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TensorFlow

If you're already using TensorBoard, it's easy to integrate with wandb.

import tensorflow as tf
import wandb
wandb.init(config=tf.flags.FLAGS, sync_tensorboard=True)

Custom Metrics​

If you need to log additional custom metrics that aren't being logged to TensorBoard, you can call wandb.log in your code wandb.log({"custom": 0.8})

Setting the step argument in wandb.log is disabled when syncing Tensorboard. If you'd like to set a different step count, you can log the metrics with a step metric as:

wandb.log({"custom": 0.8, "global_step":global_step}, step=global_step)

TensorFlow Hook​

If you want more control over what get's logged, wandb also provides a hook for TensorFlow estimators. It will log all tf.summary values in the graph.

import tensorflow as tf
import wandb

wandb.init(config=tf.FLAGS)

estimator.train(hooks=[wandb.tensorflow.WandbHook(steps_per_log=1000)])

Manual Logging​

The simplest way to log metrics in TensorFlow is by logging tf.summary with the TensorFlow logger:

import wandb

with tf.Session() as sess:
    # ...
    wandb.tensorflow.log(tf.summary.merge_all())

With TensorFlow 2, the recommended way of training a model with a custom loop is via using tf.GradientTape. You can read more about it here. If you want to incorporate wandb to log metrics in your custom TensorFlow training loops you can follow this snippet -

    with tf.GradientTape() as tape:
        # Get the probabilities
        predictions = model(features)
        # Calculate the loss
        loss = loss_func(labels, predictions)

    # Log your metrics
    wandb.log("loss": loss.numpy())
    # Get the gradients
    gradients = tape.gradient(loss, model.trainable_variables)
    # Update the weights
    optimizer.apply_gradients(zip(gradients, model.trainable_variables))

A full example is available here.

How is W&B different from TensorBoard?​

When the cofounders started working on W&B, they were inspired to build a tool for the frustrated TensorBoard users at OpenAI. Here are a few things we've focused on improving:

  1. Reproduce models: Weights & Biases is good for experimentation, exploration, and reproducing models later. We capture not just the metrics, but also the hyperparameters and version of the code, and we can save your version-control status and model checkpoints for you so your project is reproducible.
  2. Automatic organization: Whether you're picking up a project from a collaborator, coming back from a vacation, or dusting off an old project, W&B makes it easy to see all the models that have been tried so no one wastes hours, GPU cycles, or carbon re-running experiments.
  3. Fast, flexible integration: Add W&B to your project in 5 minutes. Install our free open-source Python package and add a couple of lines to your code, and every time you run your model you'll have nice logged metrics and records.
  4. Persistent, centralized dashboard: No matter where you train your models, whether on your local machine, in a shared lab cluster, or on spot instances in the cloud, your results are shared to the same centralized dashboard. You don't need to spend your time copying and organizing TensorBoard files from different machines.
  5. Powerful tables: Search, filter, sort, and group results from different models. It's easy to look over thousands of model versions and find the best performing models for different tasks. TensorBoard isn't built to work well on large projects.
  6. Tools for collaboration: Use W&B to organize complex machine learning projects. It's easy to share a link to W&B, and you can use private teams to have everyone sending results to a shared project. We also support collaboration via reports— add interactive visualizations and describe your work in markdown. This is a great way to keep a work log, share findings with your supervisor, or present findings to your lab or team.

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Examples​

We've created a few examples for you to see how the integration works:

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