feat(eval): implement docker runtime with HTTP policy inference server

Add docker_runtime.py (host-side) and lerobot_eval_worker.py (container-side)
for --eval.runtime=docker. Policy loads once on the host GPU; Docker containers
run env-only workers that call back via HTTP for action chunks, maximising GPU
utilisation across parallel benchmark tasks.

- _InferenceServer: HTTP server wrapping predict_action_chunk with a single lock
- run_eval_in_docker: spawns instance_count containers, collects + merges per-task
  JSON, writes eval_info.json compatible with _aggregate_eval_from_per_task
- lerobot-eval-worker CLI: make_env → shard tasks → run episodes → write JSON
- EvalDockerConfig: add port field (default 50051)
- pyproject.toml: add lerobot-eval-worker entry point

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -247,6 +247,7 @@ lerobot-replay="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_replay:main"
lerobot-setup-motors="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_setup_motors:main"
lerobot-teleoperate="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_teleoperate:main"
lerobot-eval="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_eval:main"
lerobot-eval-worker="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_eval_worker:main"
lerobot-train="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_train:main"
lerobot-train-tokenizer="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_train_tokenizer:main"
lerobot-dataset-viz="lerobot.scripts.lerobot_dataset_viz:main"
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gpus: str | None = "all"
# Docker --shm-size value (increase when using larger eval.batch_size values).
shm_size: str = "8g"
# Port on which the host HTTP policy inference server listens.
port: int = 50051
@dataclass
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#!/usr/bin/env python
# Copyright 2025 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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"""Docker runtime for lerobot-eval.
The policy stays on the host GPU; gym environments run inside Docker containers.
Each container runs `lerobot-eval-worker`, which calls back to a host HTTP inference
server for action chunks.
Architecture:
host (GPU):
1. Load policy + preprocessors from EvalPipelineConfig.
2. Start HTTP policy-inference server (one lock — serialises GPU calls).
3. Spawn ``instance_count`` Docker containers (one per shard).
4. Wait; collect per-task JSON written to the mounted output volume.
5. Merge shards → aggregate → write eval_info.json.
container (CPU only):
1. make_env(cfg.env) → shard tasks by (instance_id, instance_count).
2. For each task: run n_episodes, POST obs to /predict_chunk, step env.
3. Write per-task JSON to /results/worker_{instance_id}.json.
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import logging
import pickle # nosec B403 — internal serialisation only
import platform
import subprocess # nosec B404
import sys
import threading
import time
from http.server import BaseHTTPRequestHandler, HTTPServer
from pathlib import Path
from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any
import numpy as np
import torch
from lerobot.envs.factory import make_env_pre_post_processors
from lerobot.policies.factory import make_policy, make_pre_post_processors
from lerobot.utils.utils import get_safe_torch_device
if TYPE_CHECKING:
from lerobot.configs.eval import EvalPipelineConfig
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# HTTP inference server (host side)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
class _PolicyInferenceHandler(BaseHTTPRequestHandler):
"""POST /predict_chunk → pickled numpy action chunk."""
server: _InferenceServer
def do_POST(self) -> None:
if self.path != "/predict_chunk":
self.send_error(404)
return
length = int(self.headers["Content-Length"])
body = self.rfile.read(length)
payload: dict = pickle.loads(body) # nosec B301
obs_t: dict = payload["obs_t"]
with self.server._lock:
chunk_np = self.server._predict(obs_t)
resp = pickle.dumps(chunk_np) # nosec B301
self.send_response(200)
self.send_header("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
self.send_header("Content-Length", str(len(resp)))
self.end_headers()
self.wfile.write(resp)
def log_message(self, fmt: str, *args: Any) -> None: # noqa: ANN401
pass # suppress per-request logs
class _InferenceServer(HTTPServer):
"""Wraps the loaded policy behind a trivial HTTP interface."""
def __init__(
self,
addr: tuple[str, int],
policy: Any,
env_preprocessor: Any,
preprocessor: Any,
postprocessor: Any,
) -> None:
super().__init__(addr, _PolicyInferenceHandler)
self._policy = policy
self._env_preprocessor = env_preprocessor
self._preprocessor = preprocessor
self._postprocessor = postprocessor
self._lock = threading.Lock()
self._device = torch.device(str(policy.config.device))
def _predict(self, obs_t: dict) -> np.ndarray:
"""Apply full preprocessing pipeline and return (T, A) numpy chunk."""
obs = self._env_preprocessor(obs_t)
obs = self._preprocessor(obs)
obs_gpu: dict = {k: v.to(self._device) if isinstance(v, torch.Tensor) else v for k, v in obs.items()}
with torch.no_grad():
chunk: torch.Tensor = self._policy.predict_action_chunk(obs_gpu) # (B, T, A)
# Postprocessor expects (B, A); apply it treating each timestep as a batch element.
# For linear transforms (unnormalize) this is identical to applying it to (B, T, A).
batch, n_steps, action_dim = chunk.shape
chunk_2d = chunk.reshape(batch * n_steps, action_dim) # (B*T, A)
chunk_2d = self._postprocessor(chunk_2d) # (B*T, A)
# Return only the first env's chunk — batch_size=1 per container.
return chunk_2d[:n_steps].cpu().numpy() # (T, A)
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Helpers
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def _get_host_ip() -> str:
"""Return the IP that containers can use to reach the host."""
if platform.system() in ("Darwin", "Windows"):
return "host.docker.internal"
return "172.17.0.1" # Linux Docker bridge default gateway
def _resolve_image(cfg: EvalPipelineConfig) -> str:
"""Return the Docker image name to use for the env containers."""
if cfg.eval.docker.image:
return cfg.eval.docker.image
return f"lerobot-benchmark-{cfg.env.type}"
def _env_argv() -> list[str]:
"""Extract --env.* args from sys.argv to forward verbatim to the worker."""
return [arg for arg in sys.argv[1:] if arg.startswith("--env.")]
def _spawn_container(
*,
image: str,
instance_id: int,
instance_count: int,
server_address: str,
n_episodes: int,
seed: int,
output_dir: Path,
docker_cfg: Any,
env_argv: list[str],
) -> subprocess.Popen:
output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
container_results = "/results"
cmd: list[str] = ["docker", "run", "--rm"]
if docker_cfg.gpus:
cmd += [f"--gpus={docker_cfg.gpus}"]
cmd += [f"--shm-size={docker_cfg.shm_size}"]
cmd += ["-v", f"{output_dir.resolve()}:{container_results}"]
# Allow containers on Linux to resolve host.docker.internal.
cmd += ["--add-host=host.docker.internal:host-gateway"]
cmd.append(image)
cmd += [
"lerobot-eval-worker",
*env_argv,
f"--server_address={server_address}",
f"--n_episodes={n_episodes}",
f"--seed={seed}",
f"--instance_id={instance_id}",
f"--instance_count={instance_count}",
f"--output_path={container_results}/worker_{instance_id}.json",
]
logger.info(
"Spawning container %d/%d: %s",
instance_id + 1,
instance_count,
" ".join(cmd),
)
return subprocess.Popen(cmd) # nosec B603 B607
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Public entry point
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
def run_eval_in_docker(cfg: EvalPipelineConfig) -> None:
"""Run eval with env in Docker containers and policy on the host GPU.
Writes ``eval_info.json`` to ``cfg.output_dir``. Called by
``lerobot_eval._run_eval_worker`` when ``eval.runtime == "docker"``.
"""
# Import here to avoid circular import at module level.
from lerobot.scripts.lerobot_eval import _aggregate_eval_from_per_task
start_t = time.time()
output_dir = Path(cfg.output_dir)
output_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
docker_cfg = cfg.eval.docker
# Optionally pull the image before starting.
image = _resolve_image(cfg)
if docker_cfg.pull:
logger.info("Pulling Docker image: %s", image)
subprocess.run(["docker", "pull", image], check=True) # nosec B603 B607
# ── Load policy + all preprocessors on the host GPU ──────────────────
device = get_safe_torch_device(cfg.policy.device, log=True)
torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = True
torch.backends.cuda.matmul.allow_tf32 = True
policy = make_policy(cfg=cfg.policy, env_cfg=cfg.env, rename_map=cfg.rename_map)
policy.eval()
preprocessor_overrides: dict = {
"device_processor": {"device": str(device)},
"rename_observations_processor": {"rename_map": cfg.rename_map},
}
preprocessor, postprocessor = make_pre_post_processors(
policy_cfg=cfg.policy,
pretrained_path=cfg.policy.pretrained_path,
preprocessor_overrides=preprocessor_overrides,
)
env_preprocessor, _env_postprocessor = make_env_pre_post_processors(
env_cfg=cfg.env,
policy_cfg=cfg.policy,
)
# ── Start HTTP inference server ───────────────────────────────────────
port = docker_cfg.port
server = _InferenceServer(
("0.0.0.0", port), # nosec B104 — only alive for the duration of eval
policy=policy,
env_preprocessor=env_preprocessor,
preprocessor=preprocessor,
postprocessor=postprocessor,
)
server_thread = threading.Thread(target=server.serve_forever, daemon=True)
server_thread.start()
logger.info("Policy inference server running on port %d", port)
host_ip = _get_host_ip()
server_address = f"{host_ip}:{port}"
instance_count = cfg.eval.instance_count
env_argv = _env_argv()
# ── Spawn containers ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
container_dirs: list[Path] = []
procs: list[subprocess.Popen] = []
try:
for i in range(instance_count):
shard_dir = output_dir / "shards" / str(i)
container_dirs.append(shard_dir)
proc = _spawn_container(
image=image,
instance_id=i,
instance_count=instance_count,
server_address=server_address,
n_episodes=cfg.eval.n_episodes,
seed=cfg.seed,
output_dir=shard_dir,
docker_cfg=docker_cfg,
env_argv=env_argv,
)
procs.append(proc)
failed: list[tuple[int, int]] = []
for i, proc in enumerate(procs):
rc = proc.wait()
if rc != 0:
failed.append((i, rc))
logger.error("Container %d/%d exited with code %d", i + 1, instance_count, rc)
if failed:
raise RuntimeError(f"Docker eval containers failed (instance_id, exit_code): {failed}")
finally:
server.shutdown()
# ── Collect and merge per-task results ───────────────────────────────
per_task: list[dict] = []
for i, shard_dir in enumerate(container_dirs):
result_file = shard_dir / f"worker_{i}.json"
with open(result_file) as f:
shard_data: dict = json.load(f)
per_task.extend(shard_data.get("per_task", []))
per_task.sort(key=lambda x: (x["task_group"], x["task_id"]))
info = _aggregate_eval_from_per_task(per_task, total_eval_s=time.time() - start_t)
with open(output_dir / "eval_info.json", "w") as f:
json.dump(info, f, indent=2)
logger.info("Docker eval complete. Results: %s/eval_info.json", output_dir)
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#!/usr/bin/env python
# Copyright 2025 The HuggingFace Inc. team. All rights reserved.
#
# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
# You may obtain a copy of the License at
#
# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
#
# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
# limitations under the License.
"""Docker eval worker — runs inside a benchmark container.
Runs gym episodes for a sharded subset of the configured env's tasks, calling
a remote HTTP policy inference server (running on the host GPU) for action chunks.
Usage (normally invoked by docker_runtime.run_eval_in_docker, not directly):
lerobot-eval-worker \\
--env.type=libero_plus \\
--server_address=host.docker.internal:50051 \\
--n_episodes=5 \\
--seed=1000 \\
--instance_id=0 \\
--instance_count=2 \\
--output_path=/results/worker_0.json
"""
from __future__ import annotations
import json
import logging
import pickle # nosec B403 — internal serialisation only
import urllib.request
from dataclasses import dataclass, field
from pathlib import Path
import numpy as np
from lerobot import envs # noqa: F401 — registers all env subclasses
from lerobot.configs import parser
from lerobot.envs.configs import EnvConfig
from lerobot.envs.factory import make_env
from lerobot.envs.utils import add_envs_task, preprocess_observation
from lerobot.utils.utils import init_logging
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
@dataclass
class EvalWorkerConfig:
env: EnvConfig
# Address of the policy inference HTTP server on the host.
server_address: str = "host.docker.internal:50051"
# Number of episodes to run per task.
n_episodes: int = 1
# Starting random seed; episode i of a task uses seed + i.
seed: int = 0
# 0-indexed shard id for this worker.
instance_id: int = 0
# Total number of shards (workers).
instance_count: int = 1
# Path (inside the container) to write the JSON per-task results.
output_path: Path = field(default_factory=lambda: Path("/results/worker.json"))
# Timeout in seconds for each HTTP request to the policy server.
server_timeout: float = 120.0
def _call_server(server_address: str, obs_t: dict, timeout: float) -> np.ndarray:
"""POST pickled obs to /predict_chunk, return numpy chunk (T, action_dim)."""
body = pickle.dumps({"obs_t": obs_t}) # nosec B301
req = urllib.request.Request(
f"http://{server_address}/predict_chunk",
data=body,
method="POST",
headers={"Content-Type": "application/octet-stream"},
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req, timeout=timeout) as resp: # nosec B310
return pickle.loads(resp.read()) # nosec B301
def run_worker(cfg: EvalWorkerConfig) -> dict:
"""Run cfg.n_episodes episodes per assigned task. Returns per-task results dict."""
# Build envs: {task_group: {task_id: vec_env}}
envs_dict = make_env(cfg.env, n_envs=1)
# Flatten to list of (task_group, task_id, env)
tasks = [
(task_group, task_id, vec)
for task_group, group in envs_dict.items()
for task_id, vec in group.items()
]
# Shard: this worker handles tasks where index % instance_count == instance_id
if cfg.instance_count > 1:
total = len(tasks)
tasks = [t for idx, t in enumerate(tasks) if idx % cfg.instance_count == cfg.instance_id]
logger.info(
"Shard %d/%d: %d/%d tasks assigned.",
cfg.instance_id + 1,
cfg.instance_count,
len(tasks),
total,
)
per_task: list[dict] = []
for task_group, task_id, env in tasks:
sum_rewards: list[float] = []
max_rewards: list[float] = []
successes: list[bool] = []
for ep_idx in range(cfg.n_episodes):
obs, _info = env.reset(seed=[cfg.seed + ep_idx])
obs_t = preprocess_observation(obs)
obs_t = add_envs_task(env, obs_t)
action_buffer: list[np.ndarray] = [] # each element: (1, action_dim)
ep_rewards: list[float] = []
ep_success = False
done = np.zeros(1, dtype=bool)
while not np.all(done):
if not action_buffer:
chunk_np = _call_server(cfg.server_address, obs_t, cfg.server_timeout)
# chunk_np: (T, action_dim) — split into per-step slices of shape (1, action_dim)
action_buffer = [chunk_np[i : i + 1] for i in range(chunk_np.shape[0])]
action_np = action_buffer.pop(0) # (1, action_dim)
obs, reward, terminated, truncated, info = env.step(action_np)
done = terminated | truncated | done
ep_rewards.append(float(np.mean(reward)))
if "final_info" in info:
final_info = info["final_info"]
if isinstance(final_info, dict) and "is_success" in final_info:
ep_success = bool(final_info["is_success"][0])
if not np.all(done):
obs_t = preprocess_observation(obs)
obs_t = add_envs_task(env, obs_t)
sum_rewards.append(float(np.sum(ep_rewards)))
max_rewards.append(float(np.max(ep_rewards)) if ep_rewards else 0.0)
successes.append(ep_success)
logger.info(
"Task %s[%d] ep %d/%d — success=%s",
task_group,
task_id,
ep_idx + 1,
cfg.n_episodes,
ep_success,
)
per_task.append(
{
"task_group": task_group,
"task_id": task_id,
"metrics": {
"sum_rewards": sum_rewards,
"max_rewards": max_rewards,
"successes": successes,
"video_paths": [],
},
}
)
env.close()
return {"per_task": per_task}
def worker_main(cfg: EvalWorkerConfig) -> None:
results = run_worker(cfg)
output = Path(cfg.output_path)
output.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
output.write_text(json.dumps(results, indent=2))
logger.info("Worker %d wrote results to %s", cfg.instance_id, output)
def main() -> None:
init_logging()
cfg = parser.parse(EvalWorkerConfig)
worker_main(cfg)
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()