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+      $headerLink.before($clone);
+      $headerLink.remove();
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+window.scrollToAnchor = {
+  bind: function() {
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+    var history = window.history;
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+
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+      sideMenus.handleLeftMenu();
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+
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+    // If we are scrolled past the main navigation header fix the sub menu bar to top of page
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+  expandClosestUnexpandedParentList: function (el) {
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+    if (closestParentList) {
+      var closestParentLink = closestParentList.previousElementSibling;
+      var closestParentLinkExists = closestParentLink &&
+                                    closestParentLink.tagName === "A" &&
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+    var topOfFooterRelativeToWindow = document.getElementById("docs-tutorials-resources").getBoundingClientRect().top;
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+      sideMenus.handleLeftMenu();
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+      if (sideMenus.rightMenuIsOnScreen()) {
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diff --git a/docs/source/reference/data.rst b/docs/source/reference/data.rst
index 079e5877654..e395300ef19 100644
--- a/docs/source/reference/data.rst
+++ b/docs/source/reference/data.rst
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ Check the :obj:`torchrl.envs.utils.check_env_specs` method for a sanity check.
 Utils
 -----
 
-.. currentmodule:: torchrl.data
+.. currentmodule:: torchrl.data.datasets
 
 .. autosummary::
     :toctree: generated/
diff --git a/docs/source/reference/envs.rst b/docs/source/reference/envs.rst
index 430dea36996..8b661bfa391 100644
--- a/docs/source/reference/envs.rst
+++ b/docs/source/reference/envs.rst
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ provides more information on how to design a custom environment from scratch.
     EnvBase
     GymLikeEnv
     EnvMetaData
+    Specs
 
 Vectorized envs
 ---------------
diff --git a/docs/source/reference/modules.rst b/docs/source/reference/modules.rst
index fb1eebf6b89..7a52329e02f 100644
--- a/docs/source/reference/modules.rst
+++ b/docs/source/reference/modules.rst
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ TensorDict modules
 
 Hooks
 -----
-.. currentmodule:: torchrl.modules
+.. currentmodule:: torchrl.modules.tensordict_module.actors
 
 .. autosummary::
     :toctree: generated/
diff --git a/docs/source/reference/objectives.rst b/docs/source/reference/objectives.rst
index 384117de4c9..ba91adc2f5e 100644
--- a/docs/source/reference/objectives.rst
+++ b/docs/source/reference/objectives.rst
@@ -16,15 +16,13 @@ The main characteristics of TorchRL losses are:
   method will receive a tensordict as input that contains all the necessary
   information to return a loss value.
 - They output a :class:`tensordict.TensorDict` instance with the loss values
-  written under a ``"loss_<smth>"`` where ``smth`` is a string describing the
+  written under a ``"loss_<smth>`` where ``smth`` is a string describing the
   loss. Additional keys in the tensordict may be useful metrics to log during
   training time.
   .. note::
     The reason we return independent losses is to let the user use a different
     optimizer for different sets of parameters for instance. Summing the losses
-    can be simply done via
-
-        >>> loss_val = sum(loss for key, loss in loss_vals.items() if key.startswith("loss_"))
+    can be simply done via ``sum(loss for key, loss in loss_vals.items() if key.startswith("loss_")``.
 
 Training value functions
 ------------------------
@@ -218,5 +216,5 @@ Utils
     next_state_value
     SoftUpdate
     HardUpdate
-    ValueEstimators
+    ValueFunctions
     default_value_kwargs
diff --git a/docs/source/reference/trainers.rst b/docs/source/reference/trainers.rst
index d14cfae12ee..a0c0056f2f7 100644
--- a/docs/source/reference/trainers.rst
+++ b/docs/source/reference/trainers.rst
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ Hooks can be split into 3 categories: **data processing** (:obj:`"batch_process"
 - **Data processing** hooks update a tensordict of data. Hooks :obj:`__call__` method should accept
   a :obj:`TensorDict` object as input and update it given some strategy.
   Examples of such hooks include Replay Buffer extension (:obj:`ReplayBufferTrainer.extend`), data normalization (including normalization
-  constants update), data subsampling (:class:`torchrl.trainers.BatchSubSampler`) and such.
+  constants update), data subsampling (:doc:`BatchSubSampler`) and such.
 
 - **Logging** hooks take a batch of data presented as a :obj:`TensorDict` and write in the logger
   some information retrieved from that data. Examples include the :obj:`Recorder` hook, the reward
diff --git a/test/test_trainer.py b/test/test_trainer.py
index 9520a30e246..533fd4f0b0d 100644
--- a/test/test_trainer.py
+++ b/test/test_trainer.py
@@ -89,10 +89,11 @@ class MockingLossModule(nn.Module):
 
 def mocking_trainer(file=None, optimizer=_mocking_optim) -> Trainer:
     trainer = Trainer(
-        collector=MockingCollector(),
-        total_frames=None,
-        frame_skip=None,
-        optim_steps_per_batch=None,
+        MockingCollector(),
+        *[
+            None,
+        ]
+        * 2,
         loss_module=MockingLossModule(),
         optimizer=optimizer,
         save_trainer_file=file,
@@ -861,7 +862,7 @@ def test_recorder(self, N=8):
         with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as folder:
             logger = TensorboardLogger(exp_name=folder)
 
-            environment = transformed_env_constructor(
+            recorder = transformed_env_constructor(
                 args,
                 video_tag="tmp",
                 norm_obs_only=True,
@@ -873,7 +874,7 @@ def test_recorder(self, N=8):
                 record_frames=args.record_frames,
                 frame_skip=args.frame_skip,
                 policy_exploration=None,
-                environment=environment,
+                recorder=recorder,
                 record_interval=args.record_interval,
             )
             trainer = mocking_trainer()
@@ -935,7 +936,7 @@ def _make_recorder_and_trainer(tmpdirname):
                 raise NotImplementedError
             trainer = mocking_trainer(file)
 
-            environment = transformed_env_constructor(
+            recorder = transformed_env_constructor(
                 args,
                 video_tag="tmp",
                 norm_obs_only=True,
@@ -947,7 +948,7 @@ def _make_recorder_and_trainer(tmpdirname):
                 record_frames=args.record_frames,
                 frame_skip=args.frame_skip,
                 policy_exploration=None,
-                environment=environment,
+                recorder=recorder,
                 record_interval=args.record_interval,
             )
             recorder.register(trainer)
diff --git a/torchrl/data/__init__.py b/torchrl/data/__init__.py
index fa26ce0c6a9..788a2cce27d 100644
--- a/torchrl/data/__init__.py
+++ b/torchrl/data/__init__.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 # This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
 # LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
 
-from . import datasets
 from .postprocs import MultiStep
 from .replay_buffers import (
     LazyMemmapStorage,
diff --git a/torchrl/data/datasets/__init__.py b/torchrl/data/datasets/__init__.py
index 81a668648d0..6fcc35a0d46 100644
--- a/torchrl/data/datasets/__init__.py
+++ b/torchrl/data/datasets/__init__.py
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
 from .d4rl import D4RLExperienceReplay
-from .openml import OpenMLExperienceReplay
diff --git a/torchrl/data/datasets/openml.py b/torchrl/data/datasets/openml.py
index 76ccb66f601..78b90793682 100644
--- a/torchrl/data/datasets/openml.py
+++ b/torchrl/data/datasets/openml.py
@@ -8,13 +8,8 @@
 import numpy as np
 from tensordict.tensordict import TensorDict
 
-from torchrl.data.replay_buffers import (
-    LazyMemmapStorage,
-    Sampler,
-    SamplerWithoutReplacement,
-    TensorDictReplayBuffer,
-    Writer,
-)
+from torchrl.data import LazyMemmapStorage, TensorDictReplayBuffer
+from torchrl.data.replay_buffers import Sampler, SamplerWithoutReplacement, Writer
 
 
 class OpenMLExperienceReplay(TensorDictReplayBuffer):
diff --git a/torchrl/data/postprocs/postprocs.py b/torchrl/data/postprocs/postprocs.py
index 21f51115d6c..2ec0bfb4d97 100644
--- a/torchrl/data/postprocs/postprocs.py
+++ b/torchrl/data/postprocs/postprocs.py
@@ -82,9 +82,9 @@ def _get_reward(
 class MultiStep(nn.Module):
     """Multistep reward transform.
 
-    Presented in
-
-    | Sutton, R. S. 1988. Learning to predict by the methods of temporal differences. Machine learning 3(1):9–44.
+    Presented in 'Sutton, R. S. 1988. Learning to
+    predict by the methods of temporal differences. Machine learning 3(
+    1):9–44.'
 
     This module maps the "next" observation to the t + n "next" observation.
     It is an identity transform whenever :attr:`n_steps` is 0.
@@ -153,10 +153,6 @@ def forward(self, tensordict: TensorDictBase) -> TensorDictBase:
         """
         tensordict = tensordict.clone(False)
         done = tensordict.get(("next", "done"))
-        truncated = tensordict.get(
-            ("next", "truncated"), torch.zeros((), dtype=done.dtype, device=done.device)
-        )
-        done = done | truncated
 
         # we'll be using the done states to index the tensordict.
         # if the shapes don't match we're in trouble.
@@ -179,6 +175,10 @@ def forward(self, tensordict: TensorDictBase) -> TensorDictBase:
                         "(trailing singleton dimension excluded)."
                     ) from err
 
+        truncated = tensordict.get(
+            ("next", "truncated"), torch.zeros((), dtype=done.dtype, device=done.device)
+        )
+        done = done | truncated
         mask = tensordict.get(("collector", "mask"), None)
         reward = tensordict.get(("next", "reward"))
         *batch, T = tensordict.batch_size
diff --git a/torchrl/data/replay_buffers/replay_buffers.py b/torchrl/data/replay_buffers/replay_buffers.py
index 0c774014f40..fb86b0cec06 100644
--- a/torchrl/data/replay_buffers/replay_buffers.py
+++ b/torchrl/data/replay_buffers/replay_buffers.py
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 
 import torch
 from tensordict.tensordict import LazyStackedTensorDict, TensorDict, TensorDictBase
-from tensordict.utils import expand_as_right
+from tensordict.utils import expand_right
 
 from torchrl.data.utils import DEVICE_TYPING
 
@@ -708,8 +708,6 @@ def extend(self, tensordicts: Union[List, TensorDictBase]) -> torch.Tensor:
         return index
 
     def update_tensordict_priority(self, data: TensorDictBase) -> None:
-        if not isinstance(self._sampler, PrioritizedSampler):
-            return
         priority = torch.tensor(
             [self._get_priority(td) for td in data],
             dtype=torch.float,
@@ -755,7 +753,19 @@ def sample(
         data, info = super().sample(batch_size, return_info=True)
         if include_info in (True, None):
             for k, v in info.items():
-                data.set(k, expand_as_right(torch.tensor(v, device=data.device), data))
+                data.set(k, torch.tensor(v, device=data.device))
+        if "_batch_size" in data.keys():
+            # we need to reset the batch-size
+            shape = data.pop("_batch_size")
+            shape = shape[0]
+            shape = torch.Size([data.shape[0], *shape])
+            # we may need to update some values in the data
+            for key, value in data.items():
+                if value.ndim >= len(shape):
+                    continue
+                value = expand_right(value, shape)
+                data.set(key, value)
+            data.batch_size = shape
         if return_info:
             return data, info
         return data
diff --git a/torchrl/data/replay_buffers/storages.py b/torchrl/data/replay_buffers/storages.py
index d96e2498f6b..7a789260e48 100644
--- a/torchrl/data/replay_buffers/storages.py
+++ b/torchrl/data/replay_buffers/storages.py
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 from tensordict.memmap import MemmapTensor
 from tensordict.prototype import is_tensorclass
 from tensordict.tensordict import is_tensor_collection, TensorDict, TensorDictBase
-from tensordict.utils import expand_right
 
 from torchrl._utils import _CKPT_BACKEND, VERBOSE
 from torchrl.data.replay_buffers.utils import INT_CLASSES
@@ -424,42 +423,10 @@ def _mem_map_tensor_as_tensor(mem_map_tensor: MemmapTensor) -> torch.Tensor:
         return mem_map_tensor._tensor
 
 
-def _reset_batch_size(x):
-    """Resets the batch size of a tensordict.
-
-    In some cases we save the original shape of the tensordict as a tensor (or memmap tensor).
-
-    This function will read that tensor, extract its items and reset the shape
-    of the tensordict to it. If items have an incompatible shape (e.g. "index")
-    they will be expanded to the right to match it.
-
-    """
-    shape = x.pop("_batch_size", None)
-    if shape is not None:
-        # we need to reset the batch-size
-        if isinstance(shape, MemmapTensor):
-            shape = shape.as_tensor()
-        locked = x.is_locked
-        if locked:
-            x.unlock_()
-        shape = [s.item() for s in shape[0]]
-        shape = torch.Size([x.shape[0], *shape])
-        # we may need to update some values in the data
-        for key, value in x.items():
-            if value.ndim >= len(shape):
-                continue
-            value = expand_right(value, shape)
-            x.set(key, value)
-        x.batch_size = shape
-        if locked:
-            x.lock_()
-    return x
-
-
 def _collate_list_tensordict(x):
     out = torch.stack(x, 0)
     if isinstance(out, TensorDictBase):
-        return _reset_batch_size(out.to_tensordict())
+        return out.to_tensordict()
     return out
 
 
@@ -469,7 +436,7 @@ def _collate_list_tensors(*x):
 
 def _collate_contiguous(x):
     if isinstance(x, TensorDictBase):
-        return _reset_batch_size(x).to_tensordict()
+        return x.to_tensordict()
     return x.clone()
 
 
diff --git a/torchrl/envs/transforms/transforms.py b/torchrl/envs/transforms/transforms.py
index 08f9dfe5c46..6a0dd6be2b8 100644
--- a/torchrl/envs/transforms/transforms.py
+++ b/torchrl/envs/transforms/transforms.py
@@ -2602,13 +2602,6 @@ class VecNorm(Transform):
             default: 0.99
         eps (number, optional): lower bound of the running standard
             deviation (for numerical underflow). Default is 1e-4.
-        shapes (List[torch.Size], optional): if provided, represents the shape
-            of each in_keys. Its length must match the one of ``in_keys``.
-            Each shape must match the trailing dimension of the corresponding
-            entry.
-            If not, the feature dimensions of the entry (ie all dims that do
-            not belong to the tensordict batch-size) will be considered as
-            feature dimension.
 
     Examples:
         >>> from torchrl.envs.libs.gym import GymEnv
@@ -2636,7 +2629,6 @@ def __init__(
         lock: mp.Lock = None,
         decay: float = 0.9999,
         eps: float = 1e-4,
-        shapes: List[torch.Size] = None,
     ) -> None:
         if lock is None:
             lock = mp.Lock()
@@ -2664,14 +2656,8 @@ def __init__(
 
         self.lock = lock
         self.decay = decay
-        self.shapes = shapes
         self.eps = eps
 
-    def _key_str(self, key):
-        if not isinstance(key, str):
-            key = "_".join(key)
-        return key
-
     def _call(self, tensordict: TensorDictBase) -> TensorDictBase:
         if self.lock is not None:
             self.lock.acquire()
@@ -2695,44 +2681,17 @@ def _call(self, tensordict: TensorDictBase) -> TensorDictBase:
     forward = _call
 
     def _init(self, tensordict: TensorDictBase, key: str) -> None:
-        key_str = self._key_str(key)
-        if self._td is None or key_str + "_sum" not in self._td.keys():
-            if key is not key_str and key_str in tensordict.keys():
-                raise RuntimeError(
-                    f"Conflicting key names: {key_str} from VecNorm and input tensordict keys."
-                )
-            if self.shapes is None:
-                td_view = tensordict.view(-1)
-                td_select = td_view[0]
-                item = td_select.get(key)
-                d = {key_str + "_sum": torch.zeros_like(item)}
-                d.update({key_str + "_ssq": torch.zeros_like(item)})
-            else:
-                idx = 0
-                for in_key in self.in_keys:
-                    if in_key != key:
-                        idx += 1
-                    else:
-                        break
-                shape = self.shapes[idx]
-                item = tensordict.get(key)
-                d = {
-                    key_str
-                    + "_sum": torch.zeros(shape, device=item.device, dtype=item.dtype)
-                }
-                d.update(
-                    {
-                        key_str
-                        + "_ssq": torch.zeros(
-                            shape, device=item.device, dtype=item.dtype
-                        )
-                    }
-                )
-
+        if self._td is None or key + "_sum" not in self._td.keys():
+            td_view = tensordict.view(-1)
+            td_select = td_view[0]
+            d = {key + "_sum": torch.zeros_like(td_select.get(key))}
+            d.update({key + "_ssq": torch.zeros_like(td_select.get(key))})
             d.update(
                 {
-                    key_str
-                    + "_count": torch.zeros(1, device=item.device, dtype=torch.float)
+                    key
+                    + "_count": torch.zeros(
+                        1, device=td_select.get(key).device, dtype=torch.float
+                    )
                 }
             )
             if self._td is None:
@@ -2743,7 +2702,6 @@ def _init(self, tensordict: TensorDictBase, key: str) -> None:
             pass
 
     def _update(self, key, value, N) -> torch.Tensor:
-        key = self._key_str(key)
         _sum = self._td.get(key + "_sum")
         _ssq = self._td.get(key + "_ssq")
         _count = self._td.get(key + "_count")
diff --git a/torchrl/modules/__init__.py b/torchrl/modules/__init__.py
index 7c26b7b1b8f..5a3f4fdbb2b 100644
--- a/torchrl/modules/__init__.py
+++ b/torchrl/modules/__init__.py
@@ -41,12 +41,10 @@
     ActorValueOperator,
     AdditiveGaussianWrapper,
     DistributionalQValueActor,
-    DistributionalQValueHook,
     EGreedyWrapper,
     OrnsteinUhlenbeckProcessWrapper,
     ProbabilisticActor,
     QValueActor,
-    QValueHook,
     SafeModule,
     SafeProbabilisticModule,
     SafeProbabilisticTensorDictSequential,
diff --git a/torchrl/modules/tensordict_module/__init__.py b/torchrl/modules/tensordict_module/__init__.py
index d74634c153a..6686eb6b602 100644
--- a/torchrl/modules/tensordict_module/__init__.py
+++ b/torchrl/modules/tensordict_module/__init__.py
@@ -9,10 +9,8 @@
     ActorCriticWrapper,
     ActorValueOperator,
     DistributionalQValueActor,
-    DistributionalQValueHook,
     ProbabilisticActor,
     QValueActor,
-    QValueHook,
     ValueOperator,
 )
 from .common import SafeModule
diff --git a/torchrl/modules/tensordict_module/actors.py b/torchrl/modules/tensordict_module/actors.py
index 7b9b8ef53a1..635fc90ca21 100644
--- a/torchrl/modules/tensordict_module/actors.py
+++ b/torchrl/modules/tensordict_module/actors.py
@@ -715,8 +715,7 @@ def __init__(
 class ActorValueOperator(SafeSequential):
     """Actor-value operator.
 
-    This class wraps together an actor and a value model that share a common
-    observation embedding network:
+    This class wraps together an actor and a value model that share a common observation embedding network:
 
     .. aafig::
         :aspect: 60
@@ -724,30 +723,22 @@ class ActorValueOperator(SafeSequential):
         :proportional:
         :textual:
 
-            +---------------+
-            |Observation (s)|
-            +---------------+
-                     |
-                     v
-                   common
-                     |
-                     v
-           +------------------+
-           |    Hidden state  |
-           +------------------+
-            |                |
-            v                v
-         actor             critic
-           |                 |
-           v                 v
-       +-------------+  +------------+
-       |Action (a(s))|  |Value (V(s))|
-       +-------------+  +------------+
-
-    .. note::
-      For a similar class that returns an action and a Quality value :math:`Q(s, a)`
-      see :class:`~.ActorCriticOperator`. For a version without common embeddig
-      refet to :class:`~.ActorCriticWrapper`.
+            +-------------+
+            |"Observation"|
+            +-------------+
+                   |
+                   v
+            +--------------+
+            |"hidden state"|
+            +--------------+
+            |      |       |
+            v      |       v
+            actor  |       critic
+            |      |       |
+            v      |       v
+         +--------+|+-------+
+         |"action"|||"value"|
+         +--------+|+-------+
 
     To facilitate the workflow, this  class comes with a get_policy_operator() and get_value_operator() methods, which
     will both return a stand-alone TDModule with the dedicated functionality.
@@ -764,13 +755,17 @@ class ActorValueOperator(SafeSequential):
         >>> import torch
         >>> from tensordict import TensorDict
         >>> from torchrl.modules import ProbabilisticActor, SafeModule
+        >>> from torchrl.data import UnboundedContinuousTensorSpec, BoundedTensorSpec
         >>> from torchrl.modules import ValueOperator, TanhNormal, ActorValueOperator, NormalParamWrapper
+        >>> spec_hidden = UnboundedContinuousTensorSpec(4)
         >>> module_hidden = torch.nn.Linear(4, 4)
         >>> td_module_hidden = SafeModule(
         ...    module=module_hidden,
+        ...    spec=spec_hidden,
         ...    in_keys=["observation"],
         ...    out_keys=["hidden"],
         ...    )
+        >>> spec_action = BoundedTensorSpec(-1, 1, torch.Size([8]))
         >>> module_action = TensorDictModule(
         ...     NormalParamWrapper(torch.nn.Linear(4, 8)),
         ...     in_keys=["hidden"],
@@ -778,6 +773,7 @@ class ActorValueOperator(SafeSequential):
         ...     )
         >>> td_module_action = ProbabilisticActor(
         ...    module=module_action,
+        ...    spec=spec_action,
         ...    in_keys=["loc", "scale"],
         ...    out_keys=["action"],
         ...    distribution_class=TanhNormal,
@@ -858,8 +854,7 @@ def get_value_operator(self) -> SafeSequential:
 class ActorCriticOperator(ActorValueOperator):
     """Actor-critic operator.
 
-    This class wraps together an actor and a value model that share a common
-    observation embedding network:
+    This class wraps together an actor and a value model that share a common observation embedding network:
 
     .. aafig::
         :aspect: 60
@@ -867,58 +862,51 @@ class ActorCriticOperator(ActorValueOperator):
         :proportional:
         :textual:
 
-                +---------------+
-                |Observation (s)|
-                +---------------+
-                         |
-                         v
-                      common
-                         |
-                         v
-               +------------------+
-               |    Hidden state  |
-               +------------------+
-                |                |
-                v                v
-             actor  ------>   critic
-               |                 |
-               v                 v
-       +-------------+  +----------------+
-       |Action (a(s))|  |Quality (Q(s,a))|
-       +-------------+  +----------------+
-
-    .. note::
-      For a similar class that returns an action and a state-value :math:`V(s)`
-      see :class:`~.ActorValueOperator`.
-
+          +-----------+
+          |Observation|
+          +-----------+
+            |
+            v
+            actor
+            |
+            v
+        +------+
+        |action| --> critic
+        +------+      |
+                      v
+                   +-----+
+                   |value|
+                   +-----+
 
     To facilitate the workflow, this  class comes with a get_policy_operator() method, which
     will both return a stand-alone TDModule with the dedicated functionality. The get_critic_operator will return the
     parent object, as the value is computed based on the policy output.
 
     Args:
-        common_operator (TensorDictModule): a common operator that reads
-            observations and produces a hidden variable
-        policy_operator (TensorDictModule): a policy operator that reads the
-            hidden variable and returns an action
-        value_operator (TensorDictModule): a value operator, that reads the
-            hidden variable and returns a value
+        common_operator (TensorDictModule): a common operator that reads observations and produces a hidden variable
+        policy_operator (TensorDictModule): a policy operator that reads the hidden variable and returns an action
+        value_operator (TensorDictModule): a value operator, that reads the hidden variable and returns a value
 
     Examples:
         >>> import torch
         >>> from tensordict import TensorDict
         >>> from torchrl.modules import ProbabilisticActor
+        >>> from torchrl.data import UnboundedContinuousTensorSpec, BoundedTensorSpec
         >>> from torchrl.modules import  ValueOperator, TanhNormal, ActorCriticOperator, NormalParamWrapper, MLP
+        >>> spec_hidden = UnboundedContinuousTensorSpec(4)
         >>> module_hidden = torch.nn.Linear(4, 4)
         >>> td_module_hidden = SafeModule(
         ...    module=module_hidden,
+        ...    spec=spec_hidden,
         ...    in_keys=["observation"],
         ...    out_keys=["hidden"],
         ...    )
+        >>> spec_action = BoundedTensorSpec(-1, 1, torch.Size([8]))
         >>> module_action = NormalParamWrapper(torch.nn.Linear(4, 8))
         >>> module_action = TensorDictModule(module_action, in_keys=["hidden"], out_keys=["loc", "scale"])
         >>> td_module_action = ProbabilisticActor(
         ...    module=module_action,
+        ...    spec=spec_action,
         ...    in_keys=["loc", "scale"],
         ...    out_keys=["action"],
         ...    distribution_class=TanhNormal,
@@ -976,17 +964,8 @@ class ActorCriticOperator(ActorValueOperator):
 
     """
 
-    def __init__(
-        self,
-        common_operator: TensorDictModule,
-        policy_operator: TensorDictModule,
-        value_operator: TensorDictModule,
-    ):
-        super().__init__(
-            common_operator,
-            policy_operator,
-            value_operator,
-        )
+    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        super().__init__(*args, **kwargs)
         if self[2].out_keys[0] == "state_value":
             raise RuntimeError(
                 "Value out_key is state_value, which may lead to errors in downstream usages"
@@ -1019,18 +998,17 @@ class ActorCriticWrapper(SafeSequential):
         :proportional:
         :textual:
 
-               +---------------+
-               |Observation (s)|
-               +---------------+
-                |     |   |
-                v     |   v
-                actor |   critic
-                |     |   |
-                v     |   v
-       +-------------+|+------------+
-       |Action (a(s))|||Value (V(s))|
-       +-------------+|+------------+
-
+          +-----------+
+          |Observation|
+          +-----------+
+          |     |   |
+          v     |   v
+          actor |   critic
+          |     |   |
+          v     |   v
+        +------+|+-------+
+        |action||| value |
+        +------+|+-------+
 
     To facilitate the workflow, this  class comes with a get_policy_operator() and get_value_operator() methods, which
     will both return a stand-alone TDModule with the dedicated functionality.
@@ -1043,6 +1021,7 @@ class ActorCriticWrapper(SafeSequential):
         >>> import torch
         >>> from tensordict import TensorDict
         >>> from tensordict.nn import TensorDictModule
+        >>> from torchrl.data import UnboundedContinuousTensorSpec, BoundedTensorSpec
         >>> from torchrl.modules import (
         ...      ActorCriticWrapper,
         ...      ProbabilisticActor,
@@ -1050,6 +1029,7 @@ class ActorCriticWrapper(SafeSequential):
         ...      TanhNormal,
         ...      ValueOperator,
         ...  )
+        >>> action_spec = BoundedTensorSpec(-1, 1, torch.Size([8]))
         >>> action_module = TensorDictModule(
         ...        NormalParamWrapper(torch.nn.Linear(4, 8)),
         ...        in_keys=["observation"],
@@ -1057,6 +1037,7 @@ class ActorCriticWrapper(SafeSequential):
         ...    )
         >>> td_module_action = ProbabilisticActor(
         ...    module=action_module,
+        ...    spec=action_spec,
         ...    in_keys=["loc", "scale"],
         ...    distribution_class=TanhNormal,
         ...    return_log_prob=True,
diff --git a/torchrl/objectives/common.py b/torchrl/objectives/common.py
index 5c4bc835e5c..770d3f3e406 100644
--- a/torchrl/objectives/common.py
+++ b/torchrl/objectives/common.py
@@ -102,10 +102,6 @@ def convert_to_functional(
         params = make_functional(module, funs_to_decorate=funs_to_decorate)
         functional_module = deepcopy(module)
         repopulate_module(module, params)
-        # params = make_functional(
-        #     module, funs_to_decorate=funs_to_decorate, keep_params=True
-        # )
-        # functional_module = module
 
         params_and_buffers = params
         # we transform the buffers in params to make sure they follow the device
@@ -284,8 +280,7 @@ def _target_param_getter(self, network_name):
                     value_to_set = getattr(
                         self, "_sep_".join(["_target_" + network_name, *key])
                     )
-                    # _set is faster bc is bypasses the checks
-                    target_params._set(key, value_to_set)
+                    target_params.set(key, value_to_set)
                 return target_params
             else:
                 params = getattr(self, param_name)
@@ -397,7 +392,7 @@ def make_value_estimator(self, value_type: ValueEstimators, **hyperparams):
         this method.
 
         Args:
-            value_type (ValueEstimators): A :class:`torchrl.objectives.utils.ValueEstimators`
+            value_type (ValueEstimators): A :class:`torchrl.objectives.utils.ValueFunctions`
                 enum type indicating the value function to use.
             **hyperparams: hyperparameters to use for the value function.
                 If not provided, the value indicated by
diff --git a/torchrl/objectives/ddpg.py b/torchrl/objectives/ddpg.py
index 917f5df44c6..c1cacd7349e 100644
--- a/torchrl/objectives/ddpg.py
+++ b/torchrl/objectives/ddpg.py
@@ -99,6 +99,12 @@ def forward(self, input_tensordict: TensorDictBase) -> TensorDict:
             a tuple of 2 tensors containing the DDPG loss.
 
         """
+        if not input_tensordict.device == self.device:
+            raise RuntimeError(
+                f"Got device={input_tensordict.device} but "
+                f"actor_network.device={self.device} (self.device={self.device})"
+            )
+
         loss_value, td_error, pred_val, target_value = self._loss_value(
             input_tensordict,
         )
diff --git a/torchrl/objectives/dqn.py b/torchrl/objectives/dqn.py
index 70957785fa7..e584b894ed7 100644
--- a/torchrl/objectives/dqn.py
+++ b/torchrl/objectives/dqn.py
@@ -189,12 +189,10 @@ class DistributionalDQNLoss(LossModule):
         value_network (DistributionalQValueActor or nn.Module): the distributional Q
             value operator.
         gamma (scalar): a discount factor for return computation.
-
             .. note::
               Unlike :class:`DQNLoss`, this class does not currently support
               custom value functions. The next value estimation is always
               bootstrapped.
-
         delay_value (bool): whether to duplicate the value network into a new
             target value network to create double DQN
     """
diff --git a/torchrl/objectives/sac.py b/torchrl/objectives/sac.py
index 2d8498286a0..0503ecffb25 100644
--- a/torchrl/objectives/sac.py
+++ b/torchrl/objectives/sac.py
@@ -49,11 +49,9 @@ class SACLoss(LossModule):
             This module typically outputs a ``"state_action_value"`` entry.
         value_network (TensorDictModule, optional): V(s) parametric model.
             This module typically outputs a ``"state_value"`` entry.
-
             .. note::
               If not provided, the second version of SAC is assumed, where
               only the Q-Value network is needed.
-
         num_qvalue_nets (integer, optional): number of Q-Value networks used.
             Defaults to ``2``.
         priority_key (str, optional): tensordict key where to write the
diff --git a/torchrl/objectives/utils.py b/torchrl/objectives/utils.py
index 3af554935a9..3daf5e70876 100644
--- a/torchrl/objectives/utils.py
+++ b/torchrl/objectives/utils.py
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
 _GAMMA_LMBDA_DEPREC_WARNING = (
     "Passing gamma / lambda parameters through the loss constructor "
     "is deprecated and will be removed soon. To customize your value function, "
-    "run `loss_module.make_value_estimator(ValueEstimators.<value_fun>, gamma=val)`."
+    "run `loss_module.make_value_estimator(ValueFunctions.<value_fun>, gamma=val)`."
 )
 
 
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ def default_value_kwargs(value_type: ValueEstimators):
 
     Args:
         value_type (Enum.value): the value function type, from the
-        :class:`torchrl.objectives.utils.ValueEstimators` class.
+        :class:`torchrl.objectives.utils.ValueFunctions` class.
 
     Examples:
         >>> kwargs = default_value_kwargs(ValueEstimators.TDLambda)
@@ -242,18 +242,15 @@ def __repr__(self) -> str:
 
 
 class SoftUpdate(TargetNetUpdater):
-    r"""A soft-update class for target network update in Double DQN/DDPG.
+    """A soft-update class for target network update in Double DQN/DDPG.
 
     This was proposed in "CONTINUOUS CONTROL WITH DEEP REINFORCEMENT LEARNING", https://arxiv.org/pdf/1509.02971.pdf
 
     Args:
         loss_module (DQNLoss or DDPGLoss): loss module where the target network should be updated.
         eps (scalar): epsilon in the update equation:
-            .. math::
-
-                \theta_t = \theta_{t-1} * \epsilon + \theta_t * (1-\epsilon)
-
-            Defaults to 0.999
+            param = prev_param * eps + new_param * (1-eps)
+            default: 0.999
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -267,7 +264,7 @@ def __init__(
         ],
         eps: float = 0.999,
     ):
-        if not (eps <= 1.0 and eps >= 0.0):
+        if not (eps < 1.0 and eps > 0.0):
             raise ValueError(
                 f"Got eps = {eps} when it was supposed to be between 0 and 1."
             )
diff --git a/torchrl/objectives/value/advantages.py b/torchrl/objectives/value/advantages.py
index e6e42fef55f..14799118990 100644
--- a/torchrl/objectives/value/advantages.py
+++ b/torchrl/objectives/value/advantages.py
@@ -132,12 +132,10 @@ class TD0Estimator(ValueEstimatorBase):
             before the TD is computed.
         differentiable (bool, optional): if ``True``, gradients are propagated through
             the computation of the value function. Default is ``False``.
-
             .. note::
               The proper way to make the function call non-differentiable is to
               decorate it in a `torch.no_grad()` context manager/decorator or
               pass detached parameters for functional modules.
-
         advantage_key (str or tuple of str, optional): the key of the advantage entry.
             Defaults to "advantage".
         value_target_key (str or tuple of str, optional): the key of the advantage entry.
@@ -321,12 +319,10 @@ class TD1Estimator(ValueEstimatorBase):
             before the TD is computed.
         differentiable (bool, optional): if ``True``, gradients are propagated through
             the computation of the value function. Default is ``False``.
-
             .. note::
               The proper way to make the function call non-differentiable is to
               decorate it in a `torch.no_grad()` context manager/decorator or
               pass detached parameters for functional modules.
-
         advantage_key (str or tuple of str, optional): the key of the advantage entry.
             Defaults to "advantage".
         value_target_key (str or tuple of str, optional): the key of the advantage entry.
@@ -510,12 +506,10 @@ class TDLambdaEstimator(ValueEstimatorBase):
             before the TD is computed.
         differentiable (bool, optional): if ``True``, gradients are propagated through
             the computation of the value function. Default is ``False``.
-
             .. note::
               The proper way to make the function call non-differentiable is to
               decorate it in a `torch.no_grad()` context manager/decorator or
               pass detached parameters for functional modules.
-
         vectorized (bool, optional): whether to use the vectorized version of the
             lambda return. Default is `True`.
         advantage_key (str or tuple of str, optional): the key of the advantage entry.
@@ -716,12 +710,10 @@ class GAE(ValueEstimatorBase):
             Default is ``False``.
         differentiable (bool, optional): if ``True``, gradients are propagated through
             the computation of the value function. Default is ``False``.
-
             .. note::
               The proper way to make the function call non-differentiable is to
               decorate it in a `torch.no_grad()` context manager/decorator or
               pass detached parameters for functional modules.
-
         advantage_key (str or tuple of str, optional): the key of the advantage entry.
             Defaults to "advantage".
         value_target_key (str or tuple of str, optional): the key of the advantage entry.
diff --git a/torchrl/record/loggers/csv.py b/torchrl/record/loggers/csv.py
index 90aa41a742e..69120bf1110 100644
--- a/torchrl/record/loggers/csv.py
+++ b/torchrl/record/loggers/csv.py
@@ -74,7 +74,6 @@ def __init__(self, exp_name: str, log_dir: Optional[str] = None) -> None:
         super().__init__(exp_name=exp_name, log_dir=log_dir)
 
         self._has_imported_moviepy = False
-        print(f"self.log_dir: {self.experiment.log_dir}")
 
     def _create_experiment(self) -> "CSVExperiment":
         """Creates a CSV experiment."""
diff --git a/torchrl/trainers/trainers.py b/torchrl/trainers/trainers.py
index 69f33b796de..cbd1a66cb77 100644
--- a/torchrl/trainers/trainers.py
+++ b/torchrl/trainers/trainers.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@
 
 from torchrl._utils import _CKPT_BACKEND, KeyDependentDefaultDict, VERBOSE
 from torchrl.collectors.collectors import DataCollectorBase
-from torchrl.collectors.utils import split_trajectories
 from torchrl.data import TensorDictPrioritizedReplayBuffer, TensorDictReplayBuffer
 from torchrl.data.utils import DEVICE_TYPING
 from torchrl.envs.common import EnvBase
@@ -71,17 +70,6 @@ def load_state_dict(self, state_dict: Dict[str, Any]) -> None:
 
     @abc.abstractmethod
     def register(self, trainer: Trainer, name: str):
-        """Registers the hook in the trainer at a default location.
-
-        Args:
-            trainer (Trainer): the trainer where the hook must be registered.
-            name (str): the name of the hook.
-
-        .. note::
-          To register the hook at another location than the default, use
-          :meth:`torchrl.trainers.Trainer.register_op`.
-
-        """
         raise NotImplementedError
 
 
@@ -107,25 +95,24 @@ class Trainer:
         optimizer (optim.Optimizer): An optimizer that trains the parameters
             of the model.
         logger (Logger, optional): a Logger that will handle the logging.
-        optim_steps_per_batch (int): number of optimization steps
+        optim_steps_per_batch (int, optional): number of optimization steps
             per collection of data. An trainer works as follows: a main loop
             collects batches of data (epoch loop), and a sub-loop (training
             loop) performs model updates in between two collections of data.
+            Default is 500
         clip_grad_norm (bool, optional): If True, the gradients will be clipped
             based on the total norm of the model parameters. If False,
             all the partial derivatives will be clamped to
             (-clip_norm, clip_norm). Default is :obj:`True`.
         clip_norm (Number, optional): value to be used for clipping gradients.
-            Default is None (no clip norm).
+            Default is 100.0.
         progress_bar (bool, optional): If True, a progress bar will be
             displayed using tqdm. If tqdm is not installed, this option
             won't have any effect. Default is :obj:`True`
         seed (int, optional): Seed to be used for the collector, pytorch and
-            numpy. Default is ``None``.
+            numpy. Default is 42.
         save_trainer_interval (int, optional): How often the trainer should be
-            saved to disk, in frame count. Default is 10000.
-        log_interval (int, optional): How often the values should be logged,
-            in frame count. Default is 10000.
+            saved to disk. Default is 10000.
         save_trainer_file (path, optional): path where to save the trainer.
             Default is None (no saving)
     """
@@ -137,26 +124,25 @@ def __new__(cls, *args, **kwargs):
         cls._collected_frames: int = 0
         cls._last_log: Dict[str, Any] = {}
         cls._last_save: int = 0
+        cls._log_interval: int = 10000
         cls.collected_frames = 0
         cls._app_state = None
         return super().__new__(cls)
 
     def __init__(
         self,
-        *,
         collector: DataCollectorBase,
         total_frames: int,
         frame_skip: int,
-        optim_steps_per_batch: int,
         loss_module: Union[LossModule, Callable[[TensorDictBase], TensorDictBase]],
         optimizer: Optional[optim.Optimizer] = None,
         logger: Optional[Logger] = None,
+        optim_steps_per_batch: int = 500,
         clip_grad_norm: bool = True,
-        clip_norm: float = None,
+        clip_norm: float = 100.0,
         progress_bar: bool = True,
-        seed: int = None,
+        seed: int = 42,
         save_trainer_interval: int = 10000,
-        log_interval: int = 10000,
         save_trainer_file: Optional[Union[str, pathlib.Path]] = None,
     ) -> None:
 
@@ -167,12 +153,9 @@ def __init__(
         self.optimizer = optimizer
         self.logger = logger
 
-        self._log_interval = log_interval
-
         # seeding
         self.seed = seed
-        if seed is not None:
-            self.set_seed()
+        self.set_seed()
 
         # constants
         self.optim_steps_per_batch = optim_steps_per_batch
@@ -438,6 +421,7 @@ def train(self):
 
         for batch in self.collector:
             batch = self._process_batch_hook(batch)
+            self._pre_steps_log_hook(batch)
             current_frames = (
                 batch.get(("collector", "mask"), torch.tensor(batch.numel()))
                 .sum()
@@ -445,7 +429,6 @@ def train(self):
                 * self.frame_skip
             )
             self.collected_frames += current_frames
-            self._pre_steps_log_hook(batch)
 
             if self.collected_frames > self.collector.init_random_frames:
                 self.optim_steps(batch)
@@ -506,6 +489,7 @@ def _log(self, log_pbar=False, **kwargs) -> None:
         collected_frames = self.collected_frames
         for key, item in kwargs.items():
             self._log_dict[key].append(item)
+
             if (collected_frames - self._last_log.get(key, 0)) > self._log_interval:
                 self._last_log[key] = collected_frames
                 _log = True
@@ -617,10 +601,8 @@ class ReplayBufferTrainer(TrainerHookBase):
 
     Args:
         replay_buffer (TensorDictReplayBuffer): replay buffer to be used.
-        batch_size (int, optional): batch size when sampling data from the
-            latest collection or from the replay buffer. If none is provided,
-            the replay buffer batch-size will be used (preferred option for
-            unchanged batch-sizes).
+        batch_size (int): batch size when sampling data from the
+            latest collection or from the replay buffer.
         memmap (bool, optional): if ``True``, a memmap tensordict is created.
             Default is False.
         device (device, optional): device where the samples must be placed.
@@ -648,7 +630,7 @@ class ReplayBufferTrainer(TrainerHookBase):
     def __init__(
         self,
         replay_buffer: TensorDictReplayBuffer,
-        batch_size: Optional[int] = None,
+        batch_size: int,
         memmap: bool = False,
         device: DEVICE_TYPING = "cpu",
         flatten_tensordicts: bool = True,
@@ -658,12 +640,6 @@ def __init__(
         self.batch_size = batch_size
         self.memmap = memmap
         self.device = device
-        if flatten_tensordicts:
-            warnings.warn(
-                "flatten_tensordicts default value will soon be changed "
-                "to False for a faster execution. Make sure your "
-                "code is robust to this change."
-            )
         self.flatten_tensordicts = flatten_tensordicts
         self.max_dims = max_dims
 
@@ -692,7 +668,7 @@ def extend(self, batch: TensorDictBase) -> TensorDictBase:
         self.replay_buffer.extend(batch)
 
     def sample(self, batch: TensorDictBase) -> TensorDictBase:
-        sample = self.replay_buffer.sample(batch_size=self.batch_size)
+        sample = self.replay_buffer.sample(self.batch_size)
         return sample.to(self.device, non_blocking=True)
 
     def update_priority(self, batch: TensorDictBase) -> None:
@@ -750,12 +726,11 @@ def _grad_clip(self, clip_grad_norm: bool, clip_norm: float) -> float:
         for param_group in self.optimizer.param_groups:
             params += param_group["params"]
 
-        if clip_grad_norm and clip_norm is not None:
+        if clip_grad_norm:
             gn = nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(params, clip_norm)
         else:
             gn = sum([p.grad.pow(2).sum() for p in params if p.grad is not None]).sqrt()
-            if clip_norm is not None:
-                nn.utils.clip_grad_value_(params, clip_norm)
+            nn.utils.clip_grad_value_(params, clip_norm)
 
         return float(gn)
 
@@ -1118,7 +1093,7 @@ def register(self, trainer: Trainer, name: str = "batch_subsampler"):
 
 
 class Recorder(TrainerHookBase):
-    """Recorder hook for :class:`torchrl.trainers.Trainer`.
+    """Recorder hook for Trainer.
 
     Args:
         record_interval (int): total number of optimisation steps
@@ -1130,7 +1105,7 @@ class Recorder(TrainerHookBase):
             each iteration, otherwise the frame count can be underestimated.
             For logging, this parameter is important to normalize the reward.
             Finally, to compare different runs with different frame_skip,
-            one must normalize the frame count and rewards. Defaults to ``1``.
+            one must normalize the frame count and rewards. Default is 1.
         policy_exploration (ProbabilisticTDModule): a policy
             instance used for
 
@@ -1142,48 +1117,35 @@ class Recorder(TrainerHookBase):
             the performance of the policy, it should be possible to turn off
             the explorative behaviour by calling the
             `set_exploration_mode('mode')` context manager.
-        environment (EnvBase): An environment instance to be used
+        recorder (EnvBase): An environment instance to be used
             for testing.
         exploration_mode (str, optional): exploration mode to use for the
             policy. By default, no exploration is used and the value used is
             "mode". Set to "random" to enable exploration
-        log_keys (sequence of str or tuples or str, optional): keys to read in the tensordict
-            for logging. Defaults to ``[("next", "reward")]``.
-        out_keys (Dict[str, str], optional): a dictionary mapping the ``log_keys``
-            to their name in the logs. Defaults to ``{("next", "reward"): "r_evaluation"}``.
+        out_key (str, optional): reward key to set to the logger. Default is
+            `"reward_evaluation"`.
         suffix (str, optional): suffix of the video to be recorded.
         log_pbar (bool, optional): if ``True``, the reward value will be logged on
             the progression bar. Default is `False`.
 
     """
 
-    ENV_DEPREC = (
-        "the environment should be passed under the 'environment' key"
-        " and not the 'recorder' key."
-    )
-
     def __init__(
         self,
-        *,
         record_interval: int,
         record_frames: int,
-        frame_skip: int = 1,
+        frame_skip: int,
         policy_exploration: TensorDictModule,
-        environment: EnvBase = None,
+        recorder: EnvBase,
         exploration_mode: str = "random",
-        log_keys: Optional[List[Union[str, Tuple[str]]]] = None,
-        out_keys: Optional[Dict[Union[str, Tuple[str]], str]] = None,
+        log_keys: Optional[List[str]] = None,
+        out_keys: Optional[Dict[str, str]] = None,
         suffix: Optional[str] = None,
         log_pbar: bool = False,
-        recorder: EnvBase = None,
     ) -> None:
-        if environment is None and recorder is not None:
-            warnings.warn(self.ENV_DEPREC)
-            environment = recorder
-        elif environment is not None and recorder is not None:
-            raise ValueError("environment and recorder conflict.")
+
         self.policy_exploration = policy_exploration
-        self.environment = environment
+        self.recorder = recorder
         self.record_frames = record_frames
         self.frame_skip = frame_skip
         self._count = 0
@@ -1206,45 +1168,43 @@ def __call__(self, batch: TensorDictBase) -> Dict:
             with set_exploration_mode(self.exploration_mode):
                 if isinstance(self.policy_exploration, torch.nn.Module):
                     self.policy_exploration.eval()
-                self.environment.eval()
-                td_record = self.environment.rollout(
+                self.recorder.eval()
+                td_record = self.recorder.rollout(
                     policy=self.policy_exploration,
                     max_steps=self.record_frames,
                     auto_reset=True,
                     auto_cast_to_device=True,
                     break_when_any_done=False,
                 ).clone()
-                td_record = split_trajectories(td_record)
                 if isinstance(self.policy_exploration, torch.nn.Module):
                     self.policy_exploration.train()
-                self.environment.train()
-                self.environment.transform.dump(suffix=self.suffix)
+                self.recorder.train()
+                self.recorder.transform.dump(suffix=self.suffix)
 
                 out = {}
                 for key in self.log_keys:
                     value = td_record.get(key).float()
                     if key == ("next", "reward"):
-                        mask = td_record["mask"]
-                        mean_value = value[mask].mean() / self.frame_skip
-                        total_value = value.sum(dim=td_record.ndim - 1).mean()
+                        mean_value = value.mean() / self.frame_skip
+                        total_value = value.sum()
                         out[self.out_keys[key]] = mean_value
                         out["total_" + self.out_keys[key]] = total_value
                         continue
                     out[self.out_keys[key]] = value
                 out["log_pbar"] = self.log_pbar
         self._count += 1
-        self.environment.close()
+        self.recorder.close()
         return out
 
     def state_dict(self) -> Dict:
         return {
             "_count": self._count,
-            "recorder_state_dict": self.environment.state_dict(),
+            "recorder_state_dict": self.recorder.state_dict(),
         }
 
     def load_state_dict(self, state_dict: Dict) -> None:
         self._count = state_dict["_count"]
-        self.environment.load_state_dict(state_dict["recorder_state_dict"])
+        self.recorder.load_state_dict(state_dict["recorder_state_dict"])
 
     def register(self, trainer: Trainer, name: str = "recorder"):
         trainer.register_module(name, self)
diff --git a/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_ddpg.py b/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_ddpg.py
index 53a6ae10e47..6b2c87b66c7 100644
--- a/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_ddpg.py
+++ b/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_ddpg.py
@@ -1,33 +1,28 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """
-TorchRL objectives: Coding a DDPG loss
-======================================
+Coding DDPG using TorchRL
+=========================
 **Author**: `Vincent Moens <https://github.com/vmoens>`_
 
 """
-
 ##############################################################################
-# TorchRL separates the training of RL algorithms in various pieces that will be
-# assembled in your training script: the environment, the data collection and
-# storage, the model and finally the loss function.
-#
-# TorchRL losses (or "objectives") are stateful objects that contain the
-# trainable parameters (policy and value models).
-# This tutorial will guide you through the steps to code a loss from the ground up
-# using torchrl.
+# This tutorial will guide you through the steps to code DDPG from scratch.
 #
-# To this aim, we will be focusing on DDPG, which is a relatively straightforward
-# algorithm to code.
 # DDPG (`Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient <https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.02971>_`_)
 # is a simple continuous control algorithm. It consists in learning a
 # parametric value function for an action-observation pair, and
 # then learning a policy that outputs actions that maximise this value
 # function given a certain observation.
 #
+# This tutorial is more  than the PPO tutorial: it covers
+# multiple topics that were left aside. We strongly advise the reader to go
+# through the PPO tutorial first before trying out this one. The goal is to
+# show how flexible torchrl is when it comes to writing scripts that can cover
+# multiple use cases.
+#
 # Key learnings:
 #
-# - how to write a loss module and customize its value estimator;
-# - how to build an environment in torchrl, including transforms
+# - how to build an environment in TorchRL, including transforms
 #   (e.g. data normalization) and parallel execution;
 # - how to design a policy and value network;
 # - how to collect data from your environment efficiently and store them
@@ -35,355 +30,67 @@
 # - how to store trajectories (and not transitions) in your replay buffer);
 # - and finally how to evaluate your model.
 #
-# This tutorial assumes that you have completed the PPO tutorial which gives
-# an overview of the torchrl components and dependencies, such as
-# :class:`tensordict.TensorDict` and :class:`tensordict.nn.TensorDictModules`,
-# although it should be
+# This tutorial assumes the reader is familiar with some of TorchRL primitives,
+# such as :class:`tensordict.TensorDict` and
+# :class:`tensordict.nn.TensorDictModules`, although it should be
 # sufficiently transparent to be understood without a deep understanding of
 # these classes.
 #
-# .. note::
-#   We do not aim at giving a SOTA implementation of the algorithm, but rather
-#   to provide a high-level illustration of torchrl's loss implementations
-#   and the library features that are to be used in the context of
-#   this algorithm.
+# We do not aim at giving a SOTA implementation of the algorithm, but rather
+# to provide a high-level illustration of TorchRL features in the context of
+# this algorithm.
 #
-# Imports and setup
-# -----------------
+# Imports
+# -------
 #
 
 # sphinx_gallery_start_ignore
 import warnings
-from typing import Tuple
 
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
 # sphinx_gallery_end_ignore
 
+from copy import deepcopy
+
+import numpy as np
+import torch
 import torch.cuda
 import tqdm
-
-
-###############################################################################
-# We will execute the policy on cuda if available
-device = (
-    torch.device("cpu") if torch.cuda.device_count() == 0 else torch.device("cuda:0")
-)
-
-###############################################################################
-# torchrl :class:`torchrl.objectives.LossModule`
-# ----------------------------------------------
-#
-# TorchRL provides a series of losses to use in your training scripts.
-# The aim is to have losses that are easily reusable/swappable and that have
-# a simple signature.
-#
-# The main characteristics of TorchRL losses are:
-#
-# - they are stateful objects: they contain a copy of the trainable parameters
-#   such that ``loss_module.parameters()`` gives whatever is needed to train the
-#   algorithm.
-# - They follow the ``tensordict`` convention: the :meth:`torch.nn.Module.forward`
-#   method will receive a tensordict as input that contains all the necessary
-#   information to return a loss value.
-#
-#       >>> data = replay_buffer.sample()
-#       >>> loss_dict = loss_module(data)
-#
-# - They output a :class:`tensordict.TensorDict` instance with the loss values
-#   written under a ``"loss_<smth>"`` where ``smth`` is a string describing the
-#   loss. Additional keys in the tensordict may be useful metrics to log during
-#   training time.
-#   .. note::
-#     The reason we return independent losses is to let the user use a different
-#     optimizer for different sets of parameters for instance. Summing the losses
-#     can be simply done via
-#
-#       >>> loss_val = sum(loss for key, loss in loss_dict.items() if key.startswith("loss_"))
-#
-# The ``__init__`` method
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-#
-# The parent class of all losses is :class:`torchrl.objectives.LossModule`.
-# As many other components of the library, its :meth:`torchrl.objectives.LossModule.forward` method expects
-# as input a :class:`tensordict.TensorDict` instance sampled from an experience
-# replay buffer, or any similar data structure. Using this format makes it
-# possible to re-use the module across
-# modalities, or in complex settings where the model needs to read multiple
-# entries for instance. In other words, it allows us to code a loss module that
-# is oblivious to the data type that is being given to is and that focuses on
-# running the elementary steps of the loss function and only those.
-#
-# To keep the tutorial as didactic as we can, we'll be displaying each method
-# of the class independently and we'll be populating the class at a later
-# stage.
-#
-# Let us start with the :meth:`torchrl.objectives.LossModule.__init__`
-# method. DDPG aims at solving a control task with a simple strategy:
-# training a policy to output actions that maximise the value predicted by
-# a value network. Hence, our loss module needs to receive two networks in its
-# constructor: an actor and a value networks. We expect both of these to be
-# tensordict-compatible objects, such as
-# :class:`tensordict.nn.TensorDictModule`.
-# Our loss function will need to compute a target value and fit the value
-# network to this, and generate an action and fit the policy such that its
-# value estimate is maximised.
-#
-# The crucial step of the :meth:`LossModule.__init__` method is the call to
-# :meth:`torchrl.LossModule.convert_to_functional`. This method will extract
-# the parameters from the module and convert it to a functional module.
-# Strictly speaking, this is not necessary and one may perfectly code all
-# the losses without it. However, we encourage its usage for the following
-# reason.
-#
-# The reason TorchRL does this is that RL algorithms often execute the same
-# model with different sets of parameters, called "trainable" and "target"
-# parameters.
-# The "trainable" parameters are those that the optimizer needs to fit. The
-# "target" parameters are usually a copy of the formers with some time lag
-# (absolute or diluted through a moving average).
-# These target parameters are used to compute the value associated with the
-# next observation. One the advantages of using a set of target parameters
-# for the value model that do not match exactly the current configuration is
-# that they provide a pessimistic bound on the value function being computed.
-# Pay attention to the ``create_target_params`` keyword argument below: this
-# argument tells the :meth:`torchrl.objectives.LossModule.convert_to_functional`
-# method to create a set of target parameters in the loss module to be used
-# for target value computation. If this is set to ``False`` (see the actor network
-# for instance) the ``target_actor_network_params`` attribute will still be
-# accessible but this will just return a **detached** version of the
-# actor parameters.
-#
-# Later, we will see how the target parameters should be updated in torchrl.
-#
-
+from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
 from tensordict.nn import TensorDictModule
-
-
-def _init(
-    self,
-    actor_network: TensorDictModule,
-    value_network: TensorDictModule,
-) -> None:
-    super(type(self), self).__init__()
-
-    self.convert_to_functional(
-        actor_network,
-        "actor_network",
-        create_target_params=True,
-    )
-    self.convert_to_functional(
-        value_network,
-        "value_network",
-        create_target_params=True,
-        compare_against=list(actor_network.parameters()),
-    )
-
-    self.actor_in_keys = actor_network.in_keys
-
-    # Since the value we'll be using is based on the actor and value network,
-    # we put them together in a single actor-critic container.
-    actor_critic = ActorCriticWrapper(actor_network, value_network)
-    self.actor_critic = actor_critic
-    self.loss_funtion = "l2"
-
-
-###############################################################################
-# The value estimator loss method
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-#
-# In many RL algorithm, the value network (or Q-value network) is trained based
-# on an empirical value estimate. This can be bootstrapped (TD(0), low
-# variance, high bias), meaning
-# that the target value is obtained using the next reward and nothing else, or
-# a Monte-Carlo estimate can be obtained (TD(1)) in which case the whole
-# sequence of upcoming rewards will be used (high variance, low bias). An
-# intermediate estimator (TD(:math:`\lambda`)) can also be used to compromise
-# bias and variance.
-# TorchRL makes it easy to use one or the other estimator via the
-# :class:`torchrl.objectives.utils.ValueEstimators` Enum class, which contains
-# pointers to all the value estimators implemented. Let us define the default
-# value function here. We will take the simplest version (TD(0)), and show later
-# on how this can be changed.
-
-from torchrl.objectives.utils import ValueEstimators
-
-default_value_estimator = ValueEstimators.TD0
-
-###############################################################################
-# We also need to give some instructions to DDPG on how to build the value
-# estimator, depending on the user query. Depending on the estimator provided,
-# we will build the corresponding module to be used at train time:
-
-from torchrl.objectives.utils import default_value_kwargs
-from torchrl.objectives.value import TD0Estimator, TD1Estimator, TDLambdaEstimator
-
-
-def make_value_estimator(self, value_type: ValueEstimators, **hyperparams):
-    hp = dict(default_value_kwargs(value_type))
-    if hasattr(self, "gamma"):
-        hp["gamma"] = self.gamma
-    hp.update(hyperparams)
-    value_key = "state_action_value"
-    if value_type == ValueEstimators.TD1:
-        self._value_estimator = TD1Estimator(
-            value_network=self.actor_critic, value_key=value_key, **hp
-        )
-    elif value_type == ValueEstimators.TD0:
-        self._value_estimator = TD0Estimator(
-            value_network=self.actor_critic, value_key=value_key, **hp
-        )
-    elif value_type == ValueEstimators.GAE:
-        raise NotImplementedError(
-            f"Value type {value_type} it not implemented for loss {type(self)}."
-        )
-    elif value_type == ValueEstimators.TDLambda:
-        self._value_estimator = TDLambdaEstimator(
-            value_network=self.actor_critic, value_key=value_key, **hp
-        )
-    else:
-        raise NotImplementedError(f"Unknown value type {value_type}")
-
-
-###############################################################################
-# The ``make_value_estimator`` method can but does not need to be called: if
-# not, the :class:`torchrl.objectives.LossModule` will query this method with
-# its default estimator.
-#
-# The actor loss method
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-#
-# The central piece of an RL algorithm is the training loss for the actor.
-# In the case of DDPG, this function is quite simple: we just need to compute
-# the value associated with an action computed using the policy and optimize
-# the actor weights to maximise this value.
-#
-# When computing this value, we must make sure to take the value parameters out
-# of the graph, otherwise the actor and value loss will be mixed up.
-# For this, the :func:`torchrl.objectives.utils.hold_out_params` function
-# can be used.
-
-
-def _loss_actor(
-    self,
-    tensordict,
-) -> torch.Tensor:
-    td_copy = tensordict.select(*self.actor_in_keys)
-    # Get an action from the actor network
-    td_copy = self.actor_network(
-        td_copy,
-    )
-    # get the value associated with that action
-    td_copy = self.value_network(
-        td_copy,
-        params=self.value_network_params.detach(),
-    )
-    return -td_copy.get("state_action_value")
-
-
-###############################################################################
-# The value loss method
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-#
-# We now need to optimize our value network parameters.
-# To do this, we will rely on the value estimator of our class:
-#
-
-from torchrl.objectives.utils import distance_loss
-
-
-def _loss_value(
-    self,
-    tensordict,
-) -> Tuple[torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor, torch.Tensor]:
-    td_copy = tensordict.clone()
-
-    # V(s, a)
-    self.value_network(td_copy, params=self.value_network_params)
-    pred_val = td_copy.get("state_action_value").squeeze(-1)
-
-    # we manually reconstruct the parameters of the actor-critic, where the first
-    # set of parameters belongs to the actor and the second to the value function.
-    target_params = TensorDict(
-        {
-            "module": {
-                "0": self.target_actor_network_params,
-                "1": self.target_value_network_params,
-            }
-        },
-        batch_size=self.target_actor_network_params.batch_size,
-        device=self.target_actor_network_params.device,
-    )
-    target_value = self.value_estimator.value_estimate(
-        tensordict, target_params=target_params
-    ).squeeze(-1)
-
-    # Computes the value loss: L2, L1 or smooth L1 depending on self.loss_funtion
-    loss_value = distance_loss(pred_val, target_value, loss_function=self.loss_funtion)
-    td_error = (pred_val - target_value).pow(2)
-
-    return loss_value, td_error, pred_val, target_value
-
-
-###############################################################################
-# Putting things together in a forward call
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-#
-# The only missing piece is the forward method, which will glue together the
-# value and actor loss, collect the cost values and write them in a tensordict
-# delivered to the user.
-
-from tensordict.tensordict import TensorDict, TensorDictBase
-
-
-def _forward(self, input_tensordict: TensorDictBase) -> TensorDict:
-    loss_value, td_error, pred_val, target_value = self.loss_value(
-        input_tensordict,
-    )
-    td_error = td_error.detach()
-    td_error = td_error.unsqueeze(input_tensordict.ndimension())
-    if input_tensordict.device is not None:
-        td_error = td_error.to(input_tensordict.device)
-    input_tensordict.set(
-        "td_error",
-        td_error,
-        inplace=True,
-    )
-    loss_actor = self.loss_actor(input_tensordict)
-    return TensorDict(
-        source={
-            "loss_actor": loss_actor.mean(),
-            "loss_value": loss_value.mean(),
-            "pred_value": pred_val.mean().detach(),
-            "target_value": target_value.mean().detach(),
-            "pred_value_max": pred_val.max().detach(),
-            "target_value_max": target_value.max().detach(),
-        },
-        batch_size=[],
-    )
-
-
-from torchrl.objectives import LossModule
-
-
-class DDPGLoss(LossModule):
-    default_value_estimator = default_value_estimator
-    make_value_estimator = make_value_estimator
-
-    __init__ = _init
-    forward = _forward
-    loss_value = _loss_value
-    loss_actor = _loss_actor
-
+from torch import nn, optim
+from torchrl.collectors import MultiaSyncDataCollector
+from torchrl.data import CompositeSpec, TensorDictReplayBuffer
+from torchrl.data.postprocs import MultiStep
+from torchrl.data.replay_buffers.samplers import PrioritizedSampler, RandomSampler
+from torchrl.data.replay_buffers.storages import LazyMemmapStorage
+from torchrl.envs import (
+    CatTensors,
+    DoubleToFloat,
+    EnvCreator,
+    ObservationNorm,
+    ParallelEnv,
+)
+from torchrl.envs.libs.dm_control import DMControlEnv
+from torchrl.envs.libs.gym import GymEnv
+from torchrl.envs.transforms import RewardScaling, TransformedEnv
+from torchrl.envs.utils import set_exploration_mode, step_mdp
+from torchrl.modules import (
+    MLP,
+    OrnsteinUhlenbeckProcessWrapper,
+    ProbabilisticActor,
+    ValueOperator,
+)
+from torchrl.modules.distributions.continuous import TanhDelta
+from torchrl.objectives.utils import hold_out_net
+from torchrl.trainers import Recorder
 
 ###############################################################################
-# Now that we have our loss, we can use it to train a policy to solve a
-# control task.
-#
 # Environment
 # -----------
 #
 # In most algorithms, the first thing that needs to be taken care of is the
-# construction of the environment as it conditions the remainder of the
+# construction of the environmet as it conditions the remainder of the
 # training script.
 #
 # For this example, we will be using the ``"cheetah"`` task. The goal is to make
@@ -411,18 +118,15 @@ class DDPGLoss(LossModule):
 #
 #    env = GymEnv("HalfCheetah-v4", from_pixels=True, pixels_only=True)
 #
-# We write a :func:`make_env` helper function that will create an environment
+# We write a :func:`make_env` helper funciton that will create an environment
 # with either one of the two backends considered above (dm-control or gym).
 #
 
-from torchrl.envs.libs.dm_control import DMControlEnv
-from torchrl.envs.libs.gym import GymEnv
-
 env_library = None
 env_name = None
 
 
-def make_env(from_pixels=False):
+def make_env():
     """Create a base env."""
     global env_library
     global env_name
@@ -441,9 +145,9 @@ def make_env(from_pixels=False):
 
     env_kwargs = {
         "device": device,
+        "frame_skip": frame_skip,
         "from_pixels": from_pixels,
         "pixels_only": from_pixels,
-        "frame_skip": 2,
     }
     env = env_library(*env_args, **env_kwargs)
     return env
@@ -451,7 +155,7 @@ def make_env(from_pixels=False):
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Transforms
-# ~~~~~~~~~~
+# ^^^^^^^^^^
 #
 # Now that we have a base environment, we may want to modify its representation
 # to make it more policy-friendly. In TorchRL, transforms are appended to the
@@ -478,17 +182,6 @@ def make_env(from_pixels=False):
 #   take care of computing the normalizing constants later on.
 #
 
-from torchrl.envs import (
-    CatTensors,
-    DoubleToFloat,
-    EnvCreator,
-    ObservationNorm,
-    ParallelEnv,
-    RewardScaling,
-    StepCounter,
-    TransformedEnv,
-)
-
 
 def make_transformed_env(
     env,
@@ -534,14 +227,36 @@ def make_transformed_env(
         )
     )
 
-    env.append_transform(StepCounter(max_frames_per_traj))
-
     return env
 
 
+###############################################################################
+# Normalization of the observations
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+#
+# To compute the normalizing statistics, we run an arbitrary number of random
+# steps in the environment and compute the mean and standard deviation of the
+# collected observations. The :func:`ObservationNorm.init_stats()` method can
+# be used for this purpose. To get the summary statistics, we create a dummy
+# environment and run it for a given number of steps, collect data over a given
+# number of steps and compute its summary statistics.
+#
+
+
+def get_env_stats():
+    """Gets the stats of an environment."""
+    proof_env = make_transformed_env(make_env())
+    proof_env.set_seed(seed)
+    t = proof_env.transform[2]
+    t.init_stats(init_env_steps)
+    transform_state_dict = t.state_dict()
+    proof_env.close()
+    return transform_state_dict
+
+
 ###############################################################################
 # Parallel execution
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 #
 # The following helper function allows us to run environments in parallel.
 # Running environments in parallel can significantly speed up the collection
@@ -567,7 +282,6 @@ def make_transformed_env(
 
 
 def parallel_env_constructor(
-    env_per_collector,
     transform_state_dict,
 ):
     if env_per_collector == 1:
@@ -596,108 +310,36 @@ def make_t_env():
     return env
 
 
-# The backend can be gym or dm_control
-backend = "gym"
-
-###############################################################################
-# .. note::
-#   ``frame_skip`` batches multiple step together with a single action
-#   If > 1, the other frame counts (e.g. frames_per_batch, total_frames) need to
-#   be adjusted to have a consistent total number of frames collected across
-#   experiments. This is important as raising the frame-skip but keeping the
-#   total number of frames unchanged may seem like cheating: all things compared,
-#   a dataset of 10M elements collected with a frame-skip of 2 and another with
-#   a frame-skip of 1 actually have a ratio of interactions with the environment
-#   of 2:1! In a nutshell, one should be cautious about the frame-count of a
-#   training script when dealing with frame skipping as this may lead to
-#   biased comparisons between training strategies.
-#
-
-###############################################################################
-# Scaling the reward helps us control the signal magnitude for a more
-# efficient learning.
-reward_scaling = 5.0
-
-###############################################################################
-# We also define when a trajectory will be truncated. A thousand steps (500 if
-# frame-skip = 2) is a good number to use for cheetah:
-
-max_frames_per_traj = 500
-
-###############################################################################
-# Normalization of the observations
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-#
-# To compute the normalizing statistics, we run an arbitrary number of random
-# steps in the environment and compute the mean and standard deviation of the
-# collected observations. The :func:`ObservationNorm.init_stats()` method can
-# be used for this purpose. To get the summary statistics, we create a dummy
-# environment and run it for a given number of steps, collect data over a given
-# number of steps and compute its summary statistics.
-#
-
-
-def get_env_stats():
-    """Gets the stats of an environment."""
-    proof_env = make_transformed_env(make_env())
-    t = proof_env.transform[2]
-    t.init_stats(init_env_steps)
-    transform_state_dict = t.state_dict()
-    proof_env.close()
-    return transform_state_dict
-
-
-###############################################################################
-# Normalization stats
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-# Number of random steps used as for stats computation using ObservationNorm
-
-init_env_steps = 5000
-
-transform_state_dict = get_env_stats()
-
-###############################################################################
-# Number of environments in each data collector
-env_per_collector = 4
-
-###############################################################################
-# We pass the stats computed earlier to normalize the output of our
-# environment:
-
-parallel_env = parallel_env_constructor(
-    env_per_collector=env_per_collector,
-    transform_state_dict=transform_state_dict,
-)
-
-
-from torchrl.data import CompositeSpec
-
 ###############################################################################
 # Building the model
 # ------------------
 #
-# We now turn to the setup of the model. As we have seen, DDPG requires a
+# We now turn to the setup of the model and loss function. DDPG requires a
 # value network, trained to estimate the value of a state-action pair, and a
 # parametric actor that learns how to select actions that maximize this value.
+# In this tutorial, we will be using two independent networks for these
+# components.
 #
-# Recall that building a TorchRL module requires two steps:
+# Recall that building a torchrl module requires two steps:
 #
-# - writing the :class:`torch.nn.Module` that will be used as network,
+# - writing the :class:`torch.nn.Module` that will be used as network
 # - wrapping the network in a :class:`tensordict.nn.TensorDictModule` where the
 #   data flow is handled by specifying the input and output keys.
 #
 # In more complex scenarios, :class:`tensordict.nn.TensorDictSequential` can
 # also be used.
 #
+# In :func:`make_ddpg_actor`, we use a :class:`torchrl.modules.ProbabilisticActor`
+# object to wrap our policy network. Since DDPG is a deterministic algorithm,
+# this is not strictly necessary. We rely on this class to map the output
+# action to the appropriate domain. Alternatively, one could perfectly use a
+# non-linearity such as :class:`torch.tanh` to map the output to the right
+# domain.
 #
 # The Q-Value network is wrapped in a :class:`torchrl.modules.ValueOperator`
 # that automatically sets the ``out_keys`` to ``"state_action_value`` for q-value
 # networks and ``state_value`` for other value networks.
 #
-# TorchRL provides a built-in version of the DDPG networks as presented in the
-# original paper. These can be found under :class:`torchrl.modules.DdpgMlpActor`
-# and :class:`torchrl.modules.DdpgMlpQNet`.
-#
 # Since we use lazy modules, it is necessary to materialize the lazy modules
 # before being able to move the policy from device to device and achieve other
 # operations. Hence, it is good practice to run the modules with a small
@@ -705,16 +347,6 @@ def get_env_stats():
 # environment specs.
 #
 
-from torchrl.modules import (
-    ActorCriticWrapper,
-    DdpgMlpActor,
-    DdpgMlpQNet,
-    OrnsteinUhlenbeckProcessWrapper,
-    ProbabilisticActor,
-    TanhDelta,
-    ValueOperator,
-)
-
 
 def make_ddpg_actor(
     transform_state_dict,
@@ -725,29 +357,37 @@ def make_ddpg_actor(
     proof_environment.transform[2].load_state_dict(transform_state_dict)
 
     env_specs = proof_environment.specs
-    out_features = env_specs["input_spec"]["action"].shape[-1]
+    out_features = env_specs["input_spec"]["action"].shape[0]
 
-    actor_net = DdpgMlpActor(
-        action_dim=out_features,
+    actor_net = MLP(
+        num_cells=[num_cells] * num_layers,
+        activation_class=nn.Tanh,
+        out_features=out_features,
     )
-
     in_keys = ["observation_vector"]
     out_keys = ["param"]
 
-    actor = TensorDictModule(
-        actor_net,
-        in_keys=in_keys,
-        out_keys=out_keys,
-    )
+    actor_module = TensorDictModule(actor_net, in_keys=in_keys, out_keys=out_keys)
 
+    # We use a ProbabilisticActor to make sure that we map the network output
+    # to the right space using a TanhDelta distribution.
     actor = ProbabilisticActor(
-        actor,
-        distribution_class=TanhDelta,
+        module=actor_module,
         in_keys=["param"],
         spec=CompositeSpec(action=env_specs["input_spec"]["action"]),
+        safe=True,
+        distribution_class=TanhDelta,
+        distribution_kwargs={
+            "min": env_specs["input_spec"]["action"].space.minimum,
+            "max": env_specs["input_spec"]["action"].space.maximum,
+        },
     ).to(device)
 
-    q_net = DdpgMlpQNet()
+    q_net = MLP(
+        num_cells=[num_cells] * num_layers,
+        activation_class=nn.Tanh,
+        out_features=1,
+    )
 
     in_keys = in_keys + ["action"]
     qnet = ValueOperator(
@@ -755,112 +395,17 @@ def make_ddpg_actor(
         module=q_net,
     ).to(device)
 
-    # init lazy moduless
-    qnet(actor(proof_environment.reset()))
-    return actor, qnet
-
+    # init: since we have lazy layers, we should run the network
+    # once to initialize them
+    with torch.no_grad(), set_exploration_mode("random"):
+        td = proof_environment.fake_tensordict()
+        td = td.expand((*td.shape, 2))
+        td = td.to(device)
+        actor(td)
+        qnet(td)
 
-actor, qnet = make_ddpg_actor(
-    transform_state_dict=transform_state_dict,
-    device=device,
-)
-
-###############################################################################
-# Exploration
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~
-#
-# The policy is wrapped in a :class:`torchrl.modules.OrnsteinUhlenbeckProcessWrapper`
-# exploration module, as suggesed in the original paper.
-# Let's define the number of frames before OU noise reaches its minimum value
-annealing_frames = 1_000_000
-
-actor_model_explore = OrnsteinUhlenbeckProcessWrapper(
-    actor,
-    annealing_num_steps=annealing_frames,
-).to(device)
-if device == torch.device("cpu"):
-    actor_model_explore.share_memory()
-
-
-###############################################################################
-# Data collector
-# --------------
-#
-# TorchRL provides specialized classes to help you collect data by executing
-# the policy in the environment. These "data collectors" iteratively compute
-# the action to be executed at a given time, then execute a step in the
-# environment and reset it when required.
-# Data collectors are designed to help developers have a tight control
-# on the number of frames per batch of data, on the (a)sync nature of this
-# collection and on the resources allocated to the data collection (e.g. GPU,
-# number of workers etc).
-#
-# Here we will use
-# :class:`torchrl.collectors.MultiaSyncDataCollector`, a data collector that
-# will be executed in an async manner (i.e. data will be collected while
-# the policy is being optimized). With the :class:`MultiaSyncDataCollector`,
-# multiple workers are running rollouts separately. When a batch is asked, it
-# is gathered from the first worker that can provide it.
-#
-# The parameters to specify are:
-#
-# - the list of environment creation functions,
-# - the policy,
-# - the total number of frames before the collector is considered empty,
-# - the maximum number of frames per trajectory (useful for non-terminating
-#   environments, like dm_control ones).
-#   .. note::
-#     The ``max_frames_per_traj`` passed to the collector will have the effect
-#     of registering a new :class:`torchrl.envs.StepCounter` transform
-#     with the environment used for inference. We can achieve the same result
-#     manually, as we do in this script.
-#
-# One should also pass:
-#
-# - the number of frames in each batch collected,
-# - the number of random steps executed independently from the policy,
-# - the devices used for policy execution
-# - the devices used to store data before the data is passed to the main
-#   process.
-#
-# The total frames we will use during training should be around 1M.
-total_frames = 10_000  # 1_000_000
-
-###############################################################################
-# The number of frames returned by the collector at each iteration of the outer
-# loop is equal to the length of each sub-trajectories times the number of envs
-# run in parallel in each collector.
-#
-# In other words, we expect batches from the collector to have a shape
-# ``[env_per_collector, traj_len]`` where
-# ``traj_len=frames_per_batch/env_per_collector``:
-#
-traj_len = 200
-frames_per_batch = env_per_collector * traj_len
-init_random_frames = 5000
-num_collectors = 2
-
-from torchrl.collectors import MultiaSyncDataCollector
+    return actor, qnet
 
-collector = MultiaSyncDataCollector(
-    create_env_fn=[
-        parallel_env,
-    ]
-    * num_collectors,
-    policy=actor_model_explore,
-    total_frames=total_frames,
-    # max_frames_per_traj=max_frames_per_traj,  # this is achieved by the env constructor
-    frames_per_batch=frames_per_batch,
-    init_random_frames=init_random_frames,
-    reset_at_each_iter=False,
-    split_trajs=False,
-    device=device,
-    # device for execution
-    storing_device=device,
-    # device where data will be stored and passed
-    update_at_each_batch=False,
-    exploration_mode="random",
-)
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Evaluator: building your recorder object
@@ -873,42 +418,25 @@ def make_ddpg_actor(
 # from these simulations.
 #
 # The following helper function builds this object:
-from torchrl.trainers import Recorder
 
 
-def make_recorder(actor_model_explore, transform_state_dict, record_interval):
+def make_recorder(actor_model_explore, transform_state_dict):
     base_env = make_env()
-    environment = make_transformed_env(base_env)
-    environment.transform[2].init_stats(
-        3
-    )  # must be instantiated to load the state dict
-    environment.transform[2].load_state_dict(transform_state_dict)
+    recorder = make_transformed_env(base_env)
+    recorder.transform[2].init_stats(3)
+    recorder.transform[2].load_state_dict(transform_state_dict)
 
     recorder_obj = Recorder(
         record_frames=1000,
+        frame_skip=frame_skip,
         policy_exploration=actor_model_explore,
-        environment=environment,
-        exploration_mode="mode",
+        recorder=recorder,
+        exploration_mode="mean",
         record_interval=record_interval,
     )
     return recorder_obj
 
 
-###############################################################################
-# We will be recording the performance every 10 batch collected
-record_interval = 10
-
-recorder = make_recorder(
-    actor_model_explore, transform_state_dict, record_interval=record_interval
-)
-
-from torchrl.data.replay_buffers import (
-    LazyMemmapStorage,
-    PrioritizedSampler,
-    RandomSampler,
-    TensorDictReplayBuffer,
-)
-
 ###############################################################################
 # Replay buffer
 # -------------
@@ -924,10 +452,8 @@ def make_recorder(actor_model_explore, transform_state_dict, record_interval):
 # hyperparameters:
 #
 
-from torchrl.envs import RandomCropTensorDict
-
 
-def make_replay_buffer(buffer_size, batch_size, random_crop_len, prefetch=3, prb=False):
+def make_replay_buffer(buffer_size, prefetch=3):
     if prb:
         sampler = PrioritizedSampler(
             max_capacity=buffer_size,
@@ -940,157 +466,320 @@ def make_replay_buffer(buffer_size, batch_size, random_crop_len, prefetch=3, prb
         storage=LazyMemmapStorage(
             buffer_size,
             scratch_dir=buffer_scratch_dir,
+            device=device,
         ),
-        batch_size=batch_size,
         sampler=sampler,
         pin_memory=False,
         prefetch=prefetch,
-        transform=RandomCropTensorDict(random_crop_len, sample_dim=1),
     )
     return replay_buffer
 
 
 ###############################################################################
-# We'll store the replay buffer in a temporary dirrectory on disk
+# Hyperparameters
+# ---------------
+#
+# After having written our helper functions, it is time to set the
+# experiment hyperparameters:
+
+###############################################################################
+# Environment
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+# The backend can be gym or dm_control
+backend = "gym"
+
+exp_name = "cheetah"
 
-import tempfile
+# frame_skip batches multiple step together with a single action
+# If > 1, the other frame counts (e.g. frames_per_batch, total_frames) need to
+# be adjusted to have a consistent total number of frames collected across
+# experiments.
+frame_skip = 2
+from_pixels = False
+# Scaling the reward helps us control the signal magnitude for a more
+# efficient learning.
+reward_scaling = 5.0
+
+# Number of random steps used as for stats computation using ObservationNorm
+init_env_steps = 1000
 
-tmpdir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
-buffer_scratch_dir = tmpdir.name
+# Exploration: Number of frames before OU noise becomes null
+annealing_frames = 1000000 // frame_skip
 
 ###############################################################################
-# Replay buffer storage and batch size
-# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-#
-# TorchRL replay buffer counts the number of elements along the first dimension.
-# Since we'll be feeding trajectories to our buffer, we need to adapt the buffer
-# size by dividing it by the length of the sub-trajectories yielded by our
-# data collector.
-# Regarding the batch-size, our sampling strategy will consist in sampling
-# trajectories of length ``traj_len=200`` before selecting sub-trajecotries
-# or length ``random_crop_len=25`` on which the loss will be computed.
-# This strategy balances the choice of storing whole trajectories of a certain
-# length with the need for providing sampels with a sufficient heterogeneity
-# to our loss. The following figure shows the dataflow from a collector
-# that gets 8 frames in each batch with 2 environments run in parallel,
-# feeds them to a replay buffer that contains 1000 trajectories and
-# samples sub-trajectories of 2 time steps each.
-#
-# .. figure:: /_static/img/replaybuffer_traj.png
-#    :alt: Storign trajectories in the replay buffer
+# Collection
+# ^^^^^^^^^^
+
+# We will execute the policy on cuda if available
+device = (
+    torch.device("cpu") if torch.cuda.device_count() == 0 else torch.device("cuda:0")
+)
+
+# Number of environments in each data collector
+env_per_collector = 2
+
+# Total frames we will use during training. Scale up to 500K - 1M for a more
+# meaningful training
+total_frames = 5000 // frame_skip
+# Number of frames returned by the collector at each iteration of the outer loop
+frames_per_batch = env_per_collector * 1000 // frame_skip
+max_frames_per_traj = 1000 // frame_skip
+init_random_frames = 0
+# We'll be using the MultiStep class to have a less myopic representation of
+# upcoming states
+n_steps_forward = 3
+
+# record every 10 batch collected
+record_interval = 10
+
+###############################################################################
+# Optimizer and optimization
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+lr = 5e-4
+weight_decay = 0.0
+# UTD: Number of iterations of the inner loop
+update_to_data = 32
+batch_size = 128
+
+###############################################################################
+# Model
+# ^^^^^
+
+gamma = 0.99
+tau = 0.005  # Decay factor for the target network
+
+# Network specs
+num_cells = 64
+num_layers = 2
+
+###############################################################################
+# Replay buffer
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+# If True, a Prioritized replay buffer will be used
+prb = True
+# Number of frames stored in the buffer
+buffer_size = min(total_frames, 1000000 // frame_skip)
+buffer_scratch_dir = "/tmp/"
+
+seed = 0
+
+###############################################################################
+# Initialization
+# --------------
 #
-# Let's start with the number of frames stored in the buffer
+# To initialize the experiment, we first acquire the observation statistics,
+# then build the networks, wrap them in an exploration wrapper (following the
+# seminal DDPG paper, we used an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to add noise to the
+# sampled actions).
 
 
-def ceil_div(x, y):
-    return -x // (-y)
+# Seeding
+torch.manual_seed(seed)
+np.random.seed(seed)
 
+###############################################################################
+# Normalization stats
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-buffer_size = 1_000_000
-buffer_size = ceil_div(buffer_size, traj_len)
+transform_state_dict = get_env_stats()
 
 ###############################################################################
-# Prioritized replay buffer is disabled by default
-prb = False
+# Models: policy and q-value network
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+actor, qnet = make_ddpg_actor(
+    transform_state_dict=transform_state_dict,
+    device=device,
+)
+if device == torch.device("cpu"):
+    actor.share_memory()
 
 ###############################################################################
-# We also need to define how many updates we'll be doing per batch of data
-# collected. This is known as the update-to-data or UTD ratio:
-update_to_data = 64
+# We create a copy of the q-value network to be used as target network
+
+qnet_target = deepcopy(qnet).requires_grad_(False)
 
 ###############################################################################
-# We'll be feeding the loss with trajectories of length 25:
-random_crop_len = 25
+# The policy is wrapped in a :class:`torchrl.modules.OrnsteinUhlenbeckProcessWrapper`
+# exploration module:
+
+actor_model_explore = OrnsteinUhlenbeckProcessWrapper(
+    actor,
+    annealing_num_steps=annealing_frames,
+).to(device)
+if device == torch.device("cpu"):
+    actor_model_explore.share_memory()
 
 ###############################################################################
-# In the original paper, the authors perform one update with a batch of 64
-# elements for each frame collected. Here, we reproduce the same ratio
-# but while realizing several updates at each batch collection. We
-# adapt our batch-size to achieve the same number of update-per-frame ratio:
-
-batch_size = ceil_div(64 * frames_per_batch, update_to_data * random_crop_len)
-
-replay_buffer = make_replay_buffer(
-    buffer_size=buffer_size,
-    batch_size=batch_size,
-    random_crop_len=random_crop_len,
-    prefetch=3,
-    prb=prb,
+# Parallel environment creation
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+#
+# We pass the stats computed earlier to normalize the output of our
+# environment:
+
+create_env_fn = parallel_env_constructor(
+    transform_state_dict=transform_state_dict,
 )
 
 ###############################################################################
-# Loss module construction
-# ------------------------
+# Data collector
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+#
+# TorchRL provides specialized classes to help you collect data by executing
+# the policy in the environment. These "data collectors" iteratively compute
+# the action to be executed at a given time, then execute a step in the
+# environment and reset it when required.
+# Data collectors are designed to help developers have a tight control
+# on the number of frames per batch of data, on the (a)sync nature of this
+# collection and on the resources allocated to the data collection (e.g. GPU,
+# number of workers etc).
+#
+# Here we will use
+# :class:`torchrl.collectors.MultiaSyncDataCollector`, a data collector that
+# will be executed in an async manner (i.e. data will be collected while
+# the policy is being optimized). With the :class:`MultiaSyncDataCollector`,
+# multiple workers are running rollouts separately. When a batch is asked, it
+# is gathered from the first worker that can provide it.
 #
-# We build our loss module with the actor and qnet we've just created.
-# Because we have target parameters to update, we _must_ create a target network
-# updater.
+# The parameters to specify are:
+#
+# - the list of environment creation functions,
+# - the policy,
+# - the total number of frames before the collector is considered empty,
+# - the maximum number of frames per trajectory (useful for non-terminating
+#   environments, like dm_control ones).
+#
+# One should also pass:
+#
+# - the number of frames in each batch collected,
+# - the number of random steps executed independently from the policy,
+# - the devices used for policy execution
+# - the devices used to store data before the data is passed to the main
+#   process.
 #
+# Collectors also accept post-processing hooks.
+# For instance, the :class:`torchrl.data.postprocs.MultiStep` class passed as
+# ``postproc`` makes it so that the rewards of the ``n`` upcoming steps are
+# summed (with some discount factor) and the next observation is changed to
+# be the n-step forward observation. One could pass other transforms too:
+# using :class:`tensordict.nn.TensorDictModule` and
+# :class:`tensordict.nn.TensorDictSequential` we can seamlessly append a
+# wide range of transforms to our collector.
 
-gamma = 0.99
-lmbda = 0.9
-tau = 0.001  # Decay factor for the target network
+if n_steps_forward > 0:
+    multistep = MultiStep(n_steps=n_steps_forward, gamma=gamma)
+else:
+    multistep = None
 
-loss_module = DDPGLoss(actor, qnet)
+collector = MultiaSyncDataCollector(
+    create_env_fn=[create_env_fn, create_env_fn],
+    policy=actor_model_explore,
+    total_frames=total_frames,
+    max_frames_per_traj=max_frames_per_traj,
+    frames_per_batch=frames_per_batch,
+    init_random_frames=init_random_frames,
+    reset_at_each_iter=False,
+    postproc=multistep,
+    split_trajs=True,
+    devices=[device, device],  # device for execution
+    storing_devices=[device, device],  # device where data will be stored and passed
+    pin_memory=False,
+    update_at_each_batch=False,
+    exploration_mode="random",
+)
+
+collector.set_seed(seed)
 
 ###############################################################################
-# let's use the TD(lambda) estimator!
-loss_module.make_value_estimator(ValueEstimators.TDLambda, gamma=gamma, lmbda=lmbda)
+# Replay buffer
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+#
+
+replay_buffer = make_replay_buffer(buffer_size, prefetch=3)
 
 ###############################################################################
-# .. note::
-#   Off-policy usually dictates a TD(0) estimator. Here, we use a TD(:math:`\lambda`)
-#   estimator, which will introduce some bias as the trajectory that follows
-#   a certain state has been collected with an outdated policy.
-#   This trick, as the multi-step trick that can be used during data collection,
-#   are alternative versions of "hacks" that we usually find to work well in
-#   practice despite the fact that they introduce some bias in the return
-#   estimates.
-#
-# Target network updater
-# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-#
-# Target networks are a crucial part of off-policy RL algorithms.
-# Updating the target network parameters is made easy thanks to the
-# :class:`torchrl.objectives.HardUpdate` and :class:`torchrl.objectives.SoftUpdate`
-# classes. They're built with the loss module as argument, and the update is
-# achieved via a call to `updater.step()` at the appropriate location in the
-# training loop.
-
-from torchrl.objectives.utils import SoftUpdate
-
-target_net_updater = SoftUpdate(loss_module, eps=1 - tau)
-# This class will raise an error if `init_` is not called first.
-target_net_updater.init_()
+# Recorder
+# ^^^^^^^^
+
+recorder = make_recorder(actor_model_explore, transform_state_dict)
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Optimizer
-# ~~~~~~~~~
+# ^^^^^^^^^
 #
-# Finally, we will use the Adam optimizer for the policy and value network:
+# Finally, we will use the Adam optimizer for the policy and value network,
+# with the same learning rate for both.
 
-from torch import optim
+optimizer_actor = optim.Adam(actor.parameters(), lr=lr, weight_decay=weight_decay)
+optimizer_qnet = optim.Adam(qnet.parameters(), lr=lr, weight_decay=weight_decay)
+total_collection_steps = total_frames // frames_per_batch
 
-optimizer_actor = optim.Adam(
-    loss_module.actor_network_params.values(True, True), lr=1e-4, weight_decay=0.0
+scheduler1 = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(
+    optimizer_actor, T_max=total_collection_steps
 )
-optimizer_value = optim.Adam(
-    loss_module.value_network_params.values(True, True), lr=1e-3, weight_decay=1e-2
+scheduler2 = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(
+    optimizer_qnet, T_max=total_collection_steps
 )
-total_collection_steps = total_frames // frames_per_batch
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Time to train the policy
 # ------------------------
 #
-# The training loop is pretty straightforward now that we have built all the
-# modules we need.
-#
+# Some notes about the following training loop:
+#
+# - :func:`torchrl.objectives.utils.hold_out_net` is a TorchRL context manager
+#   that temporarily sets :func:`torch.Tensor.requires_grad_()` to False for
+#   a designated set of network parameters. This is used to
+#   prevent :func:`torch.Tensor.backward()`` from writing gradients on
+#   parameters that need not to be differentiated given the loss at hand.
+# - The value network is designed using the
+#   :class:`torchrl.modules.ValueOperator` subclass from
+#   :class:`tensordict.nn.TensorDictModule` class. As explained earlier,
+#   this class will write a ``"state_action_value"`` entry if one of its
+#   ``in_keys`` is named ``"action"``, otherwise it will assume that only the
+#   state-value is returned and the output key will simply be ``"state_value"``.
+#   In the case of DDPG, the value if of the state-action pair,
+#   hence the ``"state_action_value"`` will be used.
+# - The :func:`torchrl.envs.utils.step_mdp(tensordict)` helper function is the
+#   equivalent of the ``obs = next_obs`` command found in multiple RL
+#   algorithms. It will return a new :class:`tensordict.TensorDict` instance
+#   that contains all the data that will need to be used in the next iteration.
+#   This makes it possible to pass this new tensordict to the policy or
+#   value network.
+# - When using prioritized replay buffer, a priority key is added to the
+#   sampled tensordict (named ``"td_error"`` by default). Then, this
+#   TensorDict will be fed back to the replay buffer using the
+#   :func:`torchrl.data.replay_buffers.TensorDictReplayBuffer.update_tensordict_priority`
+#   method. Under the hood, this method will read the index present in the
+#   TensorDict as well as the priority value, and update its list of priorities
+#   at these indices.
+# - TorchRL provides optimized versions of the loss functions (such as this one)
+#   where one only needs to pass a sampled tensordict and obtains a dictionary
+#   of losses and metadata in return (see :mod:`torchrl.objectives` for more
+#   context). Here we write the full loss function in the optimization loop
+#   for transparency.
+#   Similarly, the target network updates are written explicitly but
+#   TorchRL provides a couple of dedicated classes for this
+#   (see :class:`torchrl.objectives.SoftUpdate` and
+#   :class:`torchrl.objectives.HardUpdate`).
+# - After each collection of data, we call :func:`collector.update_policy_weights_()`,
+#   which will update the policy network weights on the data collector. If the
+#   code is executed on cpu or with a single cuda device, this part can be
+#   omitted. If the collector is executed on another device, then its weights
+#   must be synced with those on the main, training process and this method
+#   should be incorporated in the training loop (ideally early in the loop in
+#   async settings, and at the end of it in sync settings).
 
 rewards = []
 rewards_eval = []
 
 # Main loop
+norm_factor_training = (
+    sum(gamma**i for i in range(n_steps_forward)) if n_steps_forward else 1
+)
 
 collected_frames = 0
 pbar = tqdm.tqdm(total=total_frames)
@@ -1105,7 +794,13 @@ def ceil_div(x, y):
     pbar.update(tensordict.numel())
 
     # extend the replay buffer with the new data
-    current_frames = tensordict.numel()
+    if ("collector", "mask") in tensordict.keys(True):
+        # if multi-step, a mask is present to help filter padded values
+        current_frames = tensordict["collector", "mask"].sum()
+        tensordict = tensordict[tensordict.get(("collector", "mask"))]
+    else:
+        tensordict = tensordict.view(-1)
+        current_frames = tensordict.numel()
     collected_frames += current_frames
     replay_buffer.extend(tensordict.cpu())
 
@@ -1113,61 +808,73 @@ def ceil_div(x, y):
     if collected_frames >= init_random_frames:
         for _ in range(update_to_data):
             # sample from replay buffer
-            sampled_tensordict = replay_buffer.sample().to(device)
-
-            # Compute loss
-            loss_dict = loss_module(sampled_tensordict)
-
-            # optimize
-            loss_dict["loss_actor"].backward()
-            gn1 = torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(
-                loss_module.actor_network_params.values(True, True), 10.0
+            sampled_tensordict = replay_buffer.sample(batch_size).clone()
+
+            # compute loss for qnet and backprop
+            with hold_out_net(actor):
+                # get next state value
+                next_tensordict = step_mdp(sampled_tensordict)
+                qnet_target(actor(next_tensordict))
+                next_value = next_tensordict["state_action_value"]
+                assert not next_value.requires_grad
+            value_est = (
+                sampled_tensordict["next", "reward"]
+                + gamma * (1 - sampled_tensordict["next", "done"].float()) * next_value
             )
+            value = qnet(sampled_tensordict)["state_action_value"]
+            value_loss = (value - value_est).pow(2).mean()
+            # we write the td_error in the sampled_tensordict for priority update
+            # because the indices of the samples is tracked in sampled_tensordict
+            # and the replay buffer will know which priorities to update.
+            sampled_tensordict["td_error"] = (value - value_est).pow(2).detach()
+            value_loss.backward()
+
+            optimizer_qnet.step()
+            optimizer_qnet.zero_grad()
+
+            # compute loss for actor and backprop:
+            # the actor must maximise the state-action value, hence the loss
+            # is the neg value of this.
+            sampled_tensordict_actor = sampled_tensordict.select(*actor.in_keys)
+            with hold_out_net(qnet):
+                qnet(actor(sampled_tensordict_actor))
+            actor_loss = -sampled_tensordict_actor["state_action_value"]
+            actor_loss.mean().backward()
+
             optimizer_actor.step()
             optimizer_actor.zero_grad()
 
-            loss_dict["loss_value"].backward()
-            gn2 = torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(
-                loss_module.value_network_params.values(True, True), 10.0
-            )
-            optimizer_value.step()
-            optimizer_value.zero_grad()
-
-            gn = (gn1**2 + gn2**2) ** 0.5
+            # update qnet_target params
+            for (p_in, p_dest) in zip(qnet.parameters(), qnet_target.parameters()):
+                p_dest.data.copy_(tau * p_in.data + (1 - tau) * p_dest.data)
+            for (b_in, b_dest) in zip(qnet.buffers(), qnet_target.buffers()):
+                b_dest.data.copy_(tau * b_in.data + (1 - tau) * b_dest.data)
 
             # update priority
             if prb:
                 replay_buffer.update_tensordict_priority(sampled_tensordict)
-            # update target network
-            target_net_updater.step()
 
     rewards.append(
         (
             i,
-            tensordict["next", "reward"].mean().item(),
+            tensordict["next", "reward"].mean().item()
+            / norm_factor_training
+            / frame_skip,
         )
     )
     td_record = recorder(None)
     if td_record is not None:
         rewards_eval.append((i, td_record["r_evaluation"].item()))
-    if len(rewards_eval) and collected_frames >= init_random_frames:
-        target_value = loss_dict["target_value"].item()
-        loss_value = loss_dict["loss_value"].item()
-        loss_actor = loss_dict["loss_actor"].item()
-        rn = sampled_tensordict["next", "reward"].mean().item()
-        rs = sampled_tensordict["next", "reward"].std().item()
+    if len(rewards_eval):
         pbar.set_description(
-            f"reward: {rewards[-1][1]: 4.2f} (r0 = {r0: 4.2f}), "
-            f"reward eval: reward: {rewards_eval[-1][1]: 4.2f}, "
-            f"reward normalized={rn :4.2f}/{rs :4.2f}, "
-            f"grad norm={gn: 4.2f}, "
-            f"loss_value={loss_value: 4.2f}, "
-            f"loss_actor={loss_actor: 4.2f}, "
-            f"target value: {target_value: 4.2f}"
+            f"reward: {rewards[-1][1]: 4.4f} (r0 = {r0: 4.4f}), reward eval: reward: {rewards_eval[-1][1]: 4.4f}"
         )
 
     # update the exploration strategy
     actor_model_explore.step(current_frames)
+    if collected_frames >= init_random_frames:
+        scheduler1.step()
+        scheduler2.step()
 
 collector.shutdown()
 del collector
@@ -1179,11 +886,8 @@ def ceil_div(x, y):
 # We make a simple plot of the average rewards during training. We can observe
 # that our policy learned quite well to solve the task.
 #
-# .. note::
-#   As already mentioned above, to get a more reasonable performance,
-#   use a greater value for ``total_frames`` e.g. 1M.
-
-from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
+# **Note**: As already mentioned above, to get a more reasonable performance,
+# use a greater value for ``total_frames`` e.g. 1M.
 
 plt.figure()
 plt.plot(*zip(*rewards), label="training")
@@ -1194,16 +898,265 @@ def ceil_div(x, y):
 plt.tight_layout()
 
 ###############################################################################
-# Conclusion
-# ----------
+# Sampling trajectories and using TD(lambda)
+# ------------------------------------------
 #
-# In this tutorial, we have learnt how to code a loss module in TorchRL given
-# the concrete example of DDPG.
+# TD(lambda) is known to be less biased than the regular TD-error we used in
+# the previous example. To use it, however, we need to sample trajectories and
+# not single transitions.
 #
-# The key takeaways are:
+# We modify the previous example to make this possible.
+#
+# The first modification consists in building a replay buffer that stores
+# trajectories (and not transitions).
+#
+# Specifically, we'll collect trajectories of (at most)
+# 250 steps (note that the total trajectory length is actually 1000 frames, but
+# we collect batches of 500 transitions obtained over 2 environments running in
+# parallel, hence only 250 steps per trajectory are collected at any given
+# time). Hence, we'll divide our replay buffer size by 250:
+
+buffer_size = 100000 // frame_skip // 250
+print("the new buffer size is", buffer_size)
+batch_size_traj = max(4, batch_size // 250)
+print("the new batch size for trajectories is", batch_size_traj)
+
+n_steps_forward = 0  # disable multi-step for simplicity
+
+###############################################################################
+# The following code is identical to the initialization we made earlier:
+
+torch.manual_seed(seed)
+np.random.seed(seed)
+
+# get stats for normalization
+transform_state_dict = get_env_stats()
+
+# Actor and qnet instantiation
+actor, qnet = make_ddpg_actor(
+    transform_state_dict=transform_state_dict,
+    device=device,
+)
+if device == torch.device("cpu"):
+    actor.share_memory()
+
+# Target network
+qnet_target = deepcopy(qnet).requires_grad_(False)
+
+# Exploration wrappers:
+actor_model_explore = OrnsteinUhlenbeckProcessWrapper(
+    actor,
+    annealing_num_steps=annealing_frames,
+).to(device)
+if device == torch.device("cpu"):
+    actor_model_explore.share_memory()
+
+# Environment setting:
+create_env_fn = parallel_env_constructor(
+    transform_state_dict=transform_state_dict,
+)
+# Batch collector:
+collector = MultiaSyncDataCollector(
+    create_env_fn=[create_env_fn, create_env_fn],
+    policy=actor_model_explore,
+    total_frames=total_frames,
+    max_frames_per_traj=max_frames_per_traj,
+    frames_per_batch=frames_per_batch,
+    init_random_frames=init_random_frames,
+    reset_at_each_iter=False,
+    postproc=None,
+    split_trajs=False,
+    devices=[device, device],  # device for execution
+    storing_devices=[device, device],  # device where data will be stored and passed
+    seed=None,
+    pin_memory=False,
+    update_at_each_batch=False,
+    exploration_mode="random",
+)
+collector.set_seed(seed)
+
+# Replay buffer:
+replay_buffer = make_replay_buffer(buffer_size, prefetch=0)
+
+# trajectory recorder
+recorder = make_recorder(actor_model_explore, transform_state_dict)
+
+# Optimizers
+optimizer_actor = optim.Adam(actor.parameters(), lr=lr, weight_decay=weight_decay)
+optimizer_qnet = optim.Adam(qnet.parameters(), lr=lr, weight_decay=weight_decay)
+total_collection_steps = total_frames // frames_per_batch
+
+scheduler1 = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(
+    optimizer_actor, T_max=total_collection_steps
+)
+scheduler2 = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(
+    optimizer_qnet, T_max=total_collection_steps
+)
+
+###############################################################################
+# The training loop needs to be slightly adapted.
+# First, whereas before extending the replay buffer we used to flatten the
+# collected data, this won't be the case anymore. To understand why, let's
+# check the output shape of the data collector:
+
+for data in collector:
+    print(data.shape)
+    break
+
+###############################################################################
+# We see that our data has shape ``[2, 250]`` as expected: 2 envs, each
+# returning 250 frames.
 #
-# - How to use the :class:`torchrl.objectives.LossModule` class to code up a new
-#   loss component;
-# - How to use (or not) a target network, and how to update its parameters;
-# - How to create an optimizer associated with a loss module.
+# Let's import the td_lambda function:
 #
+
+from torchrl.objectives.value.functional import vec_td_lambda_advantage_estimate
+
+lmbda = 0.95
+
+###############################################################################
+# The training loop is roughly the same as before, with the exception that we
+# don't flatten the collected data. Also, the sampling from the replay buffer
+# is slightly different: We will collect at minimum four trajectories, compute
+# the returns (TD(lambda)), then sample from these the values we'll be using
+# to compute gradients. This ensures that do not have batches that are
+# 'too big' but still compute an accurate return.
+#
+
+rewards = []
+rewards_eval = []
+
+# Main loop
+norm_factor_training = (
+    sum(gamma**i for i in range(n_steps_forward)) if n_steps_forward else 1
+)
+
+collected_frames = 0
+# # if tqdm is to be used
+# pbar = tqdm.tqdm(total=total_frames)
+r0 = None
+for i, tensordict in enumerate(collector):
+
+    # update weights of the inference policy
+    collector.update_policy_weights_()
+
+    if r0 is None:
+        r0 = tensordict["next", "reward"].mean().item()
+
+    # extend the replay buffer with the new data
+    current_frames = tensordict.numel()
+    collected_frames += current_frames
+    replay_buffer.extend(tensordict.cpu())
+
+    # optimization steps
+    if collected_frames >= init_random_frames:
+        for _ in range(update_to_data):
+            # sample from replay buffer
+            sampled_tensordict = replay_buffer.sample(batch_size_traj)
+            # reset the batch size temporarily, and exclude index
+            # whose shape is incompatible with the new size
+            index = sampled_tensordict.get("index")
+            sampled_tensordict.exclude("index", inplace=True)
+
+            # compute loss for qnet and backprop
+            with hold_out_net(actor):
+                # get next state value
+                next_tensordict = step_mdp(sampled_tensordict)
+                qnet_target(actor(next_tensordict.view(-1))).view(
+                    sampled_tensordict.shape
+                )
+                next_value = next_tensordict["state_action_value"]
+                assert not next_value.requires_grad
+
+            # This is the crucial part: we'll compute the TD(lambda)
+            # instead of a simple single step estimate
+            done = sampled_tensordict["next", "done"]
+            reward = sampled_tensordict["next", "reward"]
+            value = qnet(sampled_tensordict.view(-1)).view(sampled_tensordict.shape)[
+                "state_action_value"
+            ]
+            advantage = vec_td_lambda_advantage_estimate(
+                gamma,
+                lmbda,
+                value,
+                next_value,
+                reward,
+                done,
+                time_dim=sampled_tensordict.ndim - 1,
+            )
+            # we sample from the values we have computed
+            rand_idx = torch.randint(0, advantage.numel(), (batch_size,))
+            value_loss = advantage.view(-1)[rand_idx].pow(2).mean()
+
+            # we write the td_error in the sampled_tensordict for priority update
+            # because the indices of the samples is tracked in sampled_tensordict
+            # and the replay buffer will know which priorities to update.
+            value_loss.backward()
+
+            optimizer_qnet.step()
+            optimizer_qnet.zero_grad()
+
+            # compute loss for actor and backprop: the actor must maximise the state-action value, hence the loss is the neg value of this.
+            sampled_tensordict_actor = sampled_tensordict.select(*actor.in_keys)
+            with hold_out_net(qnet):
+                qnet(actor(sampled_tensordict_actor.view(-1))).view(
+                    sampled_tensordict.shape
+                )
+            actor_loss = -sampled_tensordict_actor["state_action_value"]
+            actor_loss.view(-1)[rand_idx].mean().backward()
+
+            optimizer_actor.step()
+            optimizer_actor.zero_grad()
+
+            # update qnet_target params
+            for (p_in, p_dest) in zip(qnet.parameters(), qnet_target.parameters()):
+                p_dest.data.copy_(tau * p_in.data + (1 - tau) * p_dest.data)
+            for (b_in, b_dest) in zip(qnet.buffers(), qnet_target.buffers()):
+                b_dest.data.copy_(tau * b_in.data + (1 - tau) * b_dest.data)
+
+            # update priority
+            sampled_tensordict.batch_size = [batch_size_traj]
+            sampled_tensordict["td_error"] = advantage.detach().pow(2).mean(1)
+            sampled_tensordict["index"] = index
+            if prb:
+                replay_buffer.update_tensordict_priority(sampled_tensordict)
+
+    rewards.append(
+        (
+            i,
+            tensordict["next", "reward"].mean().item()
+            / norm_factor_training
+            / frame_skip,
+        )
+    )
+    td_record = recorder(None)
+    if td_record is not None:
+        rewards_eval.append((i, td_record["r_evaluation"].item()))
+    #     if len(rewards_eval):
+    #         pbar.set_description(f"reward: {rewards[-1][1]: 4.4f} (r0 = {r0: 4.4f}), reward eval: reward: {rewards_eval[-1][1]: 4.4f}")
+
+    # update the exploration strategy
+    actor_model_explore.step(current_frames)
+    if collected_frames >= init_random_frames:
+        scheduler1.step()
+        scheduler2.step()
+
+collector.shutdown()
+del create_env_fn
+del collector
+
+###############################################################################
+# We can observe that using TD(lambda) made our results considerably more
+# stable for a similar training speed:
+#
+# **Note**: As already mentioned above, to get a more reasonable performance,
+# use a greater value for ``total_frames`` e.g. 1000000.
+
+plt.figure()
+plt.plot(*zip(*rewards), label="training")
+plt.plot(*zip(*rewards_eval), label="eval")
+plt.legend()
+plt.xlabel("iter")
+plt.ylabel("reward")
+plt.tight_layout()
+plt.title("TD-labmda DDPG results")
diff --git a/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_dqn.py b/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_dqn.py
index 4603cecf37f..1b566ee09d7 100644
--- a/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_dqn.py
+++ b/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_dqn.py
@@ -1,63 +1,20 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 """
-TorchRL trainer: A DQN example
-==============================
+Coding a pixel-based DQN using TorchRL
+======================================
 **Author**: `Vincent Moens <https://github.com/vmoens>`_
 
 """
 
 ##############################################################################
-# TorchRL provides a generic :class:`torchrl.trainers.Trainer` class to handle
-# your training loop. The trainer executes a nested loop where the outer loop
-# is the data collection and the inner loop consumes this data or some data
-# retrieved from the replay buffer to train the model.
-# At various points in this training loop, hooks can be attached and executed at
-# given intervals.
-#
-# In this tutorial, we will be using the trainer class to train a DQN algorithm
-# to solve the CartPole task from scratch.
-#
-# Main takeaways:
-#
-# - Building a trainer with its essential components: data collector, loss
-#   module, replay buffer and optimizer.
-# - Adding hooks to a trainer, such as loggers, target network updaters and such.
-#
-# The trainer is fully customisable and offers a large set of functionalities.
-# The tutorial is organised around its construction.
-# We will be detailing how to build each of the components of the library first,
-# and then put the pieces together using the :class:`torchrl.trainers.Trainer`
-# class.
-#
-# Along the road, we will also focus on some other aspects of the library:
-#
-# - how to build an environment in TorchRL, including transforms (e.g. data
-#   normalization, frame concatenation, resizing and turning to grayscale)
-#   and parallel execution. Unlike what we did in the
-#   `DDPG tutorial <https://pytorch.org/rl/tutorials/coding_ddpg.html>`_, we
-#   will normalize the pixels and not the state vector.
-# - how to design a :class:`torchrl.modules.QValueActor` object, i.e. an actor
-#   that estimates the action values and picks up the action with the highest
-#   estimated return;
-# - how to collect data from your environment efficiently and store them
-#   in a replay buffer;
-# - how to use multi-step, a simple preprocessing step for off-policy algorithms;
-# - and finally how to evaluate your model.
-#
-# **Prerequisites**: We encourage you to get familiar with torchrl through the
-# `PPO tutorial <https://pytorch.org/rl/tutorials/coding_ppo.html>`_ first.
-#
-# DQN
-# ---
-#
-# DQN (`Deep Q-Learning <https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf>`_) was
+# This tutorial will guide you through the steps to code DQN to solve the
+# CartPole task from scratch. DQN
+# (`Deep Q-Learning <https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~vmnih/docs/dqn.pdf>`_) was
 # the founding work in deep reinforcement learning.
-#
-# On a high level, the algorithm is quite simple: Q-learning consists in
-# learning a table of state-action values in such a way that, when
-# encountering any particular state, we know which action to pick just by
-# searching for the one with the highest value. This simple setting
-# requires the actions and states to be
+# On a high level, the algorithm is quite simple: Q-learning consists in learning a table of
+# state-action values in such a way that, when encountering any particular state,
+# we know which action to pick just by searching for the action with the
+# highest value. This simple setting requires the actions and states to be
 # discrete, otherwise a lookup table cannot be built.
 #
 # DQN uses a neural network that encodes a map from the state-action space to
@@ -78,28 +35,57 @@
 # .. figure:: /_static/img/cartpole_demo.gif
 #    :alt: Cart Pole
 #
+# **Prerequisites**: We encourage you to get familiar with torchrl through the
+# `PPO tutorial <https://pytorch.org/rl/tutorials/coding_ppo.html>`_ first.
+# This tutorial is more complex and full-fleshed, but it may be .
+#
+# In this tutorial, you will learn:
+#
+# - how to build an environment in TorchRL, including transforms (e.g. data
+#   normalization, frame concatenation, resizing and turning to grayscale)
+#   and parallel execution. Unlike what we did in the
+#   `DDPG tutorial <https://pytorch.org/rl/tutorials/coding_ddpg.html>`_, we
+#   will normalize the pixels and not the state vector.
+# - how to design a QValue actor, i.e. an actor that estimates the action
+#   values and picks up the action with the highest estimated return;
+# - how to collect data from your environment efficiently and store them
+#   in a replay buffer;
+# - how to store trajectories (and not transitions) in your replay buffer),
+#   and how to estimate returns using TD(lambda);
+# - how to make a module functional and use ;
+# - and finally how to evaluate your model.
+#
+# This tutorial assumes the reader is familiar with some of TorchRL
+# primitives, such as :class:`tensordict.TensorDict` and
+# :class:`tensordict.TensorDictModules`, although it
+# should be sufficiently transparent to be understood without a deep
+# understanding of these classes.
+#
 # We do not aim at giving a SOTA implementation of the algorithm, but rather
 # to provide a high-level illustration of TorchRL features in the context
 # of this algorithm.
 
 # sphinx_gallery_start_ignore
-import tempfile
 import warnings
+from collections import defaultdict
 
 warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
 # sphinx_gallery_end_ignore
 
-import os
-import uuid
-
 import torch
+import tqdm
+from functorch import vmap
+from matplotlib import pyplot as plt
+from tensordict import TensorDict
+from tensordict.nn import get_functional
 from torch import nn
 from torchrl.collectors import MultiaSyncDataCollector
-from torchrl.data import LazyMemmapStorage, MultiStep, TensorDictReplayBuffer
+from torchrl.data import LazyMemmapStorage, TensorDictReplayBuffer
 from torchrl.envs import EnvCreator, ParallelEnv, RewardScaling, StepCounter
 from torchrl.envs.libs.gym import GymEnv
 from torchrl.envs.transforms import (
     CatFrames,
+    CatTensors,
     Compose,
     GrayScale,
     ObservationNorm,
@@ -107,18 +93,9 @@
     ToTensorImage,
     TransformedEnv,
 )
+from torchrl.envs.utils import set_exploration_mode, step_mdp
 from torchrl.modules import DuelingCnnDQNet, EGreedyWrapper, QValueActor
 
-from torchrl.objectives import DQNLoss, SoftUpdate
-from torchrl.record.loggers.csv import CSVLogger
-from torchrl.trainers import (
-    LogReward,
-    Recorder,
-    ReplayBufferTrainer,
-    Trainer,
-    UpdateWeights,
-)
-
 
 def is_notebook() -> bool:
     try:
@@ -134,84 +111,150 @@ def is_notebook() -> bool:
 
 
 ###############################################################################
-# Let's get started with the various pieces we need for our algorithm:
+# Hyperparameters
+# ---------------
 #
-# - An environment;
-# - A policy (and related modules that we group under the "model" umbrella);
-# - A data collector, which makes the policy play in the environment and
-#   delivers training data;
-# - A replay buffer to store the training data;
-# - A loss module, which computes the objective function to train our policy
-#   to maximise the return;
-# - An optimizer, which performs parameter updates based on our loss.
+# Let's start with our hyperparameters. The following setting should work well
+# in practice, and the performance of the algorithm should hopefully not be
+# too sensitive to slight variations of these.
+
+device = "cuda:0" if torch.cuda.device_count() > 0 else "cpu"
+
+###############################################################################
+# Optimizer
+# ^^^^^^^^^
+
+# the learning rate of the optimizer
+lr = 2e-3
+# the beta parameters of Adam
+betas = (0.9, 0.999)
+# Optimization steps per batch collected (aka UPD or updates per data)
+n_optim = 8
+
+###############################################################################
+# DQN parameters
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+
+###############################################################################
+# gamma decay factor
+gamma = 0.99
+
+###############################################################################
+# lambda decay factor (see second the part with TD(:math:`\lambda`)
+lmbda = 0.95
+
+###############################################################################
+# Smooth target network update decay parameter.
+# This loosely corresponds to a 1/(1-tau) interval with hard target network
+# update
+tau = 0.005
+
+###############################################################################
+# Data collection and replay buffer
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+# Values to be used for proper training have been commented.
+#
+# Total frames collected in the environment. In other implementations, the
+# user defines a maximum number of episodes.
+# This is harder to do with our data collectors since they return batches
+# of N collected frames, where N is a constant.
+# However, one can easily get the same restriction on number of episodes by
+# breaking the training loop when a certain number
+# episodes has been collected.
+total_frames = 5000  # 500000
+
+###############################################################################
+# Random frames used to initialize the replay buffer.
+init_random_frames = 100  # 1000
+
+###############################################################################
+# Frames in each batch collected.
+frames_per_batch = 32  # 128
+
+###############################################################################
+# Frames sampled from the replay buffer at each optimization step
+batch_size = 32  # 256
+
+###############################################################################
+# Size of the replay buffer in terms of frames
+buffer_size = min(total_frames, 100000)
+
+###############################################################################
+# Number of environments run in parallel in each data collector
+num_workers = 2  # 8
+num_collectors = 2  # 4
+
+
+###############################################################################
+# Environment and exploration
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 #
-# Additional modules include a logger, a recorder (executes the policy in
-# "eval" mode) and a target network updater. With all these components into
-# place, it is easy to see how one could misplace or misuse one component in
-# the training script. The trainer is there to orchestrate everything for you!
+# We set the initial and final value of the epsilon factor in Epsilon-greedy
+# exploration.
+# Since our policy is deterministic, exploration is crucial: without it, the
+# only source of randomness would be the environment reset.
+
+eps_greedy_val = 0.1
+eps_greedy_val_env = 0.005
+
+###############################################################################
+# To speed up learning, we set the bias of the last layer of our value network
+# to a predefined value (this is not mandatory)
+init_bias = 2.0
+
+###############################################################################
+# **Note**: for fast rendering of the tutorial ``total_frames`` hyperparameter
+# was set to a very low number. To get a reasonable performance, use a greater
+# value e.g. 500000
 #
 # Building the environment
 # ------------------------
 #
-# First let's write a helper function that will output an environment. As usual,
-# the "raw" environment may be too simple to be used in practice and we'll need
-# some data transformation to expose its output to the policy.
+# Our environment builder has two arguments:
+#
+# - ``parallel``: determines whether multiple environments have to be run in
+#   parallel. We stack the transforms after the
+#   :class:`torchrl.envs.ParallelEnv` to take advantage
+#   of vectorization of the operations on device, although this would
+#   technically work with every single environment attached to its own set of
+#   transforms.
+# - ``observation_norm_state_dict`` will contain the normalizing constants for
+#   the :class:`torchrl.envs.ObservationNorm` tranform.
 #
 # We will be using five transforms:
 #
-# - :class:`torchrl.envs.StepCounter` to count the number of steps in each trajectory;
-# - :class:`torchrl.envs.transforms.ToTensorImage` will convert a ``[W, H, C]`` uint8
+# - :class:`torchrl.envs.ToTensorImage` will convert a ``[W, H, C]`` uint8
 #   tensor in a floating point tensor in the ``[0, 1]`` space with shape
 #   ``[C, W, H]``;
-# - :class:`torchrl.envs.transforms.RewardScaling` to reduce the scale of the return;
-# - :class:`torchrl.envs.transforms.GrayScale` will turn our image into grayscale;
-# - :class:`torchrl.envs.transforms.Resize` will resize the image in a 64x64 format;
-# - :class:`torchrl.envs.transforms.CatFrames` will concatenate an arbitrary number of
+# - :class:`torchrl.envs.RewardScaling` to reduce the scale of the return;
+# - :class:`torchrl.envs.GrayScale` will turn our image into grayscale;
+# - :class:`torchrl.envs.Resize` will resize the image in a 64x64 format;
+# - :class:`torchrl.envs.CatFrames` will concatenate an arbitrary number of
 #   successive frames (``N=4``) in a single tensor along the channel dimension.
 #   This is useful as a single image does not carry information about the
 #   motion of the cartpole. Some memory about past observations and actions
 #   is needed, either via a recurrent neural network or using a stack of
 #   frames.
-# - :class:`torchrl.envs.transforms.ObservationNorm` which will normalize our observations
+# - :class:`torchrl.envs.ObservationNorm` which will normalize our observations
 #   given some custom summary statistics.
 #
-# In practice, our environment builder has two arguments:
-#
-# - ``parallel``: determines whether multiple environments have to be run in
-#   parallel. We stack the transforms after the
-#   :class:`torchrl.envs.ParallelEnv` to take advantage
-#   of vectorization of the operations on device, although this would
-#   technically work with every single environment attached to its own set of
-#   transforms.
-# - ``obs_norm_sd`` will contain the normalizing constants for
-#   the :class:`torchrl.envs.ObservationNorm` transform.
-#
 
 
-def make_env(
-    parallel=False,
-    obs_norm_sd=None,
-):
-    if obs_norm_sd is None:
-        obs_norm_sd = {"standard_normal": True}
+def make_env(parallel=False, observation_norm_state_dict=None):
+    if observation_norm_state_dict is None:
+        observation_norm_state_dict = {"standard_normal": True}
     if parallel:
         base_env = ParallelEnv(
             num_workers,
             EnvCreator(
                 lambda: GymEnv(
-                    "CartPole-v1",
-                    from_pixels=True,
-                    pixels_only=True,
-                    device=device,
+                    "CartPole-v1", from_pixels=True, pixels_only=True, device=device
                 )
             ),
         )
     else:
         base_env = GymEnv(
-            "CartPole-v1",
-            from_pixels=True,
-            pixels_only=True,
-            device=device,
+            "CartPole-v1", from_pixels=True, pixels_only=True, device=device
         )
 
     env = TransformedEnv(
@@ -223,7 +266,7 @@ def make_env(
             GrayScale(),
             Resize(64, 64),
             CatFrames(4, in_keys=["pixels"], dim=-3),
-            ObservationNorm(in_keys=["pixels"], **obs_norm_sd),
+            ObservationNorm(in_keys=["pixels"], **observation_norm_state_dict),
         ),
     )
     return env
@@ -231,29 +274,25 @@ def make_env(
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Compute normalizing constants
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 #
 # To normalize images, we don't want to normalize each pixel independently
 # with a full ``[C, W, H]`` normalizing mask, but with simpler ``[C, 1, 1]``
-# shaped set of normalizing constants (loc and scale parameters).
-# We will be using the ``reduce_dim`` argument
-# of :meth:`torchrl.envs.ObservationNorm.init_stats` to instruct which
+# shaped loc and scale parameters. We will be using the ``reduce_dim`` argument
+# of :func:`torchrl.envs.ObservationNorm.init_stats` to instruct which
 # dimensions must be reduced, and the ``keep_dims`` parameter to ensure that
 # not all dimensions disappear in the process:
-#
 
+test_env = make_env()
+test_env.transform[-1].init_stats(
+    num_iter=1000, cat_dim=0, reduce_dim=[-1, -2, -4], keep_dims=(-1, -2)
+)
+observation_norm_state_dict = test_env.transform[-1].state_dict()
 
-def get_norm_stats():
-    test_env = make_env()
-    test_env.transform[-1].init_stats(
-        num_iter=1000, cat_dim=0, reduce_dim=[-1, -2, -4], keep_dims=(-1, -2)
-    )
-    obs_norm_sd = test_env.transform[-1].state_dict()
-    # let's check that normalizing constants have a size of ``[C, 1, 1]`` where
-    # ``C=4`` (because of :class:`torchrl.envs.CatFrames`).
-    print("state dict of the observation norm:", obs_norm_sd)
-    return obs_norm_sd
-
+###############################################################################
+# let's check that normalizing constants have a size of ``[C, 1, 1]`` where
+# ``C=4`` (because of :class:`torchrl.envs.CatFrames`).
+print(observation_norm_state_dict)
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Building the model (Deep Q-network)
@@ -266,18 +305,37 @@ def get_norm_stats():
 #
 # .. math::
 #
-#    \mathbb{v} = b(obs) + v(obs) - \mathbb{E}[v(obs)]
+#    val = b(obs) + v(obs) - \mathbb{E}[v(obs)]
 #
-# where :math:`\mathbb{v}` is our vector of action values,
-# :math:`b` is a :math:`\mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow 1` function and :math:`v` is a
-# :math:`\mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^m` function, for
-# :math:`n = \# obs` and :math:`m = \# actions`.
+# where :math:`b` is a :math:`\# obs \rightarrow 1` function and :math:`v` is a
+# :math:`\# obs \rightarrow num_actions` function.
 #
-# Our network is wrapped in a :class:`torchrl.modules.QValueActor`,
-# which will read the state-action
+# Our network is wrapped in a :class:`torchrl.modules.QValueActor`, which will read the state-action
 # values, pick up the one with the maximum value and write all those results
 # in the input :class:`tensordict.TensorDict`.
 #
+# Target parameters
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+#
+# Many off-policy RL algorithms use the concept of "target parameters" when it
+# comes to estimate the value of the ``t+1`` state or state-action pair.
+# The target parameters are lagged copies of the model parameters. Because
+# their predictions mismatch those of the current model configuration, they
+# help learning by putting a pessimistic bound on the value being estimated.
+# This is a powerful trick (known as "Double Q-Learning") that is ubiquitous
+# in similar algorithms.
+#
+# Functionalizing modules
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+#
+# One of the features of torchrl is its usage of functional modules: as the
+# same architecture is often used with multiple sets of parameters (e.g.
+# trainable and target parameters), we functionalize the modules and isolate
+# the various sets of parameters in separate tensordicts.
+#
+# To this aim, we use :func:`tensordict.nn.get_functional`, which augments
+# our modules with some extra feature that make them compatible with parameters
+# passed in the ``TensorDict`` format.
 
 
 def make_model(dummy_env):
@@ -310,6 +368,19 @@ def make_model(dummy_env):
     tensordict = dummy_env.fake_tensordict()
     actor(tensordict)
 
+    # Make functional:
+    # here's an explicit way of creating the parameters and buffer tensordict.
+    # Alternatively, we could have used `params = make_functional(actor)` from
+    # tensordict.nn
+    params = TensorDict({k: v for k, v in actor.named_parameters()}, [])
+    buffers = TensorDict({k: v for k, v in actor.named_buffers()}, [])
+    params = params.update(buffers)
+    params = params.unflatten_keys(".")  # creates a nested TensorDict
+    factor = get_functional(actor)
+
+    # creating the target parameters is fairly easy with tensordict:
+    params_target = params.clone().detach()
+
     # we wrap our actor in an EGreedyWrapper for data collection
     actor_explore = EGreedyWrapper(
         actor,
@@ -318,15 +389,43 @@ def make_model(dummy_env):
         eps_end=eps_greedy_val_env,
     )
 
-    return actor, actor_explore
+    return factor, actor, actor_explore, params, params_target
 
 
+(
+    factor,
+    actor,
+    actor_explore,
+    params,
+    params_target,
+) = make_model(test_env)
+
+###############################################################################
+# We represent the parameters and targets as flat structures, but unflattening
+# them is quite easy:
+
+params_flat = params.flatten_keys(".")
+
+###############################################################################
+# We will be using the adam optimizer:
+
+optim = torch.optim.Adam(list(params_flat.values()), lr, betas=betas)
+
+###############################################################################
+# We create a test environment for evaluation of the policy:
+
+test_env = make_env(
+    parallel=False, observation_norm_state_dict=observation_norm_state_dict
+)
+# sanity check:
+print(actor_explore(test_env.reset()))
+
 ###############################################################################
 # Collecting and storing data
 # ---------------------------
 #
 # Replay buffers
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 #
 # Replay buffers play a central role in off-policy RL algorithms such as DQN.
 # They constitute the dataset we will be sampling from during training.
@@ -342,22 +441,17 @@ def make_model(dummy_env):
 # The only requirement of this storage is that the data passed to it at write
 # time must always have the same shape.
 
-
-def get_replay_buffer(buffer_size, n_optim, batch_size):
-    replay_buffer = TensorDictReplayBuffer(
-        batch_size=batch_size,
-        storage=LazyMemmapStorage(buffer_size),
-        prefetch=n_optim,
-    )
-    return replay_buffer
-
+replay_buffer = TensorDictReplayBuffer(
+    storage=LazyMemmapStorage(buffer_size),
+    prefetch=n_optim,
+)
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Data collector
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+# ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 #
-# As in `PPO <https://pytorch.org/rl/tutorials/coding_ppo.html>`_ and
-# `DDPG <https://pytorch.org/rl/tutorials/coding_ddpg.html>`_, we will be using
+# As in `PPO <https://pytorch.org/rl/tutorials/coding_ppo.html>` and
+# `DDPG <https://pytorch.org/rl/tutorials/coding_ddpg.html>`, we will be using
 # a data collector as a dataloader in the outer loop.
 #
 # We choose the following configuration: we will be running a series of
@@ -382,328 +476,564 @@ def get_replay_buffer(buffer_size, n_optim, batch_size):
 # out training loop must account for. For simplicity, we set the devices to
 # the same value for all sub-collectors.
 
-
-def get_collector(
-    obs_norm_sd,
-    num_collectors,
-    actor_explore,
-    frames_per_batch,
-    total_frames,
-    device,
-):
-    data_collector = MultiaSyncDataCollector(
-        [
-            make_env(parallel=True, obs_norm_sd=obs_norm_sd),
-        ]
-        * num_collectors,
-        policy=actor_explore,
-        frames_per_batch=frames_per_batch,
-        total_frames=total_frames,
-        # this is the default behaviour: the collector runs in ``"random"`` (or explorative) mode
-        exploration_mode="random",
-        # We set the all the devices to be identical. Below is an example of
-        # heterogeneous devices
-        device=device,
-        storing_device=device,
-        split_trajs=False,
-        postproc=MultiStep(gamma=gamma, n_steps=5),
-    )
-    return data_collector
-
+data_collector = MultiaSyncDataCollector(
+    # ``num_collectors`` collectors, each with an set of `num_workers` environments being run in parallel
+    [
+        make_env(
+            parallel=True, observation_norm_state_dict=observation_norm_state_dict
+        ),
+    ]
+    * num_collectors,
+    policy=actor_explore,
+    frames_per_batch=frames_per_batch,
+    total_frames=total_frames,
+    # this is the default behaviour: the collector runs in ``"random"`` (or explorative) mode
+    exploration_mode="random",
+    # We set the all the devices to be identical. Below is an example of
+    # heterogeneous devices
+    devices=[device] * num_collectors,
+    storing_devices=[device] * num_collectors,
+    # devices=[f"cuda:{i}" for i in range(1, 1 + num_collectors)],
+    # storing_devices=[f"cuda:{i}" for i in range(1, 1 + num_collectors)],
+    split_trajs=False,
+)
 
 ###############################################################################
-# Loss function
-# -------------
+# Training loop of a regular DQN
+# ------------------------------
 #
-# Building our loss function is straightforward: we only need to provide
-# the model and a bunch of hyperparameters to the DQNLoss class.
+# We'll start with a simple implementation of DQN where the returns are
+# computed without bootstrapping, i.e.
 #
-# Target parameters
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+# .. math::
 #
-# Many off-policy RL algorithms use the concept of "target parameters" when it
-# comes to estimate the value of the next state or state-action pair.
-# The target parameters are lagged copies of the model parameters. Because
-# their predictions mismatch those of the current model configuration, they
-# help learning by putting a pessimistic bound on the value being estimated.
-# This is a powerful trick (known as "Double Q-Learning") that is ubiquitous
-# in similar algorithms.
+#       Q_{t}(s, a) = R(s, a) + \gamma * V_{t+1}(s)
 #
+# where :math:`Q(s, a)` is the Q-value of the current state-action pair,
+# :math:`R(s, a)` is the result of the reward function, and :math:`V(s)` is a
+# value function that returns 0 for terminating states.
+#
+# We store the logs in a defaultdict:
 
+logs_exp1 = defaultdict(list)
+prev_traj_count = 0
 
-def get_loss_module(actor, gamma):
-    loss_module = DQNLoss(actor, gamma=gamma, delay_value=True)
-    target_updater = SoftUpdate(loss_module)
-    return loss_module, target_updater
-
-
-###############################################################################
-# Hyperparameters
-# ---------------
-#
-# Let's start with our hyperparameters. The following setting should work well
-# in practice, and the performance of the algorithm should hopefully not be
-# too sensitive to slight variations of these.
+pbar = tqdm.tqdm(total=total_frames)
+for j, data in enumerate(data_collector):
+    current_frames = data.numel()
+    pbar.update(current_frames)
+    data = data.view(-1)
 
-device = "cuda:0" if torch.cuda.device_count() > 0 else "cpu"
+    # We store the values on the replay buffer, after placing them on CPU.
+    # When called for the first time, this will instantiate our storage
+    # object which will print its content.
+    replay_buffer.extend(data.cpu())
 
-###############################################################################
-# Optimizer
-# ~~~~~~~~~
+    # some logging
+    if len(logs_exp1["frames"]):
+        logs_exp1["frames"].append(current_frames + logs_exp1["frames"][-1])
+    else:
+        logs_exp1["frames"].append(current_frames)
 
-# the learning rate of the optimizer
-lr = 2e-3
-# weight decay
-wd = 1e-5
-# the beta parameters of Adam
-betas = (0.9, 0.999)
-# Optimization steps per batch collected (aka UPD or updates per data)
-n_optim = 8
+    if data["next", "done"].any():
+        done = data["next", "done"].squeeze(-1)
+        logs_exp1["traj_lengths"].append(
+            data["next", "step_count"][done].float().mean().item()
+        )
 
-###############################################################################
-# DQN parameters
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-# gamma decay factor
-gamma = 0.99
+    # check that we have enough data to start training
+    if sum(logs_exp1["frames"]) > init_random_frames:
+        for _ in range(n_optim):
+            # sample from the RB and send to device
+            sampled_data = replay_buffer.sample(batch_size)
+            sampled_data = sampled_data.to(device, non_blocking=True)
+
+            # collect data from RB
+            reward = sampled_data["next", "reward"].squeeze(-1)
+            done = sampled_data["next", "done"].squeeze(-1).to(reward.dtype)
+            action = sampled_data["action"].clone()
+
+            # Compute action value (of the action actually taken) at time t
+            # By default, TorchRL uses one-hot encodings for discrete actions
+            sampled_data_out = sampled_data.select(*actor.in_keys)
+            sampled_data_out = factor(sampled_data_out, params=params)
+            action_value = sampled_data_out["action_value"]
+            action_value = (action_value * action.to(action_value.dtype)).sum(-1)
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                # compute best action value for the next step, using target parameters
+                tdstep = step_mdp(sampled_data)
+                next_value = factor(
+                    tdstep.select(*actor.in_keys),
+                    params=params_target,
+                )["chosen_action_value"].squeeze(-1)
+                exp_value = reward + gamma * next_value * (1 - done)
+            assert exp_value.shape == action_value.shape
+            # we use MSE loss but L1 or smooth L1 should also work
+            error = nn.functional.mse_loss(exp_value, action_value).mean()
+            error.backward()
+
+            gv = nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(list(params_flat.values()), 1)
+
+            optim.step()
+            optim.zero_grad()
+
+            # update of the target parameters
+            params_target.apply(
+                lambda p_target, p_orig: p_orig * tau + p_target * (1 - tau),
+                params.detach(),
+                inplace=True,
+            )
+
+        actor_explore.step(current_frames)
+
+        # Logging
+        logs_exp1["grad_vals"].append(float(gv))
+        logs_exp1["losses"].append(error.item())
+        logs_exp1["values"].append(action_value.mean().item())
+        logs_exp1["traj_count"].append(
+            prev_traj_count + data["next", "done"].sum().item()
+        )
+        prev_traj_count = logs_exp1["traj_count"][-1]
+
+        if j % 10 == 0:
+            with set_exploration_mode("mode"), torch.no_grad():
+                # execute a rollout. The `set_exploration_mode("mode")` has no effect here since the policy is deterministic, but we add it for completeness
+                eval_rollout = test_env.rollout(
+                    max_steps=10000,
+                    policy=actor,
+                ).cpu()
+            logs_exp1["traj_lengths_eval"].append(eval_rollout.shape[-1])
+            logs_exp1["evals"].append(eval_rollout["next", "reward"].sum().item())
+            if len(logs_exp1["mavgs"]):
+                logs_exp1["mavgs"].append(
+                    logs_exp1["evals"][-1] * 0.05 + logs_exp1["mavgs"][-1] * 0.95
+                )
+            else:
+                logs_exp1["mavgs"].append(logs_exp1["evals"][-1])
+            logs_exp1["traj_count_eval"].append(logs_exp1["traj_count"][-1])
+            pbar.set_description(
+                f"error: {error: 4.4f}, value: {action_value.mean(): 4.4f}, test return: {logs_exp1['evals'][-1]: 4.4f}"
+            )
 
-###############################################################################
-# Smooth target network update decay parameter.
-# This loosely corresponds to a 1/tau interval with hard target network
-# update
-tau = 0.02
+    # update policy weights
+    data_collector.update_policy_weights_()
 
 ###############################################################################
-# Data collection and replay buffer
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-#
-# .. note::
-#   Values to be used for proper training have been commented.
+# We write a custom plot function to display the performance of our algorithm
 #
-# Total frames collected in the environment. In other implementations, the
-# user defines a maximum number of episodes.
-# This is harder to do with our data collectors since they return batches
-# of N collected frames, where N is a constant.
-# However, one can easily get the same restriction on number of episodes by
-# breaking the training loop when a certain number
-# episodes has been collected.
-total_frames = 5_000  # 500000
 
-###############################################################################
-# Random frames used to initialize the replay buffer.
-init_random_frames = 100  # 1000
 
-###############################################################################
-# Frames in each batch collected.
-frames_per_batch = 32  # 128
+def plot(logs, name):
+    plt.figure(figsize=(15, 10))
+    plt.subplot(2, 3, 1)
+    plt.plot(
+        logs["frames"][-len(logs["evals"]) :],
+        logs["evals"],
+        label="return (eval)",
+    )
+    plt.plot(
+        logs["frames"][-len(logs["mavgs"]) :],
+        logs["mavgs"],
+        label="mavg of returns (eval)",
+    )
+    plt.xlabel("frames collected")
+    plt.ylabel("trajectory length (= return)")
+    plt.subplot(2, 3, 2)
+    plt.plot(
+        logs["traj_count"][-len(logs["evals"]) :],
+        logs["evals"],
+        label="return",
+    )
+    plt.plot(
+        logs["traj_count"][-len(logs["mavgs"]) :],
+        logs["mavgs"],
+        label="mavg",
+    )
+    plt.xlabel("trajectories collected")
+    plt.legend()
+    plt.subplot(2, 3, 3)
+    plt.plot(logs["frames"][-len(logs["losses"]) :], logs["losses"])
+    plt.xlabel("frames collected")
+    plt.title("loss")
+    plt.subplot(2, 3, 4)
+    plt.plot(logs["frames"][-len(logs["values"]) :], logs["values"])
+    plt.xlabel("frames collected")
+    plt.title("value")
+    plt.subplot(2, 3, 5)
+    plt.plot(
+        logs["frames"][-len(logs["grad_vals"]) :],
+        logs["grad_vals"],
+    )
+    plt.xlabel("frames collected")
+    plt.title("grad norm")
+    if len(logs["traj_lengths"]):
+        plt.subplot(2, 3, 6)
+        plt.plot(logs["traj_lengths"])
+        plt.xlabel("batches")
+        plt.title("traj length (training)")
+    plt.savefig(name)
+    if is_notebook():
+        plt.show()
 
-###############################################################################
-# Frames sampled from the replay buffer at each optimization step
-batch_size = 32  # 256
 
 ###############################################################################
-# Size of the replay buffer in terms of frames
-buffer_size = min(total_frames, 100000)
+# The performance of the policy can be measured as the length of trajectories.
+# As we can see on the results of the :func:`plot` function, the performance
+# of the policy increases, albeit slowly.
+#
+# .. code-block:: python
+#
+#    plot(logs_exp1, "dqn_td0.png")
+#
+# .. figure:: /_static/img/dqn_td0.png
+#    :alt: Cart Pole results with TD(0)
+#
 
-###############################################################################
-# Number of environments run in parallel in each data collector
-num_workers = 2  # 8
-num_collectors = 2  # 4
+print("shutting down")
+data_collector.shutdown()
+del data_collector
 
 ###############################################################################
-# Environment and exploration
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+# DQN with TD(:math:`\lambda`)
+# ----------------------------
 #
-# We set the initial and final value of the epsilon factor in Epsilon-greedy
-# exploration.
-# Since our policy is deterministic, exploration is crucial: without it, the
-# only source of randomness would be the environment reset.
+# We can improve the above algorithm by getting a better estimate of the
+# return, using not only the next state value but the whole sequence of rewards
+# and values that follow a particular step.
+#
+# TorchRL provides a vectorized version of TD(lambda) named
+# :func:`torchrl.objectives.value.functional.vec_td_lambda_advantage_estimate`.
+# We'll use this to obtain a target value that the value network will be
+# trained to match.
+#
+# The big difference in this implementation is that we'll store entire
+# trajectories and not single steps in the replay buffer. This will be done
+# automatically as long as we're not "flattening" the tensordict collected:
+# by keeping a shape ``[Batch x timesteps]`` and giving this
+# to the RB, we'll be creating a replay buffer of size
+# ``[Capacity x timesteps]``.
 
-eps_greedy_val = 0.1
-eps_greedy_val_env = 0.005
 
-###############################################################################
-# To speed up learning, we set the bias of the last layer of our value network
-# to a predefined value (this is not mandatory)
-init_bias = 2.0
+from torchrl.objectives.value.functional import vec_td_lambda_advantage_estimate
 
 ###############################################################################
-# .. note::
-#   For fast rendering of the tutorial ``total_frames`` hyperparameter
-#   was set to a very low number. To get a reasonable performance, use a greater
-#   value e.g. 500000
+# We reset the actor parameters:
 #
 
+(
+    factor,
+    actor,
+    actor_explore,
+    params,
+    params_target,
+) = make_model(test_env)
+params_flat = params.flatten_keys(".")
+
+optim = torch.optim.Adam(list(params_flat.values()), lr, betas=betas)
+test_env = make_env(
+    parallel=False, observation_norm_state_dict=observation_norm_state_dict
+)
+print(actor_explore(test_env.reset()))
+
 ###############################################################################
-# Building a Trainer
-# ------------------
+# Data: Replay buffer and collector
+# ---------------------------------
 #
-# TorchRL's :class:`torchrl.trainers.Trainer` class constructor takes the
-# following keyword-only arguments:
+# We need to build a new replay buffer of the appropriate size:
 #
-# - ``collector``
-# - ``loss_module``
-# - ``optimizer``
-# - ``logger``: A logger can be
-# - ``total_frames``: this parameter defines the lifespan of the trainer.
-# - ``frame_skip``: when a frame-skip is used, the collector must be made
-#   aware of it in order to accurately count the number of frames
-#   collected etc. Making the trainer aware of this parameter is not
-#   mandatory but helps to have a fairer comparison between settings where
-#   the total number of frames (budget) is fixed but the frame-skip is
-#   variable.
 
-stats = get_norm_stats()
-test_env = make_env(parallel=False, obs_norm_sd=stats)
-# Get model
-actor, actor_explore = make_model(test_env)
-loss_module, target_net_updater = get_loss_module(actor, gamma)
-target_net_updater.init_()
+max_size = frames_per_batch // num_workers
 
-collector = get_collector(
-    stats, num_collectors, actor_explore, frames_per_batch, total_frames, device
-)
-optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(
-    loss_module.parameters(), lr=lr, weight_decay=wd, betas=betas
+replay_buffer = TensorDictReplayBuffer(
+    storage=LazyMemmapStorage(-(-buffer_size // max_size)),
+    prefetch=n_optim,
 )
-exp_name = f"dqn_exp_{uuid.uuid1()}"
-tmpdir = tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()
-logger = CSVLogger(exp_name=exp_name, log_dir=tmpdir.name)
-warnings.warn(f"log dir: {logger.experiment.log_dir}")
-
-###############################################################################
-# We can control how often the scalars should be logged. Here we set this
-# to a low value as our training loop is short:
-
-log_interval = 500
 
-trainer = Trainer(
-    collector=collector,
+data_collector = MultiaSyncDataCollector(
+    [
+        make_env(
+            parallel=True, observation_norm_state_dict=observation_norm_state_dict
+        ),
+    ]
+    * num_collectors,
+    policy=actor_explore,
+    frames_per_batch=frames_per_batch,
     total_frames=total_frames,
-    frame_skip=1,
-    loss_module=loss_module,
-    optimizer=optimizer,
-    logger=logger,
-    optim_steps_per_batch=n_optim,
-    log_interval=log_interval,
+    exploration_mode="random",
+    devices=[device] * num_collectors,
+    storing_devices=[device] * num_collectors,
+    # devices=[f"cuda:{i}" for i in range(1, 1 + num_collectors)],
+    # storing_devices=[f"cuda:{i}" for i in range(1, 1 + num_collectors)],
+    split_trajs=False,
 )
 
+
+logs_exp2 = defaultdict(list)
+prev_traj_count = 0
+
 ###############################################################################
-# Registering hooks
-# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+# Training loop
+# -------------
 #
-# Registering hooks can be achieved in two separate ways:
+# There are very few differences with the training loop above:
 #
-# - If the hook has it, the :meth:`torchrl.trainers.TrainerHookBase.register`
-#   method is the first choice. One just needs to provide the trainer as input
-#   and the hook will be registered with a default name at a default location.
-#   For some hooks, the registration can be quite complex: :class:`torchrl.trainers.ReplayBufferTrainer`
-#   requires 3 hooks (``extend``, ``sample`` and ``update_priority``) which
-#   can be cumbersome to implement.
-buffer_hook = ReplayBufferTrainer(
-    get_replay_buffer(buffer_size, n_optim, batch_size=batch_size),
-    flatten_tensordicts=True,
-)
-buffer_hook.register(trainer)
-weight_updater = UpdateWeights(collector, update_weights_interval=1)
-weight_updater.register(trainer)
-recorder = Recorder(
-    record_interval=100,  # log every 100 optimization steps
-    record_frames=1000,  # maximum number of frames in the record
-    frame_skip=1,
-    policy_exploration=actor_explore,
-    environment=test_env,
-    exploration_mode="mode",
-    log_keys=[("next", "reward")],
-    out_keys={("next", "reward"): "rewards"},
-    log_pbar=True,
-)
-recorder.register(trainer)
+# - The tensordict received by the collector is used as-is, without being
+#   flattened (recall the ``data.view(-1)`` above), to keep the temporal
+#   relation between consecutive steps.
+# - We use :func:`vec_td_lambda_advantage_estimate` to compute the target
+#   value.
+
+pbar = tqdm.tqdm(total=total_frames)
+for j, data in enumerate(data_collector):
+    current_frames = data.numel()
+    pbar.update(current_frames)
+
+    replay_buffer.extend(data.cpu())
+    if len(logs_exp2["frames"]):
+        logs_exp2["frames"].append(current_frames + logs_exp2["frames"][-1])
+    else:
+        logs_exp2["frames"].append(current_frames)
+
+    if data["next", "done"].any():
+        done = data["next", "done"].squeeze(-1)
+        logs_exp2["traj_lengths"].append(
+            data["next", "step_count"][done].float().mean().item()
+        )
+
+    if sum(logs_exp2["frames"]) > init_random_frames:
+        for _ in range(n_optim):
+            sampled_data = replay_buffer.sample(batch_size // max_size)
+            sampled_data = sampled_data.clone().to(device, non_blocking=True)
+
+            reward = sampled_data["next", "reward"]
+            done = sampled_data["next", "done"].to(reward.dtype)
+            action = sampled_data["action"].clone()
+
+            sampled_data_out = sampled_data.select(*actor.in_keys)
+            sampled_data_out = vmap(factor, (0, None))(sampled_data_out, params)
+            action_value = sampled_data_out["action_value"]
+            action_value = (action_value * action.to(action_value.dtype)).sum(-1, True)
+            with torch.no_grad():
+                tdstep = step_mdp(sampled_data)
+                next_value = vmap(factor, (0, None))(
+                    tdstep.select(*actor.in_keys), params
+                )
+                next_value = next_value["chosen_action_value"]
+            error = vec_td_lambda_advantage_estimate(
+                gamma,
+                lmbda,
+                action_value,
+                next_value,
+                reward,
+                done,
+                time_dim=sampled_data_out.ndim - 1,
+            ).pow(2)
+            error = error.mean()
+            error.backward()
+
+            gv = nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_(list(params_flat.values()), 1)
+
+            optim.step()
+            optim.zero_grad()
+
+            # update of the target parameters
+            params_target.apply(
+                lambda p_target, p_orig: p_orig * tau + p_target * (1 - tau),
+                params.detach(),
+                inplace=True,
+            )
+
+        actor_explore.step(current_frames)
+
+        # Logging
+        logs_exp2["grad_vals"].append(float(gv))
+
+        logs_exp2["losses"].append(error.item())
+        logs_exp2["values"].append(action_value.mean().item())
+        logs_exp2["traj_count"].append(
+            prev_traj_count + data["next", "done"].sum().item()
+        )
+        prev_traj_count = logs_exp2["traj_count"][-1]
+        if j % 10 == 0:
+            with set_exploration_mode("mode"), torch.no_grad():
+                # execute a rollout. The `set_exploration_mode("mode")` has
+                # no effect here since the policy is deterministic, but we add
+                # it for completeness
+                eval_rollout = test_env.rollout(
+                    max_steps=10000,
+                    policy=actor,
+                ).cpu()
+            logs_exp2["traj_lengths_eval"].append(eval_rollout.shape[-1])
+            logs_exp2["evals"].append(eval_rollout["next", "reward"].sum().item())
+            if len(logs_exp2["mavgs"]):
+                logs_exp2["mavgs"].append(
+                    logs_exp2["evals"][-1] * 0.05 + logs_exp2["mavgs"][-1] * 0.95
+                )
+            else:
+                logs_exp2["mavgs"].append(logs_exp2["evals"][-1])
+            logs_exp2["traj_count_eval"].append(logs_exp2["traj_count"][-1])
+            pbar.set_description(
+                f"error: {error: 4.4f}, value: {action_value.mean(): 4.4f}, test return: {logs_exp2['evals'][-1]: 4.4f}"
+            )
+
+    # update policy weights
+    data_collector.update_policy_weights_()
+
 
 ###############################################################################
-# - Any callable (including :class:`torchrl.trainers.TrainerHookBase`
-#   subclasses) can be registered using :meth:`torchrl.trainers.Trainer.register_op`.
-#   In this case, a location must be explicitly passed (). This method gives
-#   more control over the location of the hook but it also requires more
-#   understanding of the Trainer mechanism.
-#   Check the `trainer documentation <https://pytorch.org/rl/reference/trainers.html>`_
-#   for a detailed description of the trainer hooks.
+# TD(:math:`\lambda`) performs significantly better than TD(0) because it
+# retrieves a much less biased estimate of the state-action value.
+#
+# .. code-block:: python
+#
+#    plot(logs_exp2, "dqn_tdlambda.png")
 #
-trainer.register_op("post_optim", target_net_updater.step)
+# .. figure:: /_static/img/dqn_tdlambda.png
+#    :alt: Cart Pole results with TD(lambda)
+#
+
+
+print("shutting down")
+data_collector.shutdown()
+del data_collector
 
 ###############################################################################
-# We can log the training rewards too. Note that this is of limited interest
-# with CartPole, as rewards are always 1. The discounted sum of rewards is
-# maximised not by getting higher rewards but by keeping the cart-pole alive
-# for longer.
-# This will be reflected by the `total_rewards` value displayed in the
-# progress bar.
+# Let's compare the results on a single plot. Because the TD(lambda) version
+# works better, we'll have fewer episodes collected for a given number of
+# frames (as there are more frames per episode).
 #
-log_reward = LogReward(log_pbar=True)
-log_reward.register(trainer)
+# **Note**: As already mentioned above, to get a more reasonable performance,
+# use a greater value for ``total_frames`` e.g. 500000.
+
+
+def plot_both():
+    frames_td0 = logs_exp1["frames"]
+    frames_tdlambda = logs_exp2["frames"]
+    evals_td0 = logs_exp1["evals"]
+    evals_tdlambda = logs_exp2["evals"]
+    mavgs_td0 = logs_exp1["mavgs"]
+    mavgs_tdlambda = logs_exp2["mavgs"]
+    traj_count_td0 = logs_exp1["traj_count_eval"]
+    traj_count_tdlambda = logs_exp2["traj_count_eval"]
+
+    plt.figure(figsize=(15, 10))
+    plt.subplot(1, 2, 1)
+    plt.plot(frames_td0[-len(evals_td0) :], evals_td0, label="return (td0)", alpha=0.5)
+    plt.plot(
+        frames_tdlambda[-len(evals_tdlambda) :],
+        evals_tdlambda,
+        label="return (td(lambda))",
+        alpha=0.5,
+    )
+    plt.plot(frames_td0[-len(mavgs_td0) :], mavgs_td0, label="mavg (td0)")
+    plt.plot(
+        frames_tdlambda[-len(mavgs_tdlambda) :],
+        mavgs_tdlambda,
+        label="mavg (td(lambda))",
+    )
+    plt.xlabel("frames collected")
+    plt.ylabel("trajectory length (= return)")
+
+    plt.subplot(1, 2, 2)
+    plt.plot(
+        traj_count_td0[-len(evals_td0) :],
+        evals_td0,
+        label="return (td0)",
+        alpha=0.5,
+    )
+    plt.plot(
+        traj_count_tdlambda[-len(evals_tdlambda) :],
+        evals_tdlambda,
+        label="return (td(lambda))",
+        alpha=0.5,
+    )
+    plt.plot(traj_count_td0[-len(mavgs_td0) :], mavgs_td0, label="mavg (td0)")
+    plt.plot(
+        traj_count_tdlambda[-len(mavgs_tdlambda) :],
+        mavgs_tdlambda,
+        label="mavg (td(lambda))",
+    )
+    plt.xlabel("trajectories collected")
+    plt.legend()
+
+    plt.savefig("dqn.png")
+
 
 ###############################################################################
-# .. note::
-#   It is possible to link multiple optimizers to the trainer if needed.
-#   In this case, each optimizer will be tied to a field in the loss
-#   dictionary.
-#   Check the :class:`torchrl.trainers.OptimizerHook` to learn more.
+# .. code-block:: python
 #
-# Here we are, ready to train our algorithm! A simple call to
-# ``trainer.train()`` and we'll be getting our results logged in.
+#    plot_both()
+#
+# .. figure:: /_static/img/dqn.png
+#    :alt: Cart Pole results from the TD(:math:`lambda`) trained policy.
+#
+# Finally, we generate a new video to check what the algorithm has learnt.
+# If all goes well, the duration should be significantly longer than with a
+# random rollout.
+#
+# To get the raw pixels of the rollout, we insert a
+# :class:`torchrl.envs.CatTensors` transform that precedes all others and copies
+# the ``"pixels"`` key onto a ``"pixels_save"`` key. This is necessary because
+# the other transforms that modify this key will update its value in-place in
+# the output tensordict.
 #
-trainer.train()
-
-###############################################################################
-# We can now quickly check the CSVs with the results.
-
 
-def print_csv_files_in_folder(folder_path):
-    """
-    Find all CSV files in a folder and prints the first 10 lines of each file.
+test_env.transform.insert(0, CatTensors(["pixels"], "pixels_save", del_keys=False))
+eval_rollout = test_env.rollout(max_steps=10000, policy=actor, auto_reset=True).cpu()
 
-    Args:
-        folder_path (str): The relative path to the folder.
+# sphinx_gallery_start_ignore
+import imageio
 
-    """
-    csv_files = []
-    output_str = ""
-    for dirpath, _, filenames in os.walk(folder_path):
-        for file in filenames:
-            if file.endswith(".csv"):
-                csv_files.append(os.path.join(dirpath, file))
-    for csv_file in csv_files:
-        output_str += f"File: {csv_file}\n"
-        with open(csv_file, "r") as f:
-            for i, line in enumerate(f):
-                if i == 10:
-                    break
-                output_str += line.strip() + "\n"
-        output_str += "\n"
-    print(output_str)
+imageio.mimwrite("cartpole.gif", eval_rollout["pixels_save"].numpy(), fps=30)
+# sphinx_gallery_end_ignore
 
+del test_env
 
-print_csv_files_in_folder(logger.experiment.log_dir)
+###############################################################################
+# The video of the rollout can be saved using the imageio package:
+#
+# .. code-block::
+#
+#   import imageio
+#   imageio.mimwrite('cartpole.mp4', eval_rollout["pixels_save"].numpy(), fps=30);
+#
+# .. figure:: /_static/img/cartpole.gif
+#    :alt: Cart Pole results from the TD(:math:`\lambda`) trained policy.
 
 ###############################################################################
 # Conclusion and possible improvements
 # ------------------------------------
 #
-# In this tutorial we have learned:
+# In this tutorial we have learnt:
 #
-# - How to write a Trainer, including building its components and registering
-#   them in the trainer;
-# - How to code a DQN algorithm, including how to create a policy that picks
-#   up the action with the highest value with
-#   :class:`torchrl.modules.QValueNetwork`;
+# - How to train a policy that read pixel-based states, what transforms to
+#   include and how to normalize the data;
+# - How to create a policy that picks up the action with the highest value
+#   with :class:`torchrl.modules.QValueNetwork`;
 # - How to build a multiprocessed data collector;
+# - How to train a DQN with TD(:math:`\lambda`) returns.
+#
+# We have seen that using TD(:math:`\lambda`) greatly improved the performance
+# of DQN. Other possible improvements could include:
+#
+# - Using the Multi-Step post-processing. Multi-step will project an action
+#   to the nth following step, and create a discounted sum of the rewards in
+#   between. This trick can make the algorithm noticebly less myopic. To use
+#   this, simply create the collector with
+#
+#       from torchrl.data.postprocs.postprocs import MultiStep
+#       collector = CollectorClass(..., postproc=MultiStep(gamma, n))
 #
-# Possible improvements to this tutorial could include:
+#   where ``n`` is the number of looking-forward steps. Pay attention to the
+#   fact that the ``gamma`` factor has to be corrected by the number of
+#   steps till the next observation when being passed to
+#   ``vec_td_lambda_advantage_estimate``:
 #
+#       gamma = gamma ** tensordict["steps_to_next_obs"]
 # - A prioritized replay buffer could also be used. This will give a
 #   higher priority to samples that have the worst value accuracy.
-#   Learn more on the
-#   `replay buffer section <https://pytorch.org/rl/reference/data.html#composable-replay-buffers>`_
-#   of the documentation.
-# - A distributional loss (see :class:`torchrl.objectives.DistributionalDQNLoss`
+# - A distributional loss (see ``torchrl.objectives.DistributionalDQNLoss``
 #   for more information).
-# - More fancy exploration techniques, such as :class:`torchrl.modules.NoisyLinear` layers and such.
+# - More fancy exploration techniques, such as NoisyLinear layers and such
+#   (check ``torchrl.modules.NoisyLinear``, which is fully compatible with the
+#   ``MLP`` class used in our Dueling DQN).
diff --git a/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_ppo.py b/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_ppo.py
index 274269a3dac..77ed207837f 100644
--- a/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_ppo.py
+++ b/tutorials/sphinx-tutorials/coding_ppo.py
@@ -602,8 +602,7 @@
         # We'll need an "advantage" signal to make PPO work.
         # We re-compute it at each epoch as its value depends on the value
         # network which is updated in the inner loop.
-        with torch.no_grad():
-            advantage_module(tensordict_data)
+        advantage_module(tensordict_data)
         data_view = tensordict_data.reshape(-1)
         replay_buffer.extend(data_view.cpu())
         for _ in range(frames_per_batch // sub_batch_size):