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Josh Creek 3fd1c00895 feat(training): Replace all-or-nothing unmask with a gradual ramp
Generation 2's single "unmask" stage (flip vertical/pitch-roll locomotion
from grounded-only to full 3D in one step) failed 3 independent 240M-step
attempts, landing at a stable 32% / 28% / 31% win rate vs curric-s5-aggression
each time -- not noise, and not fixable by more training time (attempts 2-3
each continued the same checkpoint lineage for another full 240M steps with
zero improvement). Every attempt shows train/std collapsing from ~0.30 to
~0.13-0.15 within the first ~10% of steps and never recovering: the policy
locks the newly-opened axes back down before ever meaningfully exploring
them.

Replaces the boolean allow_vertical/allow_pitch_roll mask on ShipAIController
with float vertical_ramp/pitch_roll_ramp multipliers (0.0-1.0), scaling axis
effect in set_action() instead of gating it outright -- the action space
never changes shape, so checkpoints stay resumable across ramp values. The
single unmask stage in curriculum.py becomes 4: three ungated warmup stages
(25%/50%/75% authority, airborne_penalty ramping in step) that train,
checkpoint, and always advance with no eval gate, then the measured stage at
full authority -- same reference, opponent mode, and 240M budget as the 3
failed attempts, for a direct comparison. Adds a "gated" flag/branch to
main()'s loop for the ungated stages.

This is generation 3 of the curriculum; generation 2's state is archived to
curriculum_state_gen2.json (mirroring the earlier gen1 -> gen2 archival) and
curriculum_state.json resets fresh, since its stage 0 no longer means what it
used to. See TRAINING.md's "Generation 3" section for the full postmortem,
stage table, and the open question about whether scaling action effect in
Godot (which PPO's own entropy/exploration math never sees) actually
addresses the collapse.
2026-07-31 21:47:53 +01:00

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"""Train the Cosmic Clash self-play PPO policy.
Example (smoke run):
.venv/bin/python train.py --experiment smoke --timesteps 100000
Long run on the Linux/CUDA box:
GODOT_BIN=~/godot/Godot_v4.7.1-stable_linux.x86_64 \
.venv/bin/python train.py --experiment run01 --timesteps 20000000 \
--n-parallel 6 --speedup 16
See TRAINING.md at the repo root for the full workflow.
"""
import argparse
import os
import pathlib
from stable_baselines3 import PPO
from stable_baselines3.common.callbacks import BaseCallback, CheckpointCallback
from stable_baselines3.common.utils import safe_mean
from stable_baselines3.common.vec_env.vec_monitor import VecMonitor
from cosmic_env import CosmicClashVecEnv
TRAINING_DIR = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent
DEFAULT_GODOT_MACOS = "/Applications/Godot.app/Contents/MacOS/Godot"
class GoalRateCallback(BaseCallback):
"""Logs rollout/goal_rate: the fraction of completed episodes in the
current ep_info_buffer that ended in an actual goal, vs. timing out as a
draw. rollout/ep_rew_mean mixes dense reward-shaping (ball chasing/
touching) with the sparse terminal goal reward, so it can trend up from
better shaping alone without the policy finishing more episodes by
actually scoring — this isolates that. Requires VecMonitor(...,
info_keywords=("goal_scored",)), which copies ShipAIController.get_info()
into each completed episode's info["episode"] dict (see
training_mode.gd's _on_goal_scored / timeout branch)."""
def _on_step(self) -> bool:
return True
def _on_rollout_end(self) -> None:
if len(self.model.ep_info_buffer) == 0:
return
# The vendored godot_rl sync bridge (Game/addons/godot_rl_agents/sync.gd,
# _training_process) snapshots each agent's info dict once per tick and
# has its own "NEEDS REFACTOR" comment on the reset-timing path, so an
# episode's terminal info entry can arrive without "goal_scored" at all
# (observed crashing a run after 2026-07-28). Skip those rather than
# crash training over a monitoring-only metric.
rates = [ep_info["goal_scored"] for ep_info in self.model.ep_info_buffer if "goal_scored" in ep_info]
if rates:
self.logger.record("rollout/goal_rate", safe_mean(rates))
def parse_args():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
parser.add_argument(
"--godot_bin",
default=os.environ.get("GODOT_BIN", DEFAULT_GODOT_MACOS),
help="Path to the Godot binary (or set GODOT_BIN)",
)
parser.add_argument(
"--exported-binary",
default=None,
help="Path to a pre-built game executable (see export_linux.sh) instead of running the "
"project from source — skips per-instance script/resource import for faster parallel "
"startup. Overrides --godot_bin when set.",
)
parser.add_argument("--experiment", default="default", help="Run name for logs/checkpoints")
parser.add_argument("--timesteps", type=int, default=200_000)
parser.add_argument("--n-parallel", type=int, default=2, help="Parallel Godot instances (2 agents each)")
parser.add_argument("--speedup", type=int, default=8, help="Physics speedup factor inside Godot")
parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=11008, help="Base TCP port (one per instance)")
parser.add_argument("--seed", type=int, default=0)
parser.add_argument("--resume", default=None, help="Checkpoint .zip to resume from")
parser.add_argument("--ent-coef", type=float, default=0.0001, help="Entropy bonus coefficient (applied on resume too)")
parser.add_argument("--n-steps", type=int, default=256, help="Rollout length per env between updates (applied on resume too)")
parser.add_argument("--batch-size", type=int, default=256, help="PPO minibatch size (applied on resume too)")
parser.add_argument(
"--reset-std",
type=float,
default=None,
help="On resume, reset the policy action std to this value (recovers exploration after entropy collapse)",
)
parser.add_argument("--checkpoint-every", type=int, default=100_000, help="Timesteps between checkpoints")
parser.add_argument("--viz", action="store_true", help="Show game windows (debugging; slow)")
parser.add_argument("--wandb", action="store_true", help="Also log to Weights & Biases")
curriculum = parser.add_argument_group(
"curriculum", "Stage the training run — see TRAINING.md's Curriculum training section"
)
curriculum.add_argument(
"--opponent-mode",
choices=["self_play", "inert", "frozen"],
default=None,
help="self_play (default): both ships are live trainees. inert: team 1 is a "
"do-nothing placeholder (isolated scoring practice). frozen: team 1 runs a "
"fixed exported policy (--opponent-model)",
)
curriculum.add_argument("--opponent-model", default=None, help="Exported policy .json for --opponent-mode=frozen")
curriculum.add_argument(
"--draw-penalty", type=float, default=None, help="One-time penalty when an episode times out with no goal"
)
curriculum.add_argument(
"--attack-goal-bias",
type=float,
default=None,
help="0.5 = uniform between both goals (default); 1.0 = near-goal resets always target the goal team 0 attacks",
)
curriculum.add_argument("--kickoff-chance", type=float, default=None, help="Overrides kickoff_state_chance")
curriculum.add_argument("--near-goal-chance", type=float, default=None, help="Overrides ball_near_goal_chance")
curriculum.add_argument(
"--vertical-ramp", type=float, default=None,
help="0.0-1.0: fraction of vertical thrust that reaches the ship (locomotion-unmask ramp; default 1.0)",
)
curriculum.add_argument(
"--pitch-roll-ramp", type=float, default=None,
help="0.0-1.0: fraction of pitch/roll rotation that reaches the ship (locomotion-unmask ramp; default 1.0)",
)
curriculum.add_argument(
"--velocity-to-ball-weight", type=float, default=None,
help="Overrides ShipAIController.velocity_to_ball_weight (dense reward for closing speed toward the ball)",
)
curriculum.add_argument(
"--ball-distance-penalty", type=float, default=None,
help="Overrides ShipAIController.ball_distance_penalty (dense per-tick cost scaled by distance to the ball)",
)
curriculum.add_argument(
"--ball-touch-reward", type=float, default=None,
help="Overrides ShipAIController.ball_touch_reward (event reward on ball contact, cooldown-gated)",
)
curriculum.add_argument(
"--airborne-penalty", type=float, default=None,
help="Overrides ShipAIController.airborne_penalty (dense per-tick cost scaled by height above the floor)",
)
curriculum.add_argument(
"--ball-velocity-to-goal-weight", type=float, default=None,
help="Overrides ShipAIController.ball_velocity_to_goal_weight (dense reward for the ball's velocity toward the attack goal)",
)
curriculum.add_argument(
"--goal-reward", type=float, default=None,
help="Overrides TrainingMode.goal_reward (terminal reward for actually scoring)",
)
return parser.parse_args()
def _curriculum_kwargs(args) -> dict:
"""Maps train.py's curriculum flags to the --key=value args training_mode.gd's
_parse_curriculum_args() reads, omitting anything not explicitly passed so
unset flags leave Godot's own @export defaults in place."""
mapping = {
"opponent_mode": args.opponent_mode,
"opponent_model": args.opponent_model,
"draw_penalty": args.draw_penalty,
"attack_goal_bias": args.attack_goal_bias,
"kickoff_state_chance": args.kickoff_chance,
"ball_near_goal_chance": args.near_goal_chance,
"ai_vertical_ramp": args.vertical_ramp,
"ai_pitch_roll_ramp": args.pitch_roll_ramp,
"ai_velocity_to_ball_weight": args.velocity_to_ball_weight,
"ai_ball_distance_penalty": args.ball_distance_penalty,
"ai_ball_touch_reward": args.ball_touch_reward,
"ai_airborne_penalty": args.airborne_penalty,
"ai_ball_velocity_to_goal_weight": args.ball_velocity_to_goal_weight,
"goal_reward": args.goal_reward,
}
return {key: value for key, value in mapping.items() if value is not None}
def main():
args = parse_args()
log_dir = TRAINING_DIR / "logs"
checkpoint_dir = TRAINING_DIR / "checkpoints" / args.experiment
checkpoint_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
if args.wandb:
import wandb
wandb.init(project="cosmic-clash-rl", name=args.experiment, sync_tensorboard=True)
exported_binary = args.exported_binary or None
env = CosmicClashVecEnv(
godot_bin=exported_binary or args.godot_bin,
exported=exported_binary is not None,
n_parallel=args.n_parallel,
seed=args.seed,
port=args.port,
show_window=args.viz,
speedup=args.speedup,
**_curriculum_kwargs(args),
)
env = VecMonitor(env, info_keywords=("goal_scored",))
if args.resume:
model = PPO.load(
args.resume,
env=env,
tensorboard_log=str(log_dir),
ent_coef=args.ent_coef,
n_steps=args.n_steps,
batch_size=args.batch_size,
)
print(
f"Resumed from {args.resume} at {model.num_timesteps} timesteps "
f"(ent_coef={args.ent_coef}, n_steps={args.n_steps}, batch_size={args.batch_size})"
)
if args.reset_std is not None:
import math
import torch
with torch.no_grad():
model.policy.log_std.fill_(math.log(args.reset_std))
print(f"Reset policy action std to {args.reset_std}")
else:
model = PPO(
"MultiInputPolicy",
env,
verbose=1,
ent_coef=args.ent_coef,
n_steps=args.n_steps,
batch_size=args.batch_size,
learning_rate=3e-4,
tensorboard_log=str(log_dir),
)
checkpoint_callback = CheckpointCallback(
save_freq=max(args.checkpoint_every // env.num_envs, 1),
save_path=str(checkpoint_dir),
name_prefix="ppo",
)
goal_rate_callback = GoalRateCallback()
try:
model.learn(
args.timesteps,
callback=[checkpoint_callback, goal_rate_callback],
tb_log_name=args.experiment,
reset_num_timesteps=not args.resume,
)
finally:
final_path = checkpoint_dir / "final.zip"
model.save(str(final_path))
print(f"Saved {final_path}")
env.close()
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()