facebookresearch/fairseq

Add functionality for logging to Comet

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#4,156 opened on Jan 26, 2022

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Description

🚀 Feature Request

Add functionality to log fairseq model parameters and metrics to Comet

Motivation

To support fairseq users who want to use Comet to manage their experiments.

Pitch

Add a Comet logger to fairseq/logging/progress_bar.py in a manner similar to Azure ML and Weights and Biases

Alternatives

No alternatives as this is meant to extend functionality

Additional context

We have prepared a draft PR adding this functionality #4069

Here is an example of a logged fairseq experiment in Comet https://www.comet.ml/dsblank/fairseq/373f319055a04284aed6c3bfca1ae05f?experiment-tab=chart&showOutliers=true&smoothing=0&transformY=smoothing&xAxis=step

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Research direction
Study the existing AzureML and WandB loggers in fairseq/logging/progress bar.py and the draft PR #4069 to implement a similar Comet logger.
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python
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3
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