Loggers
Logging... logging everywhere! 🔮
Welcome to the "Logging" tutorial of the "From Zero to Hero" series. In this part we will present the functionalities offered by the Avalanche logging
module.
📑 The Logging Module
In the previous tutorial we have learned how to evaluate a continual learning algorithm in Avalanche, through different metrics that can be used off-the-shelf via the Evaluation Plugin or stand-alone. However, computing metrics and collecting results, may not be enough at times.
While running complex experiments with long waiting times, logging results over-time is fundamental to "babysit" your experiments in real-time, or even understand what went wrong in the aftermath.
This is why in Avalanche we decided to put a strong emphasis on logging and provide a number of loggers that can be used with any set of metrics!
Loggers
Avalanche at the moment supports four main Loggers:
InteractiveLogger: This logger provides a nice progress bar and displays real-time metrics results in an interactive way (meant for
stdout
).TextLogger: This logger, mostly intended for file logging, is the plain text version of the
InteractiveLogger
. Keep in mind that it may be very verbose.TensorboardLogger: It logs all the metrics on Tensorboard in real-time. Perfect for real-time plotting.
WandBLogger: It leverages Weights and Biases tools to log metrics and results on a dashboard. It requires a W&B account.
In order to keep track of when each metric value has been logged, we leverage two global counters
, one for the training phase, one for the evaluation phase. You can see the global counter
value reported in the x axis of the logged plots.
Each global counter
is an ever-increasing value which starts from 0 and it is increased by one each time a training/evaluation iteration is performed (i.e. after each training/evaluation minibatch). The global counters
are updated automatically by the strategy.
How to use loggers
Create your Logger
If the available loggers are not sufficient to suit your needs, you can always implement a custom logger by specializing the behaviors of the StrategyLogger
base class.
This completes the "Logging" tutorial for the "From Zero to Hero" series. We hope you enjoyed it!
🤝 Run it on Google Colab
You can run this chapter and play with it on Google Colaboratory: