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+# PPO-Pyramids Unity ML-Agents Model
 
-  # **ppo** Agent playing **Pyramids**
-  This is a trained model of a **ppo** agent playing **Pyramids**
-  using the [Unity ML-Agents Library](https://github.com/Unity-Technologies/ml-agents).
+## Model Description
 
-  ## Usage (with ML-Agents)
-  The Documentation: https://unity-technologies.github.io/ml-agents/ML-Agents-Toolkit-Documentation/
+This model is a Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO) agent trained to navigate and solve the Pyramids environment from Unity ML-Agents. The Pyramids environment is a complex 3D navigation and puzzle-solving task where agents must learn to reach goals while avoiding obstacles and navigating through pyramid-like structures.
 
-  We wrote a complete tutorial to learn to train your first agent using ML-Agents and publish it to the Hub:
-  - A *short tutorial* where you teach Huggy the Dog 🐶 to fetch the stick and then play with him directly in your
-  browser: https://huggingface.co/learn/deep-rl-course/unitbonus1/introduction
-  - A *longer tutorial* to understand how works ML-Agents:
-  https://huggingface.co/learn/deep-rl-course/unit5/introduction
+## Model Details
 
-  ### Resume the training
+### Model Architecture
+- **Algorithm**: Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO)
+- **Framework**: Unity ML-Agents with PyTorch backend
+- **Policy Type**: Actor-Critic with shared feature extraction
+- **Network Architecture**:
+  - Hidden Units: 512 per layer
+  - Number of Layers: 2
+  - Activation: ReLU (default)
+  - Normalization: Disabled
+  - Visual Encoding: Simple CNN for visual observations
+
+### Environment: Pyramids
+
+The Pyramids environment is one of Unity ML-Agents' example environments featuring:
+- **Objective**: Navigate to randomly spawned goal locations
+- **Setting**: 3D pyramid-like structures with multiple levels and obstacles
+- **Complexity**: Multi-agent environment with navigation and spatial reasoning challenges
+- **Visual Component**: First-person or third-person visual observations
+
+## Training Configuration
+
+### PPO Hyperparameters
+```yaml
+batch_size: 128
+buffer_size: 2048
+learning_rate: 0.0003
+beta: 0.01                    # Entropy regularization
+epsilon: 0.2                  # PPO clipping parameter
+lambda: 0.95                  # GAE parameter
+num_epoch: 3                  # Training epochs per update
+learning_rate_schedule: linear
+```
+
+### Network Settings
+```yaml
+normalize: false              # Input normalization
+hidden_units: 512            # Units per hidden layer
+num_layers: 2                # Number of hidden layers
+vis_encode_type: simple      # Visual encoder type
+```
+
+### Reward Structure
+- **Extrinsic Rewards**:
+  - Gamma: 0.99 (discount factor)
+  - Strength: 1.0
+  - Sparse rewards for reaching goals
+  - Time penalties for efficiency
+
+- **Intrinsic Rewards (RND)**:
+  - Random Network Distillation for exploration
+  - Gamma: 0.99
+  - Strength: 0.01
+  - Separate network: 64 units, 3 layers
+  - Learning rate: 0.0001
+
+### Training Process
+- **Max Steps**: 1,000,000 training steps
+- **Time Horizon**: 128 steps per trajectory
+- **Checkpoints**: Keep 5 best models
+- **Summary Frequency**: Every 30,000 steps
+- **Training Time**: Approximately 4-8 hours on modern GPU
+
+## Observation Space
+
+The agent receives:
+- **Visual Observations**: RGB camera input (84x84x3 typically)
+- **Vector Observations**: Agent position, rotation, velocity
+- **Goal Information**: Relative goal position and distance
+- **Environmental Context**: Obstacle proximity, platform information
+
+## Action Space
+
+- **Action Type**: Continuous
+- **Action Dimensions**: 3-4 continuous values
+  - Forward/backward movement
+  - Left/right movement  
+  - Rotation (yaw)
+  - Optional: Jump action
+
+## Performance Metrics
+
+### Expected Performance
+- **Goal Reaching Success Rate**: 80-95%
+- **Average Episode Length**: Optimal path finding
+- **Training Convergence**: Stable improvement over 1M steps
+- **Exploration Efficiency**: Balanced exploration vs exploitation
+
+### Key Metrics Tracked
+- **Cumulative Reward**: Total reward per episode
+- **Success Rate**: Percentage of episodes reaching goal
+- **Episode Length**: Steps to complete episode
+- **Policy Entropy**: Measure of action diversity
+- **Value Function Accuracy**: Critic network performance
+
+## Technical Implementation
+
+### PPO Algorithm Features
+- **Policy Clipping**: Prevents destructive policy updates (ε=0.2)
+- **Generalized Advantage Estimation**: GAE with λ=0.95
+- **Entropy Regularization**: Encourages exploration (β=0.01)
+- **Value Function Learning**: Shared network with policy
+
+### Random Network Distillation (RND)
+- **Purpose**: Intrinsic motivation for exploration
+- **Implementation**: Separate predictor and target networks
+- **Benefit**: Encourages visiting novel states
+- **Balance**: Low strength (0.01) to avoid overwhelming extrinsic rewards
+
+### Unity ML-Agents Integration
+- **Training Interface**: Python mlagents-learn command
+- **Environment Communication**: Unity-Python API
+- **Parallel Training**: Multiple environment instances
+- **Real-time Monitoring**: TensorBoard integration
+
+## Files and Structure
+
+```
+├── Pyramids.onnx              # Trained policy network
+├── Pyramids/
+│   ├── checkpoint-{step}.onnx # Training checkpoints  
+│   ├── configuration.yaml     # Training configuration
+│   └── run_logs/             # Training metrics
+├── results/
+│   ├── training_summary.json # Training statistics
+│   └── tensorboard_logs/     # TensorBoard data
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+### Loading the Model
+```python
+from mlagents_envs import UnityEnvironment
+from mlagents_envs.side_channel.engine_configuration_channel import EngineConfigurationChannel
+
+# Load environment
+channel = EngineConfigurationChannel()
+env = UnityEnvironment(file_name="Pyramids", side_channels=[channel])
+
+# Model is loaded automatically when using mlagents-learn
+```
+
+### Training Command
+```bash
+mlagents-learn config.yaml --env=Pyramids --run-id=pyramids_run_01
+```
+### Resume the training
   ```bash
   mlagents-learn <your_configuration_file_path.yaml> --run-id=<run_id> --resume
-  ```
+  ```  
+### Inference
+```python
+# The trained model can be used directly in Unity builds
+# or through the ML-Agents Python API for evaluation
+```
+
+## Limitations and Considerations
+
+1. **Environment Specific**: Trained specifically for Pyramids environment layout
+2. **Visual Dependency**: Performance tied to visual observation quality
+3. **Exploration Balance**: RND parameters may need tuning for different scenarios
+4. **Computational Requirements**: Requires GPU for efficient training
+5. **Generalization**: May not transfer well to significantly different navigation tasks
+
+## Optimization Suggestions
+
+For improved performance, consider:
+- **Enable normalization**: `normalize: true`
+- **Increase network capacity**: `hidden_units: 768`
+- **Longer time horizon**: `time_horizon: 256`  
+- **Higher batch size**: `batch_size: 256`
+- **More training steps**: `max_steps: 2000000`
+
+## Applications
+
+- **Game AI**: Intelligent NPC navigation in 3D games
+- **Robotics Research**: Transfer learning for robot navigation
+- **Pathfinding**: Advanced pathfinding algorithm development
+- **Educational**: Demonstration of RL in complex 3D environments
+
+## Ethical Considerations
+
+This model represents a benign navigation task with no ethical concerns:
+- **Content**: Abstract geometric environment
+- **Purpose**: Educational and research applications
+- **Safety**: No real-world safety implications
 
-  ### Watch your Agent play
-  You can watch your agent **playing directly in your browser**
+## System Requirements
+
+### Training
+- **OS**: Windows 10+, macOS 10.14+, Ubuntu 18.04+
+- **GPU**: NVIDIA GPU with CUDA support (recommended)
+- **RAM**: 8GB minimum, 16GB recommended
+- **Storage**: 2GB for environment and model files
+
+### Dependencies
+```
+unity-ml-agents>=0.28.0
+torch>=1.8.0
+tensorboard
+numpy
+```
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use this model, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
+@misc{ppo-pyramids-2024,
+  title={PPO-Pyramids: Navigation Agent for Unity ML-Agents},
+  author={Adilbai},
+  year={2024},
+  publisher={Hugging Face Hub},
+  url={https://huggingface.co/Adilbai/ppo-pyramids}
+}
+```
+
+## References
+
+- Schulman, J., et al. (2017). Proximal Policy Optimization Algorithms. arXiv:1707.06347
+- Burda, Y., et al. (2018). Exploration by Random Network Distillation. arXiv:1810.12894
+- Unity Technologies. ML-Agents Toolkit Documentation
+- Juliani, A., et al. (2018). Unity: A General Platform for Intelligent Agents. arXiv:1809.02627
+
+## Training Logs and Monitoring
+
+Monitor training progress through:
+- **TensorBoard**: Real-time training metrics
+- **Console Output**: Episode rewards and statistics  
+- **Checkpoint Analysis**: Model performance over time
+- **Success Rate Tracking**: Goal completion percentage
+
+---
 
-  1. If the environment is part of ML-Agents official environments, go to https://huggingface.co/unity
-  2. Step 1: Find your model_id: Adilbai/Pyramids-RL-agent-ppo
-  3. Step 2: Select your *.nn /*.onnx file
-  4. Click on Watch the agent play 👀
-  
+*For optimal results, consider using the improved configuration with normalization enabled and increased network capacity. 🏗️🎯*