[RLlib] Add off-policy'ness metric to new API stack. #48227
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Add off-policy'ness metric to new API stack.
The old stack has a convenient metric measuring how many policy updates the sampling/behavior policy is behind the actually trained one. For algorithms like APPO and IMPALA, this metrics is crucial for understanding learning deficiencies and its values should be as close to 1 as possible (1 update behind).
The metric can be found in the result dict under (analogous to the old API stack's metric):
learners/[module_id]/diff_num_grad_updates_vs_sampler_policy
Why are these changes needed?
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git commit -s
) in this PR.scripts/format.sh
to lint the changes in this PR.method in Tune, I've added it in
doc/source/tune/api/
under thecorresponding
.rst
file.