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Interval are for continuous values, interval(0,1) represents all the infinite range 0.0 <= < x < 1.0.
For that reason, intervals are always representing floating point values and cannot currently be cast to int.
Ax supports something unique which an interval of integers.
the optimization is done in the continuous space, but the values outputted by the optimization process are always integers (probably achieved via a rounding of the optimization result to the nearest integer).
To support this use case, we can enable casting an interval to an int:
# always floating point
interval(0,1) -> IntervalSweep(0.0, 1.0)
interval(0.0, 1.0) -> IntervalSweep(0.0, 1.0)
# integer values start and end can potentially be interpreted as "perform a continuous optimization but output integer values"
int(interval(0,1)) -> IntervalSweep(0, 1)
int(interval(0.0, 1.0)) -> IntervalSweep(0, 1)
# An alternative approach which is already supported by the grammar is to use tagging:
tag(int, interval(0,1)) -> IntervalSweep(0.0, 1.0, tags=[int])
tag(int,interval(0.0, 1.0)) -> IntervalSweep(0.0, 1.0, tags=[int])
Tagging is actually more consistent because what we do here is passing a special parameter to the sweeper and not really casting the input.
I think I prefer the tagging approach but would like to have a discussion around it.
We can also use a less overloaded tag such as int_output.
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omry
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[Extended-Grammar] Add support to casting interval to int.
RFC: Support for Ax int intervals
Aug 25, 2020
omry
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RFC: Support for Ax int intervals
Support casting intervals to int
Aug 25, 2020
Edit by omry:
Interval are for continuous values, interval(0,1) represents all the infinite range
0.0 <= < x < 1.0
.For that reason, intervals are always representing floating point values and cannot currently be cast to int.
Ax supports something unique which an interval of integers.
the optimization is done in the continuous space, but the values outputted by the optimization process are always integers (probably achieved via a rounding of the optimization result to the nearest integer).
To support this use case, we can enable casting an interval to an int:
Tagging is actually more consistent because what we do here is passing a special parameter to the sweeper and not really casting the input.
I think I prefer the tagging approach but would like to have a discussion around it.
We can also use a less overloaded tag such as
int_output
.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: