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wandb.init() indicates the beginning of a new run. In an ML training pipeline, you could add wandb.init() to the beginning of your training script as well as your evaluation script, and each piece steps would be tracked as a run in W&B.

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online_status(*args, **kwargs)

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class _WandbInit(object)

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 | __init__()

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 | setup(kwargs)

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Complete setup for wandb.init(). This includes parsing all arguments, applying them with settings and enabling logging.

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 | init()

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getcaller()

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init(job_type: Optional[str] = None, dir=None, config: Union[Dict, str, None] = None, project: Optional[str] = None, entity: Optional[str] = None, reinit: bool = None, tags: Optional[Sequence] = None, group: Optional[str] = None, name: Optional[str] = None, notes: Optional[str] = None, magic: Union[dict, str, bool] = None, config_exclude_keys=None, config_include_keys=None, anonymous: Optional[str] = None, mode: Optional[str] = None, allow_val_change: Optional[bool] = None, resume: Optional[Union[bool, str]] = None, force: Optional[bool] = None, tensorboard=None, sync_tensorboard=None, monitor_gym=None, save_code=None, id=None, settings: Union[Settings, Dict[str, Any], None] = None) -> Union[Run, Dummy]

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Initialize W&B Spawns a new process to start or resume a run locally and communicate with a wandb server. Should be called before any calls to wandb.log.

Arguments:

• job_type str, optional - The type of job running, defaults to 'train'
• dir str, optional - An absolute path to a directory where metadata will be stored. config (dict, argparse, or absl.flags, str, optional): Sets the config parameters (typically hyperparameters) to store with the run. See also wandb.config. If dict, argparse or absl.flags: will load the key value pairs into the runs config object. If str: will look for a yaml file that includes config parameters and load them into the run's config object.
• project str, optional - W&B Project.
• entity str, optional - W&B Entity.
• reinit bool, optional - Allow multiple calls to init in the same process.
• tags list, optional - A list of tags to apply to the run.
• group str, optional - A unique string shared by all runs in a given group.
• name str, optional - A display name for the run which does not have to be unique.
• notes str, optional - A multiline string associated with the run.
• magic bool, dict, or str, optional - magic configuration as bool, dict, json string, yaml filename.
• config_exclude_keys list, optional - string keys to exclude storing in W&B when specifying config.
• config_include_keys list, optional - string keys to include storing in W&B when specifying config.
• anonymous str, optional - Can be "allow", "must", or "never". Controls whether anonymous logging is allowed. Defaults to never.
• mode str, optional - Can be "online", "offline" or "disabled". Defaults to online.
• allow_val_change bool, optional - allow config values to be changed after setting. Defaults to true in jupyter and false otherwise.
• resume bool, str, optional - Sets the resuming behavior. Should be one of: "allow", "must", "never", "auto" or None. Defaults to None. Cases:
• "auto" (or True): automatically resume the previous run on the same machine. if the previous run crashed, otherwise starts a new run.
• "allow": if id is set with init(id="UNIQUE_ID") or WANDB_RUN_ID="UNIQUE_ID" and it is identical to a previous run, wandb will automatically resume the run with the id. Otherwise wandb will start a new run.
• "never": if id is set with init(id="UNIQUE_ID") or WANDB_RUN_ID="UNIQUE_ID" and it is identical to a previous run, wandb will crash.
• "must": if id is set with init(id="UNIQUE_ID") or WANDB_RUN_ID="UNIQUE_ID" and it is identical to a previous run, wandb will automatically resume the run with the id. Otherwise wandb will crash.
• None: never resumes - if a run has a duplicate run_id the previous run is overwritten. See https://docs.wandb.com/library/advanced/resuming for more detail.
• force bool, optional - If true, will cause script to crash if user can't or isn't logged in to a wandb server. If false, will cause script to run in offline modes if user can't or isn't logged in to a wandb server. Defaults to false.
• sync_tensorboard bool, optional - Synchronize wandb logs from tensorboard or tensorboardX and saves the relevant events file. Defaults to false.
• monitor_gym - (bool, optional): automatically logs videos of environment when using OpenAI Gym (see https://docs.wandb.com/library/integrations/openai-gym) Defaults to false.
• save_code bool, optional - Save the entrypoint or jupyter session history source code.
• id str, optional - A globally unique (per project) identifier for the run. This is primarily used for resuming.

Examples:

Basic usage

wandb.init()

Launch multiple runs from the same script

for x in range(10):
with wandb.init(project="my-projo") as run:
for y in range(100):
- `run.log({"metric"` - x+y})

Raises:

• Exception - if problem.

Returns:

A Run object.