facebookresearch/fairseq

Auto create commandline args from yamls with fairseq-hydra-train

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#5,035 opened on Mar 22, 2023

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🚀 Feature Request

Though Fairseq is such a powerful framework, I got some problems when I used fairseq-hydra-train. If I want to define an arg in the config yaml file, I have to define it in some dataclass first. This is cumbersome and slow compared with the hydra's ability of auto-creating commandline args. Furthermore, this makes it impossible to use hydra's ability of multi-level nested parameters. How can I access the full ability of hydra with fairseq?

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Research direction
Investigate how to use Hydra's compose API to dynamically create command line arguments from YAML configs without pre defining dataclasses. Look into fairseq hydra train's config handling and see if you can override or extend it to support arbitrary YAML parameters.
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python
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cli
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Feature
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3
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Half day
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Active
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Clear
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Pythonfairseqhydra
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35