Uncategorized Modules¶

nni.common.serializer¶

class nni.common.serializer.Traceable[source]¶

A traceable object have copy and dict. Copy and mutate are used to copy the object for further mutations. Dict returns a TraceDictType to enable serialization.

get()[source]¶

Get the original object. Usually used together with trace_copy.

property trace_args: List[Any]¶: List of positional arguments passed to symbol. Usually empty if kw_only is true, in which case all the positional arguments are converted into keyword arguments.

trace_copy()[source]¶

Perform a shallow copy. NOTE: NONE of the attributes will be preserved. This is the one that should be used when you want to “mutate” a serializable object.

property trace_kwargs: Dict[str, Any]¶: Dict of keyword arguments.

property trace_symbol: Any¶: Symbol object. Could be a class or a function. get_hybrid_cls_or_func_name and import_cls_or_func_from_hybrid_name is a pair to convert the symbol into a string and convert the string back to symbol.

class nni.common.serializer.Translatable[source]¶: Inherit this class and implement translate when the wrapped class needs a different parameter from the wrapper class in its init function.

nni.common.serializer.dump(obj, fp=None, *, use_trace=True, pickle_size_limit=4096, allow_nan=True, **json_tricks_kwargs)[source]¶

Convert a nested data structure to a json string. Save to file if fp is specified. Use json-tricks as main backend. For unhandled cases in json-tricks, use cloudpickle. The serializer is not designed for long-term storage use, but rather to copy data between processes. The format is also subject to change between NNI releases.

To compress the payload, please use dump_bytes().

Parameters

obj (any) – The object to dump.
fp (file handler or path) – File to write to. Keep it none if you want to dump a string.
pickle_size_limit (int) – This is set to avoid too long serialization result. Set to -1 to disable size check.
allow_nan (bool) – Whether to allow nan to be serialized. Different from default value in json-tricks, our default value is true.
json_tricks_kwargs (dict) – Other keyword arguments passed to json tricks (backend), e.g., indent=2.

Returns

Normally str. Sometimes bytes (if compressed).

Return type

str or bytes

nni.common.serializer.is_traceable(obj)[source]¶

Check whether an object is a traceable instance or type.

Note that an object is traceable only means that it implements the “Traceable” interface, and the properties have been implemented. It doesn’t necessary mean that its type is wrapped with trace, because the properties could be added after the instance has been created.

nni.common.serializer.is_wrapped_with_trace(cls_or_func)[source]¶

Check whether a function or class is already wrapped with @nni.trace. If a class or function is already wrapped with trace, then the created object must be “traceable”.

nni.common.serializer.load(string=None, *, fp=None, preserve_order=False, ignore_comments=True, **json_tricks_kwargs)[source]¶

Load the string or from file, and convert it to a complex data structure. At least one of string or fp has to be not none.

Parameters

string (str) – JSON string to parse. Can be set to none if fp is used.
fp (str) – File path to load JSON from. Can be set to none if string is used.
preserve_order (bool) – json_tricks parameter to use OrderedDict instead of dict. The order is in fact always preserved even when this is False.
ignore_comments (bool) – Remove comments (starting with # or //). Default is true.

Returns

The loaded object.

Return type

any

nni.common.serializer.trace(cls_or_func=None, *, kw_only=True, inheritable=False)[source]¶

Annotate a function or a class if you want to preserve where it comes from. This is usually used in the following scenarios:

Care more about execution configuration rather than results, which is usually the case in AutoML. For example, you want to mutate the parameters of a function.
Repeat execution is not an issue (e.g., reproducible, execution is fast without side effects).

When a class/function is annotated, all the instances/calls will return a object as it normally will. Although the object might act like a normal object, it’s actually a different object with NNI-specific properties. One exception is that if your function returns None, it will return an empty traceable object instead, which should raise your attention when you want to check whether the None is None.

When parameters of functions are received, it is first stored, and then a shallow copy will be passed to wrapped function/class. This is to prevent mutable objects gets modified in the wrapped function/class. When the function finished execution, we also record extra information about where this object comes from. That’s why it’s called “trace”. When call nni.dump, that information will be used, by default.

If kw_only is true, try to convert all parameters into kwargs type. This is done by inspecting the argument list and types. This can be useful to extract semantics, but can be tricky in some corner cases. Therefore, in some cases, some positional arguments will still be kept.

If inheritable is true, the trace information from superclass will also be available in subclass. This however, will make the subclass un-trace-able. Note that this argument has no effect when tracing functions.

Warning

Generators will be first expanded into a list, and the resulting list will be further passed into the wrapped function/class. This might hang when generators produce an infinite sequence. We might introduce an API to control this behavior in future.

Example:

@nni.trace
def foo(bar):
    pass

nni.typehint¶

Types for static checking.

nni.typehint.Parameters¶

Return type of nni.get_next_parameter().

For built-in tuners, this is a dict whose content is defined by search space.

Customized tuners do not need to follow the constraint and can use anything serializable.

alias of Dict[str, Any]

nni.typehint.SearchSpace¶

Type of experiment.config.search_space.

For built-in tuners, the format is detailed in Search Space.

Customized tuners do not need to follow the constraint and can use anything serializable, except None.

alias of Dict[str, nni.typehint._ParameterSearchSpace]

nni.typehint.TrialMetric¶

Type of the metrics sent to nni.report_final_result() and nni.report_intermediate_result().

For built-in tuners it must be a number (float, int, numpy.float32, etc).

Customized tuners do not need to follow this constraint and can use anything serializable.