tutorial_3_tryTunersAndAccessors.md

Tutorial - Try different Tuners and Accessors

NNI provides an easy to adopt approach to set up parameter tuning algorithms as well as early stop policies, we call them Tuners and Accessors.

Tuner specifies the algorithm you use to generate hyperparameter sets for each trial. In NNI, we support two approaches to set the tuner.

1. Directly use tuner provided by nni sdk

    required fields: builtinTunerName and classArgs. 
   

2. Customize your own tuner file

    required fields: codeDirectory, classFileName, className and classArgs.
   

Learn More about tuners

• For detailed defintion and usage aobut the required field, please refer to Config an experiment
• Tuners in the latest NNI release
• How to implement your own tuner

Assessor specifies the algorithm you use to apply early stop policy. In NNI, there are two approaches to set theassessor.

1. Directly use accessor provided by nni sdk

    required fields: builtinAssessorName and classArgs. 
   

2. Customize your own tuner file

    required fields: codeDirectory, classFileName, className and classArgs.
   

Learn More about assessor

• For detailed defintion and usage aobut the required field, please refer to Config an experiment
• Find more about the detailed instruction about enable accessor
• How to implement your own assessor

Learn More

• How to run an experiment on local (with multiple GPUs)?
• How to run an experiment on multiple machines?
• How to run an experiment on OpenPAI?