Iteration Plan for March 2019

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This plan captures our work in March. This is a 4 week iteration, and we will ship our March Update in in early April. We'll continue work we started in the previous iteration, and we started to pick up items from our roadmap.

Endgame

• March 22 March 26, 2019: Code freeze for the endgame
• March 28 April 1st, 2019: Endgame done

The endgame details for this iteration are tracked in #888 by March 22 March 26.

Plan Items

Below is a summary of the top level plan items.

Tuners and Assessors

• 1. Tuner and assessor compete for the same message queue, assessor may starve tuner. Tuner and assessor compete for the same message queue, assessor may starve tuner. #841 @chicm-ms
• 2. Enable ealy stopped trials data for tuners. Enable ealy stopped trials data for tuners. #843 @chicm-ms

Training Service

• 3. Doc for "how to implement your own training service"Doc for "how to implement your own training service" #838 @yds05
• 4. Doc for "how to use docker in NNI"Add document for "How to Use Docker in NNI" #845 @SparkSnail
• 5. Support shmMB parameter in pai platform Support shmMB parameter in pai platform #842 NNI does not support shmMB parameter in pai mode #823 @SparkSnail

Web Portal

• 1. add intermediate result graph add intermediate result graph #839 @lvybriage
• 2. optimize hyper-parameter graph optimize hyper-parameter graph #840 @lvybriage
• 3. support intermediate result is dict no intermediate result when metrics is a dictionary #824 @lvybriage

Bug Fixes

• The format of the experimental results "experiment.json" is not an valid json file The format of the experimental results "experiment.json" is not an valid json file #830 @PurityFan
• Getting keyerror using annotation in a class Getting keyerror using annotation in a class #801@Crysple
• Solve bug caused by scientific calculation errors Solve bug caused by scientific calculation errors #828 @PurityFan

Blogs, Samples, Articals

• 1. AutoML Research Blog AutoML Research Blog #846 @xuehui1991

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Pending Items
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Deferred Items

• 1. Work out a plan for HDFS quota handling and authentication in NNI. Design: PAI Integration - Work out a plan for HDFS quota handling and authentication in NNI #836 @yds05
• 2. Show PAI job link in NNI trial section. [Won't Fix] PAI Integration: Show PAI job link in NNI trial section #837 @yds05
• 3. New Tuner: BOHB. New Tuner: BOHB #844 @PurityFan