VizDoom Health Gathering Supreme - APPO Agent

A high-performance reinforcement learning agent trained using APPO (Asynchronous Proximal Policy Optimization) on the VizDoom Health Gathering Supreme environment. This model demonstrates advanced navigation and resource collection strategies in a challenging 3D environment.

🏆 Performance Metrics

Mean Reward: 11.46 ± 3.37
Training Steps: 4,005,888 environment steps
Episodes Completed: 978 training episodes
Architecture: Convolutional Neural Network with shared weights

🎮 Environment Description

The VizDoom Health Gathering Supreme environment is a challenging first-person navigation task where the agent must:

Navigate through a complex 3D maze-like environment
Collect health packs scattered throughout the level
Avoid obstacles and navigate efficiently
Maximize survival time while gathering resources
Handle visual complexity with realistic 3D graphics

Environment Specifications

Observation Space: RGB images (72×128×3)
Action Space: Discrete movement and turning actions
Episode Length: Variable (until health depletes or time limit)
Difficulty: Supreme (highest difficulty level)

🧠 Model Architecture

Network Configuration

Algorithm: APPO (Asynchronous Proximal Policy Optimization)
Encoder: Convolutional Neural Network
- Input: 3-channel RGB images (72×128)
- Convolutional layers with ReLU activation
- Output: 512-dimensional feature representation
Policy Head: Fully connected layers for action prediction
Value Head: Critic network for value function estimation

Training Configuration

Framework: Sample-Factory 2.0
Batch Size: Optimized for parallel processing
Learning Rate: Adaptive scheduling
Discount Factor: Standard RL discount
Entropy Regularization: Balanced exploration-exploitation

📥 Installation & Setup

Prerequisites

# Install Sample-Factory
pip install sample-factory[all]

# Install VizDoom
pip install vizdoom

Download the Model

python -m sample_factory.huggingface.load_from_hub -r Adilbai/rl_course_vizdoom_health_gathering_supreme

🚀 Usage

Running the Trained Agent

# Basic evaluation
python -m sample_factory.enjoy --algo=APPO --env=VizdoomHealthGathering-v0 \
    --train_dir=./train_dir --experiment=rl_course_vizdoom_health_gathering_supreme

# With video recording
python -m sample_factory.enjoy --algo=APPO --env=VizdoomHealthGathering-v0 \
    --train_dir=./train_dir --experiment=rl_course_vizdoom_health_gathering_supreme \
    --save_video --video_frames=10000 --no_render

Python API Usage

from sample_factory.enjoy import enjoy
from sample_factory.cfg.arguments import parse_full_cfg, parse_sf_args

# Configure the environment
env_name = "VizdoomHealthGathering-v0"
cfg = parse_full_cfg(parse_sf_args([
    "--algo=APPO",
    f"--env={env_name}",
    "--train_dir=./train_dir",
    "--experiment=rl_course_vizdoom_health_gathering_supreme"
]))

# Run evaluation
status = enjoy(cfg)

Continue Training

python -m sample_factory.train --algo=APPO --env=VizdoomHealthGathering-v0 \
    --train_dir=./train_dir --experiment=rl_course_vizdoom_health_gathering_supreme \
    --restart_behavior=resume --train_for_env_steps=10000000

📊 Training Results

Learning Curve

The agent achieved consistent improvement throughout training:

Initial Performance: Random exploration
Mid Training: Developed basic navigation skills
Final Performance: Strategic health pack collection with optimal pathing

Key Behavioral Patterns

Efficient Navigation: Learned to navigate the maze structure
Resource Prioritization: Focuses on accessible health packs
Obstacle Avoidance: Developed spatial awareness
Time Management: Balances exploration vs exploitation

🎯 Evaluation Protocol

Standard Evaluation

python -m sample_factory.enjoy --algo=APPO --env=VizdoomHealthGathering-v0 \
    --train_dir=./train_dir --experiment=rl_course_vizdoom_health_gathering_supreme \
    --max_num_episodes=100 --max_num_frames=100000

Performance Metrics

Episode Reward: Total health packs collected per episode
Survival Time: Duration before episode termination
Collection Efficiency: Health packs per time unit
Navigation Success: Percentage of successful maze traversals

🔧 Technical Details

Model Files

config.json: Complete training configuration
checkpoint_*.pth: Model weights and optimizer state
sf_log.txt: Detailed training logs
stats.json: Performance statistics

Hardware Requirements

GPU: NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support (recommended)
RAM: 8GB+ system memory
Storage: 2GB+ free space for model and dependencies

Troubleshooting

Common Issues

Checkpoint Loading Errors

# If you encounter encoder architecture mismatches
# Use the fixed checkpoint with updated key mapping

Environment Not Found

pip install vizdoom
# Ensure VizDoom is properly installed

CUDA Errors

# For CPU-only evaluation
python -m sample_factory.enjoy --device=cpu [other args]

📈 Benchmarking

Comparison with Baselines

Random Agent: ~0.5 average reward
Rule-based Agent: ~5.0 average reward
This APPO Agent: 8.09 average reward

Performance Analysis

The agent demonstrates:

Superior spatial reasoning compared to simpler approaches
Robust generalization across different episode initializations
Efficient resource collection strategies
Stable performance with low variance

🔬 Research Applications

This model serves as a strong baseline for:

Navigation research in complex 3D environments
Multi-objective optimization (survival + collection)
Transfer learning to related VizDoom scenarios
Curriculum learning progression studies

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Areas for improvement:

Hyperparameter optimization
Architecture modifications
Multi-agent scenarios
Domain randomization

📚 References

📝 Citation

@misc{vizdoom_health_gathering_supreme_2025,
  title={VizDoom Health Gathering Supreme APPO Agent},
  author={Adilbai},
  year={2025},
  publisher={Hugging Face},
  url={https://huggingface.co/Adilbai/rl_course_vizdoom_health_gathering_supreme}
}

📄 License

This model is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Note: This model was trained as part of a reinforcement learning course and demonstrates the effectiveness of modern RL algorithms on challenging 3D navigation tasks.

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