Live.log_artifact()

Tracks an existing directory or file with DVC.

def log_artifact(
    path: Union[str, Path],
    type: Optional[str] = None,
    name: Optional[str] = None,
    desc: Optional[str] = None,
    labels: Optional[List[str]] = None,
    meta: Optional[Dict[str, Any]] = None,
    copy: Optional[bool] = False,
):

Usage

from pathlib import Path
from dvclive import Live

# Create example file
Path("model.pt").write_text("weights")

with Live() as live:
    live.log_artifact(
      "model.pt",
      type="model",
      name="mymodel",
      desc="Fine-tuned Resnet50",
      labels=["resnet", "imagenet"],
    )

Description

Uses dvc add to track path with DVC, generating a {path}.dvc file. When combined with save_dvc_exp=True, it will ensure that {path}.dvc is included in the experiment.

If Live was initialized with dvcyaml=True (which is the default), it will add an artifact and all the metadata passed as arguments to the corresponding dvc.yaml. Passing type="model" will mark it as a model for DVC and will make it appear in Studio Model Registry.

Parameters

• path - an existing directory or file.

• type - an optional type of the artifact. Common types are model or dataset.

• name - an optional custom name of an artifact. If not provided the path stem (last part of the path without the file extension) will be used as the artifact name.

• desc - an optional description of an artifact.

• labels - optional labels describing the artifact.

• meta - optional metainformation in key: value format.

• copy - copy a directory or file at path into the dvclive/artifacts location (default) before tracking it. The new path is used instead of the original one to track the artifact. Useful if you don't want to track the original path in your repo (for example, it is outside the repo or in a Git-ignored directory).

Exceptions

• dvclive.error.InvalidDataTypeError - thrown if the provided path does not have a supported type.