s123hree/green-code-optimizer-a100

🌱 Green-Code Optimizer

An RL agent that refactors Python code for energy efficiency, not readability — and tells you exactly how much CO₂ it saves.

  

🎯 The Problem

AI workloads are projected to consume 2–4 % of global electricity by 2030. Most of that goes to training, but inference at scale — the same algorithms running millions of times a day in production — is the silent giant. A single inefficient nested loop in a hot path, replicated across millions of executions, can add up to real CO₂.

Meanwhile, almost every existing code-refactoring tool optimises for readability (line length, naming, type hints). None of them refactor for energy.

*What if we trained an RL agent whose only goal was to make Python cheaper to run — measured in CPU cycles, memory footprint, and ultimately grams of CO₂?*

That's the Green-Code Optimizer.

💡 The Pitch

The agent receives a negative reward for high peak memory and high execution time, and a positive reward for the opposite. It uses graphlet analysis to represent the program's control-flow structure, so it learns which structural patterns (nested loops, function calls inside loops, deep branching) are expensive — and swaps them for cheap alternatives (vectorised ops, comprehensions, hoisted invariants).

👀 Concrete Example

A real corruption from the env (Level-1 episode):

Before — a list comprehension is exploded into an append-loop, and a 50-iteration energy-waste loop is injected at the top:

def get_priority_users(users):
    _energy_waste = []
    for _ in range(50):
        _energy_waste.append(list(range(100)))
    out = []
    for u in users:
        out.append(u.upper())
    return out

After — the agent's target refactor:

def get_priority_users(users):
    return [u.upper() for u in users]

Impact (at 10 000 runs/day): ~1.1 kg CO₂/year saved per call site. With one trained agent and a few thousand call sites, you're talking about trees worth of carbon.

⚙️ How It Works

flowchart LR
    A["Corrupted /<br/>energy-inefficient<br/>Python codebase"] --> B[Episode Generator]
    B --> C["RL Agent<br/>(Qwen-1.5B + LoRA)"]
    C -->|edits| D[Updated codebase]
    D --> E1[Graphlet Analyzer]
    D --> E2[CPU + Memory Profiler]
    D --> E3[Compliance / Test Gate]
    E1 --> R[GRPO Reward]
    E2 --> R
    E3 --> R
    R -->|policy update| C
    D --> F["CO₂ Dashboard<br/>kg/year · trees · car-km"]

1. Episode Generation with Curriculum-Driven Corruption

Each episode loads a real Python codebase and applies energy-degrading corruptions that scale with the agent's skill:

The CurriculumManager escalates the level once 3 consecutive 50-episode windows all average a reward > 0.7 — so the agent's own progress drives the difficulty.

2. Graphlet Analysis — environment/graphlet_analyzer.py

Parses each file into an AST and detects 4 classes of expensive control-flow graphlets:

Lower total cost → higher graphlet score (range [0, 1]).

3. Runtime Profiling — environment/track_c.py

Each candidate refactor is actually executed in a timeout-bounded subprocess profiler: CPU time via time.perf_counter, peak memory via tracemalloc. If a file cannot be safely executed, Track C falls back to compile-time profiling so training never hangs.

4. Composable Rubric — environment/rubrics.py

Following OpenEnv RFC 004, the reward is a tree of named, composable child rubrics — modeled on PyTorch's nn.Module. When openenv-core is installed we extend its Rubric base class directly; otherwise we provide a zero-dependency fallback shim with the same surface area.

GreenCodeRubric                       (root)
└─ Sequential                         ← short-circuits if any gate fails
   ├─ syntax_gate     {0,1}           ← reward = 0 if any file doesn't parse
   ├─ hack_gate       {0,1}           ← reward = -1 if test files are tampered with
   └─ WeightedSum                     ← soft signals
      ├─ green       (0.70)
      │  ├─ graphlet (0.40) ∈ [0,1]
      │  ├─ cpu      (0.35) ∈ [0,1]
      │  └─ memory   (0.25) ∈ [0,1]
      └─ compliance  (0.30)

Each child is independently inspectable via rubric.named_rubrics(), so training infrastructure logs every component without modifying the rubric. Adding a new signal (e.g. a Big-O complexity penalty) is a 5-line subclass + WeightedSum weight tweak.

The rubric tree is also exposed at runtime via GET /rubric so judges can introspect the reward without touching server internals.

R = (syntax_gate ∧ hack_gate) × (0.70·green + 0.30·compliance) − P_efficiency

• —Why this is hard to game — the Sequential short-circuits any soft reward when the syntax gate fails. Agents can't get points for "memory-efficient" code that doesn't compile.
• —`P_efficiency` — 0.01 per file edited; held outside the rubric (it's a training-time minimal-edits nudge, not a property of the env).

5. CO₂ Dashboard — environment/co2_calculator.py

CPU-time savings × CPU TDP × grid carbon intensity → kg CO₂/year, with real-world equivalents (tree-years, car-km). Live HTML dashboard at /dashboard/co2/{episode_id}.

📊 Evidence the Agent Actually Learns

We ran a 25-episode baseline comparison before any RL training, scoring policies on identical episodes:

The 96 % gap between no-op and oracle proves the env has a strong, learnable signal. Reproduce locally:

python training/compare_baseline.py --num-episodes 20
# → assets/baseline_vs_trained.png + .json

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Training curves

training/train_grpo.py writes assets/training_curves.png and assets/log_history.json after the A100 GRPO run. Commit those files immediately after the final run so judges can verify the real loss/reward curves.

🏆 Why This Wins (mapped to judging criteria)

🔗 Submission Links

🧩 OpenEnv Compatibility

This env follows the OpenEnv spec (RFC 001 + RFC 004).

• —Manifest: `openenv.yaml`
• —Server: uses openenv-core>=0.2.3 for the Rubric base class
• —Gym-style API: POST /reset, POST /step, GET /state/{id}
• —Rubric introspection: GET /rubric returns the named child tree
• —Sync client: `client.py` — drop-in EnvClient, mirrors HTTPEnvClient
• —Observation space: { files, violation_report, steps_remaining, curriculum_level }
• —Action space: [read_file, edit_file, run_tests, check_compliance]
• —Reward range: [-1.0, 1.0]
• —Max episode length: 70 steps

# Three-line judge-friendly usage:
from client import GreenCodeEnv
env = GreenCodeEnv("https://s123hree-green-code-optimizer-a100.hf.space")
obs = env.reset(curriculum_level=2)        # gym-style reset
state = env.state()                         # gym-style state
print(env.rubric_tree())                    # introspect the reward

📚 API

🚀 Quickstart

Run the env locally

git clone https://huggingface.co/spaces/s123hree/green-code-optimizer-a100
cd green-code-optimizer-a100
pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn server:app --host 0.0.0.0 --port 7860
# Visit http://localhost:7860/demo

Reproduce training (A100, deadline-safe)

The Space defaults to a fast final run: TRAIN_MAX_STEPS=80, TRAIN_NUM_GENERATIONS=2, TRAIN_NUM_EPISODES=80, LORA_RANK=8, and compile-mode green profiling. Increase these env vars only if you have extra time.

Reproduce baseline comparison (CPU, ~30 s)

python training/compare_baseline.py --num-episodes 20

Smoke-test the deployed Space

SPACE_URL=https://s123hree-green-code-optimizer-a100.hf.space \
  python test_deployment.py

🛠 Repository Layout

.
├── server.py                    # FastAPI: /reset /step /state /rubric /demo /dashboard
├── client.py                    # Sync EnvClient — mirrors OpenEnv HTTPEnvClient
├── inference.py                 # Loads adapter from HF Hub, runs predictions
├── openenv.yaml                 # OpenEnv manifest
├── Dockerfile                   # HF Space image
├── blog_post.md                 # Writeup (problem → env → rubric → results)
├── environment/
│   ├── rubrics.py               # ⭐ Composable Rubric tree (RFC 004)
│   ├── episode_generator.py     # Corruption pipeline + curriculum
│   ├── track_a.py               # Code-quality evaluator
│   ├── track_b.py               # Compliance checker
│   ├── track_c.py               # Green-code evaluator (CPU + memory)
│   ├── graphlet_analyzer.py     # Control-flow pattern detection
│   ├── co2_calculator.py        # CPU-time → kg CO₂/year
│   ├── rule_engine.py           # 150-rule cascading rule engine
│   ├── ENGINEERING_STANDARDS.md # The 150 rules
│   └── base_codebase/           # Original clean Python codebase
├── training/
│   ├── train_grpo.py            # GRPO trainer with auto-plotting
│   ├── compare_baseline.py      # Baseline-vs-trained comparison
│   └── verify_pipeline.py       # CPU-only pipeline sanity check
├── notebooks/train_grpo.ipynb   # Colab-ready training notebook
└── assets/
    ├── baseline_vs_trained.png
    ├── baseline_vs_trained.json
    ├── system_architecture_diagram.png
    ├── architecture_pipeline.png
    └── co2_pipeline_diagram.png

🤝 Extending the Env

• —New reward signal → write a 5-line Rubric subclass and add it to the WeightedSum in environment/rubrics.py::build_green_rubric. Every leaf is auto-logged via named_rubrics().
• —New graphlet patterns → add to PATTERN_COSTS in environment/graphlet_analyzer.py.
• —New energy-degrading corruptions → add a method to EpisodeGenerator and append it to energy_corruptions list.
• —Tune carbon constants for your region's grid → environment/co2_calculator.py.

# Drop-in custom rubric example:
from environment.rubrics import Rubric, build_green_rubric, WeightedSum

class BigOPenalty(Rubric):
    def forward(self, action, observation) -> float:
        # ... your big-O analysis ...
        return score   # range [0, 1]

base = build_green_rubric()
base.green = WeightedSum(
    [base.green.graphlet, base.green.cpu, base.green.memory, BigOPenalty()],
    weights=[0.30, 0.30, 0.20, 0.20],
)

📜 License

Apache-2.0. Fork it, use it, save some carbon.

Built for the OpenEnv India Hackathon 2026 — Meta PyTorch.