mlos_bench.environments.Environment

class mlos_bench.environments.Environment(*, name: str, config: dict, global_config: dict | None = None, tunables: TunableGroups | None = None, service: Service | None = None)

An abstract base of all benchmark environments.

Attributes:
parameters

Key/value pairs of all environment parameters (i.e., const_args and tunable_params).

tunable_params

Get the configuration space of the given environment.

Methods

new(*, env_name, class_name, config[, ...])

Factory method for a new environment with a given config.

pprint([indent, level])

Pretty-print the environment configuration.

run()

Execute the run script for this environment.

setup(tunables[, global_config])

Set up a new benchmark environment, if necessary.

status()

Check the status of the benchmark environment.

teardown()

Tear down the benchmark environment.

__init__(*, name: str, config: dict, global_config: dict | None = None, tunables: TunableGroups | None = None, service: Service | None = None)

Create a new environment with a given config.

Parameters:
name: str

Human-readable name of the environment.

configdict

Free-format dictionary that contains the benchmark environment configuration. Each config must have at least the “tunable_params” and the “const_args” sections.

global_configdict

Free-format dictionary of global parameters (e.g., security credentials) to be mixed in into the “const_args” section of the local config.

tunablesTunableGroups

A collection of groups of tunable parameters for all environments.

service: Service

An optional service object (e.g., providing methods to deploy or reboot a VM/Host, etc.).

classmethod new(*, env_name: str, class_name: str, config: dict, global_config: dict | None = None, tunables: TunableGroups | None = None, service: Service | None = None) Environment

Factory method for a new environment with a given config.

Parameters:
env_name: str

Human-readable name of the environment.

class_name: str

FQN of a Python class to instantiate, e.g., “mlos_bench.environments.remote.HostEnv”. Must be derived from the Environment class.

configdict

Free-format dictionary that contains the benchmark environment configuration. It will be passed as a constructor parameter of the class specified by name.

global_configdict

Free-format dictionary of global parameters (e.g., security credentials) to be mixed in into the “const_args” section of the local config.

tunablesTunableGroups

A collection of groups of tunable parameters for all environments.

service: Service

An optional service object (e.g., providing methods to deploy or reboot a VM/Host, etc.).

Returns:
envEnvironment

An instance of the Environment class initialized with config.

property parameters: Dict[str, int | float | str | None]

Key/value pairs of all environment parameters (i.e., const_args and tunable_params). Note that before .setup() is called, all tunables will be set to None.

Returns:
parametersDict[str, TunableValue]

Key/value pairs of all environment parameters (i.e., const_args and tunable_params).

pprint(indent: int = 4, level: int = 0) str

Pretty-print the environment configuration. For composite environments, print all children environments as well.

Parameters:
indentint

Number of spaces to indent the output. Default is 4.

levelint

Current level of indentation. Default is 0.

Returns:
prettystr

Pretty-printed environment configuration. Default output is the same as __repr__.

run() Tuple[Status, datetime, Dict[str, int | float | str | None] | None]

Execute the run script for this environment.

For instance, this may start a new experiment, download results, reconfigure the environment, etc. Details are configurable via the environment config.

Returns:
(status, timestamp, output)(Status, datetime, dict)

3-tuple of (Status, timestamp, output) values, where output is a dict with the results or None if the status is not COMPLETED. If run script is a benchmark, then the score is usually expected to be in the score field.

setup(tunables: TunableGroups, global_config: dict | None = None) bool

Set up a new benchmark environment, if necessary. This method must be idempotent, i.e., calling it several times in a row should be equivalent to a single call.

Parameters:
tunablesTunableGroups

A collection of tunable parameters along with their values.

global_configdict

Free-format dictionary of global parameters of the environment that are not used in the optimization process.

Returns:
is_successbool

True if operation is successful, false otherwise.

status() Tuple[Status, datetime, List[Tuple[datetime, str, Any]]]

Check the status of the benchmark environment.

Returns:
(benchmark_status, timestamp, telemetry)(Status, datetime, list)

3-tuple of (benchmark status, timestamp, telemetry) values. timestamp is UTC time stamp of the status; it’s current time by default. telemetry is a list (maybe empty) of (timestamp, metric, value) triplets.

teardown() None

Tear down the benchmark environment.

This method must be idempotent, i.e., calling it several times in a row should be equivalent to a single call.

property tunable_params: TunableGroups

Get the configuration space of the given environment.

Returns:
tunablesTunableGroups

A collection of covariant groups of tunable parameters.