[Feature]: Selection slider for parallel coordinates

[yermandy]

Description

Hello, I stumbled across a feature that is present in the Optuna's parallel coordinate plot. Namely, you can specify (select) which parallel coordinates you want to highlight. I found the feature super useful as it signifies which coordinates (and runs) led to the expected results.

Examples

Unselected:

Selected objective

Selected objective + some parameter

In W&B:

I am sweeping over some hyperparameters and I would like to see which parallel coordinates led to the best results. When there are more runs, I can barely see what is going on there and what I should select.

For now, I am filtering runs by selecting fitness to be more than some constant but this solution is not ideal as I miss some information (cases where the model performs worse).

Suggested Solution

You can see the functionality here

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[umakrishnaswamy]

hey @yermandy - I attached a short video for how you can accomplish this by selecting the parallel coordinates you want to highlight, which automatically performs a filter. Would this satisfy the feature request? or is there additional functionality you'd like to include? thank you so much!

video: https://github.com/wandb/wandb/assets/63944839/668b3ded-43af-43ac-a215-31c10d1a7c32

[yermandy]

@umakrishnaswamy wow, this is incredible, exactly what I am looking for! Besides the fact, that it has some small bug somewhere.

Here, for instance, it does not remove runs with alpha out of selected range, it is a perfect feature.

A very good feature is that I can also select a region in a scatter plot and it will automatically filter parallel coordinates. But again, there is a bug somewhere with proper filtering

Screen.Recording.2024-04-23.at.7.32.46.mov

Thank you!

[yermandy]

I am very sorry, it is not a bug precisely. I realized that I had some manually selected runs (👁️) in the left pane. If I hide everything (visualize none), it works as expected. Thank you very much, it is very helpful!

Screen.Recording.2024-04-23.at.8.00.43.mov

[yermandy]

Here is my workflow (for future generations):

Screen.Recording.2024-04-23.at.8.03.41.mov

[yermandy]

A small question @umakrishnaswamy, has it already been implemented and I missed it or you have just added that?

[umakrishnaswamy]

hey @yermandy - this was already implemented, and thanks again for the level of detail you've provided!