Lightning-AI / Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning
Saving the Latest best checkpoint
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Description
### Description & Motivation
I am working with Graph Neural Networks and training models to learn graph structures and test their expressiveness. In such a case, acc=100% happens.
I adopted a randomized approach, where once in a while, due to variance, the validation score gets 100% high during the early stage of training, while the average validation ACC across epochs is low. The validation results get more stable and also reach 100% sometimes in the later stage of training, and I want to save these checkpoints, but the earlier 100% score prevents the ModelCheckpoint from saving them, and I can only save the latest checkpoint, which might not be optimal.
Is it interesting to add save_latest_best_checkpoint mode to ModelCheckpoint, so we break ties in favor of later epochs?
### Pitch
Add save_latest_best_checkpoint mode to ModelCheckpoint
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cc @borda @carmocca @awaelchli
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Research direction
Start by reading the ModelCheckpoint implementation and its validation-score comparison behavior. Determine how an equal best score is handled, then add coverage showing that the proposed mode retains the checkpoint from the later epoch; done means later ties are saved without changing existing behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- machine-learning
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100