ray/doc/source/tune/key-concepts.rst
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============
Key Concepts
============
Let's quickly walk through the key concepts you need to know to use Tune. In this guide, we'll be covering the following:
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Trainables
----------
Tune will optimize your training process using the :ref:`Trainable API <trainable-docs>`. To start, let's try to maximize this objective function:
.. code-block:: python
def objective(x, a, b):
return a * (x ** 0.5) + b
Here's an example of specifying the objective function using :ref:`the function-based Trainable API <tune-function-api>`:
.. code-block:: python
def trainable(config):
# config (dict): A dict of hyperparameters.
for x in range(20):
score = objective(x, config["a"], config["b"])
tune.report(score=score) # This sends the score to Tune.
Now, there's two Trainable APIs - one being the :ref:`function-based API <tune-function-api>` that we demonstrated above.
The other is a :ref:`class-based API <tune-class-api>`. Here's an example of specifying the objective function using the :ref:`class-based API <tune-class-api>`:
.. code-block:: python
from ray import tune
class Trainable(tune.Trainable):
def setup(self, config):
# config (dict): A dict of hyperparameters
self.x = 0
self.a = config["a"]
self.b = config["b"]
def step(self): # This is called iteratively.
score = objective(self.x, self.a, self.b)
self.x += 1
return {"score": score}
.. tip:: Do not use ``tune.report`` within a ``Trainable`` class.
See the documentation: :ref:`trainable-docs` and :ref:`examples <tune-general-examples>`.
tune.run
--------
Use ``tune.run`` execute hyperparameter tuning using the core Ray APIs. This function manages your experiment and provides many features such as :ref:`logging <tune-logging>`, :ref:`checkpointing <tune-checkpoint>`, and :ref:`early stopping <tune-stopping>`.
.. code-block:: python
# Pass in a Trainable class or function to tune.run.
tune.run(trainable)
This function will report status on the command line until all trials stop (each trial is one instance of a :ref:`Trainable <trainable-docs>`):
.. code-block:: bash
== Status ==
Memory usage on this node: 11.4/16.0 GiB
Using FIFO scheduling algorithm.
Resources requested: 1/12 CPUs, 0/0 GPUs, 0.0/3.17 GiB heap, 0.0/1.07 GiB objects
Result logdir: /Users/foo/ray_results/myexp
Number of trials: 1 (1 RUNNING)
+----------------------+----------+---------------------+-----------+--------+--------+----------------+-------+
| Trial name | status | loc | a | b | score | total time (s) | iter |
|----------------------+----------+---------------------+-----------+--------+--------+----------------+-------|
| MyTrainable_a826033a | RUNNING | 10.234.98.164:31115 | 0.303706 | 0.0761 | 0.1289 | 7.54952 | 15 |
+----------------------+----------+---------------------+-----------+--------+--------+----------------+-------+
You can also easily run 10 trials. Tune automatically :ref:`determines how many trials will run in parallel <tune-parallelism>`.
.. code-block:: python
tune.run(trainable, num_samples=10)
Finally, you can randomly sample or grid search hyperparameters via Tune's :ref:`search space API <tune-default-search-space>`:
.. code-block:: python
space = {"x": tune.uniform(0, 1)}
tune.run(my_trainable, config=space, num_samples=10)
See more documentation: :ref:`tune-run-ref`.
Search Algorithms
-----------------
To optimize the hyperparameters of your training process, you will want to use a :ref:`Search Algorithm <tune-search-alg>` which will help suggest better hyperparameters.
.. code-block:: python
# Be sure to first run `pip install hyperopt`
import hyperopt as hp
from ray.tune.suggest.hyperopt import HyperOptSearch
# Create a HyperOpt search space
space = {
"a": hp.uniform("a", 0, 1),
"b": hp.uniform("b", 0, 20)
# Note: Arbitrary HyperOpt search spaces should be supported!
# "foo": hp.lognormal("foo", 0, 1))
}
# Specify the search space and maximize score
hyperopt = HyperOptSearch(space, metric="score", mode="max")
# Execute 20 trials using HyperOpt and stop after 20 iterations
tune.run(
trainable,
search_alg=hyperopt,
num_samples=20,
stop={"training_iteration": 20}
)
Tune has SearchAlgorithms that integrate with many popular **optimization** libraries, such as :ref:`Nevergrad <nevergrad>` and :ref:`Hyperopt <tune-hyperopt>`.
See the documentation: :ref:`tune-search-alg`.
Trial Schedulers
----------------
In addition, you can make your training process more efficient by using a :ref:`Trial Scheduler <tune-schedulers>`.
Trial Schedulers can stop/pause/tweak the hyperparameters of running trials, making your hyperparameter tuning process much faster.
.. code-block:: python
from ray.tune.schedulers import HyperBandScheduler
# Create HyperBand scheduler and maximize score
hyperband = HyperBandScheduler(metric="score", mode="max")
# Execute 20 trials using HyperBand using a search space
configs = {"a": tune.uniform(0, 1), "b": tune.uniform(0, 1)}
tune.run(
MyTrainableClass,
config=configs,
num_samples=20,
scheduler=hyperband
)
:ref:`Population-based Training <tune-scheduler-pbt>` and :ref:`HyperBand <tune-scheduler-hyperband>` are examples of popular optimization algorithms implemented as Trial Schedulers.
Unlike **Search Algorithms**, :ref:`Trial Scheduler <tune-schedulers>` do not select which hyperparameter configurations to evaluate. However, you can use them together.
See the documentation: :ref:`schedulers-ref`.
Analysis
--------
``tune.run`` returns an :ref:`Analysis <tune-analysis-docs>` object which has methods you can use for analyzing your training.
.. code-block:: python
analysis = tune.run(trainable, search_alg=algo, stop={"training_iteration": 20})
# Get the best hyperparameters
best_hyperparameters = analysis.get_best_config()
This object can also retrieve all training runs as dataframes, allowing you to do ad-hoc data analysis over your results.
.. code-block:: python
# Get a dataframe for the max score seen for each trial
df = analysis.dataframe(metric="score", mode="max")
What's Next?
-------------
Now that you have a working understanding of Tune, check out:
* :doc:`/tune/user-guide`: A comprehensive overview of Tune's features.
* :ref:`tune-guides`: Tutorials for using Tune with your preferred machine learning library.
* :doc:`/tune/examples/index`: End-to-end examples and templates for using Tune with your preferred machine learning library.
* :ref:`tune-tutorial`: A simple tutorial that walks you through the process of setting up a Tune experiment.
Further Questions or Issues?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Reach out to us if you have any questions or issues or feedback through the following channels:
1. `StackOverflow`_: For questions about how to use Ray.
2. `GitHub Issues`_: For bug reports and feature requests.
.. _`StackOverflow`: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/ray
.. _`GitHub Issues`: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues