Random overrides

[maxfrei750]

The extended override syntax offers a range of options, yet I'm missing a random choice option. Something like

randomchoice(range(10), 5)

which would give me 5 entries from the range [0, 9]. Is there a workaround?

Thanks in advance.

[Jasha10]

Hydra's sweeper plugins have some random choice functionality. See e.g. Optuna Sweeper range override.

[maxfrei750]

Thanks for point that out! However, it would be nice to use the default sweeper for such a basic task.

[omry]

There is a shuffle command which gets close but does not offer what you are after.

Maybe an additional command to select a sublist would be sufficient here.

select(shuffle([1,2,3], 0, 2)

Maybe a better solution would be to add the ability to produce a subset of the output in shuffle.

shuffle(list=[1,2,3], end=2)
shuffle(list=[1,2,3], start=1, end=2)

[maxfrei750]

I think that both solutions would work just fine. IMHO, select is more explicit

Edit: Thanks btw for the awesome work you're doing.