Note
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Command-Line Interface
Command |
Description |
---|---|
ask |
Create a new trial and suggest parameters. |
best-trial |
Show the best trial. |
best-trials |
Show a list of trials located at the Pareto front. |
create-study |
Create a new study. |
delete-study |
Delete a specified study. |
storage upgrade |
Upgrade the schema of a storage. |
studies |
Show a list of studies. |
study optimize |
Start optimization of a study. |
study set-user-attr |
Set a user attribute to a study. |
tell |
Finish a trial, which was created by the ask command. |
trials |
Show a list of trials. |
Optuna provides command-line interface as shown in the above table.
Let us assume you are not in IPython shell and writing Python script files instead. It is totally fine to write scripts like the following:
import optuna
def objective(trial):
x = trial.suggest_float("x", -10, 10)
return (x - 2) ** 2
if __name__ == "__main__":
study = optuna.create_study()
study.optimize(objective, n_trials=100)
print("Best value: {} (params: {})\n".format(study.best_value, study.best_params))
Best value: 1.998484714511465e-05 (params: {'x': 2.0044704414933108})
However, we can reduce boilerplate codes by using our optuna
command.
Let us assume that foo.py
contains only the following code.
def objective(trial):
x = trial.suggest_float("x", -10, 10)
return (x - 2) ** 2
Even so, we can invoke the optimization as follows.
(Don’t care about --storage sqlite:///example.db
for now, which is described in Saving/Resuming Study with RDB Backend.)
$ cat foo.py
def objective(trial):
x = trial.suggest_float('x', -10, 10)
return (x - 2) ** 2
$ STUDY_NAME=`optuna create-study --storage sqlite:///example.db`
$ optuna study optimize foo.py objective --n-trials=100 --storage sqlite:///example.db --study-name $STUDY_NAME
[I 2018-05-09 10:40:25,196] Finished a trial resulted in value: 54.353767789264026. Current best value is 54.353767789264026 with parameters: {'x': -5.372500782588228}.
[I 2018-05-09 10:40:25,197] Finished a trial resulted in value: 15.784266965526376. Current best value is 15.784266965526376 with parameters: {'x': 5.972941852774387}.
...
[I 2018-05-09 10:40:26,204] Finished a trial resulted in value: 14.704254135013741. Current best value is 2.280758099793617e-06 with parameters: {'x': 1.9984897821018828}.
Please note that foo.py
only contains the definition of the objective function.
By giving the script file name and the method name of objective function to
optuna study optimize
command, we can invoke the optimization.
Total running time of the script: ( 0 minutes 0.355 seconds)