Sep 17, 2024

nnsight transparent debugging

Aaron Kaufman, David Steinberg

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We started this project with the intent of identifying a specific issue with nnsight debugging and submitting a pull request to fix it. We found a minimal test case where an IndexError within a nnsight run wasn’t correctly propagated to the user, making debugging difficult, and wrote up a proposal for some pull requests to fix it. However, after posting the proposal in the discord, we discovered this page in their GitHub (https://github.com/ndif-team/nnsight/blob/2f41eddb14bf3557e02b4322a759c90930250f51/NNsight_Walkthrough.ipynb#L801, ctrl-f “validate”) which addresses the problem. We replicated their solution here (https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1WZNeDQ2zXbP4i2bm7xgC0nhK_1h904RB?usp=sharing) and got a helpful stack trace for the error, including the error type and (several stack layers up) the line causing it.

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@misc {

title={

nnsight transparent debugging

},

author={

Aaron Kaufman, David Steinberg

},

date={

9/17/24

},

organization={Apart Research},

note={Research submission to the research sprint hosted by Apart.},

howpublished={https://apartresearch.com}

}

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This work was done during one weekend by research workshop participants and does not represent the work of Apart Research.
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