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Hide empty panes in TensorBoard
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Description
Migrated from https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/6768 (there is some addl. discussion there)
When filtering runs, empty panes show up if a hidden run has a summary in a scope that the visible runs don't have. This makes TensorBoard very messy when comparing different machine learning models with different variable scopes, and so on. Could an option to hide empty panes be added?
Example (note the empty LSTM scope):

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Research direction
No files or tests are named. Start by locating the TensorBoard run-filtering and pane-rendering entry points, then trace how scopes are selected after runs are hidden. Done means an option can hide panes with no visible-run data while preserving panes that contain visible summaries, with coverage for the filtering case described here.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend, machine-learning
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100