diff --git a/candle-examples/Cargo.toml b/candle-examples/Cargo.toml
index f719352f..7372e24f 100644
--- a/candle-examples/Cargo.toml
+++ b/candle-examples/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ half = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 image = { workspace = true }
 intel-mkl-src = { workspace = true, optional = true }
 num-traits = { workspace = true }
+pyo3 = { version = "0.19.0", features = ["auto-initialize"], optional = true }
 rayon = { workspace = true }
 safetensors = { workspace = true }
 serde = { workspace = true }
@@ -58,3 +59,7 @@ nccl = ["cuda", "cudarc/nccl", "dep:half"]
 [[example]]
 name = "llama_multiprocess"
 required-features = ["cuda", "nccl", "flash-attn"]
+
+[[example]]
+name = "reinforcement-learning"
+required-features = ["pyo3"]
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/README.md b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..2d3d14b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# candle-reinforcement-learning
+
+Reinforcement Learning examples for candle.
+
+This has been tested with `gymnasium` version `0.29.1`. You can install the
+Python package with:
+```bash
+pip install "gymnasium[accept-rom-license]"
+```
+
+In order to run the example, use the following command. Note the additional
+`--package` flag to ensure that there is no conflict with the `candle-pyo3`
+crate.
+```bash
+cargo run --example reinforcement-learning --features=pyo3 --package candle-examples
+```
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/atari_wrappers.py b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/atari_wrappers.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b5c4665d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/atari_wrappers.py
@@ -0,0 +1,308 @@
+import gymnasium as gym
+import numpy as np
+from collections import deque
+from PIL import Image
+from multiprocessing import Process, Pipe
+
+# atari_wrappers.py
+class NoopResetEnv(gym.Wrapper):
+    def __init__(self, env, noop_max=30):
+        """Sample initial states by taking random number of no-ops on reset.
+        No-op is assumed to be action 0.
+        """
+        gym.Wrapper.__init__(self, env)
+        self.noop_max = noop_max
+        self.override_num_noops = None
+        assert env.unwrapped.get_action_meanings()[0] == 'NOOP'
+
+    def reset(self):
+        """ Do no-op action for a number of steps in [1, noop_max]."""
+        self.env.reset()
+        if self.override_num_noops is not None:
+            noops = self.override_num_noops
+        else:
+            noops = self.unwrapped.np_random.integers(1, self.noop_max + 1) #pylint: disable=E1101
+        assert noops > 0
+        obs = None
+        for _ in range(noops):
+            obs, _, done, _ = self.env.step(0)
+            if done:
+                obs = self.env.reset()
+        return obs
+
+class FireResetEnv(gym.Wrapper):
+    def __init__(self, env):
+        """Take action on reset for environments that are fixed until firing."""
+        gym.Wrapper.__init__(self, env)
+        assert env.unwrapped.get_action_meanings()[1] == 'FIRE'
+        assert len(env.unwrapped.get_action_meanings()) >= 3
+
+    def reset(self):
+        self.env.reset()
+        obs, _, done, _ = self.env.step(1)
+        if done:
+            self.env.reset()
+        obs, _, done, _ = self.env.step(2)
+        if done:
+            self.env.reset()
+        return obs
+
+class ImageSaver(gym.Wrapper):
+    def __init__(self, env, img_path, rank):
+        gym.Wrapper.__init__(self, env)
+        self._cnt = 0
+        self._img_path = img_path
+        self._rank = rank
+
+    def step(self, action):
+        step_result = self.env.step(action)
+        obs, _, _, _ = step_result
+        img = Image.fromarray(obs, 'RGB')
+        img.save('%s/out%d-%05d.png' % (self._img_path, self._rank, self._cnt))
+        self._cnt += 1
+        return step_result
+
+class EpisodicLifeEnv(gym.Wrapper):
+    def __init__(self, env):
+        """Make end-of-life == end-of-episode, but only reset on true game over.
+        Done by DeepMind for the DQN and co. since it helps value estimation.
+        """
+        gym.Wrapper.__init__(self, env)
+        self.lives = 0
+        self.was_real_done  = True
+
+    def step(self, action):
+        obs, reward, done, info = self.env.step(action)
+        self.was_real_done = done
+        # check current lives, make loss of life terminal,
+        # then update lives to handle bonus lives
+        lives = self.env.unwrapped.ale.lives()
+        if lives < self.lives and lives > 0:
+            # for Qbert somtimes we stay in lives == 0 condtion for a few frames
+            # so its important to keep lives > 0, so that we only reset once
+            # the environment advertises done.
+            done = True
+        self.lives = lives
+        return obs, reward, done, info
+
+    def reset(self):
+        """Reset only when lives are exhausted.
+        This way all states are still reachable even though lives are episodic,
+        and the learner need not know about any of this behind-the-scenes.
+        """
+        if self.was_real_done:
+            obs = self.env.reset()
+        else:
+            # no-op step to advance from terminal/lost life state
+            obs, _, _, _ = self.env.step(0)
+        self.lives = self.env.unwrapped.ale.lives()
+        return obs
+
+class MaxAndSkipEnv(gym.Wrapper):
+    def __init__(self, env, skip=4):
+        """Return only every `skip`-th frame"""
+        gym.Wrapper.__init__(self, env)
+        # most recent raw observations (for max pooling across time steps)
+        self._obs_buffer = deque(maxlen=2)
+        self._skip       = skip
+
+    def step(self, action):
+        """Repeat action, sum reward, and max over last observations."""
+        total_reward = 0.0
+        done = None
+        for _ in range(self._skip):
+            obs, reward, done, info = self.env.step(action)
+            self._obs_buffer.append(obs)
+            total_reward += reward
+            if done:
+                break
+        max_frame = np.max(np.stack(self._obs_buffer), axis=0)
+
+        return max_frame, total_reward, done, info
+
+    def reset(self):
+        """Clear past frame buffer and init. to first obs. from inner env."""
+        self._obs_buffer.clear()
+        obs = self.env.reset()
+        self._obs_buffer.append(obs)
+        return obs
+
+class ClipRewardEnv(gym.RewardWrapper):
+    def reward(self, reward):
+        """Bin reward to {+1, 0, -1} by its sign."""
+        return np.sign(reward)
+
+class WarpFrame(gym.ObservationWrapper):
+    def __init__(self, env):
+        """Warp frames to 84x84 as done in the Nature paper and later work."""
+        gym.ObservationWrapper.__init__(self, env)
+        self.res = 84
+        self.observation_space = gym.spaces.Box(low=0, high=255, shape=(self.res, self.res, 1), dtype='uint8')
+
+    def observation(self, obs):
+        frame = np.dot(obs.astype('float32'), np.array([0.299, 0.587, 0.114], 'float32'))
+        frame = np.array(Image.fromarray(frame).resize((self.res, self.res),
+            resample=Image.BILINEAR), dtype=np.uint8)
+        return frame.reshape((self.res, self.res, 1))
+
+class FrameStack(gym.Wrapper):
+    def __init__(self, env, k):
+        """Buffer observations and stack across channels (last axis)."""
+        gym.Wrapper.__init__(self, env)
+        self.k = k
+        self.frames = deque([], maxlen=k)
+        shp = env.observation_space.shape
+        assert shp[2] == 1  # can only stack 1-channel frames
+        self.observation_space = gym.spaces.Box(low=0, high=255, shape=(shp[0], shp[1], k), dtype='uint8')
+
+    def reset(self):
+        """Clear buffer and re-fill by duplicating the first observation."""
+        ob = self.env.reset()
+        for _ in range(self.k): self.frames.append(ob)
+        return self.observation()
+
+    def step(self, action):
+        ob, reward, done, info = self.env.step(action)
+        self.frames.append(ob)
+        return self.observation(), reward, done, info
+
+    def observation(self):
+        assert len(self.frames) == self.k
+        return np.concatenate(self.frames, axis=2)
+
+def wrap_deepmind(env, episode_life=True, clip_rewards=True):
+    """Configure environment for DeepMind-style Atari.
+
+    Note: this does not include frame stacking!"""
+    assert 'NoFrameskip' in env.spec.id  # required for DeepMind-style skip
+    if episode_life:
+        env = EpisodicLifeEnv(env)
+    env = NoopResetEnv(env, noop_max=30)
+    env = MaxAndSkipEnv(env, skip=4)
+    if 'FIRE' in env.unwrapped.get_action_meanings():
+        env = FireResetEnv(env)
+    env = WarpFrame(env)
+    if clip_rewards:
+        env = ClipRewardEnv(env)
+    return env
+
+# envs.py
+def make_env(env_id, img_dir, seed, rank):
+    def _thunk():
+        env = gym.make(env_id)
+        env.reset(seed=(seed + rank))
+        if img_dir is not None:
+            env = ImageSaver(env, img_dir, rank)
+        env = wrap_deepmind(env)
+        env = WrapPyTorch(env)
+        return env
+
+    return _thunk
+
+class WrapPyTorch(gym.ObservationWrapper):
+    def __init__(self, env=None):
+        super(WrapPyTorch, self).__init__(env)
+        self.observation_space = gym.spaces.Box(0.0, 1.0, [1, 84, 84], dtype='float32')
+
+    def observation(self, observation):
+        return observation.transpose(2, 0, 1)
+
+# vecenv.py
+class VecEnv(object):
+    """
+    Vectorized environment base class
+    """
+    def step(self, vac):
+        """
+        Apply sequence of actions to sequence of environments
+        actions -> (observations, rewards, news)
+
+        where 'news' is a boolean vector indicating whether each element is new.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+    def reset(self):
+        """
+        Reset all environments
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError
+    def close(self):
+        pass
+
+# subproc_vec_env.py
+def worker(remote, env_fn_wrapper):
+    env = env_fn_wrapper.x()
+    while True:
+        cmd, data = remote.recv()
+        if cmd == 'step':
+            ob, reward, done, info = env.step(data)
+            if done:
+                ob = env.reset()
+            remote.send((ob, reward, done, info))
+        elif cmd == 'reset':
+            ob = env.reset()
+            remote.send(ob)
+        elif cmd == 'close':
+            remote.close()
+            break
+        elif cmd == 'get_spaces':
+            remote.send((env.action_space, env.observation_space))
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError
+
+class CloudpickleWrapper(object):
+    """
+    Uses cloudpickle to serialize contents (otherwise multiprocessing tries to use pickle)
+    """
+    def __init__(self, x):
+        self.x = x
+    def __getstate__(self):
+        import cloudpickle
+        return cloudpickle.dumps(self.x)
+    def __setstate__(self, ob):
+        import pickle
+        self.x = pickle.loads(ob)
+
+class SubprocVecEnv(VecEnv):
+    def __init__(self, env_fns):
+        """
+        envs: list of gym environments to run in subprocesses
+        """
+        nenvs = len(env_fns)
+        self.remotes, self.work_remotes = zip(*[Pipe() for _ in range(nenvs)])        
+        self.ps = [Process(target=worker, args=(work_remote, CloudpickleWrapper(env_fn))) 
+            for (work_remote, env_fn) in zip(self.work_remotes, env_fns)]
+        for p in self.ps:
+            p.start()
+
+        self.remotes[0].send(('get_spaces', None))
+        self.action_space, self.observation_space = self.remotes[0].recv()
+
+
+    def step(self, actions):
+        for remote, action in zip(self.remotes, actions):
+            remote.send(('step', action))
+        results = [remote.recv() for remote in self.remotes]
+        obs, rews, dones, infos = zip(*results)
+        return np.stack(obs), np.stack(rews), np.stack(dones), infos
+
+    def reset(self):
+        for remote in self.remotes:
+            remote.send(('reset', None))
+        return np.stack([remote.recv() for remote in self.remotes])
+
+    def close(self):
+        for remote in self.remotes:
+            remote.send(('close', None))
+        for p in self.ps:
+            p.join()
+
+    @property
+    def num_envs(self):
+        return len(self.remotes)
+
+# Create the environment.
+def make(env_name, img_dir, num_processes):
+    envs = SubprocVecEnv([
+        make_env(env_name, img_dir, 1337, i) for i in range(num_processes)
+    ])
+    return envs
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/gym_env.rs b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/gym_env.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b98be6bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/gym_env.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,108 @@
+#![allow(unused)]
+//! Wrappers around the Python API of Gymnasium (the new version of OpenAI gym)
+use candle::{Device, Result, Tensor};
+use pyo3::prelude::*;
+use pyo3::types::PyDict;
+
+/// The return value for a step.
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct Step<A> {
+    pub obs: Tensor,
+    pub action: A,
+    pub reward: f64,
+    pub is_done: bool,
+}
+
+impl<A: Copy> Step<A> {
+    /// Returns a copy of this step changing the observation tensor.
+    pub fn copy_with_obs(&self, obs: &Tensor) -> Step<A> {
+        Step {
+            obs: obs.clone(),
+            action: self.action,
+            reward: self.reward,
+            is_done: self.is_done,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// An OpenAI Gym session.
+pub struct GymEnv {
+    env: PyObject,
+    action_space: usize,
+    observation_space: Vec<usize>,
+}
+
+fn w(res: PyErr) -> candle::Error {
+    candle::Error::wrap(res)
+}
+
+impl GymEnv {
+    /// Creates a new session of the specified OpenAI Gym environment.
+    pub fn new(name: &str) -> Result<GymEnv> {
+        Python::with_gil(|py| {
+            let gym = py.import("gymnasium")?;
+            let make = gym.getattr("make")?;
+            let env = make.call1((name,))?;
+            let action_space = env.getattr("action_space")?;
+            let action_space = if let Ok(val) = action_space.getattr("n") {
+                val.extract()?
+            } else {
+                let action_space: Vec<usize> = action_space.getattr("shape")?.extract()?;
+                action_space[0]
+            };
+            let observation_space = env.getattr("observation_space")?;
+            let observation_space = observation_space.getattr("shape")?.extract()?;
+            Ok(GymEnv {
+                env: env.into(),
+                action_space,
+                observation_space,
+            })
+        })
+        .map_err(w)
+    }
+
+    /// Resets the environment, returning the observation tensor.
+    pub fn reset(&self, seed: u64) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let obs: Vec<f32> = Python::with_gil(|py| {
+            let kwargs = PyDict::new(py);
+            kwargs.set_item("seed", seed)?;
+            let obs = self.env.call_method(py, "reset", (), Some(kwargs))?;
+            obs.as_ref(py).get_item(0)?.extract()
+        })
+        .map_err(w)?;
+        Tensor::new(obs, &Device::Cpu)
+    }
+
+    /// Applies an environment step using the specified action.
+    pub fn step<A: pyo3::IntoPy<pyo3::Py<pyo3::PyAny>> + Clone>(
+        &self,
+        action: A,
+    ) -> Result<Step<A>> {
+        let (obs, reward, is_done) = Python::with_gil(|py| {
+            let step = self.env.call_method(py, "step", (action.clone(),), None)?;
+            let step = step.as_ref(py);
+            let obs: Vec<f32> = step.get_item(0)?.extract()?;
+            let reward: f64 = step.get_item(1)?.extract()?;
+            let is_done: bool = step.get_item(2)?.extract()?;
+            Ok((obs, reward, is_done))
+        })
+        .map_err(w)?;
+        let obs = Tensor::new(obs, &Device::Cpu)?;
+        Ok(Step {
+            obs,
+            reward,
+            is_done,
+            action,
+        })
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the number of allowed actions for this environment.
+    pub fn action_space(&self) -> usize {
+        self.action_space
+    }
+
+    /// Returns the shape of the observation tensors.
+    pub fn observation_space(&self) -> &[usize] {
+        &self.observation_space
+    }
+}
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/main.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f16f042e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/main.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+#![allow(unused)]
+
+#[cfg(feature = "mkl")]
+extern crate intel_mkl_src;
+
+#[cfg(feature = "accelerate")]
+extern crate accelerate_src;
+
+mod gym_env;
+mod vec_gym_env;
+
+use candle::Result;
+use clap::Parser;
+use rand::Rng;
+
+// The total number of episodes.
+const MAX_EPISODES: usize = 100;
+// The maximum length of an episode.
+const EPISODE_LENGTH: usize = 200;
+
+#[derive(Parser, Debug, Clone)]
+#[command(author, version, about, long_about = None)]
+struct Args {
+    /// Run on CPU rather than on GPU.
+    #[arg(long)]
+    cpu: bool,
+
+    /// Enable tracing (generates a trace-timestamp.json file).
+    #[arg(long)]
+    tracing: bool,
+}
+
+fn main() -> Result<()> {
+    use tracing_chrome::ChromeLayerBuilder;
+    use tracing_subscriber::prelude::*;
+
+    let args = Args::parse();
+
+    let _guard = if args.tracing {
+        let (chrome_layer, guard) = ChromeLayerBuilder::new().build();
+        tracing_subscriber::registry().with(chrome_layer).init();
+        Some(guard)
+    } else {
+        None
+    };
+
+    let env = gym_env::GymEnv::new("Pendulum-v1")?;
+    println!("action space: {}", env.action_space());
+    println!("observation space: {:?}", env.observation_space());
+
+    let _num_obs = env.observation_space().iter().product::<usize>();
+    let _num_actions = env.action_space();
+
+    let mut rng = rand::thread_rng();
+
+    for episode in 0..MAX_EPISODES {
+        let mut obs = env.reset(episode as u64)?;
+
+        let mut total_reward = 0.0;
+        for _ in 0..EPISODE_LENGTH {
+            let actions = rng.gen_range(-2.0..2.0);
+
+            let step = env.step(vec![actions])?;
+            total_reward += step.reward;
+
+            if step.is_done {
+                break;
+            }
+            obs = step.obs;
+        }
+
+        println!("episode {episode} with total reward of {total_reward}");
+    }
+    Ok(())
+}
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/vec_gym_env.rs b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/vec_gym_env.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8f8f30bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning/vec_gym_env.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+#![allow(unused)]
+//! Vectorized version of the gym environment.
+use candle::{DType, Device, Result, Tensor};
+use pyo3::prelude::*;
+use pyo3::types::PyDict;
+
+#[derive(Debug)]
+pub struct Step {
+    pub obs: Tensor,
+    pub reward: Tensor,
+    pub is_done: Tensor,
+}
+
+pub struct VecGymEnv {
+    env: PyObject,
+    action_space: usize,
+    observation_space: Vec<usize>,
+}
+
+fn w(res: PyErr) -> candle::Error {
+    candle::Error::wrap(res)
+}
+
+impl VecGymEnv {
+    pub fn new(name: &str, img_dir: Option<&str>, nprocesses: usize) -> Result<VecGymEnv> {
+        Python::with_gil(|py| {
+            let sys = py.import("sys")?;
+            let path = sys.getattr("path")?;
+            let _ = path.call_method1(
+                "append",
+                ("candle-examples/examples/reinforcement-learning",),
+            )?;
+            let gym = py.import("atari_wrappers")?;
+            let make = gym.getattr("make")?;
+            let env = make.call1((name, img_dir, nprocesses))?;
+            let action_space = env.getattr("action_space")?;
+            let action_space = action_space.getattr("n")?.extract()?;
+            let observation_space = env.getattr("observation_space")?;
+            let observation_space: Vec<usize> = observation_space.getattr("shape")?.extract()?;
+            let observation_space =
+                [vec![nprocesses].as_slice(), observation_space.as_slice()].concat();
+            Ok(VecGymEnv {
+                env: env.into(),
+                action_space,
+                observation_space,
+            })
+        })
+        .map_err(w)
+    }
+
+    pub fn reset(&self) -> Result<Tensor> {
+        let obs = Python::with_gil(|py| {
+            let obs = self.env.call_method0(py, "reset")?;
+            let obs = obs.call_method0(py, "flatten")?;
+            obs.extract::<Vec<f32>>(py)
+        })
+        .map_err(w)?;
+        Tensor::new(obs, &Device::Cpu)?.reshape(self.observation_space.as_slice())
+    }
+
+    pub fn step(&self, action: Vec<usize>) -> Result<Step> {
+        let (obs, reward, is_done) = Python::with_gil(|py| {
+            let step = self.env.call_method(py, "step", (action,), None)?;
+            let step = step.as_ref(py);
+            let obs = step.get_item(0)?.call_method("flatten", (), None)?;
+            let obs_buffer = pyo3::buffer::PyBuffer::get(obs)?;
+            let obs: Vec<u8> = obs_buffer.to_vec(py)?;
+            let reward: Vec<f32> = step.get_item(1)?.extract()?;
+            let is_done: Vec<f32> = step.get_item(2)?.extract()?;
+            Ok((obs, reward, is_done))
+        })
+        .map_err(w)?;
+        let obs = Tensor::from_vec(obs, self.observation_space.as_slice(), &Device::Cpu)?
+            .to_dtype(DType::F32)?;
+        let reward = Tensor::new(reward, &Device::Cpu)?;
+        let is_done = Tensor::new(is_done, &Device::Cpu)?;
+        Ok(Step {
+            obs,
+            reward,
+            is_done,
+        })
+    }
+
+    pub fn action_space(&self) -> usize {
+        self.action_space
+    }
+
+    pub fn observation_space(&self) -> &[usize] {
+        &self.observation_space
+    }
+}
diff --git a/candle-examples/examples/t5/main.rs b/candle-examples/examples/t5/main.rs
index 71106497..fe59d578 100644
--- a/candle-examples/examples/t5/main.rs
+++ b/candle-examples/examples/t5/main.rs
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ fn main() -> Result<()> {
     let args = Args::parse();
 
     let _guard = if args.tracing {
-        println!("tracing...");
         let (chrome_layer, guard) = ChromeLayerBuilder::new().build();
         tracing_subscriber::registry().with(chrome_layer).init();
         Some(guard)