pickling models

[xiaohan2012]

Hi,

I'm trying to use napkinXC under ray, which relies pickle for data serialization.

It seems that napkinXC models cannot be pickled.

For instance,

import pickle
from napkinxc.models import PLT

model = PLT('/tmp/something/')
pickle.dump(model, open('/tmp/some-pickle.pkl', 'wb'))

gives:

TypeError: cannot pickle 'napkinxc._napkinxc.CPPModel' object.

Is there any workaround or any plan to support pickling for this issue?

[xiaohan2012]

A quick update: a workaround below seems to work.

import pickle
from napkinxc.models import PLT
from napkinxc.datasets import load_dataset
from napkinxc.measures import precision_at_k

class PickleablePLT(PLT):
    """a picklable PLT class"""
    def __getstate__(self):
        return self.get_params()

    def __setstate__(self, params):
        self.__init__(**params)
        self.load()

trn_X, trn_Y = load_dataset('eurlex-4k', "train", verbose=1)
tst_X, tst_Y = load_dataset('eurlex-4k', "test", verbose=1)

model = PickleablePLT('/tmp/someplt')
model.fit(trn_X, trn_Y )

pickle.dump(model, open('./myplt.pkl', 'wb'))

model_p = pickle.load(open('./myplt.pkl', 'rb'))

preds = model_p.predict_proba(tst_X, 5)

print(precision_at_k(tst_Y, preds))