ribs.archives.ArchiveBase¶

class ribs.archives.ArchiveBase(*, solution_dim, cells, measure_dim, learning_rate=None, threshold_min=-inf, qd_score_offset=0.0, seed=None, dtype=<class 'numpy.float64'>, extra_fields=None)[source]¶

Base class for archives.

This class composes archives using an ArrayStore that has “solution”, “objective”, “measures”, and “threshold” fields.

Child classes typically override the following methods:

__init__: Child classes must invoke this class’s __init__ with the appropriate arguments.
index_of(): Returns integer indices into the arrays above when given a batch of measures. Usually, each index has a meaning, e.g. in CVTArchive it is the index of a centroid. Documentation for this method should describe the meaning of the index.

Note

Attributes beginning with an underscore are only intended to be accessed by child classes (i.e. they are “protected” attributes).

Note

The idea of archive thresholds was introduced in Fontaine 2022. Refer to our CMA-MAE tutorial for more info on thresholds, including the learning_rate and threshold_min parameters.

Parameters

solution_dim (int) – Dimension of the solution space.
cells (int) – Number of cells in the archive. This is used to create the numpy arrays described above for storing archive info.
measure_dim (int) – The dimension of the measure space.
learning_rate (float) – The learning rate for threshold updates. Defaults to 1.0.
threshold_min (float) – The initial threshold value for all the cells.
qd_score_offset (float) – Archives often contain negative objective values, and if the QD score were to be computed with these negative objectives, the algorithm would be penalized for adding new cells with negative objectives. Thus, a standard practice is to normalize all the objectives so that they are non-negative by introducing an offset. This QD score offset will be subtracted from all objectives in the archive, e.g., if your objectives go as low as -300, pass in -300 so that each objective will be transformed as objective - (-300).
seed (int) – Value to seed the random number generator. Set to None to avoid a fixed seed.
dtype (str or data-type) – Data type of the solutions, objectives, and measures. We only support "f" / np.float32 and "d" / np.float64.
extra_fields (dict) – Description of extra fields of data that is stored next to elite data like solutions and objectives. The description is a dict mapping from a field name (str) to a tuple of (shape, dtype). For instance, {"foo": ((), np.float32), "bar": ((10,), np.float32)} will create a “foo” field that contains scalar values and a “bar” field that contains 10D values. Note that field names must be valid Python identifiers, and names already used in the archive are not allowed.

Variables

_rng (numpy.random.Generator) – Random number generator, used in particular for generating random elites.
_store (ribs.archives.ArrayStore) – The underlying ArrayStore containing data for the archive.

Raises

ValueError – Invalid values for learning_rate and threshold_min.
ValueError – Invalid names in extra_fields.

Methods

`__iter__`()	Creates an iterator over the elites in the archive.
`__len__`()	Number of elites in the archive.
`add`(solution, objective, measures, **fields)	Inserts a batch of solutions into the archive.
`add_single`(solution, objective, measures, ...)	Inserts a single solution into the archive.
`as_pandas`([include_solutions, include_metadata])	DEPRECATED.
`clear`()	Removes all elites from the archive.
`cqd_score`(iterations, target_points, ...[, ...])	Computes the CQD score of the archive.
`data`([fields, return_type])	Retrieves data for all elites in the archive.
`index_of`(measures)	Returns archive indices for the given batch of measures.
`index_of_single`(measures)	Returns the index of the measures for one solution.
`retrieve`(measures)	Retrieves the elites with measures in the same cells as the measures specified.
`retrieve_single`(measures)	Retrieves the elite with measures in the same cell as the measures specified.
`sample_elites`(n)	Randomly samples elites from the archive.

Attributes

`best_elite`	The elite with the highest objective in the archive.
`cells`	Total number of cells in the archive.
`dtype`	The dtype of the solutions, objective, and measures.
`empty`	Whether the archive is empty.
`field_list`	List of data fields in the archive.
`learning_rate`	The learning rate for threshold updates.
`measure_dim`	Dimensionality of the measure space.
`qd_score_offset`	The offset which is subtracted from objective values when computing the QD score.
`solution_dim`	Dimensionality of the solutions in the archive.
`stats`	Statistics about the archive.
`threshold_min`	The initial threshold value for all the cells.

__iter__()[source]¶

Creates an iterator over the elites in the archive.

Example

for elite in archive:
    elite["solution"]
    elite["objective"]
    ...

__len__()[source]¶: Number of elites in the archive.

add(solution, objective, measures, **fields)[source]¶

Inserts a batch of solutions into the archive.

Each solution is only inserted if it has a higher objective than the threshold of the corresponding cell. For the default values of learning_rate and threshold_min, this threshold is simply the objective value of the elite previously in the cell. If multiple solutions in the batch end up in the same cell, we only insert the solution with the highest objective. If multiple solutions end up in the same cell and tie for the highest objective, we insert the solution that appears first in the batch.

For the default values of learning_rate and threshold_min, the threshold for each cell is updated by taking the maximum objective value among all the solutions that landed in the cell, resulting in the same behavior as in the vanilla MAP-Elites archive. However, for other settings, the threshold is updated with the batch update rule described in the appendix of Fontaine 2022.

Note

The indices of all arguments should “correspond” to each other, i.e. solution[i], objective[i], measures[i], and should be the solution parameters, objective, and measures for solution i.

Parameters

solution (array-like) – (batch_size, solution_dim) array of solution parameters.
objective (array-like) – (batch_size,) array with objective function evaluations of the solutions.
measures (array-like) – (batch_size, measure_dim) array with measure space coordinates of all the solutions.
fields (keyword arguments) – Additional data for each solution. Each argument should be an array with batch_size as the first dimension.

Returns

Information describing the result of the add operation. The dict contains the following keys:

"status" (numpy.ndarray of int): An array of integers that represent the “status” obtained when attempting to insert each solution in the batch. Each item has the following possible values:
- 0: The solution was not added to the archive.
- 1: The solution improved the objective value of a cell which was already in the archive.
- 2: The solution discovered a new cell in the archive.
All statuses (and values, below) are computed with respect to the current archive. For example, if two solutions both introduce the same new archive cell, then both will be marked with 2.

The alternative is to depend on the order of the solutions in the batch – for example, if we have two solutions a and b which introduce the same new cell in the archive, a could be inserted first with status 2, and b could be inserted second with status 1 because it improves upon a. However, our implementation does not do this.

To convert statuses to a more semantic format, cast all statuses to AddStatus e.g. with [AddStatus(s) for s in add_info["status"]].
"value" (numpy.ndarray of dtype): An array with values for each solution in the batch. With the default values of learning_rate = 1.0 and threshold_min = -np.inf, the meaning of each value depends on the corresponding status and is identical to that in CMA-ME (Fontaine 2020):
- 0 (not added): The value is the “negative improvement,” i.e. the objective of the solution passed in minus the objective of the elite still in the archive (this value is negative because the solution did not have a high enough objective to be added to the archive).
- 1 (improve existing cell): The value is the “improvement,” i.e. the objective of the solution passed in minus the objective of the elite previously in the archive.
- 2 (new cell): The value is just the objective of the solution.
In contrast, for other values of learning_rate and threshold_min, each value is equivalent to the objective value of the solution minus the threshold of its corresponding cell in the archive.

Return type

dict

Raises

ValueError – The array arguments do not match their specified shapes.
ValueError – objective or measures has non-finite values (inf or NaN).

add_single(solution, objective, measures, **fields)[source]¶

Inserts a single solution into the archive.

The solution is only inserted if it has a higher objective than the threshold of the corresponding cell. For the default values of learning_rate and threshold_min, this threshold is simply the objective value of the elite previously in the cell. The threshold is also updated if the solution was inserted.

Note

To make it more amenable to modifications, this method’s implementation is designed to be readable at the cost of performance, e.g., none of its operations are modified. If you need performance, we recommend using add().

Parameters

solution (array-like) – Parameters of the solution.
objective (float) – Objective function evaluation of the solution.
measures (array-like) – Coordinates in measure space of the solution.
fields (keyword arguments) – Additional data for the solution.

Returns

Information describing the result of the add operation. The dict contains status and value keys; refer to add() for the meaning of status and value.

Return type

dict

Raises

ValueError – The array arguments do not match their specified shapes.
ValueError – objective is non-finite (inf or NaN) or measures has non-finite values.

as_pandas(include_solutions=True, include_metadata=False)[source]¶: DEPRECATED.

clear()[source]¶

Removes all elites from the archive.

After this method is called, the archive will be empty.

cqd_score(iterations, target_points, penalties, obj_min, obj_max, dist_max=None, dist_ord=None)[source]¶

Computes the CQD score of the archive.

The Continuous Quality Diversity (CQD) score was introduced in Kent 2022.

Note

This method by default assumes that the archive has an upper_bounds and lower_bounds property which delineate the bounds of the measure space, as is the case in GridArchive, CVTArchive, and SlidingBoundariesArchive. If this is not the case, dist_max must be passed in, and target_points must be an array of custom points.

Parameters

iterations (int) – Number of times to compute the CQD score. We return the mean CQD score across these iterations.
target_points (int or array-like) – Number of target points to generate, or an (iterations, n, measure_dim) array which lists n target points to list on each iteration. When an int is passed, the points are sampled uniformly within the bounds of the measure space.
penalties (int or array-like) – Number of penalty values over which to compute the score (the values are distributed evenly over the range [0,1]). Alternatively, this may be a 1D array which explicitly lists the penalty values. Known as \(\theta\) in Kent 2022.
obj_min (float) – Minimum objective value, used when normalizing the objectives.
obj_max (float) – Maximum objective value, used when normalizing the objectives.
dist_max (float) – Maximum distance between points in measure space. Defaults to the distance between the extremes of the measure space bounds (the type of distance is computed with the order specified by dist_ord). Known as \(\delta_{max}\) in Kent 2022.
dist_ord – Order of the norm to use for calculating measure space distance; this is passed to numpy.linalg.norm() as the ord argument. See numpy.linalg.norm() for possible values. The default is to use Euclidean distance (L2 norm).

Returns

The mean CQD score obtained with iterations rounds of calculations.

Raises

RuntimeError – The archive does not have the bounds properties mentioned above, and dist_max is not specified or the target points are not provided.
ValueError – target_points or penalties is an array with the wrong shape.

data(fields=None, return_type='dict')[source]¶

Retrieves data for all elites in the archive.

Parameters

fields (str or array-like of str) – List of fields to include. By default, all fields will be included, with an additional “index” as the last field (“index” can also be placed anywhere in this list). This can also be a single str indicating a field name.
return_type (str) – Type of data to return. See below. Ignored if fields is a str.

Returns

The data for all entries in the archive. If fields was a single str, this will just be an array holding data for the given field. Otherwise, this data can take the following forms, depending on the return_type argument:

return_type="dict": Dict mapping from the field name to the field data at the given indices. An example is:
```
{
  "solution": [[1.0, 1.0, ...], ...],
  "objective": [1.5, ...],
  "measures": [[1.0, 2.0], ...],
  "threshold": [0.8, ...],
  "index": [4, ...],
}
```
Observe that we also return the indices as an index entry in the dict. The keys in this dict can be modified with the fields arg; duplicate fields will be ignored since the dict stores unique keys.
return_type="tuple": Tuple of arrays matching the field order given in fields. For instance, if fields was ["objective", "measures"], we would receive a tuple of (objective_arr, measures_arr). In this case, the results from retrieve could be unpacked as:
```
objective, measures = archive.data(["objective", "measures"],
                                   return_type="tuple")
```
Unlike with the dict return type, duplicate fields will show up as duplicate entries in the tuple, e.g., fields=["objective", "objective"] will result in two objective arrays being returned.

By default, (i.e., when fields=None), the fields in the tuple will be ordered according to the field_list along with index as the last field.
return_type="pandas": A ArchiveDataFrame with the following columns:
- For fields that are scalars, a single column with the field name. For example, objective would have a single column called objective.
- For fields that are 1D arrays, multiple columns with the name suffixed by its index. For instance, if we have a measures field of length 10, we create 10 columns with names measures_0, measures_1, …, measures_9. We do not currently support fields with >1D data.
- 1 column of integers (np.int32) for the index, named index.
In short, the dataframe might look like this by default:

solution_0

…

objective

measures_0

…

threshold

index

…

…

Like the other return types, the columns can be adjusted with the fields parameter.

All data returned by this method will be a copy, i.e., the data will not update as the archive changes.

abstract index_of(measures)[source]¶

Returns archive indices for the given batch of measures.

If you need to retrieve the index of the measures for a single solution, consider using index_of_single().

Parameters: measures (array-like) – (batch_size, measure_dim) array of coordinates in measure space.
Returns: (batch_size,) array with the indices of the batch of measures in the archive’s storage arrays.
Return type: (numpy.ndarray)

index_of_single(measures)[source]¶

Returns the index of the measures for one solution.

While index_of() takes in a batch of measures, this method takes in the measures for only one solution. If index_of() is implemented correctly, this method should work immediately (i.e. “out of the box”).

Parameters

measures (array-like) – (measure_dim,) array of measures for a single solution.

Returns

Integer index of the measures in the archive’s storage arrays.

Return type

int or numpy.integer

Raises

ValueError – measures is not of shape (measure_dim,).
ValueError – measures has non-finite values (inf or NaN).

retrieve(measures)[source]¶

Retrieves the elites with measures in the same cells as the measures specified.

This method operates in batch, i.e., it takes in a batch of measures and outputs the batched data for the elites:

occupied, elites = archive.retrieve(...)
elites["solution"]  # Shape: (batch_size, solution_dim)
elites["objective"]
elites["measures"]
elites["threshold"]
elites["index"]

If the cell associated with elites["measures"][i] has an elite in it, then occupied[i] will be True. Furthermore, elites["solution"][i], elites["objective"][i], elites["measures"][i], elites["threshold"][i], and elites["index"][i] will be set to the properties of the elite. Note that elites["measures"][i] may not be equal to the measures[i] passed as an argument, since the measures only need to be in the same archive cell.

If the cell associated with measures[i] does not have any elite in it, then occupied[i] will be set to False. Furthermore, the corresponding outputs will be set to empty values – namely:

NaN for floating-point fields
-1 for the “index” field
0 for integer fields
None for object fields

If you need to retrieve a single elite associated with some measures, consider using retrieve_single().

Parameters

measures (array-like) – (batch_size, measure_dim) array of coordinates in measure space.

Returns

2-element tuple of (occupied array, dict). The occupied array indicates whether each of the cells indicated by the coordinates in measures has an elite, while the dict contains the data of those elites. The dict maps from field name to the corresponding array.

Return type

tuple

Raises

ValueError – measures is not of shape (batch_size, measure_dim).
ValueError – measures has non-finite values (inf or NaN).

retrieve_single(measures)[source]¶

Retrieves the elite with measures in the same cell as the measures specified.

While retrieve() takes in a batch of measures, this method takes in the measures for only one solution and returns a single bool and a dict with single entries.

Parameters

measures (array-like) – (measure_dim,) array of measures.

Returns

If there is an elite with measures in the same cell as the measures specified, then this method returns a True value and a dict where all the fields hold the info of the elite. Otherwise, this method returns a False value and a dict filled with the same “empty” values described in retrieve().

Return type

tuple

Raises

ValueError – measures is not of shape (measure_dim,).
ValueError – measures has non-finite values (inf or NaN).

sample_elites(n)[source]¶

Randomly samples elites from the archive.

Currently, this sampling is done uniformly at random. Furthermore, each sample is done independently, so elites may be repeated in the sample. Additional sampling methods may be supported in the future.

Example

elites = archive.sample_elites(16)
elites["solution"]  # Shape: (16, solution_dim)
elites["objective"]
...

Parameters: n (int) – Number of elites to sample.
Returns: Holds a batch of elites randomly selected from the archive.
Return type: dict
Raises: IndexError – The archive is empty.

property best_elite¶

The elite with the highest objective in the archive.

None if there are no elites in the archive.

Note

If the archive is non-elitist (this occurs when using the archive with a learning rate which is not 1.0, as in CMA-MAE), then this best elite may no longer exist in the archive because it was replaced with an elite with a lower objective value. This can happen because in non-elitist archives, new solutions only need to exceed the threshold of the cell they are being inserted into, not the objective of the elite currently in the cell. See #314 for more info.

Note

The best elite will contain a “threshold” key. This threshold is the threshold of the best elite’s cell after the best elite was inserted into the archive.

Type: dict

property cells¶

Total number of cells in the archive.

Type: int

property dtype¶

The dtype of the solutions, objective, and measures.

Type: data-type

property empty¶

Whether the archive is empty.

Type: bool

property field_list¶

List of data fields in the archive.

Type: list

property learning_rate¶

The learning rate for threshold updates.

Type: float

property measure_dim¶

Dimensionality of the measure space.

Type: int

property qd_score_offset¶

The offset which is subtracted from objective values when computing the QD score.

Type: float

property solution_dim¶

Dimensionality of the solutions in the archive.

Type: int

property stats¶

Statistics about the archive.

See ArchiveStats for more info.

Type: ArchiveStats

property threshold_min¶

The initial threshold value for all the cells.

Type: float