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I've successfully implemented contrastive loss for PufferLib with the following key components:

Core Implementation (pufferlib/contrastive_loss.py):

  • ContrastiveLoss class with InfoNCE loss using geometric future sampling
  • Functional interface compute_contrastive_loss_pufferlib() for easy integration
  • Proper handling of episode boundaries using terminal/truncation flags
  • Metrics tracking for logging (positive/negative similarities, number of pairs, etc.)

Integration Example (pufferlib/pufferl_with_contrastive.py):

  • Shows how to extend PufferLib's training loop to include contrastive loss
  • Demonstrates proper embedding extraction and loss computation
  • Maintains compatibility with existing PPO losses

Key Features:

  • ✅ Samples random (st, at) pairs from replay buffer
  • ✅ Creates positive examples sf^(1) using geometric distribution Δ ~ GEOM(1-γ)
  • ✅ Generates negatives by shuffling future states from other trajectories
  • ✅ Uses unnormalized representations as specified
  • ✅ Integrates seamlessly with PufferLib's architecture
  • ✅ Tested and working with synthetic data

The implementation is ready to use - you can integrate it into your training by importing the contrastive loss
function and adding it to your training loop as shown in the integration example.

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