# Hyperparameter Search using Trainer API 🤗 Transformers provides a [`Trainer`] class optimized for training 🤗 Transformers models, making it easier to start training without manually writing your own training loop. The [`Trainer`] provides API for hyperparameter search. This doc shows how to enable it in example. ## Hyperparameter Search backend [`Trainer`] supports four hyperparameter search backends currently: [optuna](https://optuna.org/), [sigopt](https://sigopt.com/), [raytune](https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/tune/index.html) and [wandb](https://wandb.ai/site/sweeps). you should install them before using them as the hyperparameter search backend ```bash pip install optuna/sigopt/wandb/ray[tune] ``` ## How to enable Hyperparameter search in example Define the hyperparameter search space, different backends need different format. For sigopt, see sigopt [object_parameter](https://docs.sigopt.com/ai-module-api-references/api_reference/objects/object_parameter), it's like following: ```py >>> def sigopt_hp_space(trial): ... return [ ... {"bounds": {"min": 1e-6, "max": 1e-4}, "name": "learning_rate", "type": "double"}, ... { ... "categorical_values": ["16", "32", "64", "128"], ... "name": "per_device_train_batch_size", ... "type": "categorical", ... }, ... ] ``` For optuna, see optuna [object_parameter](https://optuna.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tutorial/10_key_features/002_configurations.html#sphx-glr-tutorial-10-key-features-002-configurations-py), it's like following: ```py >>> def optuna_hp_space(trial): ... return { ... "learning_rate": trial.suggest_float("learning_rate", 1e-6, 1e-4, log=True), ... "per_device_train_batch_size": trial.suggest_categorical("per_device_train_batch_size", [16, 32, 64, 128]), ... } ``` For raytune, see raytune [object_parameter](https://docs.ray.io/en/latest/tune/api_docs/search_space.html), it's like following: ```py >>> def ray_hp_space(trial): ... return { ... "learning_rate": tune.loguniform(1e-6, 1e-4), ... "per_device_train_batch_size": tune.choice([16, 32, 64, 128]), ... } ``` For wandb, see wandb [object_parameter](https://docs.wandb.ai/guides/sweeps/configuration), it's like following: ```py >>> def wandb_hp_space(trial): ... return { ... "method": "random", ... "metric": {"name": "objective", "goal": "minimize"}, ... "parameters": { ... "learning_rate": {"distribution": "uniform", "min": 1e-6, "max": 1e-4}, ... "per_device_train_batch_size": {"values": [16, 32, 64, 128]}, ... }, ... } ``` Define a `model_init` function and pass it to the [`Trainer`], as an example: ```py >>> def model_init(trial): ... return AutoModelForSequenceClassification.from_pretrained( ... model_args.model_name_or_path, ... from_tf=bool(".ckpt" in model_args.model_name_or_path), ... config=config, ... cache_dir=model_args.cache_dir, ... revision=model_args.model_revision, ... use_auth_token=True if model_args.use_auth_token else None, ... ) ``` Create a [`Trainer`] with your `model_init` function, training arguments, training and test datasets, and evaluation function: ```py >>> trainer = Trainer( ... model=None, ... args=training_args, ... train_dataset=small_train_dataset, ... eval_dataset=small_eval_dataset, ... compute_metrics=compute_metrics, ... tokenizer=tokenizer, ... model_init=model_init, ... data_collator=data_collator, ... ) ``` Call hyperparameter search, get the best trial parameters, backend could be `"optuna"`/`"sigopt"`/`"wandb"`/`"ray"`. direction can be`"minimize"` or `"maximize"`, which indicates whether to optimize greater or lower objective. You could define your own compute_objective function, if not defined, the default compute_objective will be called, and the sum of eval metric like f1 is returned as objective value. ```py >>> best_trial = trainer.hyperparameter_search( ... direction="maximize", ... backend="optuna", ... hp_space=optuna_hp_space, ... n_trials=20, ... compute_objective=compute_objective, ... ) ``` ## Hyperparameter search For DDP finetune Currently, Hyperparameter search for DDP is enabled for optuna and sigopt. Only the rank-zero process will generate the search trial and pass the argument to other ranks.