionalAction):
+            model.learn(64)
     else:
         with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
             model_class("MlpPolicy", env)
 
 
+def test_sde_multi_dim():
+    SAC(
+        "MlpPolicy",
+        DummyMultidimensionalAction(),
+        learning_starts=10,
+        use_sde=True,
+        sde_sample_freq=2,
+        use_sde_at_warmup=True,
+    ).learn(20)
+
+
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("model_class", [A2C, PPO, DQN])
 @pytest.mark.parametrize("env", ["Taxi-v3"])
 def test_discrete_obs_space(model_class, env):