Lightning-AI / Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning

possibilities for Asynchronous (RL online rollout) evaluation during training

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Description

## 🚀 Feature

I am wondering if it is possible to include the asynchronous evaluation during the training process

### Motivation

For RL projects (or imitation training + online rollout evaluation), evaluation is really a bottleneck during the training process even the environments are vectorized, especially if we want to evaluate lots of long-horizon episodes. Now the training only can continue after eval is done, but it seems not necessary as the evaluation could be done with weights at that timestep, and does not matter the future training.

### Pitch

Option for doing asynchronous evaluation during training

### Alternatives

using separate scripts to do this

### Additional context

No

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No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by tracing the existing training and evaluation flow, then clarify how evaluation should run asynchronously, how weights are selected, and how completion is reported; done requires an agreed design and implementation for an asynchronous evaluation option.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python, pytorch
Domain
machine-learning
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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