testbed/facebookresearch__hydra/website/docs/fb/fbcode.md

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id: fbcode
title: Hydra at fbcode

Differences in fbcode

Open source plugins

Supported:

• hydra_ax_sweeper
• hydra_colorlog
• hydra_nevergrad_sweeper

Unsupported:

• joblib launcher: Joblib's Loki backend does not work correctly when executed from a par file.

Facebook specified plugins

• fbcode_defaults : Changes configuration defaults to be appropriate for fbcode (e.g: Output directories are in fbcode/outputs and fbcode/multirun)

TARGETS

Hydra includes buck TARGETS you can use in fbcode. In general, if there is TARGET there are two options:

1. You can depend on the TARGETS to use Hydra or a plugin.
2. The TARGETS contains a runnable example.

targets are under github/facebookresearch/hydra_1.0:

• :hydra : Primary target to use in most cases. Includes hydra_oss and the fbcode_defaults.
• :hydra_oss : Vanilla Hydra without any Facebook specific targets.
• plugins/...: Plugins that has TARGETS file are runnable in fbcode.
• examples/...: Examples that has a TARGETS file are runnable in fbcode.