Bootstrap step

A baseline step performs an experiment (a baseline experiment) and marks it as the initial experiment of a study. The purpose of the step is to build a reference configuration that Akamas can use to measure the effectiveness of an optimization conducted towards a system.

When a bootstrap step imports an experiment from another study, the step copies not only the experiment but also its trials and the system metrics generated during its execution.

The bootstrap step has the following structure:

where the from field should have the following structure:

study: "study_bootstrap_1"
experiments: [1,2,3]

with:

• study contains the name or ID of the study from which to import experiments

• experiments contains the numbers of the experiments from which to import

Examples

The following is an example of a bootstrap step that imports four experiments from two studies:

name: "my_bootstrap"  # name of the step
type: "bootstrap"     # type of the step (bootstrap)
from:
  - study: "study_bootstap_1"  # name or ID of the study from which to import
    experiments: [1, 2, 4]     # the numbers of the experiments to import
  - study: "study_bootstrap_2"
    experiments: [1]

You can also import all the experiments of a study by omitting the experiments field:

name: "my_bootstrap"   # name of the step
type: "bootstrap"      # type of the step (bootstrap)
from:
  - study: "study_bootstrap_1" # name or ID of the study from which to import