Command Line Scripts¶
When installing NegMAS through the pip command, you get one command line tool that can be used to aid your development and testing. This tool provides a unified interface to all negmas commands.
The set of supported commands are:
Command |
Meaning |
---|---|
tournament |
Runs a tournament |
run2019 |
Runs a 2019 tournament |
version |
Prints NegMAS version |
Tournament Command (negmas tournament)¶
The Tournament command (tournament) allows you to run a tournament between different agents in some world and compare their relative performance. The tool is general enough to support several world types.
You can get help on this tool by running:
$ negmas tournament --help
The tournament command has a set of sub-commands for creating, running, and combining tournament results as follows:
Command |
Action |
---|---|
combine |
Finds winners of an arbitrary set of tournaments |
create |
Creates a tournament |
run |
Runs/continues a tournament |
winners |
Finds winners of a tournament or a set of tournaments sharing |
Creating a tournament¶
These are the optional arguments of this tool:
Argument |
Meaning |
---|---|
-n, –name TEXT |
The name of the tournament. The special value “random” will result in a random name [default: random] |
-s, –steps INTEGER |
Number of steps. If passed then –steps-min and –steps-max are ignored |
–steps-min INTEGER |
Minimum number of steps (only used if –steps was not passed [default: 50] |
–steps-max INTEGER |
Maximum number of steps (only used if –steps was not passed [default: 100] |
-t, –timeout INTEGER |
Timeout the whole tournament after the given number of seconds (0 for infinite) [default: 0] |
–configs INTEGER |
Number of unique configurations to generate. [default: 5] |
–runs INTEGER |
Number of runs for each configuration [default: 2] |
–max-runs INTEGER |
Maximum total number of runs. Zero or negative numbers mean no limit [default: -1] |
–agents INTEGER |
Number of agents per competitor (not used for anac2019std in which this is preset to 1). [default: 3] |
–factories INTEGER |
Minimum numbers of factories to have per level. [default: 5] |
–competitors TEXT |
A semicolon (;) separated list of agent types to use for the competition. |
–jcompetitors, –java-competitors TEXT |
A semicolon (;) separated list of agent types to use for the competition. |
–non-competitors TEXT |
A semicolon (;) separated list of agent types to exist in the worlds as non- competitors (their scores will not be calculated). |
-l, –log DIRECTORY |
Default location to save logs (A folder will be created under it) [default: ~/negmas/logs/tournaments] |
–world-config FILE |
A file to load extra configuration parameters for world simulations from. |
–verbosity INTEGER |
verbosity level (from 0 == silent to 1 == world progress) [default: 1] |
–reveal-names / –hidden-names |
Reveal agent names (should be used only for debugging) [default: True] |
–log-ufuns / –no-ufun-logs |
Log ufuns into their own CSV file. Only effective if –debug is given [default: False] |
–log-negs / –no-neg-logs |
Log all negotiations. Only effective if –debug is given [default: False] |
–compact / –debug |
If True, effort is exerted to reduce the memory footprint whichincludes reducing logs dramatically. [default: True] |
–raise-exceptions / –ignore-exceptions |
Whether to ignore agent exceptions [default: True] |
–path TEXT |
A path to be added to PYTHONPATH in which all competitors are stored. You can path a : separated list of paths on linux/mac and a ; separated list in windows |
–ttype TEXT |
The tournament type. Supported types are scml2019std , scml2019collusion, scml2019sabotage |
–cw INTEGER |
Number of competitors to run at every world simulation. It must either be left at default or be a number > 1 and < the number of competitors passed using –competitors |
–config FILE |
Read configuration from FILE. |
Running a tournament¶
After creating a tournament using the tournament create command, it can be run using the tournament run command. The parameters for this command are:
Argument |
Meaning |
---|---|
-n, –name TEXT |
The name of the tournament. When invoked after create, there is no need to pass it |
-l, –log DIRECTORY |
Default location to save logs [default: ~/negmas/logs/tournaments] |
–verbosity INTEGER |
verbosity level (from 0 == silent to 1 == world progress) [default: 1] |
–parallel / –serial |
Run a parallel/serial tournament on a single machine [default: True] |
–distributed / –single-machine |
Run a distributed tournament using dask [default: False] |
–ip TEXT |
The IP address for a dask scheduler to run the distributed tournament. Effective only if –distributed [default: 127.0.0.1] |
–port INTEGER |
The IP port number a dask scheduler to run the distributed tournament. Effective only if –distributed [default: 8786] |
–compact / –debug |
If True, effort is exerted to reduce the memory footprint whichincludes reducing logs dramatically. [default: True] |
–path TEXT |
A path to be added to PYTHONPATH in which all competitors are stored. You can path a : separated list of paths on linux/mac and a ; separated list in windows |
–metric TEXT |
The statistical metric used for choosing the winners. Possibilities are mean, median, std, var, sum [default: mean] |
–config FILE |
Read configuration from FILE. |
Upon completion, a complete log and several statistics are saved in a new folder under the log folder location specified by the –log argument (default is negmas/logs/tournaments under the HOME directory). To avoid over-writing earlier results, a new folder will be created for each run named by the current date and time. The folder will contain the following files:
File/Folder Name |
Format |
Content |
---|---|---|
configs |
FOLDER |
Contains one json file for each world run tried during the tournament. You can re-run this world using run_world function in the tournament module. |
params.json |
JSON |
The parameters used to create this tournament |
base_configs.json |
JSON |
The base configurations used in the tournament (without agent/factory assignments. |
assigned_configs.json |
JSON |
The configurations used after assigning factories to managers |
scores.csv |
CSV |
Scores of every agent in every world |
total_scores.csv |
CSV |
Scores of every agent type averaged over all runs |
winners.csv |
CSV |
Winner types and their average scores |
ttest.csv |
CSV |
Results of a factorial TTEST comparing the performance of all agent types |
Other than these files, a folder with the same number as the corresponding config file in the configs folder, keeps full statistics/log of every world but only if –debug is specified (see the World Runner section for the contents of this folder.
Combining tournament results¶
Can be used to combine the results of multiple tournaments runs using tournament combine. The parameters of this command are:
Argument |
Meaning |
---|---|
-d, –dest DIRECTORY |
The location to save the results |
–metric TEXT |
The statistical metric used for choosing the winners. Possibilities are mean, median, std, var, sum [default: median] |
–config FILE |
Read configuration from FILE. |
Finding the winners of a tournament¶
To report the winners of a tournament, you can use tournament winners . The parameters of this command are:
Argument |
Meaning |
---|---|
-n, –name TEXT |
The name of the tournament. When invoked after create, there is no need to pass it |
-l, –log DIRECTORY |
Default location to save logs [default: ~/negmas/logs/tournaments] |
–recursive / –no-recursive |
Whether to recursively look for tournament results. –name should not be given if –recursive [default: True] |
–metric TEXT |
The statistical metric used for choosing the winners. Possibilities are mean, median, std, var, sum [default: median] |
–config FILE |
Read configuration from FILE. |