# 🚀 Thrust Project Status
**Last Updated:** November 5, 2024
## ✅ What's Done
### Infrastructure
- [x] Project initialized with Cargo
- [x] Module structure created (env, policy, buffer, train, utils)
- [x] Core dependencies configured
- [x] Project compiles successfully (Rust nightly, edition 2024)
- [x] Git repository initialized
- [x] CI/CD tooling (Makefile: fmt, clippy, test, doc)
### Documentation (1,500+ lines total!)
- [x] **README.md** (163 lines) - Professional landing page with vision
- [x] **WORKPLAN.md** (403 lines) - Comprehensive 20-week development plan
- [x] **CONTRIBUTING.md** (426 lines) - Complete contributor guidelines
- [x] **ARCHITECTURE_PROPOSAL.md** - Rust-native architecture design
- [x] **RESEARCH_PAPERS.md** - Analysis of modern RL systems
- [x] **docs/TCH_RS_STATUS.md** - tch-rs/libtorch integration status
- [x] **docs/LIBTORCH_SETUP.md** - Installation guide
- [x] **LICENSE-MIT** & **LICENSE-APACHE** - Dual licensing
### GitHub Templates
- [x] Bug report template
- [x] Feature request template
- [x] Performance issue template
- [x] Pull request template
### Code Implementation (1,425 lines!)
```
thrust/
├── src/
│ ├── lib.rs ✅ Main library entry point
│ ├── env/
│ │ ├── mod.rs ✅ Environment trait (70 lines)
│ │ ├── cartpole.rs ✅ CartPole physics (390 lines, 11 tests)
│ │ └── pool.rs ✅ EnvPool parallelism (325 lines, 5 tests)
│ ├── buffer/
│ │ └── rollout.rs ✅ RolloutBuffer + GAE (451 lines, 17 tests)
│ ├── policy/
│ │ └── mlp.rs 🟡 MlpPolicy (259 lines, API compatibility issue)
│ ├── train/mod.rs ⚪ Trainer placeholder
│ └── utils/mod.rs ✅ Utilities
├── .github/ ✅ Issue & PR templates
├── docs/ ✅ Comprehensive documentation
├── Makefile ✅ CI/CD commands
└── Cargo.toml ✅ tch-rs 0.22, nightly Rust
```
## 🔄 What's Next (Phase 1, Week 3-4)
### Immediate Priorities
1. **Fix tch-rs 0.22 API Compatibility** (1 day) ⚠️ BLOCKED
- Find correct VarStore train/eval API in tch-rs 0.22
- Update MlpPolicy methods
- Get all policy tests passing
- **Alternative**: Wait for Rust 1.86 (Q1 2026) with stable edition 2024
2. **PPO Training Loop** (3-4 days)
- PPO config structure
- Training loop implementation
- Loss functions (policy, value, entropy)
- Minibatch sampling from buffer
- Checkpoint saving/loading
3. **End-to-End Training** (2-3 days)
- Integrate all components
- Train CartPole to convergence
- Add logging and metrics
- Benchmark vs Stable-Baselines3
### Current Blocker
**tch-rs 0.22 API Changes**: The VarStore API changed between tch-rs 0.16 and 0.22. Methods like `set_train()` and `set_eval()` don't exist in 0.22. Need to find the correct API or consider alternatives:
- Wait for Rust edition 2024 stabilization (Rust 1.86, Q1 2026)
- Build LibTorch 2.1.2 from source and use tch-rs 0.16
- Continue with placeholder policy for PPO development
## 📊 Progress Metrics
| **Code Lines** | 1,425 | ~2,000 |
| **Implementation** | 71% | 100% |
| **Test Coverage** | 33 tests | 80% coverage |
| **Documentation** | ✅ Excellent | Maintain |
| **Environments** | 1 (CartPole) | 1 (CartPole) |
| **Training Works** | 🟡 Pending NN | ✅ |
### Component Status
| **CartPole** | 390 | 11 | ✅ Complete |
| **EnvPool** | 325 | 5 | ✅ Complete |
| **RolloutBuffer** | 451 | 17 | ✅ Complete |
| **MlpPolicy** | 259 | 10 | 🟡 API blocked |
| **PPO Trainer** | 0 | 0 | ⚪ Not started |
## 🎯 Phase 1 Goals (4 weeks)
- [x] CartPole environment fully implemented (390 lines, 11 tests)
- [x] EnvPool for parallel execution (325 lines, 5 tests)
- [x] RolloutBuffer with GAE (451 lines, 17 tests)
- [x] MlpPolicy structure (259 lines, blocked by tch-rs 0.22 API)
- [ ] PPO training loop working
- [ ] Agent solves CartPole (reward > 195)
- [ ] Well-documented and tested
**Current Status:** 71% complete (infrastructure done, training loop pending)
**Blocker:** tch-rs 0.22 API compatibility or need to wait for Rust 1.86
## 📈 Long-term Vision
### Q1 2025
- Phase 1 & 2 complete
- 1M+ SPS achieved
- Snake environment working
### Q2 2025
- All features implemented
- Demo website live
- v1.0 release
- 500+ GitHub stars
## 🤝 How You Can Help
**Right Now:**
1. ⭐ Star the repo!
2. 🔍 Help debug tch-rs 0.22 API compatibility
3. 🧪 Review and test existing components
4. 📖 Improve documentation
5. 🔧 Start implementing PPO training loop
**Coming Soon:**
- PPO algorithm implementation
- End-to-end training validation
- Performance benchmarking vs Stable-Baselines3
## 📞 Contact
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/yourusername/thrust
- **Issues:** Report bugs and request features
- **Discussions:** Ask questions and share ideas
- **Discord:** Coming soon!
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*Progress: 15% complete • Status: On track • Momentum: Strong*