Introduction to ChainerUI and new features of next release.

1. Apr. 25th, 2018 @Preferred Networks
ChainerUI
about v0.2, and v0.3

2. ChainerUI
- mission
- Provide useful user interface for Chainer users!

3. Basic information
- github: https://github.com/chainer/chainerui
- doc: https://docs.chainer.org/en/stable/
- MIT license
- latest: v0.2.0
- announce:
- JP: https://research.preferred.jp/2017/12/chainerui-release/
- EN: https://preferredresearch.jp/2017/12/20/chainerui-release/

4. Quick introduction
$ pip install chainerui
$ chainerui db create
$ chainerui db upgrade
$ chainerui project create -d /path/to/result
$ chainerui server

5. Getting Started
Official document:
http://chainerui.readthedocs.io/en/latest/getstart.html
(JP) Tutorial by KIKAGAKU:
https://qiita.com/yoshizaki_kkgk/items/2e4021c614529ab
9ba7b
Thank you!

6. Main flow
projects page plot page result detail page

7. Projects page
- show project list
- one project:
one directory

8. Plot page
- show logs
- as chart
- result of training job
with experimental conditions

9. result detail page
- detail information
about a training job
- operate training loop
- take snapshot
- adjust hyperparam
- stop loop

10. Engineering
Research
Manage training jobs
Show log chart
Take a snapshot Change hyper
params
Stop a job
Show intermediate
images
Show histogram of
hidden layer
Visualize feature
Visualize graph
network
Current ChainerUI covers
Interest area for many researcher

11. Engineering
Research
Manage training jobs
Show log chart
Take a snapshot Change hyper
params
Stop a job
Show intermediate
images
Show histogram of
hidden layer
Visualize feature
Visualize graph
network
https://github.com/tensorflow/lucid

12. Performance Improvement
- reduce ineffective API call (v0.3)
- skip non updated files (v0.3)
- change data format
(string -> msgpack) (v0.3)
- sampled loader (developing)

13. Richer UX
- result name align (v0.3)
- Introduce richer table on result table (developing)

14. Image API
- ImageReport extension
(developing)

15. How to upgrade (after v0.3 release)
$ # stop chainerui server
$ pip install -U chainerui
$ chainerui db create
$ chainerui db upgrade
$ chainerui server

16. Roadmap
- v0.3 (end of Apl. mid-May)
- v0.4 (TBD)
- improve performance
- async load / background load
- improve UX
- easy to distinguish each log chart
- add other visualization
- static graph / statistics of hidden layer / etc.