Examples

Basic Level

Creating object from config

One of the ways to create instance from YAML config file is get_from_params().

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# transform.yaml
_target_: torchvision.transforms.Normalize
mean: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
std: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]

import hydra_slayer
import yaml

with open("transform.yaml") as stream:
    raw_config = yaml.safe_load(stream)

transform = hydra_slayer.get_from_params(**raw_config)
transform
# Normalize(mean=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5], std=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5])

Creating objects with Registry

You also can add python modules to the Registry() and then use it to create instances by shorter (or custom) name.

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# transform.yaml
_target_: Normalize
mean: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
std: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]

import hydra_slayer
import torchvision
import yaml

registry = hydra_slayer.Registry()
registry.add_from_module(torchvision.transforms)
# or you can use ``registry.add()`` to add only specific instances

with open("transform.yaml") as stream:
    raw_config = yaml.safe_load(stream)

transform = registry.get_from_params(**raw_config)
transform
# Normalize(mean=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5], std=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5])

Advanced Level

Creating complex objects

Nested data structures can be used to create complex objects like CIFAR100 dataset with custom transforms.

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# dataset.yaml
_target_: torchvision.datasets.CIFAR100
root: ./data
train: false
transform:
  _target_: torchvision.transforms.Compose
  transforms:
    - _target_: torchvision.transforms.ToTensor
    - _target_: torchvision.transforms.Normalize
      mean: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
      std: [0.5, 0.5, 0.5]
download: true

import hydra_slayer
import yaml

with open("dataset.yaml") as stream:
    raw_config = yaml.safe_load(stream)

dataset = hydra_slayer.get_from_params(**raw_config)
dataset
# Dataset CIFAR100
#     Number of datapoints: 10000
#     Root location: ./data
#     Split: Test
#     StandardTransform
# Transform: Compose(
#                ToTensor()
#                Normalize(mean=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5], std=[0.5, 0.5, 0.5])
#            )

Passing *args and **kwargs parameters

*args (var-positional parameter) and **kwargs (var-keyword parameter) parameters can be addressed by name, and you don't have to add * / ** to parameter names in config.

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# first_block.yaml
_target_: torch.nn.Sequential
args:
  - _target_: torch.nn.Conv2d
    in_channels: 3
    out_channels: 64
    kernel_size: 7
    stride: 2
    padding: 3
    bias: false
  - _target_: torch.nn.BatchNorm2d
    num_features: 64
  - _target_: torch.nn.ReLU
    inplace: true
  - _target_: torch.nn.MaxPool2d
    kernel_size: 3
    stride: 2
    padding: 1

import hydra_slayer
import yaml

with open("first_conv.yaml") as stream:
    raw_config = yaml.safe_load(stream)

first_block = hydra_slayer.get_from_params(**raw_config)
first_block
# Sequential(
#   (0): Conv2d(3, 64, kernel_size=(7, 7), stride=(2, 2), padding=(3, 3), bias=False)
#   (1): BatchNorm2d(64, eps=1e-05, momentum=0.1, affine=True, track_running_stats=True)
#   (2): ReLU(inplace=True)
#   (3): MaxPool2d(kernel_size=3, stride=2, padding=1, dilation=1, ceil_mode=False)
# )

Warning

The order of the arguments matters in Python. If you have function like def example(arg1, *args, arg2=2, **kwargs): there are multiple ways to pass parameters to the function, for example. And in some cases positional-or-keyword arguments (arg1) can be supplied only by position.

Yes:
  example(1)  # arg1=1, *args=(), arg2=2, kwargs={}
  example(1, arg2=2)  # arg1=1, *args=(,), arg2=2, kwargs={}
  example(arg1=1, arg2=4)  # arg1=1, args=(), arg2=4, kwargs={}
  example(1, 2)  # arg1=1, *args=(2,), arg2=2, kwargs={}
  example(1, 2, 3, arg2=4, arg3=5)  # arg1=1, args=(2, 3), arg2=4, kwargs={'arg3': 5}

No:
  example(arg1=1, 2, 3)  # SyntaxError: positional argument follows keyword argument
  example(1, 2, arg1=3, arg2=4)  # TypeError: got multiple values for argument 'arg1'

For the hydra-slayer the same is true. So if you want to use *args please make sure that you don’t specify parameters followed by *args by keyword.

Expert level

Creating pd.DataFrame from config

You also can read multiple CSV files as pandas dataframes and merge them.

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# dataset.yaml
dataframe:
  _target_: pandas.merge
  left:
    _target_: pandas.read_csv
    filepath_or_buffer: dataset/dataset_part1.csv

    # By default, hydra-slayer use partial fit for functions
    # (what is useful with activation functions in neural networks).
    # But if we want to call ``pandas.read_csv`` function instead,
    # then we should pass ``call_meta_factory`` manually.
    meta_factory: &call_function
      _target_: hydra_slayer.call_meta_factory
  right:
    _target_: pandas.read_csv
    filepath_or_buffer: dataset/dataset_part2.csv
    meta_factory: *call_function
  how: inner
  'on': user
  meta_factory: *call_function

import hydra_slayer
import yaml

with open("dataset.yaml") as stream:
    raw_config = yaml.safe_load(stream)

config = hydra_slayer.get_from_params(**raw_config)

dataset = config["dataframe"]
dataset
# <class 'pandas.core.frame.DataFrame'>
#    user country  premium  ...
# 0     1     USA    False  ...
# 1     2      UK     True  ...
#     ...     ...      ...  ...

Extending configs

It is also possible define the dataset in a separate config file and then pass it to the main config.

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# dataset.yaml
_target_: torch.utils.data.DataLoader
dataset:
  _target_: torchvision.datasets.CIFAR100
  root: ./data
  train: false
  transform:
    _target_: torchvision.transforms.Compose
    transforms:
      - _target_: torchvision.transforms.ToTensor
      - _target_: torchvision.transforms.Normalize
        mean: [0.5,0.5,0.5]
        std: [0.5,0.5,0.5]
  download: true
batch_size: 32
shuffle: false

# config.yaml
dataset:
  _target_: hydra_slayer.get_from_params
  # ``yaml.safe_load`` will return dictionary with parameters,
  # but to get ``DataLoader`` additional ``hydra_slayer.get_from_params``
  # should be used.

  kwargs:
    # Read dataset from "dataset.yaml", roughly equivalent to
    #   with open("dataset.yaml") as stream:
    #       kwargs = yaml.safe_load(stream)
    _target_: yaml.safe_load
    stream:
      _target_: open
      file: dataset.yaml
    meta_factory: &call_function
      _target_: hydra_slayer.call_meta_factory

  meta_factory: *call_function

model:
  _target_: torchvision.models.resnet18
  pretrained: true
  meta_factory:
    _target_: hydra_slayer.call_meta_factory

criterion:
  _target_: torch.nn.CrossEntropyLoss

import hydra_slayer
import torch
import yaml

with open("config.yaml") as stream:
    raw_config = yaml.safe_load(stream)

config = hydra_slayer.get_from_params(**raw_config)
model, criterion = config["model"], config["criterion"]
model.eval()

losses = []
with torch.no_grad():
    for batch, labels in config["dataset"]:
        outputs = model(batch)
        loss = criterion(outputs, labels)
        losses.append(loss.tolist())
mean_loss = sum(losses) / len(losses)
mean_loss
# ≈8.6087