blowtorch 0.5.4
Intuitive training framework for PyTorch
Requires Python: >=3.8

# blowtorch

Intuitive, high-level training framework for research and development. Abstracts away boilerplate normally associated with training and evaluating PyTorch models, without limiting flexibility. Blowtorch provides the following:

* A way to specify training runs at a high level, while not giving up on fine-grained control over individual training parts
* Automated checkpointing, logging and resuming of runs
* A [sacred](https://github.com/IDSIA/sacred) inspired configuration management
* Reproducibility by keeping track of configuration, code and random state of each run

## Installation
Make sure you have `numpy` and `torch` installed, then install with pip:

```shell script
pip install --upgrade blowtorch
```

## Example
```python
from torch.optim import Adam
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
from torchvision.datasets import CIFAR10
from torchvision.transforms import ToTensor
from torchvision.models import vgg16
from blowtorch import Run

run = Run(random_seed=123)

@run.train_step
@run.validate_step
def step(batch, model):
    x, y = batch
    y_hat = model(x)
    loss = (y - y_hat).square().mean()
    return loss

# will be called when model has been moved to the desired device 
@run.configure_optimizers
def configure_optimizers(model):
    return Adam(model.parameters())

train_loader = DataLoader(CIFAR10('.', train=True, download=True, transform=ToTensor()))
val_loader = DataLoader(CIFAR10('.', train=False, download=True, transform=ToTensor()))

run(vgg16(num_classes=10), train_loader, val_loader)
```

## Configuration
You can pass multiple configuration files in YAML format to your `Run`, e.g.
```python
run = Run(config_files=['config/default.yaml'])
```
Configuration values can then be accessed via e.g. `run['model']['num_layers']`. Dotted notation is also supported, e.g. `run['model.num_layers']`.  When executing your training script, individual configuration values can be overwritten as follows:

```shell script
python train.py with model.num_layers=4 model.use_dropout=True
```

## Run options
`Run.run()` takes following options:
* `model`: `torch.nn.Module`
* `train_loader`: `torch.utils.data.DataLoader`
* `val_loader`: `torch.utils.data.DataLoader`
* `loggers`: `Optional[List[aurora.logging.BaseLogger]]` (List of loggers that subscribe to various logging events, see logging section)
* `max_epochs`: `int` (default `1`)
* `use_gpu`: `bool` (default `True`)
* `gpu_id`: `int` (default `0`)
* `resume_checkpoint`: `Optional[Union[str, pathlib.Path]]` (Path to checkpoint directory to resume training from, default `None`)
* `save_path`: `Union[str, pathlib.Path]` (Path to directory that blowtorch will save logs and checkpoints to, default `'train_logs'`)
* `run_name`: `Optional[str]` (Name associated with that run, will be randomly created if None, default `None`)
* `optimize_metric`: `Optional[str]` (train metric that will be used for optimization, will pick the first returned one if None, default `None`)
* `checkpoint_metric`: `Optional[str]` (validation metric that will be used for checkpointing, will pick the first returned one if None, default `None`)
* `smaller_is_better`: `bool` (default `True`)
* `optimize_first`: `bool` (whether optimization should occur during the first epoch, default `False`)
* `detect_anomalies`: `bool` (enable autograd anomaly detection, default `False`)

## Logging
Blowtorch will create a folder with name "[timestamp]-[name]-[sequential integer]" for each run inside the `run.save_path` directory. Here it will save the runs's configuration, metrics, a model summary, checkoints as well as source code. Additional loggers can be added through `Run`s `loggers` parameter:

* `blowtorch.loggers.WandbLogger`: Logs to Weights & Biases
* `blowtorch.loggers.TensorBoardLogger`: Logs to TensorBoard

Custom loggers can be created by subclassing `blowtorch.loggers.BaseLogger`.

## Decorators
Blowtorch uses the decorator syntax to specify parts of the training pipeline:

* `@run.train_step`, `@run.val_step`: Specify train/val steps with one or two functions. Arguments: `batch`, `model`, `is_validate`, `device`, `epoch`
* `@run.train_epoch`, `@run.val_epoch`: Specify whole train/val epoch, in case more flexibility for iteration/optimization is required. Arguments: `data_loader`, `model`, `is_validate`, `optimizers`
* `@run.configure_optimizers`: Return optimizers and learning rate schedulers. Can either return a single optimizer object or a dictionary with multiple optimizers/schedulers. Arguments: `model`