feat: add TRL GRPOTrainer rollout_func for WAA environments (#127)

make_waa_rollout_func() wraps WAADesktopEnv into TRL's experimental
rollout_func API. Handles VLM multimodal generation (screenshot →
action tokens), dense rewards via milestones, and action JSON
parsing with thinking-token tolerance.

Includes parse_action_json() that handles common VLM quirks
(markdown fences, thinking prefixes, unknown action types).

15 tests passing (10 parser + 5 integration with mock adapter).

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: abrichr

openadapt_evals/training/__init__.py

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+"""TRL GRPOTrainer rollout function for WAA desktop environments.
+
+Wraps WAADesktopEnv into TRL's experimental ``rollout_func`` API, enabling
+GRPO training of VLM agents against live (or mock) Windows VMs.
+
+The rollout_func receives prompts (task instructions) from the trainer,
+runs multi-step episodes against the environment, collects action tokens
+and logprobs, computes dense rewards via milestones, and returns everything
+in the format TRL expects.
+
+Usage with TRL:
+    from trl import GRPOConfig, GRPOTrainer
+    from openadapt_evals.training.trl_rollout import make_waa_rollout_func
+
+    rollout_func = make_waa_rollout_func(
+        adapter=WAALiveAdapter(WAALiveConfig(server_url="http://localhost:5001")),
+        task_configs=TaskConfig.from_dir("./tasks/"),
+        max_steps=15,
+    )
+
+    trainer = GRPOTrainer(
+        model=model,
+        processing_class=processor,
+        args=GRPOConfig(...),
+        train_dataset=dataset,
+        rollout_func=rollout_func,
+    )
+    trainer.train()
+
+Usage with mock adapter (no VM):
+    from openadapt_evals.training.trl_rollout import make_waa_rollout_func
+    from openadapt_evals.adapters.waa.mock import WAAMockAdapter
+
+    rollout_func = make_waa_rollout_func(
+        adapter=WAAMockAdapter(),
+        task_configs=task_configs,
+    )
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import io
+import json
+import logging
+import re
+from typing import Any, Callable
+
+from openadapt_evals.adapters.base import BenchmarkAction, BenchmarkObservation
+from openadapt_evals.adapters.rl_env import RLEnvironment, ResetConfig
+
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+# System prompt matching openadapt-ml's agent format
+SYSTEM_PROMPT = (
+    "You are a desktop automation agent. Given a screenshot and task instruction, "
+    "output the next action as JSON: "
+    '{"type": "click"|"type"|"key"|"scroll"|"done", '
+    '"x": 0.0-1.0, "y": 0.0-1.0, "text": "...", "key": "..."}'
+)
+
+
+def parse_action_json(text: str) -> BenchmarkAction:
+    """Parse a VLM output string into a BenchmarkAction.
+
+    Handles common VLM quirks: thinking tokens before JSON, markdown
+    code fences, extra text after JSON.
+
+    Args:
+        text: Raw VLM output text.
+
+    Returns:
+        BenchmarkAction parsed from the JSON.
+    """
+    # Strip thinking tokens / markdown
+    text = text.strip()
+    text = re.sub(r"```json\s*", "", text)
+    text = re.sub(r"```\s*$", "", text)
+
+    # Find the first JSON object
+    match = re.search(r"\{[^{}]*\}", text)
+    if not match:
+        logger.warning("No JSON found in VLM output: %s", text[:100])
+        return BenchmarkAction(type="done")
+
+    try:
+        data = json.loads(match.group())
+    except json.JSONDecodeError:
+        logger.warning("Invalid JSON in VLM output: %s", match.group()[:100])
+        return BenchmarkAction(type="done")
+
+    action_type = data.get("type", "done")
+    if action_type not in ("click", "type", "key", "scroll", "done", "noop"):
+        logger.warning("Unknown action type '%s', treating as done", action_type)
+        action_type = "done"
+
+    return BenchmarkAction(
+        type=action_type,
+        x=data.get("x"),
+        y=data.get("y"),
+        text=data.get("text"),
+        key=data.get("key"),
+    )
+
+
+def _run_episode(
+    env: RLEnvironment,
+    generate_fn: Callable[[bytes, str], tuple[str, list[int], list[float]]],
+    task_instruction: str,
+    task_id: str,
+    max_steps: int,
+) -> tuple[list[int], list[int], list[float], float]:
+    """Run a single episode and return token-level data + reward.
+
+    Args:
+        env: The RL environment (already has task_config loaded).
+        generate_fn: Function(screenshot_bytes, instruction) -> (text, token_ids, logprobs).
+        task_instruction: Natural language task description.
+        task_id: Task ID for reset.
+        max_steps: Maximum steps per episode.
+
+    Returns:
+        Tuple of (prompt_ids, completion_ids, logprobs, reward).
+    """
+    obs = env.reset(config=ResetConfig(task_id=task_id))
+
+    all_completion_ids: list[int] = []
+    all_logprobs: list[float] = []
+    prompt_ids: list[int] = []
+
+    for step in range(max_steps):
+        screenshot = obs.screenshot or b""
+
+        # Generate action from VLM
+        action_text, token_ids, logprobs = generate_fn(screenshot, task_instruction)
+
+        # Track token-level data
+        if step == 0:
+            # First generation includes the prompt encoding
+            # In practice, the generate_fn should separate prompt from completion
+            pass
+        all_completion_ids.extend(token_ids)
+        all_logprobs.extend(logprobs)
+
+        # Parse and execute action
+        action = parse_action_json(action_text)
+        if action.type == "done":
+            break
+
+        # Handle fractional coordinates
+        if action.x is not None and action.y is not None:
+            if 0 <= action.x <= 1 and 0 <= action.y <= 1:
+                step_result = env.pixel_action(
+                    x_frac=action.x, y_frac=action.y,
+                    action_type=action.type, text=action.text, key=action.key,
+                )
+            else:
+                step_result = env.pixel_action(
+                    x=int(action.x), y=int(action.y),
+                    action_type=action.type, text=action.text, key=action.key,
+                )
+        elif action.type in ("type", "key"):
+            step_result = env.step(action)
+        else:
+            step_result = env.step(action)
+
+        obs = step_result.observation
+        if step_result.done:
+            break
+
+    # Evaluate — dense rewards if milestones, binary otherwise
+    reward = env.evaluate_dense()
+
+    return prompt_ids, all_completion_ids, all_logprobs, reward
+
+
+def make_waa_rollout_func(
+    adapter: Any,
+    task_configs: list | None = None,
+    max_steps: int = 15,
+) -> Callable:
+    """Create a TRL-compatible rollout_func for WAA environments.
+
+    The returned function has signature:
+        rollout_func(prompts: list[str], trainer: GRPOTrainer) -> dict[str, list]
+
+    Args:
+        adapter: A BenchmarkAdapter (WAALiveAdapter or WAAMockAdapter).
+        task_configs: List of TaskConfig objects. Each prompt in the training
+            dataset should have a matching task_config by name or index.
+        max_steps: Maximum steps per episode.
+
+    Returns:
+        A callable suitable for GRPOTrainer(rollout_func=...).
+    """
+    # Index task configs by name for lookup
+    config_map: dict[str, Any] = {}
+    if task_configs:
+        from openadapt_evals.task_config import TaskConfig
+
+        for tc in task_configs:
+            config_map[tc.name] = tc
+            config_map[tc.id] = tc
+
+    def rollout_func(prompts: list[str], trainer: Any) -> dict[str, list]:
+        """TRL GRPOTrainer rollout function.
+
+        Args:
+            prompts: Task instructions from the training dataset.
+            trainer: Active GRPOTrainer instance (provides model + processor).
+
+        Returns:
+            Dict with prompt_ids, completion_ids, logprobs, env_reward.
+        """
+        processor = trainer.processing_class
+        model = trainer.model
+        device = next(model.parameters()).device
+
+        num_generations = getattr(trainer.args, "num_generations", 8)
+
+        all_prompt_ids = []
+        all_completion_ids = []
+        all_logprobs = []
+        all_rewards = []
+
+        def generate_fn(screenshot_bytes: bytes, instruction: str):
+            """Generate action tokens from screenshot + instruction."""
+            from PIL import Image
+
+            # Build multimodal input
+            img = Image.open(io.BytesIO(screenshot_bytes))
+            messages = [
+                {"role": "system", "content": SYSTEM_PROMPT},
+                {"role": "user", "content": [
+                    {"type": "image", "image": img},
+                    {"type": "text", "text": instruction},
+                ]},
+            ]
+
+            # Tokenize with processor
+            import torch
+
+            text_input = processor.apply_chat_template(
+                messages, tokenize=False, add_generation_prompt=True
+            )
+            inputs = processor(
+                text=[text_input], images=[img],
+                return_tensors="pt", padding=True,
+            ).to(device)
+
+            # Generate
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                outputs = model.generate(
+                    **inputs,
+                    max_new_tokens=256,
+                    do_sample=True,
+                    temperature=1.0,
+                    return_dict_in_generate=True,
+                    output_scores=True,
+                )
+
+            # Extract completion tokens (everything after prompt)
+            prompt_len = inputs["input_ids"].shape[1]
+            completion_ids = outputs.sequences[0][prompt_len:].tolist()
+
+            # Compute per-token logprobs from scores
+            logprobs = []
+            if hasattr(outputs, "scores") and outputs.scores:
+                for i, score in enumerate(outputs.scores):
+                    probs = torch.nn.functional.log_softmax(score[0], dim=-1)
+                    if i < len(completion_ids):
+                        logprobs.append(probs[completion_ids[i]].item())
+
+            # Decode text
+            text = processor.decode(completion_ids, skip_special_tokens=True)
+
+            return text, completion_ids, logprobs
+
+        for prompt in prompts:
+            # Find matching task config
+            tc = config_map.get(prompt)
+
+            for gen_idx in range(num_generations):
+                env = RLEnvironment(adapter, task_config=tc)
+
+                task_id = tc.id if tc else "default"
+
+                try:
+                    p_ids, c_ids, lps, reward = _run_episode(
+                        env, generate_fn, prompt, task_id, max_steps,
+                    )
+                except Exception as exc:
+                    logger.error(
+                        "Rollout failed for prompt=%s gen=%d: %s",
+                        prompt[:50], gen_idx, exc,
+                    )
+                    p_ids, c_ids, lps, reward = [], [], [], 0.0
+
+                all_prompt_ids.append(p_ids)
+                all_completion_ids.append(c_ids)
+                all_logprobs.append(lps)
+                all_rewards.append(reward)
+
+        return {
+            "prompt_ids": all_prompt_ids,
+            "completion_ids": all_completion_ids,
+            "logprobs": all_logprobs,
+            "env_reward": all_rewards,
+        }
+
+    return rollout_func