Config file formats for trials and experiments

[wessle]

Config file formats for trials and experiments

[wessle]

Suggestion

These config files could be used by a ConfigManager that can translate in both directions between a YAML (or JSON?) file and the actual ConfigTuple used to create a TrialRunner at runtime. Experiment config files could just be concatenations of trial configs with some additional logic to reduce redundancy (e.g. specifying repeated trials with different seeds, experiment-wide CPU/GPU allocations, etc.). The ConfigManager could also cooperate with individual IOManagers to save config files alongside data generated during experiments.

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Created YAML formats for specifying trials as well as more general experiments, which are collections of potentially distinct trial types. Created examples scripts demonstrating that they work and showing how to use them.