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I've noticed sometimes the async process's pool processes do not die when ncf_main.py ends and kills the async process. This commit fixes the issue.

* Keras-ify TPU embedding lookup

* delint

* pull get_variable() out of keras lambda

* delint

* move get_variable under variable scope

* Merges TPU-TC optimizations into HEAD.

* Split a line that went over 80 from a tab.

* Remove trailing whitespace.

The option is --nouse_estimator

--ml_perf now just changes the model to make it MLPerf compliant. --output_ml_perf_compliance_logging adds the MLPerf compliance logs.

prevent async process from writing alive file until the main process has created the cache root (#5614)

The error message was:

absl.flags._exceptions.IllegalFlagValueError: flag --ml_perf=None: ('Non-boolean argument to boolean flag', 'None')

* first pass at __getattr__ abuse logger

* first pass at adding tags to NCF

* minor formatting updates

* fix tag name

* convert metrics to python floats

* getting closer...

* direct mlperf logs to a file

* small tweaks and add stitching

* update tags

* fix tag and add a sudo call

* tweak format of run.sh

* delint

* use distribution strategies for evaluation

* address PR comments

* delint and fix test

* adjust flag validation for xla

* add prefix to distinguish log stitching

* fix index bug

* fix clear cache for root user

* dockerize cache drop

* TIL some regex magic

* intermediate commit

finish replacing spillover with resampled padding

intermediate commit

* resolve merge conflict

* intermediate commit

* further consolidate the data pipeline

* complete first pass at data pipeline refactor

* remove some leftover code

* fix test

* remove resampling, and move train padding logic into neumf.py

* small tweaks

* fix weight bug

* address PR comments

* fix dict zip. (Reed led me astray)

* delint

* make data test deterministic and delint

* Reed didn't lead me astray. I just can't read.

* more delinting

* even more delinting

* use resampling for last batch padding

* pad last batch with unique data

* Revert "pad last batch with unique data"

This reverts commit cbdf46efcd5c7907038a24105b88d38e7f1d6da2.

* move padded batch to the beginning

* delint

* fix step check for synthetic data

* move flagfile into the cache_dir

* remove duplicate code

* delint

* Use data_dir instead of flags.FLAGS.data_dir in data_preprocessing.py.

* Use data_dir instead of flags.FLAGS.data_dir in data_preprocessing.py.

* Replace multiprocess pool with popen_helper.get_pool() in data_preprocessing.

* Use data_dir instead of flags.FLAGS.data_dir in data_preprocessing.py.

* Use data_dir instead of flags.FLAGS.data_dir in data_preprocessing.py.

Add comments, exit async process after waiting for flagfile for too long and make directory for data_dir in case it does not exist.

* Add --use_synthetic_data option to NCF.

* Add comment to _SYNTHETIC_BATCHES_PER_EPOCH

* Fix test

* Hopefully fix lint issue

* improve default handling for eval_batch_size

* return eval_batch_size default to None

* fix syntax error

* move evaluation from numpy to tensorflow

fix syntax error

don't use sigmoid to convert logits. there is too much precision loss.

WIP: add logit metrics

continue refactor of NCF evaluation

fix syntax error

fix bugs in eval loss calculation

fix eval loss reweighting

remove numpy based metric calculations

fix logging hooks

fix sigmoid to softmax bug

fix comment

catch rare PIPE error and address some PR comments

* fix metric test and address PR comments

* delint and fix python2

* fix test and address PR comments

* extend eval to TPUs

* bug fixes and add seed

* more random corrections

* make cleanup more robust

* return cleanup fn

* delint and address PR comments.

* delint and fix tests

* delinting is never done

* add pipeline hashing

* delint

Sometimes it takes longer than 15 seconds, and even longer than 1 minute, to spawn and create the alive file.

* Fix spurious "did not start correctly" error.

The error "Generation subprocess did not start correctly" would occur if the async process started up after the main process checked for the subproc_alive file.

* Add error message

When constructing the evaluation records, data_async_generation.py would copy the records into the final directory. The main process would wait until the eval records existed. However, the main process would sometimes read the eval records before they were fully copied, causing a DataLossError.

* Fix convergence issues for MLPerf.

Thank you to @robieta for helping me find these issues, and for providng an algorithm for the `get_hit_rate_and_ndcg_mlperf` function.

This change causes every forked process to set a new seed, so that forked processes do not generate the same set of random numbers. This improves evaluation hit rates.

Additionally, it adds a flag, --ml_perf, that makes further changes so that the evaluation hit rate can match the MLPerf reference implementation.

I ran 4 times with --ml_perf and 4 times without. Without --ml_perf, the highest hit rates achieved by each run were 0.6278, 0.6287, 0.6289, and 0.6241. With --ml_perf, the highest hit rates were 0.6353, 0.6356, 0.6367, and 0.6353.

* fix lint error

* Fix failing test

* Address @robieta's feedback

* Address more feedback

This is done by using a higher Pickle protocol version, which the Python docs describe as being "slightly more efficient". This reduces the file write time at the beginning from 2 1/2 minutes to 5 seconds.