Repository: microsoft/recommenders
Issue: [BUG] in NNI integration test

### Description
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```
tests/integration/test_movielens.py .........                            [ 62%]
tests/integration/test_notebooks_python.py .....F                        [100%]

=================================== FAILURES ===================================
_____________________________ test_nni_tuning_svd ______________________________

notebooks = {'als_deep_dive': '/data/home/recocat/cicd/7/s/notebooks/02_model/als_deep_dive.ipynb', 'als_pyspark': '/data/home/rec...baseline_deep_dive.ipynb', 'data_split': '/data/home/recocat/cicd/7/s/notebooks/01_prepare_data/data_split.ipynb', ...}
tmp = '/tmp/pytest-of-recocat/pytest-200/tmpuj9_hwzq'

    @pytest.mark.integration
    def test_nni_tuning_svd(notebooks, tmp):
        notebook_path = notebooks["nni_tuning_svd"]
        # First stop NNI in case it is running
        subprocess.run([sys.prefix + '/bin/nnictl', 'stop'])
        check_stopped()
        pm.execute_notebook(notebook_path, OUTPUT_NOTEBOOK, kernel_name=KERNEL_NAME,
                            parameters=dict(MOVIELENS_DATA_SIZE="100k",
                                            SURPRISE_READER="ml-100k",
                                            TMP_DIR=tmp,
                                            MAX_TRIAL_NUM=1,
>                                           NUM_EPOCHS=1))

tests/integration/test_notebooks_python.py:164: 
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 
/anaconda/envs/nightly_reco_base/lib/python3.6/site-packages/papermill/execute.py:94: in execute_notebook
    raise_for_execution_errors(nb, output_path)
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ 

nb = {'cells': [{'cell_type': 'code', 'metadata': {'inputHidden': True, 'hide_input': True}, 'execution_count': None, 'sour...d_time': '2019-04-18T12:09:01.272263', 'duration': 345.187067, 'exception': True}}, 'nbformat': 4, 'nbformat_minor': 2}
output_path = 'output.ipynb'

    def raise_for_execution_errors(nb, output_path):
        """Assigned parameters into the appropriate place in the input notebook
    
        Parameters
        ----------
        nb : NotebookNode
           Executable notebook object
        output_path : str
           Path to write executed notebook
        """
        error = None
        for cell in nb.cells:
            if cell.get("outputs") is None:
                continue
    
            for output in cell.outputs:
                if output.output_type == "error":
                    error = PapermillExecutionError(
                        exec_count=cell.execution_count,
                        source=cell.source,
                        ename=output.ename,
                        evalue=output.evalue,
                        traceback=output.traceback,
                    )
                    break
    
        if error:
            # Write notebook back out with the Error Message at the top of the Notebook.
            error_msg = ERROR_MESSAGE_TEMPLATE % str(error.exec_count)
            error_msg_cell = nbformat.v4.new_code_cell(
                source="%%html\\n" + error_msg,
                outputs=[
                    nbformat.v4.new_output(output_type="display_data", data={"text/html": error_msg})
                ],
                metadata={"inputHidden": True, "hide_input": True},
            )
            nb.cells = [error_msg_cell] + nb.cells
            write_ipynb(nb, output_path)
>           raise error
E           papermill.exceptions.PapermillExecutionError: 
E           ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E           Exception encountered at "In [32]":
E           ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
E           RuntimeError                              Traceback (most recent call last)
E           <ipython-input-32-120fb8357fc9> in <module>
E                 1 t = time.time()
E           ----> 2 stop_and_restart()
E                 3 time_smac = time.time() - t
E           
E           <ipython-input-20-609ee7726ae6> in stop_and_restart()
E                 6     proc = subprocess.run([sys.prefix + '/bin/nnictl', 'create', '--config', config_path])
E                 7     if proc.returncode != 0:
E           ----> 8         raise RuntimeError("'nnictl create' failed with code %d" % proc.returncode)
E                 9     check_experiment_status(wait=WAITING_TIME, max_retries=MAX_RETRIES)
E           
E           RuntimeError: 'nnictl create' failed with code 1

/anaconda/envs/nightly_reco_base/lib/python3.6/site-packages/papermill/execute.py:241: PapermillExecutionError
```


### In which platform does it happen?
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<!--- For example: -->
* Azure Data Science Virtual Machine.


### How do we replicate the issue?
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<!--- For example: -->
<!--- * Create a conda environment for pyspark -->
<!--- * Run unit test `test_sar_pyspark.py` with `pytest -m 'spark'` -->
<!--- * ... -->
run `tests/integration/test_notebooks_python.py`

### Expected behavior (i.e. solution)
<!--- For example:  -->
<!--- * The tests for SAR PySpark should pass successfully. -->

### Other Comments


Changed files:
reco_utils/nni/svd_training.py
tests/integration/test_notebooks_python.py

diff --git a/reco_utils/nni/svd_training.py b/reco_utils/nni/svd_training.py
index 578cb5ca..439942a6 100644
--- a/reco_utils/nni/svd_training.py
+++ b/reco_utils/nni/svd_training.py
@@ -7,11 +7,12 @@ import logging
 import numpy as np
 import os
 import pandas as pd
-
+import nni
 import surprise
+import sys
+sys.path.append("../../")
 
 import reco_utils.evaluation.python_evaluation as evaluation
-from reco_utils.nni.nni_utils import nni
 from reco_utils.recommender.surprise.surprise_utils import (
     compute_rating_predictions,
     compute_ranking_predictions,
diff --git a/tests/integration/test_notebooks_python.py b/tests/integration/test_notebooks_python.py
index d56bb114..537d86b1 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_notebooks_python.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_notebooks_python.py
@@ -149,8 +149,7 @@ def test_vw_deep_dive_integration(notebooks, size, expected_values):
 
 
 @pytest.mark.integration
-#@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.platform == "win32", reason="nni not installable on windows")
-@pytest.mark.skip(reason="https://github.com/microsoft/recommenders/issues/746")
+@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.platform == "win32", reason="nni not installable on windows")
 def test_nni_tuning_svd(notebooks, tmp):
     notebook_path = notebooks["nni_tuning_svd"]
     pm.execute_notebook(notebook_path, OUTPUT_NOTEBOOK, kernel_name=KERNEL_NAME,