Get Started: Experiment Collaboration
After having compared some experiments' results and parameters, you still need to agree on which one is the best, share it, track it, and do some house keeping on the rejected experiments.
DVC Experiments are fully compatible with Git workflows. You can share, manage and collaborate on experiments and related code changes using software engineering best practices. There is no need for a different system or paradigm to track and version experiments.
Sharing
Unless you have enabled Studio Live Experiments, the DVC experiments only exist in your repo and people can't manage or view them from other machines.
To share an experiment with others from your machine:
You can use dvc exp push, providing the names of the git remote and the
experiment:
$ dvc exp push origin "soupy-leak"People from other machines can then retrieve it using dvc exp pull:
$ dvc exp pull origin "soupy-leak"You can right-click on the experiment row and select the Push Selected action:
Manage shared experiments from Studio:
Learn more about Sharing Experiments
Persisting
Once you have agreed on the best experiment, you can create a git branch and manage it using regular Git workflows:
You can use dvc exp branch, providing the name of the experiment and the
future branch:
$ dvc exp branch "soupy-leak"
Git branch 'soupy-leak-branch' has been created from experiment 'soupy-leak'.You can right-click on the experiment row and select the Create a new Branch
action:
You can click to the right of the experiment and select the
Create branch/pull request action:
This allows you to use software engineering best practices to manage experiments, like creating Pull Requests:
$ gh pr create -H soupy-leak-branch --title "Experiment: soupy-leak"Learn more about Persisting Experiments
Cleaning
After deciding on which experiments to persist, you might want to remove those that you no longer want to keep:
You can use dvc exp remove to manually remove experiment(s) using their names:
$ dvc exp remove bifid-says potty-sashYou can select multiple experiment rows and use the Remove selected action:
You can click to the right of the experiment and use the Delete action:
Learn more about Cleaning Experiments