Automate Training with our Python SDK

​proxiML jobs and datasets can now be created, managed, and monitored programmatically using our Python CLI/SDK.

How It Works

Install the proxiML PyPi package into a python virtual environment using Python 3.8 or above:

pip install proximl

Authentication

In order to use the SDK, you must generate API keys for your proxiML account and supply them to the SDK. To create new API keys, go to the account settings page and click the Create button in the API Keys section. This will automatically download a credentials.json file. This file can only be generated once per API key.

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Treat this file as a password, as anyone with access to your API key will have the ability to create and control resources in your proxiML account.

You can deactivate any API key by clicking the Remove button.

The easiest way to authenticate is to place the credentials file downloaded into the .proximl folder of your home directory and ensure only you have access to it. From the directory that the credentials.json file was downloaded, run the following command:

mkdir -p ~/.proximl
mv credentials.json ~/.proximl/credentials.json
chmod 600 ~/.proximl/credentials.json

For more ways to configure authentication, review the readme file on Github.

Usage

The proxiML SDK utilizes the asyncio library to ease the concurrent execution of long running tasks. An example of how to create a dataset from an S3 bucket and immediately run a training job on that dataset is the following:

from proximl import ProxiML
import asyncio

proximl = ProxiML()

# Create the dataset
dataset = asyncio.run(
    proximl.datasets.create(
        name="Example Dataset",
        source_type="aws",
        source_uri="s3://example-bucket/data/cifar10",
    )
)

print(dataset)

# Watch the log output, attach will return when data transfer is complete
asyncio.run(dataset.attach())

# Create the job
job = asyncio.run(
    proximl.jobs.create(
        name="Example Training Job",
        type="training",
        gpu_type="GTX 1060",
        gpu_count=1,
        disk_size=10,
        workers=[
            "PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:$ML_MODEL_PATH python -m official.vision.image_classification.resnet_cifar_main --num_gpus=1 --data_dir=$ML_DATA_PATH --model_dir=$ML_OUTPUT_PATH --enable_checkpoint_and_export=True --train_epochs=10 --batch_size=1024",
        ],
        data=dict(
            datasets=[dict(id=dataset.id, type="existing")],
            output_uri="s3://example-bucket/output/resnet_cifar10",
            output_type="aws",
        ),
        model=dict(git_uri="[email protected]:my-account/test-private.git"),
    )
)
print(job)

# Watch the log output, attach will return when the training job stops
asyncio.run(job.attach())

# Cleanup job and dataset
asyncio.run(job.remove())
asyncio.run(dataset.remove())

For more examples of how to use the SDK to create, monitor, and remove jobs and datasets, review the examples provided here.