Integration

class optuna.integration.ChainerPruningExtension(trial, observation_key, pruner_trigger)[source]

Chainer extension to prune unpromising trials.

Example

Add a pruning extension which observes validation losses to Chainer Trainer.

trainer.extend(
    ChainerPruningExtension(trial, 'validation/main/loss', (1, 'epoch')))
Parameters:
  • trial – A Trial corresponding to the current evaluation of the objective function.
  • observation_key – An evaluation metric for pruning, e.g., main/loss and validation/main/accuracy. Please refer to chainer.Reporter reference for further details.
  • pruner_trigger –

    A trigger to execute pruning. pruner_trigger is an instance of IntervalTrigger or ManualScheduleTrigger. IntervalTrigger can be specified by a tuple of the interval length and its unit like (1, 'epoch').
class optuna.integration.ChainerMNStudy(study, comm)[source]

A wrapper of Study to incorporate Optuna with ChainerMN.

See also

ChainerMNStudy provides the same interface as Study. Please refer to optuna.study.Study for further details.

Example

Optimize an objective function that trains neural network written with ChainerMN.

comm = chainermn.create_communicator('naive')
study = optuna.load_study(study_name, storage_url)
chainermn_study = optuna.integration.ChainerMNStudy(study, comm)
chainermn_study.optimize(objective, n_trials=25)
Parameters:
optimize(func, n_trials=None, timeout=None, catch=())[source]

Optimize an objective function.

This method provides the same interface as optuna.study.Study.optimize() except the absence of n_jobs argument.

class optuna.integration.CmaEsSampler(x0=None, sigma0=None, cma_stds=None, seed=None, cma_opts=None, n_startup_trials=1, independent_sampler=None, warn_independent_sampling=True)[source]

A Sampler using cma library as the backend.

Example

Optimize a simple quadratic function by using CmaEsSampler.

def objective(trial):
    x = trial.suggest_uniform('x', -1, 1)
    y = trial.suggest_int('y', -1, 1)
    return x**2 + y

sampler = optuna.integration.CmaEsSampler()
study = optuna.create_study(sampler=sampler)
study.optimize(objective, n_trials=100)

Note that parallel execution of trials may affect the optimization performance of CMA-ES, especially if the number of trials running in parallel exceeds the population size.

Parameters:
  • x0 – A dictionary of an initial parameter values for CMA-ES. By default, the mean of low and high for each distribution is used. Please refer to cma.CMAEvotionStrategy for further details of x0.
  • sigma0 –

    Initial standard deviation of CMA-ES. By default, sigma0 is set to min_range / 6, where min_range denotes the minimum range of the distributions in the search space. If distribution is categorical, min_range is len(choices) - 1. Please refer to cma.CMAEvotionStrategy for further details of sigma0.

  • cma_stds –

    A dictionary of multipliers of sigma0 for each parameters. The default value is 1.0. Please refer to cma.CMAEvotionStrategy for further details of cma_stds.

  • seed – A random seed for CMA-ES.
  • cma_opts –

    Options passed to the constructor of cma.CMAEvotionStrategy class.

    Note that BoundaryHandler, bounds, CMA_stds and seed arguments in cma_opts will be ignored because it is added by CmaEsSampler automatically.

  • n_startup_trials – The independent sampling is used instead of the CMA-ES algorithm until the given number of trials finish in the same study.
  • independent_sampler –

    A BaseSampler instance that is used for independent sampling. The parameters not contained in the relative search space are sampled by this sampler. The search space for CmaEsSampler is determined by intersection_search_space().

    If None is specified, RandomSampler is used as the default.

    See also

    optuna.samplers module provides built-in independent samplers such as RandomSampler and TPESampler.

  • warn_independent_sampling –

    If this is True, a warning message is emitted when the value of a parameter is sampled by using an independent sampler.

    Note that the parameters of the first trial in a study are always sampled via an independent sampler, so no warning messages are emitted in this case.
class optuna.integration.FastAIPruningCallback(learn, trial, monitor)[source]

FastAI callback to prune unpromising trials for fastai.

Note

This callback is for fastai<2.0, not the coming version developed in fastai/fastai_dev.

Example

Add a pruning callback which monitors validation loss directly to Learner.

# If registering this callback in construction
from functools import partial

learn = Learner(
    data, model,
    callback_fns=[partial(FastAIPruningCallback, trial=trial, monitor='valid_loss')])

Example

Register a pruning callback to learn.fit and learn.fit_one_cycle.

learn.fit(n_epochs, callbacks=[FastAIPruningCallback(learn, trial, 'valid_loss')])
learn.fit_one_cycle(
    n_epochs, cyc_len, max_lr,
    callbacks=[FastAIPruningCallback(learn, trial, 'valid_loss')])
Parameters:
class optuna.integration.PyTorchIgnitePruningHandler(trial, metric, trainer)[source]

PyTorch Ignite handler to prune unpromising trials.

Example

Add a pruning handler which observes validation accuracy.

evaluator = create_supervised_evaluator(model,
                                        metrics={'accuracy': Accuracy()},
                                        device=device)
handler = PyTorchIgnitePruningHandler(trial, 'accuracy', trainer)
evaluator.add_event_handler(Events.COMPLETED, handler)

@trainer.on(Events.EPOCH_COMPLETED)
def log_validation_results(engine):
    evaluator.run(val_loader)
Parameters:
  • trial – A Trial corresponding to the current evaluation of the objective function.
  • metric – A name of metric for pruning, e.g., accuracy and loss.
  • trainer – A trainer engine of PyTorch Ignite. Please refer to ignite.engine.Engine reference for further details.
class optuna.integration.KerasPruningCallback(trial, monitor)[source]

Keras callback to prune unpromising trials.

Example

Add a pruning callback which observes validation losses.

model.fit(X, y, callbacks=KerasPruningCallback(trial, 'val_loss'))
Parameters:
  • trial – A Trial corresponding to the current evaluation of the objective function.
  • monitor – An evaluation metric for pruning, e.g., val_loss and val_acc. Please refer to keras.Callback reference for further details.
class optuna.integration.LightGBMPruningCallback(trial, metric, valid_name='valid_0')[source]

Callback for LightGBM to prune unpromising trials.

Example

Add a pruning callback which observes validation scores to training of a LightGBM model.

param = {'objective': 'binary', 'metric': 'binary_error'}
pruning_callback = LightGBMPruningCallback(trial, 'binary_error')
gbm = lgb.train(param, dtrain, valid_sets=[dtest], callbacks=[pruning_callback])
Parameters:
  • trial – A Trial corresponding to the current evaluation of the objective function.
  • metric – An evaluation metric for pruning, e.g., binary_error and multi_error. Please refer to LightGBM reference for further details.
  • valid_name – The name of the target validation. Validation names are specified by valid_names option of train method. If omitted, valid_0 is used which is the default name of the first validation. Note that this argument will be ignored if you are calling cv method instead of train method.
class optuna.integration.MXNetPruningCallback(trial, eval_metric)[source]

MXNet callback to prune unpromising trials.

Example

Add a pruning callback which observes validation accuracy.

model.fit(train_data=X, eval_data=Y,
          eval_end_callback=MXNetPruningCallback(trial, eval_metric='accuracy'))
Parameters:
  • trial – A Trial corresponding to the current evaluation of the objective function.
  • eval_metric – An evaluation metric name for pruning, e.g., cross-entropy and accuracy. If using default metrics like mxnet.metrics.Accuracy, use it’s default metric name. For custom metrics, use the metric_name provided to constructor. Please refer to mxnet.metrics reference for further details.
class optuna.integration.PyTorchLightningPruningCallback(trial, monitor)[source]

PyTorch Lightning callback to prune unpromising trials.

Example

Add a pruning callback which observes validation accuracy.

trainer.pytorch_lightning.Trainer(
    early_stop_callback=PyTorchLightningPruningCallback(trial, monitor='avg_val_acc'))
Parameters:
  • trial – A Trial corresponding to the current evaluation of the objective function.
  • monitor – An evaluation metric for pruning, e.g., val_loss or val_acc. The metrics are obtained from the returned dictionaries from e.g. pytorch_lightning.LightningModule.training_step or pytorch_lightning.LightningModule.validation_end and the names thus depend on how this dictionary is formatted.
class optuna.integration.SkoptSampler(independent_sampler=None, warn_independent_sampling=True, skopt_kwargs=None)[source]

Sampler using Scikit-Optimize as the backend.

Example

Optimize a simple quadratic function by using SkoptSampler.

def objective(trial):
    x = trial.suggest_uniform('x', -10, 10)
    y = trial.suggest_int('y', 0, 10)
    return x**2 + y

sampler = optuna.integration.SkoptSampler()
study = optuna.create_study(sampler=sampler)
study.optimize(objective, n_trials=100)
Parameters:
  • independent_sampler –

    A BaseSampler instance that is used for independent sampling. The parameters not contained in the relative search space are sampled by this sampler. The search space for SkoptSampler is determined by intersection_search_space().

    If None is specified, RandomSampler is used as the default.

    See also

    optuna.samplers module provides built-in independent samplers such as RandomSampler and TPESampler.

  • warn_independent_sampling –

    If this is True, a warning message is emitted when the value of a parameter is sampled by using an independent sampler.

    Note that the parameters of the first trial in a study are always sampled via an independent sampler, so no warning messages are emitted in this case.

  • skopt_kwargs –

    Keyword arguments passed to the constructor of skopt.Optimizer class.

    Note that dimensions argument in skopt_kwargs will be ignored because it is added by SkoptSampler automatically.
class optuna.integration.TensorFlowPruningHook(trial, estimator, metric, run_every_steps, is_higher_better=None)[source]

TensorFlow SessionRunHook to prune unpromising trials.

Example

Add a pruning SessionRunHook for a TensorFlow’s Estimator.

pruning_hook = TensorFlowPruningHook(
    trial=trial,
    estimator=clf,
    metric="accuracy",
    is_higher_better=True,
    run_every_steps=10,
)
hooks = [pruning_hook]
tf.estimator.train_and_evaluate(
    clf,
    tf.estimator.TrainSpec(input_fn=train_input_fn, max_steps=500, hooks=hooks),
    eval_spec
)
Parameters:
  • trial – A Trial corresponding to the current evaluation of the objective function.
  • estimator – An estimator which you will use.
  • metric – An evaluation metric for pruning, e.g., accuracy and loss.
  • run_every_steps – An interval to watch the summary file.
  • is_higher_better – Please do not use this argument because this class refers to StudyDirection to check whether the current study is minimize or maximize.
class optuna.integration.TFKerasPruningCallback(trial, monitor)[source]

tf.keras callback to prune unpromising trials.

This callback is intend to be compatible for TensorFlow v1 and v2, but only tested with TensorFlow v1.

Example

Add a pruning callback which observes validation losses.

model.fit(x, y, callbacks=[TFKerasPruningCallback(trial, 'val_loss')])
Parameters:
  • trial – A Trial corresponding to the current evaluation of the objective function.
  • monitor – An evaluation metric for pruning, e.g., val_loss or val_acc.
class optuna.integration.XGBoostPruningCallback(trial, observation_key)[source]

Callback for XGBoost to prune unpromising trials.

Example

Add a pruning callback which observes validation errors to training of an XGBoost model.

pruning_callback = XGBoostPruningCallback(trial, 'validation-error')
bst = xgb.train(param, dtrain, evals=[(dtest, 'validation')],
                callbacks=[pruning_callback])
Parameters:
  • trial – A Trial corresponding to the current evaluation of the objective function.
  • observation_key – An evaluation metric for pruning, e.g., validation-error and validation-merror. Please refer to eval_metric in XGBoost reference for further details.
class optuna.integration.OptunaSearchCV(estimator, param_distributions, cv=5, enable_pruning=False, error_score=nan, max_iter=1000, n_jobs=1, n_trials=10, random_state=None, refit=True, return_train_score=False, scoring=None, study=None, subsample=1.0, timeout=None, verbose=0)[source]

Hyperparameter search with cross-validation.

Warning

This feature is experimental. The interface may be changed in the future.

Parameters:
  • estimator – Object to use to fit the data. This is assumed to implement the scikit-learn estimator interface. Either this needs to provide score, or scoring must be passed.
  • param_distributions – Dictionary where keys are parameters and values are distributions. Distributions are assumed to implement the optuna distribution interface.
  • cv –

    Cross-validation strategy. Possible inputs for cv are:

    • integer to specify the number of folds in a CV splitter,
    • a CV splitter,
    • an iterable yielding (train, test) splits as arrays of indices.

    For integer, if estimator is a classifier and y is either binary or multiclass, sklearn.model_selection.StratifiedKFold is used. otherwise, sklearn.model_selection.KFold is used.

  • enable_pruning – If True, pruning is performed in the case where the underlying estimator supports partial_fit.
  • error_score – Value to assign to the score if an error occurs in fitting. If ‘raise’, the error is raised. If numeric, sklearn.exceptions.FitFailedWarning is raised. This does not affect the refit step, which will always raise the error.
  • max_iter – Maximum number of epochs. This is only used if the underlying estimator supports partial_fit.
  • n_jobs – Number of parallel jobs. -1 means using all processors.
  • n_trials – Number of trials. If None, there is no limitation on the number of trials. If timeout is also set to None, the study continues to create trials until it receives a termination signal such as Ctrl+C or SIGTERM. This trades off runtime vs quality of the solution.
  • random_state – Seed of the pseudo random number generator. If int, this is the seed used by the random number generator. If numpy.random.RandomState object, this is the random number generator. If None, the global random state from numpy.random is used.
  • refit – If True, refit the estimator with the best found hyperparameters. The refitted estimator is made available at the best_estimator_ attribute and permits using predict directly.
  • return_train_score – If True, training scores will be included. Computing training scores is used to get insights on how different hyperparameter settings impact the overfitting/underfitting trade-off. However computing training scores can be computationally expensive and is not strictly required to select the hyperparameters that yield the best generalization performance.
  • scoring – String or callable to evaluate the predictions on the test data. If None, score on the estimator is used.
  • study – Study corresponds to the optimization task. If None, a new study is created.
  • subsample –

    Proportion of samples that are used during hyperparameter search.

    • If int, then draw subsample samples.
    • If float, then draw subsample * X.shape[0] samples.
  • timeout – Time limit in seconds for the search of appropriate models. If None, the study is executed without time limitation. If n_trials is also set to None, the study continues to create trials until it receives a termination signal such as Ctrl+C or SIGTERM. This trades off runtime vs quality of the solution.
  • verbose – Verbosity level. The higher, the more messages.
best_estimator_

Estimator that was chosen by the search. This is present only if refit is set to True.

n_splits_

Number of cross-validation splits.

refit_time_

Time for refitting the best estimator. This is present only if refit is set to True.

sample_indices_

Indices of samples that are used during hyperparameter search.

scorer_

Scorer function.

study_

Actual study.

Examples

>>> import optuna
>>> from sklearn.datasets import load_iris
>>> from sklearn.svm import SVC
>>> clf = SVC(gamma='auto')
>>> param_distributions = {
...     'C': optuna.distributions.LogUniformDistribution(1e-10, 1e+10)
... }
>>> optuna_search = optuna.integration.OptunaSearchCV(
...     clf,
...     param_distributions
... )
>>> X, y = load_iris(return_X_y=True)
>>> optuna_search.fit(X, y) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
OptunaSearchCV(...)
>>> y_pred = optuna_search.predict(X)
best_index_

Index which corresponds to the best candidate parameter setting.

best_params_

Parameters of the best trial in the Study.

best_score_

Mean cross-validated score of the best estimator.

best_trial_

Best trial in the Study.

classes_

Class labels.

decision_function

Call decision_function on the best estimator.

This is available only if the underlying estimator supports decision_function and refit is set to True.

fit(X, y=None, groups=None, **fit_params)[source]

Run fit with all sets of parameters.

Parameters:
  • X – Training data.
  • y – Target variable.
  • groups – Group labels for the samples used while splitting the dataset into train/test set.
  • **fit_params – Parameters passed to fit on the estimator.
Returns:

Return self.
Return type:

self
inverse_transform

Call inverse_transform on the best estimator.

This is available only if the underlying estimator supports inverse_transform and refit is set to True.

n_trials_

Actual number of trials.

predict

Call predict on the best estimator.

This is available only if the underlying estimator supports predict and refit is set to True.

predict_log_proba

Call predict_log_proba on the best estimator.

This is available only if the underlying estimator supports predict_log_proba and refit is set to True.

predict_proba

Call predict_proba on the best estimator.

This is available only if the underlying estimator supports predict_proba and refit is set to True.

score(X, y=None)[source]

Return the score on the given data.

Parameters:
  • X – Data.
  • y – Target variable.
Returns:

Scaler score.
Return type:

score
score_samples

Call score_samples on the best estimator.

This is available only if the underlying estimator supports score_samples and refit is set to True.

set_user_attr

Call set_user_attr on the Study.

transform

Call transform on the best estimator.

This is available only if the underlying estimator supports transform and refit is set to True.

trials_

All trials in the Study.

trials_dataframe

Call trials_dataframe on the Study.

user_attrs_

User attributes in the Study.