For reinforcement learning I have read that tensorboard isn't ideal since it gives the input of per episode and/or step. Since in reinforcement learning there are thousands of steps, it doesn't give us an overview of the content. I saw this modified tensorboard class here: https://pythonprogramming.net/deep-q-learning-dqn-reinforcement-learning-python-tutorial/
the class:
class ModifiedTensorBoard(TensorBoard):
# Overriding init to set initial step and writer (we want one log file for all .fit() calls)
def __init__(self, name, **kwargs):
super().__init__(**kwargs)
self.step = 1
self.writer = tf.summary.create_file_writer(self.log_dir)
self._log_write_dir = os.path.join(self.log_dir, name)
# Overriding this method to stop creating default log writer
def set_model(self, model):
pass
# Overrided, saves logs with our step number
# (otherwise every .fit() will start writing from 0th step)
def on_epoch_end(self, epoch, logs=None):
self.update_stats(**logs)
# Overrided
# We train for one batch only, no need to save anything at epoch end
def on_batch_end(self, batch, logs=None):
pass
# Overrided, so won't close writer
def on_train_end(self, _):
pass
def on_train_batch_end(self, batch, logs=None):
pass
# Custom method for saving own metrics
# Creates writer, writes custom metrics and closes writer
def update_stats(self, **stats):
self._write_logs(stats, self.step)
def _write_logs(self, logs, index):
with self.writer.as_default():
for name, value in logs.items():
tf.summary.scalar(name, value, step=index)
self.step += 1
self.writer.flush()
and I would like to make it work with this layer:
n_actions = env.action_space.n
input_dim = env.observation_space.n
model = tf.keras.Sequential()
model.add(tf.keras.layers.Dense(20, input_dim = input_dim , activation = 'relu'))#32
model.add(tf.keras.layers.Dense(10, activation = 'relu'))#10
model.add(tf.keras.layers.Dense(n_actions, activation = 'linear'))
model.compile(optimizer=tf.keras.optimizers.Adam(), loss = 'mse')
But I have yet to get it to work. Anyone who has worked with tensorboard before, do you know how to setup this up? Any insight is greatly appreciated.