[Q]: Command to run with defaults?

[cianeastwood]

Hi there,

What's the simplest way to train a VAE on cars3d with all the default settings? Is there a single command that does this, using all the yaml config files? E.g. cars3d needs to be downsampled to 64x64, and this is specified in its yaml file. Not very familiar with Hydra, so I'm not sure how to automatically load the yaml config files.

Thanks in advance, and for providing this great framework!

[nmichlo]

Hi!

This simplest way would be to clone the repo:

1. change your working directory to the root:

   cd disent

2. install the requirements

   pip3 install requirements.txt
   pip3 install requirements-experiment.txt

3. run the experiment (this is the custom script we provide to load the hydra config files)
   • Unfortunately I see there is a config bug left over from research code that I am currently trying to extract into a separate project, meaning the general run settings are wrong. I have added a marker to fix this for the next release of disent. The command line options that start with run_* you should be able to remove in the next version.

     PYTHONPATH=. python3 experiment/run.py framework=betavae dataset=cars3d framework.beta=0.01 \
     run_location=local_cpu run_launcher=local run_logging=none  # config bug workaround

     If you would like to enable logging to W&B you can enable this by adding or changing the following command line options:

     PYTHONPATH=. python3 experiment/run.py framework=betavae dataset=cars3d framework.beta=0.01 \
     run_location=local_cpu run_launcher=local \
     run_logging=wandb settings.job.user="your_wandb_username" settings.job.project="your_wandb_project" 

You'll notice if you look at the experiment/config/config.yaml file, these command line options correspond to the options set in the defaults list at the top of the file.

• These options correspond to the config files in their respective folders. eg. - framework: betavae or in the command line framework=betavae would correspond to experiment/config/framework/betavae.yaml.
• You can add your own configurations this way (improvements to this are on the way so that you don't need to modify disent files/folders)!
• The keys in the command line that are joined with full stops eg. settings.job.user correspond to actual keys in the config rather than the groups in the defaults lists. See the hydra config docs for more details.

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Definitely need to add this to the docs! Improvements to those are in the roadmap!

[nmichlo]

This has been fixed in 5695747c1e94420c024f1505d9b8a4b3c81ad610 release v0.3.4

The simplest command should now be:

PYTHONPATH=. python3 experiment/run.py framework=betavae dataset=cars3d

or adjusting beta:

PYTHONPATH=. python3 experiment/run.py framework=betavae dataset=cars3d framework.beta=0.01

[cianeastwood]

This is fantastic!! Thank you for addressing this so quickly and thoroughly – appreciate it! The simple command really helps usability :)

[nmichlo]

No problem, glad to help!