Source code for ax.metrics.noisy_function_map

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
#
# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.

# pyre-strict

from __future__ import annotations

from collections.abc import Iterable, Mapping

from logging import Logger

from typing import Any

import numpy as np
import numpy.typing as npt
import pandas as pd
from ax.core.base_trial import BaseTrial
from ax.core.map_data import MapData, MapKeyInfo
from ax.core.map_metric import MapMetric, MapMetricFetchResult
from ax.core.metric import MetricFetchE
from ax.utils.common.logger import get_logger
from ax.utils.common.result import Err, Ok

logger: Logger = get_logger(__name__)



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class NoisyFunctionMapMetric(MapMetric):
    """A metric defined by a generic deterministic function, with normal noise
    with mean 0 and mean_sd scale added to the result.
    """

    map_key_info: MapKeyInfo[float] = MapKeyInfo(key="timestamp", default_value=0.0)

    def __init__(
        self,
        name: str,
        param_names: Iterable[str],
        noise_sd: float = 0.0,
        lower_is_better: bool | None = None,
        cache_evaluations: bool = True,
    ) -> None:
        """
        Metric is computed by evaluating a deterministic function, implemented
        in f.

        f will expect an array x, which is constructed from the arm
        parameters by extracting the values of the parameter names given in
        param_names, in that order.

        Args:
            name: Name of the metric
            param_names: An ordered list of names of parameters to be passed
                to the deterministic function.
            noise_sd: Scale of normal noise added to the function result.
            lower_is_better: Flag for metrics which should be minimized.
            cache_evaluations: Flag for whether previous evaluations should
                be cached. If so, those values are returned for previously
                evaluated parameters using the same realization of the
                observation noise.
        """
        self.param_names = param_names
        self.noise_sd = noise_sd
        # pyre-fixme[4]: Attribute must be annotated.
        self.cache = {}
        self.cache_evaluations = cache_evaluations
        super().__init__(name=name, lower_is_better=lower_is_better)


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    @classmethod
    def is_available_while_running(cls) -> bool:
        return True



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    @classmethod
    def overwrite_existing_data(cls) -> bool:
        return True



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    def clone(self) -> NoisyFunctionMapMetric:
        return self.__class__(
            name=self._name,
            param_names=self.param_names,
            noise_sd=self.noise_sd,
            lower_is_better=self.lower_is_better,
            cache_evaluations=self.cache_evaluations,
        )



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    def fetch_trial_data(
        self, trial: BaseTrial, noisy: bool = True, **kwargs: Any
    ) -> MapMetricFetchResult:
        try:
            res = [
                self.f(np.fromiter(arm.parameters.values(), dtype=float))
                for arm in trial.arms
            ]

            df = pd.DataFrame(
                {
                    "arm_name": [arm.name for arm in trial.arms],
                    "metric_name": self.name,
                    "sem": self.noise_sd if noisy else 0.0,
                    "trial_index": trial.index,
                    "mean": [item["mean"] for item in res],
                    self.map_key_info.key: [
                        item[self.map_key_info.key] for item in res
                    ],
                }
            )
            return Ok(value=MapData(df=df, map_key_infos=[self.map_key_info]))

        except Exception as e:
            return Err(
                MetricFetchE(message=f"Failed to fetch {self.name}", exception=e)
            )



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    def f(self, x: npt.NDArray) -> Mapping[str, Any]:
        """The deterministic function that produces the metric outcomes."""
        raise NotImplementedError