Katib

Reference documentation for Katib

This is the legacy gRPC API reference for Katib v1alpha3 version. Corresponding Katib documentation can be found in 1.0 Kubeflow documentation.

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Katib API v1alpha3

AlgorithmSetting

Field Type Label Description
name string
value string

AlgorithmSpec

Field Type Label Description
algorithm_name string
algorithm_setting AlgorithmSetting repeated
early_stopping_spec EarlyStoppingSpec

DeleteObservationLogReply

DeleteObservationLogRequest

Field Type Label Description
trial_name string

EarlyStoppingSpec

TODO: This feature is not yet fully implemented.

Experiment

Field Type Label Description
name string Name of Experiment. This is unique in DB.
spec ExperimentSpec

ExperimentSpec

Spec of a Experiment. Experiment represents a single optimization run over a feasible space. Each Experiment 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 Experiment.

Field Type Label Description
parameter_specs ExperimentSpec.ParameterSpecs
objective ObjectiveSpec
algorithm AlgorithmSpec
trial_template string
metrics_collector_spec string
parallel_trial_count int32
max_trial_count int32
nas_config NasConfig

ExperimentSpec.ParameterSpecs

List of ParameterSpec

Field Type Label Description
parameters ParameterSpec repeated

FeasibleSpace

Feasible space for optimization. Int and Double type use Max/Min. Discrete and Categorical type use List.

Field Type Label Description
max string Max Value
min string Minimum Value
list string repeated List of Values.
step string Step for double or int parameter

GetObservationLogReply

Field Type Label Description
observation_log ObservationLog

GetObservationLogRequest

Field Type Label Description
trial_name string
metric_name string
start_time string The start of the time range. RFC3339 format
end_time string The end of the time range. RFC3339 format

GetSuggestionsReply

Field Type Label Description
parameter_assignments GetSuggestionsReply.ParameterAssignments repeated
algorithm AlgorithmSpec

GetSuggestionsReply.ParameterAssignments

Field Type Label Description
assignments ParameterAssignment repeated

GetSuggestionsRequest

Field Type Label Description
experiment Experiment
trials Trial repeated all completed trials owned by the experiment.
request_number int32 The number of Suggestion you request at one time. When you set 3 to request_number, you can get three Suggestions at one time.

GraphConfig

GraphConfig contains a config of DAG

Field Type Label Description
num_layers int32 Number of layers
input_sizes int32 repeated Dimensions of input size
output_sizes int32 repeated Dimensions of output size

Metric

Field Type Label Description
name string
value string

MetricLog

Field Type Label Description
time_stamp string RFC3339 format
metric Metric

NasConfig

NasConfig contains a config of NAS job

Field Type Label Description
graph_config GraphConfig Config of DAG
operations NasConfig.Operations List of Operation

NasConfig.Operations

Field Type Label Description
operation Operation repeated

ObjectiveSpec

Field Type Label Description
type ObjectiveType
goal double
objective_metric_name string
additional_metric_names string repeated This can be empty if we only care about the objective metric.

Observation

Field Type Label Description
metrics Metric repeated

ObservationLog

Field Type Label Description
metric_logs MetricLog repeated

Operation

Config for operations in DAG

Field Type Label Description
operation_type string Type of operation in DAG
parameter_specs Operation.ParameterSpecs

Operation.ParameterSpecs

List of ParameterSpec

Field Type Label Description
parameters ParameterSpec repeated

ParameterAssignment

Field Type Label Description
name string
value string

ParameterSpec

Config for a Hyper parameter. Katib will create each Hyper parameter from this config.

Field Type Label Description
name string Name of the parameter.
parameter_type ParameterType Type of the parameter.
feasible_space FeasibleSpace FeasibleSpace for the parameter.

ReportObservationLogReply

ReportObservationLogRequest

Field Type Label Description
trial_name string
observation_log ObservationLog

Trial

Field Type Label Description
name string
spec TrialSpec
status TrialStatus

TrialSpec

Field Type Label Description
experiment_name string
objective ObjectiveSpec
parameter_assignments TrialSpec.ParameterAssignments
run_spec string
metrics_collector_spec string

TrialSpec.ParameterAssignments

List of ParameterAssignment

Field Type Label Description
assignments ParameterAssignment repeated

TrialStatus

Field Type Label Description
start_time string RFC3339 format
completion_time string RFC3339 format
condition TrialStatus.TrialConditionType
observation Observation The best observation in logs.

ValidateAlgorithmSettingsReply

Return INVALID_ARGUMENT Error if Algorithm Settings are not Valid

ValidateAlgorithmSettingsRequest

Field Type Label Description
experiment Experiment

ObjectiveType

Direction of optimization. Minimize or Maximize.

Name Number Description
UNKNOWN 0 Undefined type and not used.
MINIMIZE 1 Minimize
MAXIMIZE 2 Maximize

ParameterType

Types of value for HyperParameter.

Name Number Description
UNKNOWN_TYPE 0 Undefined type and not used.
DOUBLE 1 Double float type. Use "Max/Min".
INT 2 Int type. Use "Max/Min".
DISCRETE 3 Discrete number type. Use "List" as float.
CATEGORICAL 4 Categorical type. Use "List" as string.

TrialStatus.TrialConditionType

Name Number Description
CREATED 0
RUNNING 1
SUCCEEDED 2
KILLED 3
FAILED 4
UNKNOWN 5

EarlyStopping

TODO: This feature is not yet fully implemented.

Method Name Request Type Response Type Description

Manager

Service for Main API for Katib For each RPC service, we define mapping to HTTP REST API method. The mapping includes the URL path, query parameters and request body. https://cloud.google.com/service-infrastructure/docs/service-management/reference/rpc/google.api#http

Method Name Request Type Response Type Description
ReportObservationLog ReportObservationLogRequest ReportObservationLogReply Report a log of Observations for a Trial. The log consists of timestamp and value of metric. Katib store every log of metrics. You can see accuracy curve or other metric logs on UI.
GetObservationLog GetObservationLogRequest GetObservationLogReply Get all log of Observations for a Trial.
DeleteObservationLog DeleteObservationLogRequest DeleteObservationLogReply Delete all log of Observations for a Trial.

Suggestion

Method Name Request Type Response Type Description
GetSuggestions GetSuggestionsRequest GetSuggestionsReply
ValidateAlgorithmSettings ValidateAlgorithmSettingsRequest ValidateAlgorithmSettingsReply

Scalar Value Types

.proto Type Notes C++ Type Java Type Python Type
double double double float
float float float float
int32 Uses variable-length encoding. Inefficient for encoding negative numbers – if your field is likely to have negative values, use sint32 instead. int32 int int
int64 Uses variable-length encoding. Inefficient for encoding negative numbers – if your field is likely to have negative values, use sint64 instead. int64 long int/long
uint32 Uses variable-length encoding. uint32 int int/long
uint64 Uses variable-length encoding. uint64 long int/long
sint32 Uses variable-length encoding. Signed int value. These more efficiently encode negative numbers than regular int32s. int32 int int
sint64 Uses variable-length encoding. Signed int value. These more efficiently encode negative numbers than regular int64s. int64 long int/long
fixed32 Always four bytes. More efficient than uint32 if values are often greater than 2^28. uint32 int int
fixed64 Always eight bytes. More efficient than uint64 if values are often greater than 2^56. uint64 long int/long
sfixed32 Always four bytes. int32 int int
sfixed64 Always eight bytes. int64 long int/long
bool bool boolean boolean
string A string must always contain UTF-8 encoded or 7-bit ASCII text. string String str/unicode
bytes May contain any arbitrary sequence of bytes. string ByteString str