I want to use libraries other than PyTorch & Tensorflow. Is it possible that my libraries are pre-installed in your server before counting the timer ? If I run os.system("pip install mylibrary"), it takes time.
Thanks,
Manohar.
Hi Manohar
Sorry for the late reply.
It is impossible to pre-installed your package in the server, but as you said, you may run os.system("pip install mylibrary") within the initialization method.
As stated in "Get Started-Evaluation"
"Note that the model will be initialized only one time during the submission process, so the participants can control the model behavior at each training step by its member variables. There is a pressure that it does not use all "overall_time_budget" at the first iteration because we use the area under the learning curve as the metric. Besides that, the total time of import Model and initialization of Model should not exceed 20 minutes."
It counts into the 20min time limit of the "initialization step". The time of the initialization step is not counted within the overall 40min time budget and won't affect your scores, so feel free to install the packages you want.
Best Regards,
Wenhao Li