Spiky CRMDP Roadmap

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Main road

• Create toy environments
  • Create new toy environments (@timorl's repo)
  • Clean up toy environments for use with Gym API
  • Add toy environments as a dependency (#38)
  • Debug toy environments (david-lindner/safe-grid-gym#15)
• Refactor for use with Gym API (#32)
  • Modify ai_safety_gridworlds_gym to fit our needs (@david-lindner's fork)
  • Improve dependency management #31
  • Switch all code referencing envs to use Gym env
• Improved tooling for hyperparameter tuning (e.g. Ray)
• Estimate compute costs and finalize logistics
  • First guess for an upper bound: 1 agent x 4 environments x 3 experiments = 12 sets of hyperparameters to tune x ~30 training runs = 360 runs x 2 hours
• Do experiments Start with experiments January 11
  • Check if hparams tuned on Solver generalize to Cheater (vice versa too, but less important/rigorous)
• Investigate corrupt versions of harder environments
  • Maybe bigger / more realistic boat race
  • Maybe a modified Atari env
  • Maybe a modified MuJoCo env
  • Maybe modified BipedalWalker env

Finish experiments February 15

Deadline February 22

Environments:

• TomatoWateringCRMDP
• TransitionBoatRaceCRMDP
• Toy environments
  • corrupt corners (satisfies our assumptions for guaranteed learnability)
  • corrupt path to goal (does not satisfy assumptions for guaranteed learnability)

Experiments per env

• Baseline (learns corrupt reward)
• Cheater (learns with access to true reward)
• Solver (learns intended behavior from corrupt reward)

Optional

• Generalize PPO #17
• Improve test coverage #29