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Neural Network Intelligence
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    :caption: Get Started
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    installation
    quickstart
    Learning NNI <tutorials>

..  toctree::
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    :caption: Full-scale Materials
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    Hyperparameter Optimization <hpo/index>
    Neural Architecture Search <nas/index>
    Model Compression <compression/index>
    Feature Engineering <feature_engineering>
    Experiment <experiment/overview>

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    :caption: References
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    nnictl Commands <reference/nnictl>
    Experiment Configuration <reference/experiment_config>
    Python API <reference/_modules/nni>
    API Reference <reference/python_api_ref>

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    :caption: Misc
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    Use Cases and Solutions <misc/community_sharings>
    Research and Publications <misc/research_publications>
    FAQ <misc/faq>
    notes/build_from_source
    Contribution Guide <notes/contributing>
    Change Log <Release>

**NNI (Neural Network Intelligence)** is a lightweight but powerful toolkit to help users **automate**:

* :doc:`Hyperparameter Tuning </hpo/overview>`,
* :doc:`Neural Architecture Search </nas/index>`,
* :doc:`Model Compression </compression/index>`,
* :doc:`Feature Engineering </FeatureEngineering/Overview>`.

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   <h2>Get Started Now</h2>

To install the current release:

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   $ pip install nni

See the :doc:`installation guide </installation>` if you need additional help on installation.

Then, please read :doc:`quickstart` and :doc:`tutorials` to start your journey with NNI!

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   <h2>Latest Updates

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* **New release**: `v2.6 is available <https://github.com/microsoft/nni/releases/tag/v2.6>`_ - *released on Jan-19-2022*
* **New demo available**: `Youtube entry <https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKcafm6861B2mnYhPbZHavw>`_ | `Bilibili 入口 <https://space.bilibili.com/1649051673>`_ - *last updated on May-26-2021*
* **New webinar**: `Introducing Retiarii, A deep learning exploratory-training framework on NNI <https://note.microsoft.com/MSR-Webinar-Retiarii-Registration-Live.html>`_ - *scheduled on June-24-2021*
* **New community channel**: `Discussions <https://github.com/microsoft/nni/discussions>`_
* **New emoticons release**: :doc:`nnSpider <nnSpider>`

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   <h2>Why choose NNI?</h2>

   <h3>NNI makes AutoML techniques plug-and-play.</h3>

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   :icon: ../img/thumbnails/hpo-small.svg
   :title: Hyper-parameter Tuning
   :link: tutorials/hpo_quickstart_pytorch/main

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      params = nni.get_next_parameter()

      class Net(nn.Module):
          ...

      model = Net()
      optimizer = optim.SGD(model.parameters(),
                            params['lr'],
                            params['momentum'])

      for epoch in range(10):
          train(...)

      accuracy = test(model)
      nni.report_final_result(accuracy)

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   :icon: ../img/thumbnails/pruning-small.svg
   :title: Model Pruning
   :link: tutorials/pruning_quick_start_mnist

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      # define a config_list
      config = [{
          'sparsity': 0.8,
          'op_types': ['Conv2d']
      }]

      # generate masks for simulated pruning
      wrapped_model, masks = \
          L1NormPruner(model, config). \
          compress()

      # apply the masks for real speedup
      ModelSpeedup(unwrapped_model, input, masks). \
          speedup_model()

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   :icon: ../img/thumbnails/quantization-small.svg
   :title: Quantization
   :link: tutorials/quantization_speedup

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      # define a config_list
      config = [{
          'quant_types': ['input', 'weight'],
          'quant_bits': {'input': 8, 'weight': 8},
          'op_types': ['Conv2d']
      }]

      # in case quantizer needs a extra training
      quantizer = QAT_Quantizer(model, config)
      quantizer.compress()
      # Training...

      # export calibration config and
      # generate TensorRT engine for real speedup
      calibration_config = quantizer.export_model(
          model_path, calibration_path)
      engine = ModelSpeedupTensorRT(
          model, input_shape, config=calib_config)
      engine.compress()

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   :icon: ../img/thumbnails/multi-trial-nas-small.svg
   :title: Neural Architecture Search
   :link: tutorials/hello_nas

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      # define model space
      -   self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(32, 64, 3, 1)
      +   self.conv2 = nn.LayerChoice([
      +       nn.Conv2d(32, 64, 3, 1),
      +       DepthwiseSeparableConv(32, 64)
      +   ])
      # search strategy + evaluator
      strategy = RegularizedEvolution()
      evaluator = FunctionalEvaluator(
          train_eval_fn)

      # run experiment
      RetiariiExperiment(model_space,
          evaluator, strategy).run()

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   :icon: ../img/thumbnails/one-shot-nas-small.svg
   :title: One-shot NAS
   :link: nas/index

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      # define model space
      space = AnySearchSpace()

      # get a darts trainer
      trainer = DartsTrainer(space, loss, metrics)
      trainer.fit()

      # get final searched architecture
      arch = trainer.export()

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   :icon: ../img/thumbnails/feature-engineering-small.svg
   :title: Feature Engineering
   :link: FeatureEngineering/Overview

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      selector = GBDTSelector()
      selector.fit(
          X_train, y_train,
          lgb_params=lgb_params,
          eval_ratio=eval_ratio,
          early_stopping_rounds=10,
          importance_type='gain',
          num_boost_round=1000)

      # get selected features
      features = selector.get_selected_features()

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   <h3>NNI eases the effort to scale and manage AutoML experiments.</h3>

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   :icon: ../img/thumbnails/training-service-small.svg
   :title: Training Service
   :link: experiment/training_service
   :seemore: See more here.

   An AutoML experiment requires many trials to explore feasible and potentially good-performing models.
   **Training service** aims to make the tuning process easily scalable in a distributed platforms.
   It provides a unified user experience for diverse computation resources (e.g., local machine, remote servers, AKS).
   Currently, NNI supports **more than 9** kinds of training services.

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   :icon: ../img/thumbnails/web-portal-small.svg
   :title: Web Portal
   :link: experiment/web_portal
   :seemore: See more here.

   Web portal visualizes the tuning process, exposing the ability to inspect, monitor and control the experiment.

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      :width: 100%

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   :icon: ../img/thumbnails/experiment-management-small.svg
   :title: Experiment Management
   :link: experiment/exp_management
   :seemore: See more here.

   The DNN model tuning often requires more than one experiment.
   Users might try different tuning algorithms, fine-tune their search space, or switch to another training service.
   **Experiment management** provides the power to aggregate and compare tuning results from multiple experiments,
   so that the tuning workflow becomes clean and organized.

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   <h2>Get Support and Contribute Back</h2>

NNI is maintained on the `NNI GitHub repository <https://github.com/microsoft/nni>`_. We collect feedbacks and new proposals/ideas on GitHub. You can:

* Open a `GitHub issue <https://github.com/microsoft/nni/issues>`_ for bugs and feature requests.
* Open a `pull request <https://github.com/microsoft/nni/pulls>`_ to contribute code (make sure to read the `contribution guide </contribution>` before doing this).
* Participate in `NNI Discussion <https://github.com/microsoft/nni/discussions>`_ for general questions and new ideas.
* Join the following IM groups.

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   * - Gitter
     - WeChat
   * -
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   <h2>Citing NNI</h2>

If you use NNI in a scientific publication, please consider citing NNI in your references.

   Microsoft. Neural Network Intelligence (version |release|). https://github.com/microsoft/nni

Bibtex entry (please replace the version with the particular version you are using): ::

   @software{nni2021,
      author = {{Microsoft}},
      month = {1},
      title = {{Neural Network Intelligence}},
      url = {https://github.com/microsoft/nni},
      version = {2.0},
      year = {2021}
   }