• Hierarchical Intrinsically Motivated Agent - HIMA
  • The Repository
  • Hierarchical Intrinsically Motivated Agent
  • Links
  • Quick install
  • Repository structure
  • Run examples
    • How to run HIMA agent
    • Run one experiment
    • Run Sweep
  • Cite us
  • License

This repository ("Hierarchical Intrinsically Motivated Agent - HIMA") is where we (AIRI and MIPT) publicate the source code of the HIMA model. This source code is available to everyone under AGPLv3 license.

The Hierarchical Intrinsically Motivated Agent (HIMA) is an algorithm that is intended to exhibit an adaptive goal-directed behavior using neurophysiological models of the neocortex, basal ganglia, and thalamus:

• The neocortex model is used to form hierarchical internal representations of raw sensory input and a model of the environment.
• The basal ganglia model provides an association of internal representations projected from the neocortex with rewarding signals and selects appropriate actions via thalamocortical loops.
• The Dreaming component models circuits of the brain responsible for the initiation of planning via the model of the environment in the neocortex, improving the learning speed.
• The Empowerment module is in charge of producing intrinsic motivation signal utilizing the environmental model learned by the neocortex to guide exploration to the most promising states first.

A detailed description of HIMA model is provided in the supporting paper.

• Supporting paper
• Contributors guide
• Introductory materials

There're two setup guides:

• quick & short version is here below.
• extended version.

Before cloning the repository, make sure Git LFS is installed (see help). Then:

# create new env with the required packages via conda, then activate it
conda create --name hima python=3.9 numpy matplotlib jupyterlab ruamel.yaml tqdm wandb mock imageio seaborn
conda activate hima

# install with pip the packages that cannot be installed with conda
pip install hexy prettytable "pytest>=4.6.5"

# git clone our `htm.core` fork to an arbitrary place and pip install it from sources
# pip will install missing dependencies to the current environment if needed
cd <where to clone>
git clone https://github.com/ZhekaHauska/htm.core.git
cd htm.core
pip install .

#  cd to the hima subdirectory in the project root and install hima package
cd <hima_project_root>
pip install -e .

• hima/ - HIMA package sources

Sign up to wandb and get access token in your profile settings to authorize locally further on.

# cd to the package sources root
cd <hima_project_root>/hima

# cd to the hima experiments directory
cd experiments/hima/scripts

# replace <config name> with the config filename without extension
python run_agent.py <environment>/<config_name>

Do not forget to change entity parameter in the corresponding config file to match your wandb login. When wandb asks you to login for the first time, use your access token obtained earlier.

Wandb sweep runs series of experiments with different seeds and parameters.

# cd to the package sources root
cd <hima_project_root>/hima

# cd to the hima experiments directory
cd experiments/hima

# replace <sweep config name> with the sweep config filename without extension
wandb sweep sweep/<sweep config name>

# replace <sweep id> with the returned id
python scripts/run_agents.py -n n_processes -c "wandb agent <sweep id>"

If you use this repository in your research or wish to cite it, please make a reference to this piece of software:

@software{petr_kuderov_2022_7133430,
  author       = {Petr Kuderov and
                  Evgenij Dzhivelikyan and
                  Artem Latyshev and
                  Aleksandr I. Panov},
  title        = {{AIRI-Institute/him-agent: Hierarchical 
                   Intrinsically Motivated Agent Planning Behavior
                   with Dreaming in Grid Environments}},
  month        = mar,
  year         = 2022,
  publisher    = {Zenodo},
  version      = {v3.2-hima-airi},
  doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.7133430},
  url          = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7133430}
}

or to the supporting paper:

@article{Dzhivelikian_Latyshev_Kuderov_Panov_2022,
  title        = {Hierarchical intrinsically motivated agent planning behavior with dreaming in grid environments},
  volume       = {9},
  rights       = {All rights reserved},
  issn         = {2198-4026},
  doi          = {10.1186/s40708-022-00156-6},
  number       = {1},
  journal      = {Brain Informatics},
  author       = {Dzhivelikian, Evgenii and Latyshev, Artem and Kuderov, Petr and Panov, Aleksandr I.},
  year         = {2022},
  month        = {Apr},
  pages        = {8},

© 2022 Autonomous Non-Profit Organization "Artificial Intelligence Research Institute" (AIRI); Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University). All rights reserved.

Licensed under the AGPLv3 license.