Calculate Miner Response Time for Utility Score

[grantdfoster]

We are able to access the response times of the miners by changing deserialze to False in the forward function in the masa/validator/forwarder.py to access the raw synapse object... then:

synapses = await self.validator.dendrite(
    axons=[self.validator.metagraph.axons[uid] for uid in miner_uids],
    synapse=request,
    deserialize=False,
    timeout=timeout
)

responses = [synapse.response for synapse in synapses]
process_times = [synapse.dendrite.process_time for synapse in synapses]
bt.logging.info(f"PROCESS TIMES: {process_times}")

[grantdfoster]

Branch already started showing the above code in action. https://github.com/masa-finance/masa-bittensor/tree/feat/miner-response-times

[grantdfoster]

Closing this as the feature has merged - we are tracking latency now along w/ our data validation scores. As we continue to refine and improve our scoring, latency can now become a secondary factor!