daskperiment 0.5.0

A lightweight tool to perform reproducible machine learning experiment using Dask.

Overview

daskperiment is a tool to perform reproducible machine learning experiment. It allows users to define and manage the history of trials (given parameters, results and execution environment).

The package is built on Dask, a package for parallel computing with task scheduling. Each experiment trial is internally expressed as Dask computation graph, and can be executed in parallel.

Benefits

• Compatibility with standard Python/Jupyter environment (and optionally with standard KVS).

  • No need to set up server applications

  • No need to registrate on any cloud services

  • Run on standard / customized Python shells

• Intuitive user interface

  • Few modifications on existing codes are needed

  • Trial histories are logged automatically (no need to write additional codes for logging)

  • Dask compatible API

  • Easily accessible experiments history (with pandas basic operations)

  • Less managiment works on Git (no need to make branch per trials)

  • (Experimental) Web dashboard to manage trial history

• Traceability of experiment related information

  • Trial result and its (hyper) parameters.

  • Code contexts

  • Environment information

    • Device information

    • OS information

    • Python version

    • Installed Python packages and its version

    • Git information

• Reproducibility

  • Check function purity (each step should return the same output for the same inputs)

  • Automatic random seeding

• Auto saving and loading of previous experiment history

• Parallel execution of experiment steps

• Experiment sharing

  • Redis backend

  • MongoDB backend

Future Scope

• More efficient execution.

  • Omit execution if depending parameters are the same

  • Distributed execution