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):

  1. 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.