trata 1.0.2

A tool to facilitate standard and adaptive sampling.

Trata Sampling Methods Package

Trata offers a large number of general sampling strategies that can be used to explore parameter spaces or improve a model's predictive ability.

Trata contains 3 modules:

• composite_samples
• sampler
• adaptive_samples
  

composite_samples

The composite_samples module enables a user to parse a tab or csv file and create a "variable", or parameter, class object that represents discrete discrete-ordered, or continuous samples. The parse_file function returns a Samples object containing the points from the file. Other file types would need to be parsed with a custom function.

sampler

The sampler module enables a user to select the type of sampling method they would like to perform across a design parameter space. The available options include:

• CartesianCross
• Centered
• Corner
• Dakota
• DefaultValue
• Face
• LatinHyperCube
• MonteCarlo
• MultiNormal
• OneAtATime
• ProbabilityDensityFunction
• QuasiRandomNumber
• Rejection
• SamplePoint
• Uniform
• UserValue
  

adaptive_samples

The number of samples required to build an accurate surrogate model is a posteriori knowledge determined by the complexity of the approximated input-output relation. Therefore enriching the training dataset as training progresses is performed and is known as active learning.

The adaptive_sampler module allows a user to specify learning functions to help identify the next sample with the highest information value. Those learning functions are designed to allocate samples to regions where the surrogate model is thought to be inaccurate or uncertain, or the regions where particularly interesting combinations of design parameters lie, such as the region that possibly contains the globally optimum values of the design parameters. The available options include:

• Scored
• Weighted
• ActiveLearning
• Delta
• ExpectedImprovement
• LearningExpectedImprovement
  

Getting Started

To get the latest public version:

pip install trata

To get the latest stable from a cloned repo, simply run:

pip install .

Alternatively, add the path to this repo to your PYTHONPATH environment variable or in your code with:

import sys
sys.path.append(path_to_trata_repo)

Documentation

The documentation can be built from the docs directory using:

make html

Read the Docs coming soon.

Contact Info

Trata maintainer can be reached at: [e-mail]

Contributing

Contributing to Trata is relatively easy. Just send us a pull request. When you send your request, make develop the destination branch on the Trata repository.

Your PR must pass Trata's unit tests and documentation tests, and must be PEP 8 compliant. We enforce these guidelines with our CI process. To run these tests locally, and for helpful tips on git, see our Contribution Guide.

Trata's develop branch has the latest contributions. Pull requests should target develop, and users who want the latest package versions, features, etc. can use develop.

Contributions should be submitted as a pull request pointing to the develop branch, and must pass Trata's CI process; to run the same checks locally, use:

pytest tests/test_*.py

Releases

See our change log for more details.

Code of Conduct

Please note that Trata has a Code of Conduct. By participating in the Trata community, you agree to abide by its rules.

License

Trata is distributed under the terms of the MIT license. All new contributions must be made under the MIT license. See LICENSE and NOTICE for details.

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