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Feature Request: Support for 1000s of logs

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Description

I'm really enjoying tensorboard, it makes my life a lot easier and gives me a good idea of what's happening as training progresses.

Unfortunately, I've found one area of weakness shows up when many runs accumulate, because tensorboard starts to become very sluggish. Here is a video from a 22 core xenon workstation with 48GB ram and about 50% of resources free trying to display about ~250 runs in tensorboard, each with a single time step (epoch):

tensorboard stalling out on 250 runs

What would help:

  • fix for performance issues when there are 1000s of logs
  • a "view summary" button was added to the chart with a non-hover version of the hover data so we can see all of it
    • have a way to view, sort, copy and save that whole list of results that shows up when you hover
  • Add a way write and view dictionaries of data mapping from strings to a mix of integers, strings, and floats which are associated with each run.
    • In my case it would be hyperparameters, others would likely have their own uses.
    • perhaps this last item already exists and I missed it?

Thanks for your consideration!

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Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points, so the relevant TensorBoard performance and chart code would first need to be located. Done would require addressing large-run performance and defining support for viewing, sorting, copying, saving, and associating per-run dictionary data.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
data-visualization, performance
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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