crillab-metrics 1.0.2

rEproducible sofTware peRformance analysIs in perfeCt Simplicity

mETRICS - rEproducible sofTware peRformance analysIs in perfeCt Simplicity

Authors

• Thibault Falque - Exakis Nelite
• Romain Wallon - CRIL, Univ Artois & CNRS
• Hugues Wattez - CRIL, Univ Artois & CNRS

Why Metrics?

When developing a SAT solver, one of the most important parts is to perform experiments so as to evaluate its performance. Most of the time, this process remains the same, so that everybody collects almost the same statistics about the solver execution. However, how many scripts are there to retrieve experimental data and draw scatter or cactus plots? Probably as many as researchers in the domain. Based on this observation, this repository provides Metrics, a Python library, aiming to unify and make easier the analysis of solver experiments. The ambition of Metrics is to provide a complete toolchain from the execution of the solver to the analysis of its performance. In particular, this library simplifies the retrieval of experimental data from many different inputs (including the solver’s output), and provides a nice interface for drawing commonly used plots, computing statistics about the execution of the solver, and effortlessly organizing them (e.g., in Jupyter notebooks). In the end, the main purpose of Metrics is to favor the sharing and reproducibility of experimental results and their analysis.

Installation

To execute Metrics on your computer, you first need to install Python on your computer (at least version 3.8).

As the metrics library is available on PyPI, you install it using pip.

pip install crillab-metrics

Note that, depending on your Python installation, you may need to use pip3 to install it, or to execute pip as a module, as follows.

python3 -m pip install crillab-metrics

Using mETRICS

Documentation

Citing mETRICS