"""Example of plugging a custom EMA Stats class into the MetricsLogger via ``AlgorithmConfig.reporting(custom_stats_cls_lookup=...)``. RLlib aggregates metrics through Stats objects (see :py:class:`~ray.rllib.utils.metrics.stats.base.StatsBase`). A ``reduce=...`` keyword (e.g. ``"ema"``, ``"mean"``) maps to a Stats class via :py:data:`~ray.rllib.utils.metrics.metrics_logger.DEFAULT_STATS_CLS_LOOKUP`. By passing your own dictionary to ``AlgorithmConfig.reporting(custom_stats_cls_lookup=...)`` you can either add a new key (referenced via ``log_value(..., reduce="")``) or replace an existing key to change RLlib's default reduction behaviour for all metrics that internally use that reduction. This example replaces the default ``"ema"`` key with ``ClearingEmaStats``, a subclass of :py:class:`~ray.rllib.utils.metrics.stats.ema.EmaStats` that resets its running value to ``NaN`` after every ``reduce()`` call. The default ``EmaStats`` carries the running value forward across reduces so a metric smoothly tracks across training iterations; ``ClearingEmaStats`` instead restarts each iteration's EMA from scratch. This reproduces the short-lived behaviour from Ray 2.53/2.54 and is useful when you want each reported value to reflect only the data observed within a single iteration. Because RLlib's internal timers (and other ``reduce="ema"`` metrics) go through the lookup, swapping the key is enough -- no per-metric plumbing required. ``VerifyClearingEmaCallback`` is attached purely as a sanity check: every ``on_train_result`` it asserts that RLlib's built-in training-iteration timer is now an instance of ``ClearingEmaStats`` and that its internal ``_value`` was reset to ``NaN`` by the reduce that just happened. How to run this script ---------------------- ``python clearing_ema.py --stop-iters=3`` For debugging: ``python clearing_ema.py --no-tune --num-env-runners=0 --stop-iters=3`` """ import math import numpy as np from ray.rllib.callbacks.callbacks import RLlibCallback from ray.rllib.examples.utils import ( add_rllib_example_script_args, run_rllib_example_script_experiment, ) from ray.rllib.utils.metrics import TIMERS, TRAINING_ITERATION_TIMER from ray.rllib.utils.metrics.metrics_logger import DEFAULT_STATS_CLS_LOOKUP from ray.rllib.utils.metrics.stats.ema import EmaStats from ray.tune.registry import get_trainable_cls class ClearingEmaStats(EmaStats): def reduce(self, compile: bool = True): result = super().reduce(compile=compile) self._value = np.nan return result class VerifyClearingEmaCallback(RLlibCallback): def on_train_result(self, *, algorithm, metrics_logger, result, **kwargs) -> None: timer_stats = metrics_logger.stats[TIMERS][TRAINING_ITERATION_TIMER] # Only check that our value was cleared assert math.isnan(timer_stats._value) parser = add_rllib_example_script_args(default_reward=50.0, default_iters=5) if __name__ == "__main__": args = parser.parse_args() # Override the default "ema" key in the lookup. Every metric RLlib logs # with `reduce="ema"` (e.g. all of its built-in timers) will now use # `ClearingEmaStats`. custom_stats_lookup = {**DEFAULT_STATS_CLS_LOOKUP, "ema": ClearingEmaStats} base_config = ( get_trainable_cls(args.algo) .get_default_config() .environment("CartPole-v1") .reporting(custom_stats_cls_lookup=custom_stats_lookup) .callbacks(VerifyClearingEmaCallback) ) run_rllib_example_script_experiment(base_config, args)