# Katib
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Hyperparameter Tuning on Kubernetes.
This project is inspired by [Google vizier](https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/ja//pubs/archive/bcb15507f4b52991a0783013df4222240e942381.pdf). Katib is a scalable and flexible hyperparameter tuning framework and is tightly integrated with kubernetes. Also it does not depend on a specific Deep Learning framework (e.g. TensorFlow, MXNet, and PyTorch).
**Table of Contents** *generated with [DocToc](https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc)*
- [Name](#name)
- [Concepts in Google Vizier](#concepts-in-google-vizier)
- [Study](#study)
- [Trial](#trial)
- [Suggestion](#suggestion)
- [Components in Katib](#components-in-katib)
- [Getting Started](#getting-started)
- [Web UI](#web-ui)
- [API Documentation](#api-documentation)
- [Quickstart to run tfjob and pytorch operator jobs in Katib](#quickstart-to-run-tfjob-and-pytorch-operator-jobs-in-katib)
- [TFjob operator](#tfjob-operator)
- [Pytorch operator](#pytorch-operator)
- [Katib](#katib)
- [Running examples](#running-examples)
- [Cleanups](#cleanups)
- [CONTRIBUTING](#contributing)
- [TODOs](#todos)
## Name
Katib stands for `secretary` in Arabic. As `Vizier` stands for a high official or a prime minister in Arabic, this project Katib is named in the honor of Vizier.
## Concepts in Google Vizier
As in Google Vizier, Katib also has the concepts of Study, Trial and Suggestion.
### Study
Represents a single optimization run over a feasible space. Each Study contains a configuration describing the feasible space, as well as a set of Trials. It is assumed that objective function f(x) does not change in the course of a Study.
### Trial
A Trial is a list of parameter values, x, that will lead to a single evaluation of f(x). A Trial can be “Completed”, which means that it has been evaluated and the objective value f(x) has been assigned to it, otherwise it is “Pending”.
One trial corresponds to one job, and the job kind can be [k8s Job](https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/jobs-run-to-completion/), [TFJob](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/guides/components/tftraining/) or [PyTorchJob](https://www.kubeflow.org/docs/guides/components/pytorch/), which depends on the Study's worker kind.
### Suggestion
A Suggestion is an algorithm to construct a parameter set. Currently Katib supports the following exploration algorithms:
* random
* grid
* [hyperband](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1603.06560.pdf)
* [bayesian optimization](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1012.2599.pdf)
## Components in Katib
Katib consists of several components as shown below. Each component is running on k8s as a deployment.
Each component communicates with others via GRPC and the API is defined at `pkg/api/v1alpha1/api.proto`.
- vizier: main components.
- vizier-core : API server of vizier.
- vizier-db
- suggestion : implementation of each exploration algorithm.
- vizier-suggestion-random
- vizier-suggestion-grid
- vizier-suggestion-hyperband
- vizier-suggestion-bayesianoptimization
- modeldb : WebUI
- modeldb-frontend
- modeldb-backend
- modeldb-db
## Getting Started
Please see [README.md](./examples/v1alpha1/README.md) for more details.
## Web UI
Katib provides a Web UI.
You can visualize general trend of Hyper parameter space and each training history. You can use
[random-example](https://github.com/kubeflow/katib/blob/master/examples/v1alpha1/random-example.yaml) or
[other examples](https://github.com/kubeflow/katib/blob/master/examples/v1alpha1) to generate a similar UI.
## API Documentation
Please refer to [api.md](./pkg/api/v1alpha1/gen-doc/api.md).
## Quickstart to run tfjob and pytorch operator jobs in Katib
For running tfjob and pytorch operator jobs in Katib, you have to install their packages.
In your Ksonnet app root, run the following
```
export KF_ENV=default
ks env set ${KF_ENV} --namespace=kubeflow
ks registry add kubeflow github.com/kubeflow/kubeflow/tree/master/kubeflow
```
### TFjob operator
For installing tfjob operator, run the following
```
ks pkg install kubeflow/tf-training
ks pkg install kubeflow/common
ks generate tf-job-operator tf-job-operator
ks apply ${KF_ENV} -c tf-job-operator
```
### Pytorch operator
For installing pytorch operator, run the following
```
ks pkg install kubeflow/pytorch-job
ks generate pytorch-operator pytorch-operator
ks apply ${KF_ENV} -c pytorch-operator
```
### Katib
Finally, you can install Katib
```
ks pkg install kubeflow/katib
ks generate katib katib
ks apply ${KF_ENV} -c katib
```
If you want to use Katib not in GKE and you don't have StorageClass for dynamic volume provisioning at your cluster, you have to create persistent volume to bound your persistent volume claim.
This is yaml file for persistent volume
```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolume
metadata:
name: katib-mysql
labels:
type: local
app: katib
spec:
capacity:
storage: 10Gi
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
hostPath:
path: /data/katib
```
Create this pv after deploying Katib package
```
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubeflow/katib/master/manifests/v1alpha1/pv/pv.yaml
```
### Running examples
After deploy everything, you can run examples.
To run tfjob operator example, you have to install volume for it.
If you are using GKE and default StorageClass, you have to create this pvc
```yaml
apiVersion: v1
kind: PersistentVolumeClaim
metadata:
name: tfevent-volume
namespace: kubeflow
labels:
type: local
app: tfjob
spec:
accessModes:
- ReadWriteOnce
resources:
requests:
storage: 10Gi
```
If you are not using GKE and you don't have StorageClass for dynamic volume provisioning at your cluster, you have to create pvc and pv
```
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubeflow/katib/master/examples/v1alpha1/tfevent-volume/tfevent-pvc.yaml
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubeflow/katib/master/examples/v1alpha1/tfevent-volume/tfevent-pv.yaml
```
This is example for tfjob operator
```
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubeflow/katib/master/examples/v1alpha1/tfjob-example.yaml
```
This is example for pytorch operator
```
kubectl create -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubeflow/katib/master/examples/v1alpha1/pytorchjob-example.yaml
```
You can check status of StudyJob
```yaml
$ kubectl describe studyjob pytorchjob-example -n kubeflow
Name: pytorchjob-example
Namespace: kubeflow
Labels: controller-tools.k8s.io=1.0
Annotations:
API Version: kubeflow.org/v1alpha1
Kind: StudyJob
Metadata:
Cluster Name:
Creation Timestamp: 2019-01-15T18:35:20Z
Generation: 1
Resource Version: 1058135
Self Link: /apis/kubeflow.org/v1alpha1/namespaces/kubeflow/studyjobs/pytorchjob-example
UID: 4fc7ad83-18f4-11e9-a6de-42010a8e0225
Spec:
Metricsnames:
accuracy
Objectivevaluename: accuracy
Optimizationgoal: 0.99
Optimizationtype: maximize
Owner: crd
Parameterconfigs:
Feasible:
Max: 0.05
Min: 0.01
Name: --lr
Parametertype: double
Feasible:
Max: 0.9
Min: 0.5
Name: --momentum
Parametertype: double
Requestcount: 4
Study Name: pytorchjob-example
Suggestion Spec:
Request Number: 3
Suggestion Algorithm: random
Suggestion Parameters:
Name: SuggestionCount
Value: 0
Worker Spec:
Go Template:
Raw Template: apiVersion: "kubeflow.org/v1beta1"
kind: PyTorchJob
metadata:
name: {{.WorkerID}}
namespace: kubeflow
spec:
pytorchReplicaSpecs:
Master:
replicas: 1
restartPolicy: OnFailure
template:
spec:
containers:
- name: pytorch
image: gcr.io/kubeflow-ci/pytorch-mnist-with-summary:1.0
imagePullPolicy: Always
command:
- "python"
- "/opt/pytorch_dist_mnist/dist_mnist_with_summary.py"
{{- with .HyperParameters}}
{{- range .}}
- "{{.Name}}={{.Value}}"
{{- end}}
{{- end}}
Worker:
replicas: 2
restartPolicy: OnFailure
template:
spec:
containers:
- name: pytorch
image: gcr.io/kubeflow-ci/pytorch-mnist-with-summary:1.0
imagePullPolicy: Always
command:
- "python"
- "/opt/pytorch_dist_mnist/dist_mnist_with_summary.py"
{{- with .HyperParameters}}
{{- range .}}
- "{{.Name}}={{.Value}}"
{{- end}}
{{- end}}
Retain: true
Status:
Conditon: Running
Early Stopping Parameter Id:
Last Reconcile Time: 2019-01-15T18:35:20Z
Start Time: 2019-01-15T18:35:20Z
Studyid: k291b444a0b68631
Suggestion Count: 1
Suggestion Parameter Id: n6f17dd9ff466a2b
Trials:
Trialid: o104235328003ad9
Workeridlist:
Completion Time:
Conditon: Running
Kind: PyTorchJob
Start Time: 2019-01-15T18:35:20Z
Workerid: b3b371c89144727f
Trialid: ca207b2432231de3
Workeridlist:
Completion Time:
Conditon: Running
Kind: PyTorchJob
Start Time: 2019-01-15T18:35:20Z
Workerid: f291b04fb27ece3c
Trialid: ddff69212e826432
Workeridlist:
Completion Time:
Conditon: Running
Kind: PyTorchJob
Start Time: 2019-01-15T18:35:20Z
Workerid: ncbed67bbcd4a8ed
Events:
```
When the spec.Status.Condition becomes ```Completed```, the StudyJob is finished.
You can monitor your results in Katib UI. For accessing to Katib UI, you have to install Ambassador.
In your Ksonnet app root, run the following
```
ks generate ambassador ambassador
ks apply ${KF_ENV} -c ambassador
```
After this, you have to port-forward Ambassador service
```
kubectl port-forward svc/ambassador -n kubeflow 8080:80
```
Finally, you can access to Katib UI using this URL: ```http://localhost:8080/katib/```.
### Cleanups
Delete installed components
```
ks delete ${KF_ENV} -c katib
ks delete ${KF_ENV} -c pytorch-operator
ks delete ${KF_ENV} -c tf-job-operator
```
If you create pv for Katib, delete it
```
kubectl delete -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kubeflow/katib/master/manifests/v1alpha1/pv/pv.yaml
```
If you deploy Ambassador, delete it
```
ks delete ${KF_ENV} -c ambassador
```
## CONTRIBUTING
Please feel free to test the system! [developer-guide.md](./docs/developer-guide.md) is a good starting point for developers.
## TODOs
* Integrate KubeFlow (TensorFlow, Caffe2 and PyTorch operators)
* Support Early Stopping
* Enrich the GUI