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Now multiple checkpoints will be saved after using -stopk option in train_model.py #4978

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In this PR, the train_model.py script has the option to keep and store multiple checkpoints based on validation metrics. Some checkpoints that have best validation metrics during training will be kept in the directory specified by --model-file. Resolves #4970

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To test this PR, you can run something like parlai train_model --task babi:task10k:1 --model seq2seq --model-file seq2seq/babi_task10k --batchsize 32 --validation-every-n-secs 30 -stopk 5 -vstep 50
Note that -vstep option must be exist to save and store 5 top checkpoints in this example. For me, the list of files in the -model-file directory after 1350 steps of training is like this:
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thanks for adding this! Could you please include a test?

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if (
opt['validation_metric_mode'] == 'max'
and self.best_k_models[-1][1] >= opt['validation_cutoff']
) or (
opt['validation_metric_mode'] == 'min'
and self.best_k_models[-1][1] <= opt['validation_cutoff']
):
logging.info('task solved! stopping.')
return True
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i think this check requires that we look at self.best_k_models[0], right? since we're looking at the best metric

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My idea here was that we want the last saved model's metric to be better than validation_cutoff so I checked the last one with self.best_k_models[-1]

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This PR has not had activity in 30 days. Closing due to staleness.

@github-actions github-actions bot added the stale label May 19, 2023
@klshuster klshuster added donotreap Avoid automatically marking as stale. and removed stale labels May 22, 2023
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@jxmsML any interest in taking over this PR?

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