MindInsight Commands

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View the Command Help Information

mindinsight --help

View the Version Information

mindinsight --version

Start the Service

mindinsight start [-h] [--workspace <WORKSPACE>] [--port <PORT>]
                  [--url-path-prefix <URL_PATH_PREFIX>]
                  [--reload-interval <RELOAD_INTERVAL>]
                  [--summary-base-dir <SUMMARY_BASE_DIR>]
                  [--enable-debugger <ENABLE_DEBUGGER>]
                  [--debugger-port <DEBUGGER_PORT>]

Optional parameters are as follows:

When the service is started, the parameter values of the command line are saved as the environment variables of the process and start with MINDINSIGHT_, for example, MINDINSIGHT_PORT, MINDINSIGHT_WORKSPACE, etc.

Execute command:

mindinsight start --port 8000 --workspace /path/to/workspace/dir --summary-base-dir /path/to/summary/base/dir

The startup is successful if it prompts as follows:

Web address: http://127.0.0.1:8000
service start state: success

View the Service Process Information

MindInsight provides user with web services. Run the following command to view the running web service process:

ps -ef | grep mindinsight

Run the following command to access the working directory WORKSPACE corresponding to the service process based on the service process ID:

lsof -p <PID> | grep access

Output the working directory WORKSPACE as follows:

gunicorn  <PID>  <USER>  <FD>  <TYPE>  <DEVICE>  <SIZE/OFF>  <NODE>  <WORKSPACE>/log/gunicorn/access.log

Stop the Service

mindinsight stop [-h] [--port PORT]

Optional parameters are as follows:

Execute command:

mindinsight stop --port 8000

The shutdown is successful if it prompts as follows:

Stop mindinsight service successfully

Parse summary

MindInsight provides tools for parsing summary log files. Users can save the scalars in the summary log file into a csv file and the images into a png file through the commands, which is convenient for viewing and further processing.

mindinsight parse_summary [--summary-dir] [--output]

Optional parameters are as follows:

Execute command:

mindinsight parse_summary --summary-dir ./ --output ./

The output directory structure is as follows:

└─output_{datetime}
    ├─image
    │   └─{tag}_{step}.png
    │
    └─scalar.csv

In which,

• output_{datetime} is the output directory. The rule is 'output_yyyyMMdd_HHmmss_SSSSSS' including year, month, day, hour, minute, second and microseconds.

• {tag}_{step}.png is the image in training process. 'tag' and 'step' are the tag and step in the training (special characters in tag are deleted and '/' is replaced by '_').

• scalar.csv is the file which save scalars (encoding: 'utf-8').

Use Mindoptimizer to Tune Hyperparameters

MindInsight provides parameters tuning command. The command-line interface (CLI) provides the following commands:

usage: mindoptimizer [-h] [--version] [--config <CONFIG>]
                     [--iter <ITER>]

Optional parameters are as follows: