**Enable Assessor in your expeirment** === Assessor module is for assessing running trials. One common use case is early stopping, which terminates unpromising trial jobs based on their intermediate results. ## Using NNI built-in Assessor Here we use the same example `examples/trials/mnist-annotation`. We use `Medianstop` assessor for this experiment. The yaml configure file is shown below: ``` authorName: your_name experimentName: auto_mnist # how many trials could be concurrently running trialConcurrency: 2 # maximum experiment running duration maxExecDuration: 3h # empty means never stop maxTrialNum: 100 # choice: local, remote trainingServicePlatform: local # choice: true, false useAnnotation: true tuner: builtinTunerName: TPE classArgs: optimize_mode: maximize assessor: builtinAssessorName: Medianstop classArgs: optimize_mode: maximize trial: command: python mnist.py codeDir: /usr/share/nni/examples/trials/mnist-annotation gpuNum: 0 ``` For our built-in assessors, you need to fill two fields: `builtinAssessorName` which chooses NNI provided assessors (refer to [here]() for built-in assessors), `optimize_mode` which includes maximize and minimize (you want to maximize or minimize your trial result). ## Using user customized Assessor You can also write your own assessor following the guidance [here](). For example, you wrote an assessor for `examples/trials/mnist-annotation`. You should prepare the yaml configure below: ``` authorName: your_name experimentName: auto_mnist # how many trials could be concurrently running trialConcurrency: 2 # maximum experiment running duration maxExecDuration: 3h # empty means never stop maxTrialNum: 100 # choice: local, remote trainingServicePlatform: local # choice: true, false useAnnotation: true tuner: # Possible values: TPE, Random, Anneal, Evolution builtinTunerName: TPE classArgs: optimize_mode: maximize assessor: # Your assessor code directory codeDir: # Name of the file which contains your assessor class classFileName: # Your assessor class name, must be a subclass of nni.Assessor className: # Parameter names and literal values you want to pass to # the __init__ constructor of your assessor class classArgs: arg1: value1 gpuNum: 0 trial: command: python mnist.py codeDir: /usr/share/nni/examples/trials/mnist-annotation gpuNum: 0 ``` You need to fill: `codeDir`, `classFileName`, `className`, and pass parameters to \_\_init__ constructor through `classArgs` field if the \_\_init__ constructor of your assessor class has required parameters.