Instructions to use Alopezcordero/AMP-HumanoidDirection-V0 with libraries, inference providers, notebooks, and local apps. Follow these links to get started.
- Libraries
- stable-baselines3
How to use Alopezcordero/AMP-HumanoidDirection-V0 with stable-baselines3:
from huggingface_sb3 import load_from_hub checkpoint = load_from_hub( repo_id="Alopezcordero/AMP-HumanoidDirection-V0", filename="{MODEL FILENAME}.zip", ) - Notebooks
- Google Colab
- Kaggle
library_name: stable-baselines3
pipeline_tag: reinforcement-learning
tags:
- reinforcement-learning
- deep-reinforcement-learning
- stable-baselines3
- ppo
- mujoco
- humanoid
- adversarial-motion-priors
- amp
- character-animation
- motion-capture
model-index:
- name: ppo-amp-humanoid-direction
results:
- task:
type: reinforcement-learning
name: reinforcement-learning
dataset:
name: HumanoidDirection-v0
type: HumanoidDirection-v0
metrics:
- type: mean_reward
value: 971.74 ± 13.51
name: mean_reward
PPO + AMP — Direction-Following MuJoCo Humanoid
A PPO policy (Stable-Baselines3) trained with Adversarial Motion Priors (AMP) (Peng et al., 2021) on a custom HumanoidDirection-v0 environment — Gymnasium's MuJoCo Humanoid-v5 extended with a random target heading each episode.
Model description
MuJoCo Humanoid-v5 that walks in a random commanded direction with a natural, human-like gait, using Adversarial Motion Priors (AMP) (Peng et al., 2021) + Stable-Baselines3 PPO.
Each episode the humanoid gets a random 2D target heading. Reward is 0.5 · task + 0.5 · style: the task reward (bounded in [0, 1]) pays full credit for walking at ~1.4 m/s along the target, and the style reward comes from an LSGAN discriminator trained to tell policy transitions from retargeted mocap transitions. See replay.mp4 for a sample rollout.
Eval (10 episodes, deterministic): 971.74 ± 13.51 episode reward.
Three artifacts are trained jointly and shipped together:
| File | What it is |
|---|---|
ppo_humanoid_direction_amp_fixed.zip |
SB3 PPO policy (MLP, π and V nets [1024, 512], ReLU) |
vecnormalize_amp_fixed.pkl |
VecNormalize observation statistics — required at inference |
amp_discriminator_fixed.pt |
AMP discriminator state dict (2×512 MLP, 90-D input) — training artifact, not needed for inference |
- Observation space:
Humanoid-v5observation + 2-D target direction (unit vector). - Action space:
Humanoid-v5continuous torques (17-D). - Task reward ∈ [0, 1]:
exp(-2 · max(0, 1.4 − v_proj)²)— full credit at walking speed along the target, no bonus for sprinting. - Style reward ∈ [0, 1]:
clamp(1 − 0.25(d − 1)², 0, 1)from the discriminator, computed on heading-invariant 45-D feature transitions so it judges gait quality, not global heading.
Files
humanoid_direction_env.py/register_env.py—HumanoidDirection-v0(Humanoid-v5 + target heading, bounded directional reward)amp_obs.py— shared heading-invariant 45-D AMP features (used by both policy and mocap sides)amp_env.py— AMP reward wrapper (task/style mixing, reference state init)amp_discriminator.py/amp_callback.py— LSGAN discriminator + training callback (syncs weights intoSubprocVecEnvworkers)motion_lib.py— loads mocap.pklclips, filters bad contacts, samples expert transitions interpolated at the exact env control dttrain_sb3_real_amp.py— training (exp 1);train_sb3_real_amp_exp2.py— more conservative discriminator (exp 2)humanoid_direction_evaluate.py— roll out a trained policy, print per-episode and mean ± std rewardmodels/,models_exp2/— trained PPO policies,VecNormalizestats, discriminators
Training procedure
Trained with train_sb3_real_amp.py on 8 SubprocVecEnv workers (CPU) + 1 GPU for PPO/discriminator updates, up to 50M environment steps. The discriminator is updated once per rollout (8 × 2048 steps) against expert transitions sampled from mocap at the exact environment control dt, and its weights are pushed to every worker after each update. Episodes start from a random mocap frame (Reference State Initialization) with probability 0.5.
Hyperparameters
PPO: lr 1e-4, n_steps 2048, batch 512, 5 epochs, target_kl 0.02, γ 0.99, GAE λ 0.95, clip 0.2, ent_coef 0.0, obs normalization (clip 10).
AMP discriminator: 90-D input (two 45-D heading-invariant frames), 2×512 MLP; LSGAN loss to +1/−1 targets; Adam lr 1e-4, weight decay 1e-4; 8 updates × batch 512 per rollout; gradient penalty 5.0 on real samples; score regularization 1e-4; grad-norm clip 1.0; 100k fake-transition replay buffer.
Reward mixing: 0.5 · task + 0.5 · style.
A second experiment (models_exp2/) uses a more conservative discriminator: disc lr 3e-5, 4 updates/rollout, gradient penalty 10.0, PPO lr 5e-5, RSI 0.3.
Training data
~60 motion-capture clips (stand, walk, run, turns 45°–135°, backwards locomotion, gait transitions) retargeted to the Humanoid-v5 skeleton, stored as qpos/qvel/fps pickles. Clips originate from AMASS-format mocap (ACCAD subject sets, among others). The original mocap datasets carry their own licenses (typically non-commercial for AMASS subsets) — verify before redistribution or commercial use.
Usage
pip install "gymnasium[mujoco]" stable-baselines3 torch numpy mujoco
python train_sb3_real_amp.py # train (SLURM scripts included)
python humanoid_direction_evaluate.py # evaluate + render
The VecNormalize stats must be loaded alongside the PPO model at eval time — the policy was trained on normalized observations.
Evaluation
Qualitative: see replay.mp4 in the repo for a sample rollout. Run humanoid_direction_evaluate.py to render episodes and print per-episode rewards.
Tensorboard data is available in repository.
Limitations
- Locomotion only (walk/run/turn/stand); no other skills are in the motion prior.
- Target speed fixed at 1.4 m/s; direction is randomized but speed is not commanded.
- Flat-ground MuJoCo simulation; no domain randomization — not directly transferable to a real robot.
- The policy is tied to this exact observation layout and
VecNormalizestatistics.
Citation
@article{peng2021amp,
title={AMP: Adversarial Motion Priors for Stylized Physics-Based Character Control},
author={Peng, Xue Bin and Ma, Ze and Abbeel, Pieter and Levine, Sergey and Kanazawa, Angjoo},
journal={ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG)},
volume={40}, number={4}, pages={1--20}, year={2021}
}