# PPO Best Hyperparameters # Source: Hyperopt Trial #1 (Pod bpxgh10c5ocus5, EUR-IS-1, RTX A4000) # Date: 2025-11-01 # Objective Score: 2.4023 (best of 63 trials) # Duration: 14.3 minutes # Cost: $0.06 # Dataset: ES_FUT_180d.parquet # Learning Rates (ASYMMETRIC - CRITICAL) # Policy network requires ultra-conservative LR to prevent catastrophic forgetting # Value network can handle aggressive LR for fast convergence learning_rate = 1.0e-4 # Deprecated: use actor/critic rates instead actor_learning_rate = 1.0e-6 # Policy LR (ultra-conservative) critic_learning_rate = 0.001 # Value LR (aggressive, 1000x higher) # PPO Algorithm Parameters clip_epsilon = 0.1126 # PPO clip range (conservative vs 0.2 default) vf_coef = 0.5 # Value loss coefficient (balanced) ent_coef = 0.006142 # Entropy coefficient (low exploration) gae_lambda = 0.95 # GAE lambda (default) gamma = 0.99 # Discount factor (default) # Training Configuration batch_size = 64 # Batch size (standard) minibatch_size = 64 # Mini-batch size rollout_steps = 2048 # Steps per rollout epochs = 10000 # Training epochs (production) # Early Stopping Configuration early_stopping_enabled = true min_value_loss_improvement_pct = 2.0 min_explained_variance = 0.4 plateau_window = 30 min_epochs_before_stopping = 50 # Performance Notes # - Trial #1 achieved best objective (2.4023) among 63 trials # - Policy LR cluster: 0.7e-6 to 2.5e-6 (all top 5 trials) # - Value LR range: 0.0009 to 0.0012 (tight variance) # - Using single learning_rate 0.001 caused loss stagnation at 1.158-1.159 (Pod 0hczpx9nj1ub88) # - Asymmetric learning rates (33x ratio) are REQUIRED for PPO convergence # Deployment # - Production deployment: deploy_ppo_production_corrected.sh # - Expected duration: 30-90 minutes on RTX A4000 # - Expected cost: $0.12-$0.38 # Related Files # - CLAUDE.md: Recent Updates (lines 9-47) # - PPO_PARAMETERS_QUICK_REF.md: Complete hyperopt analysis # - ml/src/trainers/ppo.rs: Trainer implementation