Goptuna

Decentralized hyperparameter optimization framework, inspired by Optuna [1]. This library is particularly designed for machine learning, but everything will be able to optimize if you can define the objective function (e.g. Optimizing the number of goroutines of your server and the memory buffer size of the caching systems).

Supported algorithms:

Goptuna supports various state-of-the-art Bayesian optimization, evolution strategies and Multi-armed bandit algorithms. All algorithms are implemented in pure Go and continuously benchmarked on GitHub Actions.

• Random search
• TPE: Tree-structured Parzen Estimators [2]
• CMA-ES: Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy [3]
• IPOP-CMA-ES: CMA-ES with increasing population size [4]
• BIPOP-CMA-ES: BI-population CMA-ES [5]
• Median Stopping Rule [6]
• ASHA: Asynchronous Successive Halving Algorithm (Optuna flavored version) [1,7,8]
• Quasi-monte carlo sampling based on Sobol sequence [10, 11]

Projects using Goptuna:

• Kubeflow/Katib: Kubernetes-based system for hyperparameter tuning and neural architecture search.
• c-bata/goptuna-bayesopt: Goptuna sampler for Gaussian Process based bayesian optimization using d4l3k/go-bayesopt. [9]
• c-bata/goptuna-isucon9q: Applying bayesian optimization for the parameters of MySQL, Nginx and Go web applications.
• (If you have a project which uses Goptuna and want your own project to be listed here, please submit a GitHub issue.)

Installation

You can integrate Goptuna in wide variety of Go projects because of its portability of pure Go.

$ go get -u github.com/c-bata/goptuna

Usage

Goptuna supports Define-by-Run style API like Optuna. You can dynamically construct the search spaces.

Basic usage

package main

import (
    "log"
    "math"

    "github.com/c-bata/goptuna"
    "github.com/c-bata/goptuna/tpe"
)

// ① Define an objective function which returns a value you want to minimize.
func objective(trial goptuna.Trial) (float64, error) {
    // ② Define the search space via Suggest APIs.
    x1, _ := trial.SuggestFloat("x1", -10, 10)
    x2, _ := trial.SuggestFloat("x2", -10, 10)
    return math.Pow(x1-2, 2) + math.Pow(x2+5, 2), nil
}

func main() {
    // ③ Create a study which manages each experiment.
    study, err := goptuna.CreateStudy(
        "goptuna-example",
        goptuna.StudyOptionSampler(tpe.NewSampler()))
    if err != nil { ... }

    // ④ Evaluate your objective function.
    err = study.Optimize(objective, 100)
    if err != nil { ... }

    // ⑤ Print the best evaluation parameters.
    v, _ := study.GetBestValue()
    p, _ := study.GetBestParams()
    log.Printf("Best value=%f (x1=%f, x2=%f)",
        v, p["x1"].(float64), p["x2"].(float64))
}

Link: Go Playground

Furthermore, I recommend you to use RDB storage backend for following purposes.

• Continue from where we stopped in the previous optimizations.
• Scale studies to tens of workers that connecting to the same RDB storage.
• Check optimization results via a built-in dashboard.

Built-in Web Dashboard

You can check optimization results by built-in web dashboard.

• SQLite3: $ goptuna dashboard --storage sqlite:///example.db (See here for details).
• MySQL: $ goptuna dashboard --storage mysql://goptuna:[email protected]:3306/yourdb (See here for details)

Manage optimization results	Interactive live-updating graphs

Advanced Usage

Optimize method of goptuna.Study object is designed as the goroutine safe. So you can easily optimize your objective function using multiple goroutine workers.

package main

import ...

func main() {
    study, _ := goptuna.CreateStudy(...)

    eg, ctx := errgroup.WithContext(context.Background())
    study.WithContext(ctx)
    for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
        eg.Go(func() error {
            return study.Optimize(objective, 100)
        })
    }
    if err := eg.Wait(); err != nil { ... }
    ...
}

full source code

There is no complicated setup to use RDB storage backend. First, setup MySQL server like following to share the optimization result.

$ docker pull mysql:8.0
$ docker run \
  -d \
  --rm \
  -p 3306:3306 \
  -e MYSQL_USER=goptuna \
  -e MYSQL_DATABASE=goptuna \
  -e MYSQL_PASSWORD=password \
  -e MYSQL_ALLOW_EMPTY_PASSWORD=yes \
  --name goptuna-mysql \
  mysql:8.0

Then, create a study object using Goptuna CLI.

$ goptuna create-study --storage mysql://goptuna:password@localhost:3306/yourdb --study yourstudy
yourstudy

$ mysql --host 127.0.0.1 --port 3306 --user goptuna -ppassword -e "SELECT * FROM studies;"
+----------+------------+-----------+
| study_id | study_name | direction |
+----------+------------+-----------+
|        1 | yourstudy  | MINIMIZE  |
+----------+------------+-----------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)

Finally, run the Goptuna workers which contains following code. You can execute distributed optimization by just executing this script from multiple server instances.

package main

import ...

func main() {
    db, _ := gorm.Open(mysql.Open("goptuna:password@tcp(localhost:3306)/yourdb?parseTime=true"), &gorm.Config{
        Logger: logger.Default.LogMode(logger.Silent),
    })
    storage := rdb.NewStorage(db)
    defer db.Close()

    study, _ := goptuna.LoadStudy(
        "yourstudy",
        goptuna.StudyOptionStorage(storage),
        ...,
    )
    _ = study.Optimize(objective, 50)
    ...
}

Full source code is available here.

You can receive notifications of each trials via channel. It can be used for logging and any notification systems.

package main

import ...

func main() {
    trialchan := make(chan goptuna.FrozenTrial, 8)
    study, _ := goptuna.CreateStudy(
        ...
        goptuna.StudyOptionIgnoreObjectiveErr(true),
        goptuna.StudyOptionSetTrialNotifyChannel(trialchan),
    )

    var wg sync.WaitGroup
    wg.Add(2)
    go func() {
        defer wg.Done()
        err = study.Optimize(objective, 100)
        close(trialchan)
    }()
    go func() {
        defer wg.Done()
        for t := range trialchan {
            log.Println("trial", t)
        }
    }()
    wg.Wait()
    if err != nil { ... }
    ...
}

full source code

Links

References:

• [1] T. Akiba, S. Sano, T. Yanase, T. Ohta, and M. Koyama, Optuna: A Next-generation Hyperparameter Optimization Framework, KDD, 2019.
• [2] J. Bergstra, R. Bardenet, Y. Bengio, and B. Kégl, Algorithms for hyper-parameter optimization. NeurIPS, 2011.
• [3] N. Hansen, The CMA Evolution Strategy: A Tutorial. arXiv:1604.00772, 2016.
• [4] A. Auger and N. Hansen, A restart CMA evolution strategy with increasing population size, CEC, 2005.
• [5] N. Hansen, Benchmarking a BI-Population CMA-ES on the BBOB-2009 Function Testbed, GECCO Workshop, 2009.
• [6] D. Golovin, B. Sonik, S. Moitra, G. Kochanski, J. Karro, and D.Sculley, Google Vizier: A service for black-box optimization. KDD, 2017.
• [7] K. Jamieson and T. Ameet, Non-stochastic best arm identification and hyperparameter optimization, AISTATS, 2016.
• [8] L. Li, K. Jamieson, A. Rostamizadeh, E. Gonina, M. Hardt, B. Recht, and A. Talwalkar, Massively parallel hyperparameter tuning, arXiv:1810.05934, 2018.
• [9] J. Snoek, H. Larochelle, and R. Adams. Practical Bayesian optimization of machine learning algorithms. NeurIPS, 2012.
• [10] S. Joe and F. Y. Kuo, Remark on Algorithm 659: Implementing Sobol's quasirandom sequence generator, ACM Trans, 2003.
• [11] S. Kucherenko, D. Albrecht, and A. Saltelli, Exploring multi-dimensional spaces: A comparison of latin hypercube and quasi monte carlo sampling techniques, arXiv:1505.02350, 2015.

Presentations:

• :jp: Goptuna Distributed Bayesian Optimization Framework at Go Conference 2019 Autumn

Blog posts:

• Practical bayesian optimization using Goptuna.

Status:

• godoc.org
• gocover.io
• goreportcard.com

License

This software is licensed under the MIT license, see LICENSE for more information.