nni

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microsoft / nni / test / config_test / multi_phase / multi_phase.py View on Github

# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
# Licensed under the MIT license.

import time
import nni

if __name__ == '__main__':
    for i in range(5):
        hyper_params = nni.get_next_parameter()
        print('hyper_params:[{}]'.format(hyper_params))
        if hyper_params is None:
            break
        nni.report_final_result(0.1*i)
        time.sleep(3)

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NNI automates feature engineering, neural architecture search, hyperparameter tuning, and model compression for deep learning. Find the latest features, API, examples and tutorials in our official documentation (简体中文版点这里).

What's NEW!  

• New release: v3.0 preview is available - released on May-5-2022
• New demo available: Youtube entry | Bilibili 入口 - last updated on June-22-2022
• New research paper: SparTA: Deep-Learning Model Sparsity via Tensor-with-Sparsity-Attribute - published in OSDI 2022
• New research paper: Privacy-preserving Online AutoML for Domain-Specific Face Detection - published in CVPR 2022
• Newly upgraded documentation: Doc upgraded

Installation

See the NNI installation guide to install from pip, or build from source.

To install the current release:

$ pip install nni

To update NNI to the latest version, add --upgrade flag to the above commands.

NNI capabilities in a glance

	Hyperparameter Tuning	Neural Architecture Search	Model Compression
Algorithms	Exhaustive search Grid Search Random Heuristic search Anneal Evolution Hyperband PBT Bayesian optimization BOHB DNGO GP Metis SMAC TPE	Multi-trial Grid Search Policy Based RL Random Regularized Evolution TPE One-shot DARTS ENAS FBNet ProxylessNAS SPOS	Pruning Level L1 Norm Taylor FO Weight Movement AGP Auto Compress More... Quantization Naive QAT LSQ Observer DoReFa BNN
	Supported Frameworks	Training Services	Tutorials
Supports	PyTorch TensorFlow Scikit-learn XGBoost LightGBM MXNet Caffe2 More...	Local machine Remote SSH servers Azure Machine Learning (AML) Kubernetes Based OpenAPI Kubeflow FrameworkController AdaptDL PAI DLC Hybrid training services	HPO PyTorch TensorFlow NAS Hello NAS NAS Benchmarks Compression Pruning Pruning Speedup Quantization Quantization Speedup

Resources

• NNI Documentation Homepage
• NNI Installation Guide
• NNI Examples
• Python API Reference
• Releases (Change Log)
• Related Research and Publications
• Youtube Channel of NNI
• Bilibili Space of NNI
• Webinar of Introducing Retiarii: A deep learning exploratory-training framework on NNI
• Community Discussions

Contribution guidelines

If you want to contribute to NNI, be sure to review the contribution guidelines, which includes instructions of submitting feedbacks, best coding practices, and code of conduct.

We use GitHub issues to track tracking requests and bugs. Please use NNI Discussion for general questions and new ideas. For questions of specific use cases, please go to Stack Overflow.

Participating discussions via the following IM groups is also welcomed.

Gitter		WeChat
	OR

Over the past few years, NNI has received thousands of feedbacks on GitHub issues, and pull requests from hundreds of contributors. We appreciate all contributions from community to make NNI thrive.

Test status

Essentials

Type	Status
Fast test
Full test - HPO
Full test - NAS
Full test - compression

Training services

Type	Status
Local - linux
Local - windows
Remote - linux to linux
Remote - windows to windows
OpenPAI
Frameworkcontroller
Kubeflow
Hybrid
AzureML

Related Projects

Targeting at openness and advancing state-of-art technology, Microsoft Research (MSR) had also released few other open source projects.

• OpenPAI : an open source platform that provides complete AI model training and resource management capabilities, it is easy to extend and supports on-premise, cloud and hybrid environments in various scale.
• FrameworkController : an open source general-purpose Kubernetes Pod Controller that orchestrate all kinds of applications on Kubernetes by a single controller.
• MMdnn : A comprehensive, cross-framework solution to convert, visualize and diagnose deep neural network models. The "MM" in MMdnn stands for model management and "dnn" is an acronym for deep neural network.
• SPTAG : Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG) is an open source library for large scale vector approximate nearest neighbor search scenario.
• nn-Meter : An accurate inference latency predictor for DNN models on diverse edge devices.

We encourage researchers and students leverage these projects to accelerate the AI development and research.

License

The entire codebase is under MIT license.