syne_tune.util module

class syne_tune.util.RegularCallback(callback, call_seconds_frequency)

Bases: object

Allows to call the callback function at most once every call_seconds_frequency seconds.

Parameters:

• callback (callable) – Callback object

• call_seconds_frequency (float) – Wait time between subsequent calls

syne_tune.util.experiment_path(tuner_name=None, local_path=None)

Return the path of an experiment which is used both by Tuner and to collect results of experiments.

Parameters:

• tuner_name (Optional[str]) – Name of a tuning experiment

• local_path (Optional[str]) –

  Local path where results should be saved. If not specified, then the environment variable "SYNETUNE_FOLDER" is used if defined otherwise

  ~/syne-tune/ is used. Defining the environment variable "SYNETUNE_FOLDER" allows to

  override the default path.

Return type:

Path

Returns:

Path where to write logs and results for Syne Tune tuner.

syne_tune.util.name_from_base(base, max_length=63)

Append a timestamp to the provided string.

This function assures that the total length of the resulting string is not longer than the specified max length, trimming the input parameter if necessary.

Parameters:

• base (Optional[str]) – String used as prefix to generate the unique name

• max_length (int) – Maximum length for the resulting string (default: 63)

Return type:

str

Returns:

Input parameter with appended timestamp

syne_tune.util.random_string(length)

Return type:

str

syne_tune.util.repository_root_path()

Return type:

Path

Returns:

Returns path including syne_tune, examples, benchmarking

syne_tune.util.script_checkpoint_example_path()

Return type:

Path

Returns:

Path of checkpoint example

syne_tune.util.script_height_example_path()

Return type:

Path

Returns:

Path of train_heigth example

syne_tune.util.catchtime(name)

Return type:

float

syne_tune.util.is_increasing(lst)

Parameters:

lst (List[Union[float, int]]) – List of float or int entries

Return type:

bool

Returns:

Is lst strictly increasing?

syne_tune.util.is_positive_integer(lst)

Parameters:

lst (List[int]) – List of int entries

Return type:

bool

Returns:

Are all entries of lst of type int and positive?

syne_tune.util.is_integer(lst)

Parameters:

lst (list) – List of entries

Return type:

bool

Returns:

Are all entries of lst of type int?

syne_tune.util.dump_json_with_numpy(x, filename=None)

Serializes dictionary x in JSON, taking into account NumPy specific value types such as n.p.int64.

Parameters:

• x (dict) – Dictionary to serialize or encode

• filename (Union[str, Path, None]) – Name of file to store JSON to. Optional. If not given, the JSON encoding is returned as string

Return type:

Optional[str]

Returns:

If filename is None, JSON encoding is returned

syne_tune.util.dict_get(params, key, default)

Returns params[key] if this exists and is not None, and default otherwise. Note that this is not the same as params.get(key, default). Namely, if params[key] is equal to None, this would return None, but this method returns default.

This function is particularly helpful when dealing with a dict returned by argparse.ArgumentParser. Whenever key is added as argument to the parser, but a value is not provided, this leads to params[key] = None.

Return type:

Any

syne_tune.util.recursive_merge(a, b, stop_keys=None)

Merge dictionaries a and b, where b takes precedence. We typically use this to modify a dictionary a, so b is smaller than a. Further recursion is stopped on any node with key in stop_keys. Use this for dictionary-valued entries not to be merged, but to be replaced by what is in b.

Parameters:

• a (Dict[str, Any]) – Dictionary

• b (Dict[str, Any]) – Dictionary (can be empty)

• stop_keys (Optional[List[str]]) – See above, optional

Return type:

Dict[str, Any]

Returns:

Merged dictionary

syne_tune.util.find_first_of_type(a, typ)

Return type:

Optional[Any]

syne_tune.util.metric_name_mode(metric_names, metric_mode, metric)

Retrieve the metric mode given a metric queried by either index or name. :type metric_names: List[str] :param metric_names: metrics names defined in a scheduler :type metric_mode: Union[str, List[str]] :param metric_mode: metric mode or modes of a scheduler :type metric: Union[str, int] :param metric: Index or name of the selected metric :return the name and the mode of the queried metric

Return type:

Tuple[str, str]