Challenge How To

Install GEval (recommended, but not obligatory)

In order to evaluate your work locally, you need the GEval tool. There are two ways to get it.

option A — just download the GEval fully static binary (simpler if you have a standard 64-bit Linux)

  wget https://gonito.net/get/bin/geval
  chmod u+x geval
  ./geval --help

option B — install GEval with Haskell Stack (needs some time and a couple of gigabytes of hard disk space)

First, install Haskell Stack:

  curl -sSL https://get.haskellstack.org/ | sh

and then install GEval itself:

  git clone git://gonito.net/geval
  cd geval
  stack setup
  stack install
  ~/.local/bin/geval --help

For troubleshooting, see GEval readme.

(GEval will make your life easier, but is not obligatory, so if you have any trouble with installing/running GEval, you can skip this step, for the time being.)

Get your repo

$case (appRepoScheme settings)
 $of SelfHosted
  $if (not isIDSet || not isSSHUploaded) && isNothing mAltRepoScheme
    
You need to
       $if not isIDSet
          \ set up your ID
          $if not isSSHUploaded
            \ and
       $if not isSSHUploaded
          \ upload your SSH public key
       \ (see your account) if you want to have a repo hosted on this instance, then:

  $maybe altRepoScheme <- mAltRepoScheme
    
(Depending on your setup, you might need to create the repo at your git server first; remember to initiate it without any commits!)
    
      git clone #{altRepoScheme}#{challengeName challenge}
  $nothing
    
      git clone --single-branch #{appRepoHost settings}#{shownId}/#{challengeName challenge}
      # --single-branch was used to speed up the process, but now we need to fix remote branches
      git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"

  
(Warning about empty repository is expected, don't worry about it.)

  $maybe altRepoScheme <- mAltRepoScheme
     ^{externalRepoInfo settings}

  
    cd #{challengeName challenge}
    git pull #{repoUrl repo}

  $if isNothing mAltRepoScheme
    
Using an external repository

    
Alternatively, you can use any other Git repo, e.g. GitLab, GitHub or your own repo.

    ^{externalRepoInfo settings}

 $of NoInternalGitServer
    $maybe altRepoScheme <- mAltRepoScheme
       
Make sure the repo #{altRepoScheme}#{challengeName challenge} exists. Note that it should be created as empty (do not create any default `README.md` file).
    $nothing
       
You need to have a repo at some external Git server (e.g. GitHub, GitLab or your own git server) for storing your solution.

       
Create a repo at your server. It should be created as empty (do **not** create any default `README.md` file).
       
The repo should contain #{challengeName challenge} as part of its URL (preferably it should be the last part of the URL)

    ^{externalRepoInfo settings}

    
      $maybe altRepoScheme <- mAltRepoScheme
         git clone #{altRepoScheme}#{challengeName challenge}
      $nothing
         git clone URL_TO_YOUR_REPO

    
      cd #{challengeName challenge}
      git pull #{repoUrl repo}

 $of Branches
    
Clone the repo:

    
      git clone --single-branch #{repoUrl repo}
      # --single-branch was used to speed up the process, but now we need to fix remote branches
      git config remote.origin.fetch "+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*"

    $maybe gitAnnexRemote <- (repoGitAnnexRemote repo)
      
        git annex init
        git annex initremote storage #{gitAnnexRemote}
        git annex get --from storage

Work on your solution

You need to generate your solution for the test set as test-A/out.tsv. It is also recommended to generate the output for the dev set (dev-0/out.tsv).

You can evaluate results for the dev set locally:

  cd #{challengeName challenge}
  geval --test-name dev-0

Push your solution to the git repo

Commit and push out.tsv files to your repo. It is also recommended to push your source codes along with out.tsv files.

  cd #{challengeName challenge}
  git checkout -b #{myBranch}  # switch to some other branch
  git add foo.py build.sh # add your source codes
  git add gonito.yaml # it's a good practice to add metadata file, see below

$if isJust (repoGitAnnexRemote repo)
  
    # if your output files are large or if they should not pushed to the regular repo (e.g. contain sensitive information):
    git annex add dev-0/out.tsv test-A/out.tsv
    git annex copy --to storage
    # otherwise (e.g. they are just class labels), add the output files in a regular manner:
    git add dev-0/out.tsv test-A/out.tsv
$else
  
    git add dev-0/out.tsv test-A/out.tsv # add your output files

  git commit -m 'my brilliant solution'

$case (appRepoScheme settings)
  $of SelfHosted
    
      git push origin #{myBranch}
    
Submit your solution to Gonito
    
Repos hosted on this instance
    
If you use a repo hosted here, a submission and evaluation is triggered automatically. You'll see the evaluation results in your console while pushing.
  $of _
    
      git push origin #{myBranch}
    
Submit your solution to Gonito

Integration with external repos

If you use an external repo (e.g. at your own of Gitolite or at GitLab/GitHub), you can configure a webhook.
$maybe token <- mToken
   
Your webook is:
   
     wget --timeout=0 --quiet -O - '#{appRoot settings}/trigger-remotely' --post-data 'token=#{token}&branch=#{myBranch}&challenge=#{challengeName challenge}&url=#{urlToYourRepo}'
   
or you can just use the following URL:
   
     #{appRoot settings}/trigger-remotely-simple/#{token}/#{challengeName challenge}/#{urlToYourRepo}/#{myBranch}

Manual submission

In case other methods fail, you can submit your solution manually — go to the submit form.

Submission metadata

Gonito can take the metadata (description, tags, parameters) of a submission from a number of sources (in order of precedence):


  
the YAML files specified in the param-files field of the gonito.yaml file
     

       
only applicable for parameters,
       
gonito.yaml will be always skipped even if matches a mask given in the param-files field,
       
parameters blacklisted in the unwanted-params field of the gonito.yaml file will be discarded;
  
gonito.yaml file committed to the repository
     

       
description given in the description field,
       
tags given in tags field,
       
parameters given in params field,
  
names of output files (only for parameters)
     

       
e.g. if the output file is out-epochs=10,learning-rate=0.01.tsv, then parameters epochs=10 and learning-rare=0.01 will be extracted;
  
submission form (when submitting manually);
  
git commit message
     

       
description taken from the first paragraph
       
tags taken from a line starting with tags:

Here is an example of gonito.yaml, in which all metadata could be given (note that you can also add links to external resources using the `links` section):

  description: This my brilliant solution
  tags:
  \  - neural-network
  \  - left-to-right
  params:
  \  epochs: 10
  \  learning-rate: 0.01
  unwanted-params:
  \  - model-file
  \  - vocab-file
  param-files:
  \  - "*.yaml"
  \  - config/*.yaml
  links:
  \  - title: "Some external link"
  \    url: "https://example.com/foo-bar-baz-123"
  \  - title: "Yet another link"
  \    url: "https://example.org/xyz"
  \  - url: "https://example.net/bare-link-without-text"

It might seem a little bit complicated, but you could simply use the method which is the most convenient for you.