# Copyright (c) 2022-2026, The Isaac Lab Project Developers (https://github.com/isaac-sim/IsaacLab/blob/main/CONTRIBUTORS.md). # All rights reserved. # # SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause import argparse import importlib.util import os import random import subprocess import sys from time import sleep, time import ray import util from ray import air, tune from ray.tune import Callback from ray.tune.progress_reporter import ProgressReporter from ray.tune.search.optuna import OptunaSearch from ray.tune.search.repeater import Repeater from ray.tune.stopper import CombinedStopper """ This script breaks down an aggregate tuning job, as defined by a hyperparameter sweep configuration, into individual jobs (shell commands) to run on the GPU-enabled nodes of the cluster. By default, one worker is created for each GPU-enabled node in the cluster for each individual job. To use more than one worker per node (likely the case for multi-GPU machines), supply the num_workers_per_node argument. Each hyperparameter sweep configuration should include the workflow, runner arguments, and hydra arguments to vary. This assumes that all workers in a cluster are homogeneous. For heterogeneous workloads, create several heterogeneous clusters (with homogeneous nodes in each cluster), then submit several overall-cluster jobs with :file:`../submit_job.py`. KubeRay clusters on Google GKE can be created with :file:`../launch.py` To report tune metrics on clusters, a running MLFlow server with a known URI that the cluster has access to is required. For KubeRay clusters configured with :file:`../launch.py`, this is included automatically, and can be easily found with with :file:`grok_cluster_with_kubectl.py` Usage: .. code-block:: bash ./isaaclab.sh -p scripts/reinforcement_learning/ray/tuner.py -h # Examples # Local ./isaaclab.sh -p scripts/reinforcement_learning/ray/tuner.py --run_mode local \ --cfg_file scripts/reinforcement_learning/ray/hyperparameter_tuning/vision_cartpole_cfg.py \ --cfg_class CartpoleTheiaJobCfg # Local with a custom progress reporter ./isaaclab.sh -p scripts/reinforcement_learning/ray/tuner.py \ --cfg_file scripts/reinforcement_learning/ray/hyperparameter_tuning/vision_cartpole_cfg.py \ --cfg_class CartpoleTheiaJobCfg \ --progress_reporter CustomCartpoleProgressReporter # Remote (run grok cluster or create config file mentioned in :file:`submit_job.py`) ./isaaclab.sh -p scripts/reinforcement_learning/ray/submit_job.py \ --aggregate_jobs tuner.py \ --cfg_file hyperparameter_tuning/vision_cartpole_cfg.py \ --cfg_class CartpoleTheiaJobCfg --mlflow_uri """ DOCKER_PREFIX = "/workspace/isaaclab/" BASE_DIR = os.path.expanduser("~") PYTHON_EXEC = "./isaaclab.sh -p" WORKFLOW = "scripts/reinforcement_learning/rl_games/train.py" NUM_WORKERS_PER_NODE = 1 # needed for local parallelism PROCESS_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT = 200.0 # seconds to wait before killing the process when it stops responding MAX_LINES_TO_SEARCH_EXPERIMENT_LOGS = 1000 # maximum number of lines to read from the training process logs MAX_LOG_EXTRACTION_ERRORS = 10 # maximum allowed LogExtractionErrors before we abort the whole training class IsaacLabTuneTrainable(tune.Trainable): """The Isaac Lab Ray Tune Trainable. This class uses the standalone workflows to start jobs, along with the hydra integration. This class achieves Ray-based logging through reading the tensorboard logs from the standalone workflows. This depends on a config generated in the format of :class:`JobCfg` """ def setup(self, config: dict) -> None: """Get the invocation command, return quick for easy scheduling.""" self.data = None self.time_since_last_proc_response = 0.0 self.invoke_cmd = util.get_invocation_command_from_cfg(cfg=config, python_cmd=PYTHON_EXEC, workflow=WORKFLOW) print(f"[INFO]: Recovered invocation with {self.invoke_cmd}") self.experiment = None def reset_config(self, new_config: dict): """Allow environments to be reused by fetching a new invocation command""" self.setup(new_config) return True def step(self) -> dict: if self.experiment is None: # start experiment # When including this as first step instead of setup, experiments get scheduled faster # Don't want to block the scheduler while the experiment spins up print(f"[INFO]: Invoking experiment as first step with {self.invoke_cmd}...") try: experiment = util.execute_job( self.invoke_cmd, identifier_string="", extract_experiment=True, # Keep this as True to return a valid dictionary persistent_dir=BASE_DIR, max_lines_to_search_logs=MAX_LINES_TO_SEARCH_EXPERIMENT_LOGS, max_time_to_search_logs=PROCESS_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT, ) except util.LogExtractionError: self.data = { "LOG_EXTRACTION_ERROR_STOPPER_FLAG": True, "done": True, } return self.data self.experiment = experiment print(f"[INFO]: Tuner recovered experiment info {experiment}") self.proc = experiment["proc"] self.experiment_name = experiment["experiment_name"] self.isaac_logdir = experiment["logdir"] self.tensorboard_logdir = self.isaac_logdir + "/" + self.experiment_name self.done = False if self.proc is None: raise ValueError("Could not start trial.") proc_status = self.proc.poll() if proc_status is not None: # process finished, signal finish self.data["done"] = True print(f"[INFO]: Process finished with {proc_status}, returning...") else: # wait until the logs are ready or fresh data = util.load_tensorboard_logs(self.tensorboard_logdir) while data is None: data = util.load_tensorboard_logs(self.tensorboard_logdir) proc_status = self.proc.poll() if proc_status is not None: break sleep(2) # Lazy report metrics to avoid performance overhead if self.data is not None: data_ = {k: v for k, v in data.items() if k != "done"} self_data_ = {k: v for k, v in self.data.items() if k != "done"} unresponsiveness_start_time = time() while util._dicts_equal(data_, self_data_): self.time_since_last_proc_response = time() - unresponsiveness_start_time data = util.load_tensorboard_logs(self.tensorboard_logdir) data_ = {k: v for k, v in data.items() if k != "done"} proc_status = self.proc.poll() if proc_status is not None: break if self.time_since_last_proc_response > PROCESS_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT: self.time_since_last_proc_response = 0.0 print("[WARNING]: Training workflow process is not responding, terminating...") self.proc.terminate() try: self.proc.wait(timeout=20) except subprocess.TimeoutExpired: print("[ERROR]: The process did not terminate within timeout duration.") self.proc.kill() self.proc.wait() self.data = data self.data["done"] = True return self.data sleep(2) # Lazy report metrics to avoid performance overhead self.data = data self.data["done"] = False return self.data def default_resource_request(self): """How many resources each trainable uses. Assumes homogeneous resources across gpu nodes, and that each trainable is meant for one node, where it uses all available resources.""" resources = util.get_gpu_node_resources(one_node_only=True) if NUM_WORKERS_PER_NODE != 1: print("[WARNING]: Splitting node into more than one worker") return tune.PlacementGroupFactory( [{"CPU": resources["CPU"] / NUM_WORKERS_PER_NODE, "GPU": resources["GPU"] / NUM_WORKERS_PER_NODE}], strategy="STRICT_PACK", ) class LogExtractionErrorStopper(tune.Stopper): """Stopper that stops all trials if multiple LogExtractionErrors occur. Args: max_errors: The maximum number of LogExtractionErrors allowed before terminating the experiment. """ def __init__(self, max_errors: int): self.max_errors = max_errors self.error_count = 0 def __call__(self, trial_id, result): """Increments the error count if trial has encountered a LogExtractionError. It does not stop the trial based on the metrics, always returning False. """ if result.get("LOG_EXTRACTION_ERROR_STOPPER_FLAG", False): self.error_count += 1 print( f"[ERROR]: Encountered LogExtractionError {self.error_count} times. " f"Maximum allowed is {self.max_errors}." ) return False def stop_all(self): """Returns true if number of LogExtractionErrors exceeds the maximum allowed, terminating the experiment.""" if self.error_count > self.max_errors: print("[FATAL]: Encountered LogExtractionError more than allowed, aborting entire tuning run... ") return True else: return False class ProcessCleanupCallback(Callback): """Callback to clean up processes when trials are stopped.""" def on_trial_error(self, iteration, trials, trial, error, **info): """Called when a trial encounters an error.""" self._cleanup_trial(trial) def on_trial_complete(self, iteration, trials, trial, **info): """Called when a trial completes.""" self._cleanup_trial(trial) def _cleanup_trial(self, trial): """Clean up processes for a trial using SIGKILL.""" try: subprocess.run(["pkill", "-9", "-f", f"rid {trial.config['runner_args']['-rid']}"], check=False) sleep(5) except Exception as e: print(f"[ERROR]: Failed to cleanup trial {trial.trial_id}: {e}") def invoke_tuning_run( cfg: dict, args: argparse.Namespace, progress_reporter: ProgressReporter | None = None, stopper: tune.Stopper | None = None, ) -> None: """Invoke an Isaac-Ray tuning run. Log either to a local directory or to MLFlow. Args: cfg: Configuration dictionary extracted from job setup args: Command-line arguments related to tuning. progress_reporter: Custom progress reporter. Defaults to CLIReporter or JupyterNotebookReporter if not provided. stopper: Custom stopper, optional. """ # Allow for early exit os.environ["TUNE_DISABLE_STRICT_METRIC_CHECKING"] = "1" print("[WARNING]: Not saving checkpoints, just running experiment...") print("[INFO]: Model parameters and metrics will be preserved.") print("[WARNING]: For homogeneous cluster resources only...") # Initialize Ray util.ray_init( ray_address=args.ray_address, log_to_driver=True, ) # Get available resources resources = util.get_gpu_node_resources() print(f"[INFO]: Available resources {resources}") print(f"[INFO]: Using config {cfg}") # Configure the search algorithm and the repeater searcher = OptunaSearch( metric=args.metric, mode=args.mode, ) repeat_search = Repeater(searcher, repeat=args.repeat_run_count) # Configure the stoppers stoppers: CombinedStopper = CombinedStopper( *[ LogExtractionErrorStopper(max_errors=MAX_LOG_EXTRACTION_ERRORS), *([stopper] if stopper is not None else []), ] ) if progress_reporter is not None: os.environ["RAY_AIR_NEW_OUTPUT"] = "0" if ( getattr(progress_reporter, "_metric", None) is not None or getattr(progress_reporter, "_mode", None) is not None ): raise ValueError( "Do not set or directly in the custom progress reporter class, " "provide them as arguments to tuner.py instead." ) if args.run_mode == "local": # Standard config, to file run_config = air.RunConfig( storage_path="/tmp/ray", name=f"IsaacRay-{args.cfg_class}-tune", callbacks=[ProcessCleanupCallback()], verbose=1, checkpoint_config=air.CheckpointConfig( checkpoint_frequency=0, # Disable periodic checkpointing checkpoint_at_end=False, # Disable final checkpoint ), stop=stoppers, progress_reporter=progress_reporter, ) elif args.run_mode == "remote": # MLFlow, to MLFlow server mlflow_callback = MLflowLoggerCallback( tracking_uri=args.mlflow_uri, experiment_name=f"IsaacRay-{args.cfg_class}-tune", save_artifact=False, tags={"run_mode": "remote", "cfg_class": args.cfg_class}, ) run_config = ray.train.RunConfig( name="mlflow", storage_path="/tmp/ray", callbacks=[ProcessCleanupCallback(), mlflow_callback], checkpoint_config=ray.train.CheckpointConfig(checkpoint_frequency=0, checkpoint_at_end=False), stop=stoppers, progress_reporter=progress_reporter, ) else: raise ValueError("Unrecognized run mode.") # RID isn't optimized as it is sampled from, but useful for cleanup later cfg["runner_args"]["-rid"] = tune.sample_from(lambda _: str(random.randint(int(1e9), int(1e10) - 1))) # Configure the tuning job tuner = tune.Tuner( IsaacLabTuneTrainable, param_space=cfg, tune_config=tune.TuneConfig( metric=args.metric, mode=args.mode, search_alg=repeat_search, num_samples=args.num_samples, reuse_actors=True, ), run_config=run_config, ) # Execute the tuning tuner.fit() # Save results to mounted volume if args.run_mode == "local": print("[DONE!]: Check results with tensorboard dashboard") else: print("[DONE!]: Check results with MLFlow dashboard") class JobCfg: """To be compatible with :meth: invoke_tuning_run and :class:IsaacLabTuneTrainable, at a minimum, the tune job should inherit from this class.""" def __init__(self, cfg: dict): """ Runner args include command line arguments passed to the task. For example: cfg["runner_args"]["headless_singleton"] = "--headless" cfg["runner_args"]["enable_cameras_singleton"] = "--enable_cameras" """ assert "runner_args" in cfg, "No runner arguments specified." """ Task is the desired task to train on. For example: cfg["runner_args"]["--task"] = tune.choice(["Isaac-Cartpole-RGB-TheiaTiny-v0"]) """ assert "--task" in cfg["runner_args"], "No task specified." """ Hydra args define the hyperparameters varied within the sweep. For example: cfg["hydra_args"]["agent.params.network.cnn.activation"] = tune.choice(["relu", "elu"]) """ assert "hydra_args" in cfg, "No hyperparameters specified." self.cfg = cfg if __name__ == "__main__": parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Tune Isaac Lab hyperparameters.") parser.add_argument("--ray_address", type=str, default="auto", help="the Ray address.") parser.add_argument( "--cfg_file", type=str, default="hyperparameter_tuning/vision_cartpole_cfg.py", required=False, help="The relative filepath where a hyperparameter sweep is defined", ) parser.add_argument( "--cfg_class", type=str, default="CartpoleRGBNoTuneJobCfg", required=False, help="Name of the hyperparameter sweep class to use", ) parser.add_argument( "--run_mode", choices=["local", "remote"], default="remote", help=( "Set to local to use ./isaaclab.sh -p python, set to " "remote to use /workspace/isaaclab/isaaclab.sh -p python" ), ) parser.add_argument( "--workflow", default=None, # populated with RL Games help="The absolute path of the workflow to use for the experiment. By default, RL Games is used.", ) parser.add_argument( "--mlflow_uri", type=str, default=None, required=False, help="The MLFlow Uri.", ) parser.add_argument( "--num_workers_per_node", type=int, default=1, help="Number of workers to run on each GPU node. Only supply for parallelism on multi-gpu nodes", ) parser.add_argument("--metric", type=str, default="rewards/time", help="What metric to tune for.") parser.add_argument( "--mode", choices=["max", "min"], default="max", help="What to optimize the metric to while tuning", ) parser.add_argument( "--num_samples", type=int, default=100, help="How many hyperparameter runs to try total.", ) parser.add_argument( "--repeat_run_count", type=int, default=3, help="How many times to repeat each hyperparameter config.", ) parser.add_argument( "--process_response_timeout", type=float, default=PROCESS_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT, help="Training workflow process response timeout.", ) parser.add_argument( "--max_lines_to_search_experiment_logs", type=float, default=MAX_LINES_TO_SEARCH_EXPERIMENT_LOGS, help="Max number of lines to search for experiment logs before terminating the training workflow process.", ) parser.add_argument( "--max_log_extraction_errors", type=float, default=MAX_LOG_EXTRACTION_ERRORS, help="Max number number of LogExtractionError failures before we abort the whole tuning run.", ) parser.add_argument( "--progress_reporter", type=str, default=None, help=( "Optional: name of a custom reporter class defined in the cfg_file. " "Must subclass ray.tune.ProgressReporter " "(e.g., CustomCartpoleProgressReporter)." ), ) parser.add_argument( "--stopper", type=str, default=None, help="A stop criteria in the cfg_file, must be a tune.Stopper instance.", ) args = parser.parse_args() PROCESS_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT = args.process_response_timeout MAX_LINES_TO_SEARCH_EXPERIMENT_LOGS = int(args.max_lines_to_search_experiment_logs) print( "[INFO]: The max number of lines to search for experiment logs before (early) terminating the training " f"workflow process is set to {MAX_LINES_TO_SEARCH_EXPERIMENT_LOGS}.\n" "[INFO]: The process response timeout, used while updating tensorboard scalars and searching for " f"experiment logs, is set to {PROCESS_RESPONSE_TIMEOUT} seconds." ) MAX_LOG_EXTRACTION_ERRORS = int(args.max_log_extraction_errors) print( "[INFO]: Max number of LogExtractionError failures before we abort the whole tuning run is " f"set to {MAX_LOG_EXTRACTION_ERRORS}.\n" ) NUM_WORKERS_PER_NODE = args.num_workers_per_node print(f"[INFO]: Using {NUM_WORKERS_PER_NODE} workers per node.") if args.run_mode == "remote": BASE_DIR = DOCKER_PREFIX # ensure logs are dumped to persistent location PYTHON_EXEC = DOCKER_PREFIX + PYTHON_EXEC[2:] if args.workflow is None: WORKFLOW = DOCKER_PREFIX + WORKFLOW else: WORKFLOW = args.workflow print(f"[INFO]: Using remote mode {PYTHON_EXEC=} {WORKFLOW=}") if args.mlflow_uri is not None: import mlflow mlflow.set_tracking_uri(args.mlflow_uri) from ray.air.integrations.mlflow import MLflowLoggerCallback else: raise ValueError("Please provide a result MLFLow URI server.") else: # local PYTHON_EXEC = os.getcwd() + "/" + PYTHON_EXEC[2:] if args.workflow is None: WORKFLOW = os.getcwd() + "/" + WORKFLOW else: WORKFLOW = args.workflow BASE_DIR = os.getcwd() print(f"[INFO]: Using local mode {PYTHON_EXEC=} {WORKFLOW=}") file_path = args.cfg_file class_name = args.cfg_class print(f"[INFO]: Attempting to use sweep config from {file_path=} {class_name=}") module_name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(file_path))[0] spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location(module_name, file_path) module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec) sys.modules[module_name] = module spec.loader.exec_module(module) print(f"[INFO]: Successfully imported {module_name} from {file_path}") if hasattr(module, class_name): ClassToInstantiate = getattr(module, class_name) print(f"[INFO]: Found correct class {ClassToInstantiate}") instance = ClassToInstantiate() print(f"[INFO]: Successfully instantiated class '{class_name}' from {file_path}") cfg = instance.cfg print(f"[INFO]: Grabbed the following hyperparameter sweep config: \n {cfg}") # Load optional stopper config stopper = None if args.stopper and hasattr(module, args.stopper): stopper = getattr(module, args.stopper) if isinstance(stopper, type) and issubclass(stopper, tune.Stopper): stopper = stopper() else: raise TypeError(f"[ERROR]: Unsupported stop criteria type: {type(stopper)}") print(f"[INFO]: Loaded custom stop criteria from '{args.stopper}'") # Load optional progress reporter config progress_reporter = None if args.progress_reporter and hasattr(module, args.progress_reporter): progress_reporter = getattr(module, args.progress_reporter) if isinstance(progress_reporter, type) and issubclass(progress_reporter, tune.ProgressReporter): progress_reporter = progress_reporter() else: raise TypeError(f"[ERROR]: {args.progress_reporter} is not a valid ProgressReporter.") print(f"[INFO]: Loaded custom progress reporter from '{args.progress_reporter}'") invoke_tuning_run(cfg, args, progress_reporter=progress_reporter, stopper=stopper) else: raise AttributeError(f"[ERROR]:Class '{class_name}' not found in {file_path}")