Fastai

If you're using fastai to train your models, W&B has an easy integration using the WandbCallback. Explore the details in interactive docs with examples →

Start Logging with W&B

a) Sign up for a free account at https://wandb.ai/site and then login to your wandb account.

b) Install the wandb library on your machine in a Python 3 environment using pip

c) Login to the wandb library on your machine. You will find your API key here: https://wandb.ai/authorize.

Command Line

pip install wandb
wandb login

Notebook

!pip install wandb

import wandb
wandb.login()

Then add the WandbCallback to the learner or fit method:

import wandb
from fastai.callback.wandb import *

# start logging a wandb run
wandb.init(project='my_project')

# To log only during one training phase
learn.fit(..., cbs=WandbCallback())

# To log continuously for all training phases
learn = learner(..., cbs=WandbCallback())

info

If you use version 1 of Fastai, refer to the Fastai v1 docs.

WandbCallback Arguments

WandbCallback accepts the following arguments:

Args	Description
log	Whether to log the model's: "gradients" , "parameters", "all" or None (default). Losses & metrics are always logged.
log_preds	whether we want to log prediction samples (default to True).
log_preds_every_epoch	whether to log predictions every epoch or at the end (default to False)
log_model	whether we want to log our model (default to False). This also requires SaveModelCallback
model_name	The name of the file to save, overrides SaveModelCallback
log_dataset	False (default) True will log folder referenced by learn.dls.path. a path can be defined explicitly to reference which folder to log. Note: subfolder "models" is always ignored.
dataset_name	name of logged dataset (default to folder name).
valid_dl	DataLoaders containing items used for prediction samples (default to random items from learn.dls.valid.
n_preds	number of logged predictions (default to 36).
seed	used for defining random samples.

For custom workflows, you can manually log your datasets and models:

• log_dataset(path, name=None, metadata={})
• log_model(path, name=None, metadata={})

Note: any subfolder "models" will be ignored.

Distributed Training

fastai supports distributed training by using the context manager distrib_ctx. W&B supports this automatically and enables you to track your Multi-GPU experiments out of the box.

A minimal example is shown below:

Script

import wandb
from fastai.vision.all import *
from fastai.distributed import *
from fastai.callback.wandb import WandbCallback

wandb.require(experiment="service")
path = rank0_first(lambda: untar_data(URLs.PETS)/'images')

def train():
    dls = ImageDataLoaders.from_name_func(
        path, get_image_files(path), valid_pct=0.2,
        label_func=lambda x: x[0].isupper(), item_tfms=Resize(224))
    wandb.init('fastai_ddp', entity='capecape')
    cb = WandbCallback()
    learn = vision_learner(dls, resnet34, metrics=error_rate, cbs=cb).to_fp16()
    with learn.distrib_ctx(sync_bn=False):
        learn.fit(1)
        
if __name__ == "__main__":
    train()

Then, in your terminal you will execute:

$ torchrun --nproc_per_node 2 train.py

in this case, the machine has 2 GPUs.

Notebook

You can now run distributed training directly inside a notebook!

import wandb
from fastai.vision.all import *

from accelerate import notebook_launcher
from fastai.distributed import *
from fastai.callback.wandb import WandbCallback

wandb.require(experiment="service")
path = untar_data(URLs.PETS)/'images'

def train():
    dls = ImageDataLoaders.from_name_func(
        path, get_image_files(path), valid_pct=0.2,
        label_func=lambda x: x[0].isupper(), item_tfms=Resize(224))
    wandb.init('fastai_ddp', entity='capecape')
    cb = WandbCallback()
    learn = vision_learner(dls, resnet34, metrics=error_rate, cbs=cb).to_fp16()
    with learn.distrib_ctx(in_notebook=True, sync_bn=False):
        learn.fit(1)
        
notebook_launcher(train, num_processes=2)

Logging only on the main process

In the examples above, wandb launches one run per process. At the end of the training, you will end up with two runs. This can sometimes be confusing, and you may want to log only on the main process. To do so, you will have to detect in which process you are manually and avoid creating runs (calling wandb.init in all other processes)

Script

import wandb
from fastai.vision.all import *
from fastai.distributed import *
from fastai.callback.wandb import WandbCallback

wandb.require(experiment="service")
path = rank0_first(lambda: untar_data(URLs.PETS)/'images')

def train():
    cb = []
    dls = ImageDataLoaders.from_name_func(
        path, get_image_files(path), valid_pct=0.2,
        label_func=lambda x: x[0].isupper(), item_tfms=Resize(224))
    if rank_distrib() == 0:
        run = wandb.init('fastai_ddp', entity='capecape')
        cb = WandbCallback()
    learn = vision_learner(dls, resnet34, metrics=error_rate, cbs=cb).to_fp16()
    with learn.distrib_ctx(sync_bn=False):
        learn.fit(1)
        
if __name__ == "__main__":
    train()

in your terminal call:

$ torchrun --nproc_per_node 2 train.py

Notebook

import wandb
from fastai.vision.all import *

from accelerate import notebook_launcher
from fastai.distributed import *
from fastai.callback.wandb import WandbCallback

wandb.require(experiment="service")
path = untar_data(URLs.PETS)/'images'

def train():
    cb = []
    dls = ImageDataLoaders.from_name_func(
        path, get_image_files(path), valid_pct=0.2,
        label_func=lambda x: x[0].isupper(), item_tfms=Resize(224))
    if rank_distrib() == 0:
        run = wandb.init('fastai_ddp', entity='capecape')
        cb = WandbCallback()
    learn = vision_learner(dls, resnet34, metrics=error_rate, cbs=cb).to_fp16()
    with learn.distrib_ctx(in_notebook=True, sync_bn=False):
        learn.fit(1)

notebook_launcher(train, num_processes=2)

Examples

• Visualize, track, and compare Fastai models: A thoroughly documented walkthrough
• Image Segmentation on CamVid: A sample use case of the integration