Merge pull request #290 from you-n-g/online_srv

init version of online serving and rolling

docs/advanced/serial.rst

@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ Serializable Class
 
 ``Qlib`` provides a base class ``qlib.utils.serial.Serializable``, whose state can be dumped into or loaded from disk in `pickle` format. 
 When users dump the state of a ``Serializable`` instance, the attributes of the instance whose name **does not** start with `_` will be saved on the disk.
+However, users can use ``config`` method or override ``default_dump_all`` attribute to prevent this feature.
+
+Users can also override ``pickle_backend`` attribute to choose a pickle backend. The supported value is "pickle" (default and common) and "dill" (dump more things such as function, more information in `here <https://pypi.org/project/dill/>`_).
 
 Example
 ==========================

docs/advanced/task_management.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@
+.. _task_management:
+
+=================================
+Task Management
+=================================
+.. currentmodule:: qlib
+
+
+Introduction
+=============
+
+The `Workflow <../component/introduction.html>`_ part introduces how to run research workflow in a loosely-coupled way. But it can only execute one ``task`` when you use ``qrun``.
+To automatically generate and execute different tasks, ``Task Management`` provides a whole process including `Task Generating`_, `Task Storing`_, `Task Training`_ and `Task Collecting`_. 
+With this module, users can run their ``task`` automatically at different periods, in different losses, or even by different models.
+
+This whole process can be used in `Online Serving <../component/online.html>`_.
+
+An example of the entire process is shown `here <https://github.com/microsoft/qlib/tree/main/examples/model_rolling/task_manager_rolling.py>`_.
+
+Task Generating
+===============
+A ``task`` consists of `Model`, `Dataset`, `Record`, or anything added by users. 
+The specific task template can be viewed in 
+`Task Section <../component/workflow.html#task-section>`_.
+Even though the task template is fixed, users can customize their ``TaskGen`` to generate different ``task`` by task template.
+
+Here is the base class of ``TaskGen``:
+
+.. autoclass:: qlib.workflow.task.gen.TaskGen
+    :members:
+
+``Qlib`` provides a class `RollingGen <https://github.com/microsoft/qlib/tree/main/qlib/workflow/task/gen.py>`_ to generate a list of ``task`` of the dataset in different date segments.
+This class allows users to verify the effect of data from different periods on the model in one experiment. More information is `here <../reference/api.html#TaskGen>`_.
+
+Task Storing
+===============
+To achieve higher efficiency and the possibility of cluster operation, ``Task Manager`` will store all tasks in `MongoDB <https://www.mongodb.com/>`_.
+``TaskManager`` can fetch undone tasks automatically and manage the lifecycle of a set of tasks with error handling.
+Users **MUST** finish the configuration of `MongoDB <https://www.mongodb.com/>`_ when using this module.
+
+Users need to provide the MongoDB URL and database name for using ``TaskManager`` in `initialization <../start/initialization.html#Parameters>`_ or make a statement like this.
+
+    .. code-block:: python
+
+        from qlib.config import C
+        C["mongo"] = {
+            "task_url" : "mongodb://localhost:27017/", # your MongoDB url
+            "task_db_name" : "rolling_db" # database name
+        }
+
+.. autoclass:: qlib.workflow.task.manage.TaskManager
+    :members:
+
+More information of ``Task Manager`` can be found in `here <../reference/api.html#TaskManager>`_.
+
+Task Training
+===============
+After generating and storing those ``task``, it's time to run the ``task`` which is in the *WAITING* status.
+``Qlib`` provides a method called ``run_task`` to run those ``task`` in task pool, however, users can also customize how tasks are executed.
+An easy way to get the ``task_func`` is using ``qlib.model.trainer.task_train`` directly.
+It will run the whole workflow defined by ``task``, which includes *Model*, *Dataset*, *Record*.
+
+.. autofunction:: qlib.workflow.task.manage.run_task
+
+Meanwhile, ``Qlib`` provides a module called ``Trainer``. 
+
+.. autoclass:: qlib.model.trainer.Trainer
+    :members:
+
+``Trainer`` will train a list of tasks and return a list of model recorders.
+``Qlib`` offer two kinds of Trainer, TrainerR is the simplest way and TrainerRM is based on TaskManager to help manager tasks lifecycle automatically. 
+If you do not want to use ``Task Manager`` to manage tasks, then use TrainerR to train a list of tasks generated by ``TaskGen`` is enough.
+`Here <../reference/api.html#Trainer>`_ are the details about different ``Trainer``.
+
+Task Collecting
+===============
+To collect the results of ``task`` after training, ``Qlib`` provides `Collector <../reference/api.html#Collector>`_, `Group <../reference/api.html#Group>`_ and `Ensemble <../reference/api.html#Ensemble>`_ to collect the results in a readable, expandable and loosely-coupled way.
+
+`Collector <../reference/api.html#Collector>`_ can collect objects from everywhere and process them such as merging, grouping, averaging and so on. It has 2 step action including ``collect`` (collect anything in a dict) and ``process_collect`` (process collected dict).
+
+`Group <../reference/api.html#Group>`_ also has 2 steps including ``group`` (can group a set of object based on `group_func` and change them to a dict) and ``reduce`` (can make a dict become an ensemble based on some rule).
+For example: {(A,B,C1): object, (A,B,C2): object} ---``group``---> {(A,B): {C1: object, C2: object}} ---``reduce``---> {(A,B): object}
+
+`Ensemble <../reference/api.html#Ensemble>`_ can merge the objects in an ensemble. 
+For example: {C1: object, C2: object} ---``Ensemble``---> object
+
+So the hierarchy is ``Collector``'s second step corresponds to ``Group``. And ``Group``'s second step correspond to ``Ensemble``.
+
+For more information, please see `Collector <../reference/api.html#Collector>`_, `Group <../reference/api.html#Group>`_ and `Ensemble <../reference/api.html#Ensemble>`_, or the `example <https://github.com/microsoft/qlib/tree/main/examples/model_rolling/task_manager_rolling.py>`_.

docs/component/online.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+.. _online:
+
+=================================
+Online Serving
+=================================
+.. currentmodule:: qlib
+
+
+Introduction
+=============
+
+.. image:: ../_static/img/online_serving.png
+    :align: center
+
+
+In addition to backtesting, one way to test a model is effective is to make predictions in real market conditions or even do real trading based on those predictions.
+``Online Serving`` is a set of modules for online models using the latest data,
+which including `Online Manager <#Online Manager>`_, `Online Strategy <#Online Strategy>`_, `Online Tool <#Online Tool>`_, `Updater <#Updater>`_. 
+
+`Here <https://github.com/microsoft/qlib/tree/main/examples/online_srv>`_ are several examples for reference, which demonstrate different features of ``Online Serving``.
+If you have many models or `task` needs to be managed, please consider `Task Management <../advanced/task_management.html>`_.
+The `examples <https://github.com/microsoft/qlib/tree/main/examples/online_srv>`_ are based on some components in `Task Management <../advanced/task_management.html>`_ such as ``TrainerRM`` or ``Collector``.
+
+Online Manager
+=============
+
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.online.manager
+    :members:
+
+Online Strategy
+=============
+
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.online.strategy
+    :members:
+
+Online Tool
+=============
+
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.online.utils
+    :members:
+
+Updater
+=============
+
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.online.update
+    :members:

docs/index.rst

@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ Document Structure
    Intraday Trading: Model&Strategy Testing <component/backtest.rst>
    Qlib Recorder: Experiment Management <component/recorder.rst>
    Analysis: Evaluation & Results Analysis <component/report.rst>
+   Online Serving: Online Management & Strategy & Tool <component/online.rst>
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 3
@@ -50,6 +51,7 @@ Document Structure
    Building Formulaic Alphas <advanced/alpha.rst>
    Online & Offline mode <advanced/server.rst>
    Serialization <advanced/serial.rst>
+   Task Management <advanced/task_management.rst>
 
 .. toctree::
    :maxdepth: 3

docs/reference/api.rst

@@ -154,6 +154,70 @@ Record Template
 .. automodule:: qlib.workflow.record_temp
     :members:
 
+Task Management
+====================
+
+
+TaskGen
+--------------------
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.task.gen
+    :members:
+
+TaskManager
+--------------------
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.task.manage
+    :members:
+
+Trainer
+--------------------
+.. automodule:: qlib.model.trainer
+    :members:
+
+Collector
+--------------------
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.task.collect
+    :members:
+
+Group
+--------------------
+.. automodule:: qlib.model.ens.group
+    :members:
+
+Ensemble
+--------------------
+.. automodule:: qlib.model.ens.ensemble
+    :members:
+
+Utils
+--------------------
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.task.utils
+    :members:
+
+
+Online Serving
+====================
+
+
+Online Manager
+--------------------
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.online.manager
+    :members:
+
+Online Strategy
+--------------------
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.online.strategy
+    :members:
+
+Online Tool
+--------------------
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.online.utils
+    :members:
+
+RecordUpdater
+--------------------
+.. automodule:: qlib.workflow.online.update
+    :members:
+
 
 Utils
 ====================
@@ -162,4 +226,7 @@ Serializable
 --------------------
 
 .. automodule:: qlib.utils.serial.Serializable
-    :members:
+    :members:
+
+
+    

docs/start/initialization.rst

@@ -75,3 +75,14 @@ Besides `provider_uri` and `region`, `qlib.init` has other parameters. The follo
                 "default_exp_name": "Experiment",
             }
         })
+- `mongo`
+    Type: dict, optional parameter, the setting of `MongoDB <https://www.mongodb.com/>`_ which will be used in some features such as `Task Management <../advanced/task_management.html>`_, with high performance and clustered processing. 
+    Users need finished `installation <https://www.mongodb.com/try/download/community>`_ firstly, and run it in a fixed URL.
+
+    .. code-block:: Python
+
+        # For example, you can initialize qlib below
+        qlib.init(provider_uri=provider_uri, region=REG_CN, mongo={
+            "task_url": "mongodb://localhost:27017/",  # your mongo url
+            "task_db_name": "rolling_db", # the database name of Task Management
+        })

examples/model_rolling/task_manager_rolling.py

@@ -0,0 +1,159 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+This example shows how a TrainerRM works based on TaskManager with rolling tasks.
+After training, how to collect the rolling results will be shown in task_collecting.
+"""
+
+from pprint import pprint
+
+import fire
+import qlib
+from qlib.config import REG_CN
+from qlib.workflow import R
+from qlib.workflow.task.gen import RollingGen, task_generator
+from qlib.workflow.task.manage import TaskManager
+from qlib.workflow.task.collect import RecorderCollector
+from qlib.model.ens.group import RollingGroup
+from qlib.model.trainer import TrainerRM
+
+
+data_handler_config = {
+    "start_time": "2008-01-01",
+    "end_time": "2020-08-01",
+    "fit_start_time": "2008-01-01",
+    "fit_end_time": "2014-12-31",
+    "instruments": "csi100",
+}
+
+dataset_config = {
+    "class": "DatasetH",
+    "module_path": "qlib.data.dataset",
+    "kwargs": {
+        "handler": {
+            "class": "Alpha158",
+            "module_path": "qlib.contrib.data.handler",
+            "kwargs": data_handler_config,
+        },
+        "segments": {
+            "train": ("2008-01-01", "2014-12-31"),
+            "valid": ("2015-01-01", "2016-12-31"),
+            "test": ("2017-01-01", "2020-08-01"),
+        },
+    },
+}
+
+record_config = [
+    {
+        "class": "SignalRecord",
+        "module_path": "qlib.workflow.record_temp",
+    },
+    {
+        "class": "SigAnaRecord",
+        "module_path": "qlib.workflow.record_temp",
+    },
+]
+
+# use lgb
+task_lgb_config = {
+    "model": {
+        "class": "LGBModel",
+        "module_path": "qlib.contrib.model.gbdt",
+    },
+    "dataset": dataset_config,
+    "record": record_config,
+}
+
+# use xgboost
+task_xgboost_config = {
+    "model": {
+        "class": "XGBModel",
+        "module_path": "qlib.contrib.model.xgboost",
+    },
+    "dataset": dataset_config,
+    "record": record_config,
+}
+
+
+class RollingTaskExample:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        provider_uri="~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data",
+        region=REG_CN,
+        task_url="mongodb://10.0.0.4:27017/",
+        task_db_name="rolling_db",
+        experiment_name="rolling_exp",
+        task_pool="rolling_task",
+        task_config=[task_xgboost_config, task_lgb_config],
+        rolling_step=550,
+        rolling_type=RollingGen.ROLL_SD,
+    ):
+        # TaskManager config
+        mongo_conf = {
+            "task_url": task_url,
+            "task_db_name": task_db_name,
+        }
+        qlib.init(provider_uri=provider_uri, region=region, mongo=mongo_conf)
+        self.experiment_name = experiment_name
+        self.task_pool = task_pool
+        self.task_config = task_config
+        self.rolling_gen = RollingGen(step=rolling_step, rtype=rolling_type)
+
+    # Reset all things to the first status, be careful to save important data
+    def reset(self):
+        print("========== reset ==========")
+        TaskManager(task_pool=self.task_pool).remove()
+        exp = R.get_exp(experiment_name=self.experiment_name)
+        for rid in exp.list_recorders():
+            exp.delete_recorder(rid)
+
+    def task_generating(self):
+        print("========== task_generating ==========")
+        tasks = task_generator(
+            tasks=self.task_config,
+            generators=self.rolling_gen,  # generate different date segments
+        )
+        pprint(tasks)
+        return tasks
+
+    def task_training(self, tasks):
+        print("========== task_training ==========")
+        trainer = TrainerRM(self.experiment_name, self.task_pool)
+        trainer.train(tasks)
+
+    def task_collecting(self):
+        print("========== task_collecting ==========")
+
+        def rec_key(recorder):
+            task_config = recorder.load_object("task")
+            model_key = task_config["model"]["class"]
+            rolling_key = task_config["dataset"]["kwargs"]["segments"]["test"]
+            return model_key, rolling_key
+
+        def my_filter(recorder):
+            # only choose the results of "LGBModel"
+            model_key, rolling_key = rec_key(recorder)
+            if model_key == "LGBModel":
+                return True
+            return False
+
+        collector = RecorderCollector(
+            experiment=self.experiment_name,
+            process_list=RollingGroup(),
+            rec_key_func=rec_key,
+            rec_filter_func=my_filter,
+        )
+        print(collector())
+
+    def main(self):
+        self.reset()
+        tasks = self.task_generating()
+        self.task_training(tasks)
+        self.task_collecting()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    ## to see the whole process with your own parameters, use the command below
+    # python task_manager_rolling.py main --experiment_name="your_exp_name"
+    fire.Fire(RollingTaskExample)

examples/online_srv/online_management_simulate.py

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+This example is about how can simulate the OnlineManager based on rolling tasks. 
+"""
+
+import fire
+import qlib
+from qlib.model.trainer import DelayTrainerR, DelayTrainerRM, TrainerR, TrainerRM
+from qlib.workflow import R
+from qlib.workflow.online.manager import OnlineManager
+from qlib.workflow.online.strategy import RollingStrategy
+from qlib.workflow.task.gen import RollingGen
+from qlib.workflow.task.manage import TaskManager
+
+
+data_handler_config = {
+    "start_time": "2018-01-01",
+    "end_time": "2018-10-31",
+    "fit_start_time": "2018-01-01",
+    "fit_end_time": "2018-03-31",
+    "instruments": "csi100",
+}
+
+dataset_config = {
+    "class": "DatasetH",
+    "module_path": "qlib.data.dataset",
+    "kwargs": {
+        "handler": {
+            "class": "Alpha158",
+            "module_path": "qlib.contrib.data.handler",
+            "kwargs": data_handler_config,
+        },
+        "segments": {
+            "train": ("2018-01-01", "2018-03-31"),
+            "valid": ("2018-04-01", "2018-05-31"),
+            "test": ("2018-06-01", "2018-09-10"),
+        },
+    },
+}
+
+record_config = [
+    {
+        "class": "SignalRecord",
+        "module_path": "qlib.workflow.record_temp",
+    },
+    {
+        "class": "SigAnaRecord",
+        "module_path": "qlib.workflow.record_temp",
+    },
+]
+
+# use lgb model
+task_lgb_config = {
+    "model": {
+        "class": "LGBModel",
+        "module_path": "qlib.contrib.model.gbdt",
+    },
+    "dataset": dataset_config,
+    "record": record_config,
+}
+
+# use xgboost model
+task_xgboost_config = {
+    "model": {
+        "class": "XGBModel",
+        "module_path": "qlib.contrib.model.xgboost",
+    },
+    "dataset": dataset_config,
+    "record": record_config,
+}
+
+
+class OnlineSimulationExample:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        provider_uri="~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data",
+        region="cn",
+        exp_name="rolling_exp",
+        task_url="mongodb://10.0.0.4:27017/",
+        task_db_name="rolling_db",
+        task_pool="rolling_task",
+        rolling_step=80,
+        start_time="2018-09-10",
+        end_time="2018-10-31",
+        tasks=[task_xgboost_config, task_lgb_config],
+    ):
+        """
+        Init OnlineManagerExample.
+
+        Args:
+            provider_uri (str, optional): the provider uri. Defaults to "~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data".
+            region (str, optional): the stock region. Defaults to "cn".
+            exp_name (str, optional): the experiment name. Defaults to "rolling_exp".
+            task_url (str, optional): your MongoDB url. Defaults to "mongodb://10.0.0.4:27017/".
+            task_db_name (str, optional): database name. Defaults to "rolling_db".
+            task_pool (str, optional): the task pool name (a task pool is a collection in MongoDB). Defaults to "rolling_task".
+            rolling_step (int, optional): the step for rolling. Defaults to 80.
+            start_time (str, optional): the start time of simulating. Defaults to "2018-09-10".
+            end_time (str, optional): the end time of simulating. Defaults to "2018-10-31".
+            tasks (dict or list[dict]): a set of the task config waiting for rolling and training
+        """
+        self.exp_name = exp_name
+        self.task_pool = task_pool
+        self.start_time = start_time
+        self.end_time = end_time
+        mongo_conf = {
+            "task_url": task_url,
+            "task_db_name": task_db_name,
+        }
+        qlib.init(provider_uri=provider_uri, region=region, mongo=mongo_conf)
+        self.rolling_gen = RollingGen(
+            step=rolling_step, rtype=RollingGen.ROLL_SD, ds_extra_mod_func=None
+        )  # The rolling tasks generator, ds_extra_mod_func is None because we just need to simulate to 2018-10-31 and needn't change the handler end time.
+        self.trainer = DelayTrainerRM(self.exp_name, self.task_pool)  # Also can be TrainerR, TrainerRM, DelayTrainerR
+        self.rolling_online_manager = OnlineManager(
+            RollingStrategy(exp_name, task_template=tasks, rolling_gen=self.rolling_gen),
+            trainer=self.trainer,
+            begin_time=self.start_time,
+        )
+        self.tasks = tasks
+
+    # Reset all things to the first status, be careful to save important data
+    def reset(self):
+        TaskManager(self.task_pool).remove()
+        exp = R.get_exp(experiment_name=self.exp_name)
+        for rid in exp.list_recorders():
+            exp.delete_recorder(rid)
+
+    # Run this to run all workflow automatically
+    def main(self):
+        print("========== reset ==========")
+        self.reset()
+        print("========== simulate ==========")
+        self.rolling_online_manager.simulate(end_time=self.end_time)
+        print("========== collect results ==========")
+        print(self.rolling_online_manager.get_collector()())
+        print("========== signals ==========")
+        print(self.rolling_online_manager.get_signals())
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    ## to run all workflow automatically with your own parameters, use the command below
+    # python online_management_simulate.py main --experiment_name="your_exp_name" --rolling_step=60
+    fire.Fire(OnlineSimulationExample)

examples/online_srv/rolling_online_management.py

@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+This example shows how OnlineManager works with rolling tasks.
+There are four parts including first train, routine 1, add strategy and routine 2.
+Firstly, the OnlineManager will finish the first training and set trained models to `online` models.
+Next, the OnlineManager will finish a routine process, including update online prediction -> prepare tasks -> prepare new models -> prepare signals
+Then, we will add some new strategies to the OnlineManager. This will finish first training of new strategies.
+Finally, the OnlineManager will finish second routine and update all strategies.
+"""
+
+import os
+import fire
+import qlib
+from qlib.workflow import R
+from qlib.workflow.online.strategy import RollingStrategy
+from qlib.workflow.task.gen import RollingGen
+from qlib.workflow.online.manager import OnlineManager
+
+data_handler_config = {
+    "start_time": "2013-01-01",
+    "end_time": "2020-09-25",
+    "fit_start_time": "2013-01-01",
+    "fit_end_time": "2014-12-31",
+    "instruments": "csi100",
+}
+
+dataset_config = {
+    "class": "DatasetH",
+    "module_path": "qlib.data.dataset",
+    "kwargs": {
+        "handler": {
+            "class": "Alpha158",
+            "module_path": "qlib.contrib.data.handler",
+            "kwargs": data_handler_config,
+        },
+        "segments": {
+            "train": ("2013-01-01", "2014-12-31"),
+            "valid": ("2015-01-01", "2015-12-31"),
+            "test": ("2016-01-01", "2020-07-10"),
+        },
+    },
+}
+
+record_config = [
+    {
+        "class": "SignalRecord",
+        "module_path": "qlib.workflow.record_temp",
+    },
+    {
+        "class": "SigAnaRecord",
+        "module_path": "qlib.workflow.record_temp",
+    },
+]
+
+# use lgb model
+task_lgb_config = {
+    "model": {
+        "class": "LGBModel",
+        "module_path": "qlib.contrib.model.gbdt",
+    },
+    "dataset": dataset_config,
+    "record": record_config,
+}
+
+# use xgboost model
+task_xgboost_config = {
+    "model": {
+        "class": "XGBModel",
+        "module_path": "qlib.contrib.model.xgboost",
+    },
+    "dataset": dataset_config,
+    "record": record_config,
+}
+
+
+class RollingOnlineExample:
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        provider_uri="~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data",
+        region="cn",
+        task_url="mongodb://10.0.0.4:27017/",
+        task_db_name="rolling_db",
+        rolling_step=550,
+        tasks=[task_xgboost_config],
+        add_tasks=[task_lgb_config],
+    ):
+        mongo_conf = {
+            "task_url": task_url,  # your MongoDB url
+            "task_db_name": task_db_name,  # database name
+        }
+        qlib.init(provider_uri=provider_uri, region=region, mongo=mongo_conf)
+        self.tasks = tasks
+        self.add_tasks = add_tasks
+        self.rolling_step = rolling_step
+        strategies = []
+        for task in tasks:
+            name_id = task["model"]["class"]  # NOTE: Assumption: The model class can specify only one strategy
+            strategies.append(
+                RollingStrategy(
+                    name_id,
+                    task,
+                    RollingGen(step=rolling_step, rtype=RollingGen.ROLL_SD),
+                )
+            )
+
+        self.rolling_online_manager = OnlineManager(strategies)
+
+    _ROLLING_MANAGER_PATH = (
+        ".RollingOnlineExample"  # the OnlineManager will dump to this file, for it can be loaded when calling routine.
+    )
+
+    # Reset all things to the first status, be careful to save important data
+    def reset(self):
+        for task in self.tasks + self.add_tasks:
+            name_id = task["model"]["class"]
+            exp = R.get_exp(experiment_name=name_id)
+            for rid in exp.list_recorders():
+                exp.delete_recorder(rid)
+
+        if os.path.exists(self._ROLLING_MANAGER_PATH):
+            os.remove(self._ROLLING_MANAGER_PATH)
+
+    def first_run(self):
+        print("========== reset ==========")
+        self.reset()
+        print("========== first_run ==========")
+        self.rolling_online_manager.first_train()
+        print("========== collect results ==========")
+        print(self.rolling_online_manager.get_collector()())
+        print("========== dump ==========")
+        self.rolling_online_manager.to_pickle(self._ROLLING_MANAGER_PATH)
+
+    def routine(self):
+        print("========== load ==========")
+        self.rolling_online_manager = OnlineManager.load(self._ROLLING_MANAGER_PATH)
+        print("========== routine ==========")
+        self.rolling_online_manager.routine()
+        print("========== collect results ==========")
+        print(self.rolling_online_manager.get_collector()())
+        print("========== signals ==========")
+        print(self.rolling_online_manager.get_signals())
+        print("========== dump ==========")
+        self.rolling_online_manager.to_pickle(self._ROLLING_MANAGER_PATH)
+
+    def add_strategy(self):
+        print("========== load ==========")
+        self.rolling_online_manager = OnlineManager.load(self._ROLLING_MANAGER_PATH)
+        print("========== add strategy ==========")
+        strategies = []
+        for task in self.add_tasks:
+            name_id = task["model"]["class"]  # NOTE: Assumption: The model class can specify only one strategy
+            strategies.append(
+                RollingStrategy(
+                    name_id,
+                    task,
+                    RollingGen(step=self.rolling_step, rtype=RollingGen.ROLL_SD),
+                )
+            )
+        self.rolling_online_manager.add_strategy(strategies=strategies)
+        print("========== dump ==========")
+        self.rolling_online_manager.to_pickle(self._ROLLING_MANAGER_PATH)
+
+    def main(self):
+        self.first_run()
+        self.routine()
+        self.add_strategy()
+        self.routine()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    ####### to train the first version's models, use the command below
+    # python rolling_online_management.py first_run
+
+    ####### to update the models and predictions after the trading time, use the command below
+    # python rolling_online_management.py routine
+
+    ####### to define your own parameters, use `--`
+    # python rolling_online_management.py first_run --exp_name='your_exp_name' --rolling_step=40
+    fire.Fire(RollingOnlineExample)

examples/online_srv/update_online_pred.py

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+This example shows how OnlineTool works when we need update prediction.
+There are two parts including first_train and update_online_pred.
+Firstly, we will finish the training and set the trained models to the `online` models.
+Next, we will finish updating online predictions.
+"""
+import fire
+import qlib
+from qlib.config import REG_CN
+from qlib.model.trainer import task_train
+from qlib.workflow.online.utils import OnlineToolR
+
+data_handler_config = {
+    "start_time": "2008-01-01",
+    "end_time": "2020-08-01",
+    "fit_start_time": "2008-01-01",
+    "fit_end_time": "2014-12-31",
+    "instruments": "csi100",
+}
+
+task = {
+    "model": {
+        "class": "LGBModel",
+        "module_path": "qlib.contrib.model.gbdt",
+        "kwargs": {
+            "loss": "mse",
+            "colsample_bytree": 0.8879,
+            "learning_rate": 0.0421,
+            "subsample": 0.8789,
+            "lambda_l1": 205.6999,
+            "lambda_l2": 580.9768,
+            "max_depth": 8,
+            "num_leaves": 210,
+            "num_threads": 20,
+        },
+    },
+    "dataset": {
+        "class": "DatasetH",
+        "module_path": "qlib.data.dataset",
+        "kwargs": {
+            "handler": {
+                "class": "Alpha158",
+                "module_path": "qlib.contrib.data.handler",
+                "kwargs": data_handler_config,
+            },
+            "segments": {
+                "train": ("2008-01-01", "2014-12-31"),
+                "valid": ("2015-01-01", "2016-12-31"),
+                "test": ("2017-01-01", "2020-08-01"),
+            },
+        },
+    },
+    "record": {
+        "class": "SignalRecord",
+        "module_path": "qlib.workflow.record_temp",
+    },
+}
+
+
+class UpdatePredExample:
+    def __init__(
+        self, provider_uri="~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data", region=REG_CN, experiment_name="online_srv", task_config=task
+    ):
+        qlib.init(provider_uri=provider_uri, region=region)
+        self.experiment_name = experiment_name
+        self.online_tool = OnlineToolR(self.experiment_name)
+        self.task_config = task_config
+
+    def first_train(self):
+        rec = task_train(self.task_config, experiment_name=self.experiment_name)
+        self.online_tool.reset_online_tag(rec)  # set to online model
+
+    def update_online_pred(self):
+        self.online_tool.update_online_pred()
+
+    def main(self):
+        self.first_train()
+        self.update_online_pred()
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    ## to train a model and set it to online model, use the command below
+    # python update_online_pred.py first_train
+    ## to update online predictions once a day, use the command below
+    # python update_online_pred.py update_online_pred
+    ## to see the whole process with your own parameters, use the command below
+    # python update_online_pred.py main --experiment_name="your_exp_name"
+    fire.Fire(UpdatePredExample)

qlib/__init__.py

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 
 __version__ = "0.6.3.99"
+__version__bak = __version__  # This version is backup for QlibConfig.reset_qlib_version
 
 
 import os
@@ -10,12 +11,13 @@ import yaml
 import logging
 import platform
 import subprocess
+from pathlib import Path
+from .log import get_module_logger
 
 
 # init qlib
 def init(default_conf="client", **kwargs):
     from .config import C
-    from .log import get_module_logger
     from .data.cache import H
 
     H.clear()
@@ -48,7 +50,6 @@ def init(default_conf="client", **kwargs):
 
 
 def _mount_nfs_uri(C):
-    from .log import get_module_logger
 
     LOG = get_module_logger("mount nfs", level=logging.INFO)
 
@@ -151,3 +152,74 @@ def init_from_yaml_conf(conf_path, **kwargs):
     config.update(kwargs)
     default_conf = config.pop("default_conf", "client")
     init(default_conf, **config)
+
+
+def get_project_path(config_name="config.yaml", cur_path=None) -> Path:
+    """
+    If users are building a project follow the following pattern.
+    - Qlib is a sub folder in project path
+    - There is a file named `config.yaml` in qlib.
+
+    For example:
+        If your project file system stucuture follows such a pattern
+
+            <project_path>/
+              - config.yaml
+              - ...some folders...
+                - qlib/
+
+        This folder will return <project_path>
+
+        NOTE: link is not supported here.
+
+
+    This method is often used when
+    - user want to use a relative config path instead of hard-coding qlib config path in code
+
+    Raises
+    ------
+    FileNotFoundError:
+        If project path is not found
+    """
+    if cur_path is None:
+        cur_path = Path(__file__).absolute().resolve()
+    while True:
+        if (cur_path / config_name).exists():
+            return cur_path
+        if cur_path == cur_path.parent:
+            raise FileNotFoundError("We can't find the project path")
+        cur_path = cur_path.parent
+
+
+def auto_init(**kwargs):
+    """
+    This function will init qlib automatically with following priority
+    - Find the project configuration and init qlib
+        - The parsing process will be affected by the `conf_type` of the configuration file
+    - Init qlib with default config
+    """
+
+    try:
+        pp = get_project_path(cur_path=kwargs.pop("cur_path", None))
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        init(**kwargs)
+    else:
+
+        conf_pp = pp / "config.yaml"
+        with conf_pp.open() as f:
+            conf = yaml.safe_load(f)
+
+        conf_type = conf.get("conf_type", "origin")
+        if conf_type == "origin":
+            # The type of config is just like original qlib config
+            init_from_yaml_conf(conf_pp, **kwargs)
+        elif conf_type == "ref":
+            # This config type will be more convenient in following scenario
+            # - There is a shared configure file and you don't want to edit it inplace.
+            # - The shared configure may be updated later and you don't want to copy it.
+            # - You have some customized config.
+            qlib_conf_path = conf["qlib_cfg"]
+            qlib_conf_update = conf.get("qlib_cfg_update")
+            init_from_yaml_conf(qlib_conf_path, **qlib_conf_update, **kwargs)
+        logger = get_module_logger("Initialization")
+        logger.info(f"Auto load project config: {conf_pp}")

qlib/config.py

@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ class Config:
 
         raise AttributeError(f"No such {attr} in self._config")
 
+    def get(self, key, default=None):
+        return self.__dict__["_config"].get(key, default)
+
     def __setitem__(self, key, value):
         self.__dict__["_config"][key] = value
 
@@ -131,7 +134,7 @@ _default_config = {
         },
         "loggers": {"qlib": {"level": logging.DEBUG, "handlers": ["console"]}},
     },
-    # Defatult config for experiment manager
+    # Default config for experiment manager
     "exp_manager": {
         "class": "MLflowExpManager",
         "module_path": "qlib.workflow.expm",
@@ -140,6 +143,11 @@ _default_config = {
             "default_exp_name": "Experiment",
         },
     },
+    # Default config for MongoDB
+    "mongo": {
+        "task_url": "mongodb://localhost:27017/",
+        "task_db_name": "default_task_db",
+    },
 }
 
 MODE_CONF = {
@@ -310,8 +318,22 @@ class QlibConfig(Config):
         # clean up experiment when python program ends
         experiment_exit_handler()
 
+        # Supporting user reset qlib version (useful when user want to connect to qlib server with old version)
+        self.reset_qlib_version()
+
         self._registered = True
 
+    def reset_qlib_version(self):
+        import qlib
+
+        reset_version = self.get("qlib_reset_version", None)
+        if reset_version is not None:
+            qlib.__version__ = reset_version
+        else:
+            qlib.__version__ = getattr(qlib, "__version__bak")
+            # Due to a bug? that converting __version__ to _QlibConfig__version__bak
+            # Using  __version__bak instead of __version__
+
     @property
     def registered(self):
         return self._registered

qlib/contrib/data/handler.py

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ def check_transform_proc(proc_l, fit_start_time, fit_end_time):
                         "fit_end_time": fit_end_time,
                     }
                 )
+            # FIXME: the `module_path` parameter is missed.
             new_l.append({"class": klass.__name__, "kwargs": pkwargs})
         else:
             new_l.append(p)

qlib/data/dataset/__init__.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ class Dataset(Serializable):
         - setup data
             - The data related attributes' names should start with '_' so that it will not be saved on disk when serializing.
 
-        The data could specify the info to caculate the essential data for preparation
+        The data could specify the info to calculate the essential data for preparation
         """
         self.setup_data(**kwargs)
         super().__init__()
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ class DatasetH(Dataset):
         handler : Union[dict, DataHandler]
             handler could be:
 
-            - insntance of `DataHandler`
+            - instance of `DataHandler`
 
             - config of `DataHandler`.  Please refer to `DataHandler`
 
@@ -112,8 +112,9 @@ class DatasetH(Dataset):
                         'outsample': ("2017-01-01", "2020-08-01",),
                     }
         """
-        self.handler = init_instance_by_config(handler, accept_types=DataHandler)
+        self.handler: DataHandler = init_instance_by_config(handler, accept_types=DataHandler)
         self.segments = segments.copy()
+        self.fetch_kwargs = {}
         super().__init__(**kwargs)
 
     def config(self, handler_kwargs: dict = None, **kwargs):
@@ -123,7 +124,7 @@ class DatasetH(Dataset):
         Parameters
         ----------
         handler_kwargs : dict
-            Config of DataHanlder, which could include the following arguments:
+            Config of DataHandler, which could include the following arguments:
 
             - arguments of DataHandler.conf_data, such as 'instruments', 'start_time' and 'end_time'.
 
@@ -147,11 +148,11 @@ class DatasetH(Dataset):
         Parameters
         ----------
         handler_kwargs : dict
-            init arguments of DataHanlder, which could include the following arguments:
+            init arguments of DataHandler, which could include the following arguments:
 
             - init_type : Init Type of Handler
 
-            - enable_cache : wheter to enable cache
+            - enable_cache : whether to enable cache
 
         """
         super().setup_data(**kwargs)
@@ -171,7 +172,10 @@ class DatasetH(Dataset):
         ----------
         slc : slice
         """
-        return self.handler.fetch(slc, **kwargs)
+        if hasattr(self, "fetch_kwargs"):
+            return self.handler.fetch(slc, **kwargs, **self.fetch_kwargs)
+        else:
+            return self.handler.fetch(slc, **kwargs)
 
     def prepare(
         self,
@@ -199,6 +203,12 @@ class DatasetH(Dataset):
             The data to fetch:  DK_*
             Default is DK_I, which indicate fetching data for **inference**.
 
+        kwargs :
+            The parameters that kwargs may contain:
+                flt_col : str
+                    It only exists in TSDatasetH, can be used to add a column of data(True or False) to filter data.
+                    This parameter is only supported when it is an instance of TSDatasetH.
+
         Returns
         -------
         Union[List[pd.DataFrame], pd.DataFrame]:
@@ -231,7 +241,7 @@ class TSDataSampler:
     (T)ime-(S)eries DataSampler
     This is the result of TSDatasetH
 
-    It works like `torch.data.utils.Dataset`, it provides a very convient interface for constructing time-series
+    It works like `torch.data.utils.Dataset`, it provides a very convenient interface for constructing time-series
     dataset based on tabular data.
 
     If user have further requirements for processing data, user could process them based on `TSDataSampler` or create
@@ -243,7 +253,9 @@ class TSDataSampler:
 
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, data: pd.DataFrame, start, end, step_len: int, fillna_type: str = "none"):
+    def __init__(
+        self, data: pd.DataFrame, start, end, step_len: int, fillna_type: str = "none", dtype=None, flt_data=None
+    ):
         """
         Build a dataset which looks like torch.data.utils.Dataset.
 
@@ -265,6 +277,11 @@ class TSDataSampler:
                 ffill with previous sample
             ffill+bfill:
                 ffill with previous samples first and fill with later samples second
+        flt_data : pd.Series
+            a column of data(True or False) to filter data.
+            None:
+                kepp all data
+
         """
         self.start = start
         self.end = end
@@ -272,23 +289,51 @@ class TSDataSampler:
         self.fillna_type = fillna_type
         assert get_level_index(data, "datetime") == 0
         self.data = lazy_sort_index(data)
-        self.data_arr = np.array(self.data)  # Get index from numpy.array will much faster than DataFrame.values!
+
-        # NOTE: append last line with full NaN for better performance in `__getitem__`
+        kwargs = {"object": self.data}
-        self.data_arr = np.append(self.data_arr, np.full((1, self.data_arr.shape[1]), np.nan), axis=0)
+        if dtype is not None:
+            kwargs["dtype"] = dtype
+
+        self.data_arr = np.array(**kwargs)  # Get index from numpy.array will much faster than DataFrame.values!
+        # NOTE:
+        # - append last line with full NaN for better performance in `__getitem__`
+        # - Keep the same dtype will result in a better performance
+        self.data_arr = np.append(
+            self.data_arr, np.full((1, self.data_arr.shape[1]), np.nan, dtype=self.data_arr.dtype), axis=0
+        )
         self.nan_idx = -1  # The last line is all NaN
 
         # the data type will be changed
         # The index of usable data is between start_idx and end_idx
-        self.start_idx, self.end_idx = self.data.index.slice_locs(start=pd.Timestamp(start), end=pd.Timestamp(end))
         self.idx_df, self.idx_map = self.build_index(self.data)
+        self.data_index = deepcopy(self.data.index)
+
+        if flt_data is not None:
+            self.flt_data = np.array(flt_data.reindex(self.data_index)).reshape(-1)
+            self.idx_map = self.flt_idx_map(self.flt_data, self.idx_map)
+            self.data_index = self.data_index[np.where(self.flt_data == True)[0]]
+
+        self.start_idx, self.end_idx = self.data_index.slice_locs(start=pd.Timestamp(start), end=pd.Timestamp(end))
         self.idx_arr = np.array(self.idx_df.values, dtype=np.float64)  # for better performance
 
+        del self.data  # save memory
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def flt_idx_map(flt_data, idx_map):
+        idx = 0
+        new_idx_map = {}
+        for i, exist in enumerate(flt_data):
+            if exist:
+                new_idx_map[idx] = idx_map[i]
+                idx += 1
+        return new_idx_map
+
     def get_index(self):
         """
         Get the pandas index of the data, it will be useful in following scenarios
         - Special sampler will be used (e.g. user want to sample day by day)
         """
-        return self.data.index[self.start_idx : self.end_idx]
+        return self.data_index[self.start_idx : self.end_idx]
 
     def config(self, **kwargs):
         # Config the attributes
@@ -432,7 +477,7 @@ class TSDatasetH(DatasetH):
     (T)ime-(S)eries Dataset (H)andler
 
 
-    Covnert the tabular data to Time-Series data
+    Convert the tabular data to Time-Series data
 
     Requirements analysis
 
@@ -461,7 +506,7 @@ class TSDatasetH(DatasetH):
         cal = sorted(cal)
         self.cal = cal
 
-    def _prepare_seg(self, slc: slice, **kwargs) -> TSDataSampler:
+    def _prepare_raw_seg(self, slc: slice, **kwargs) -> pd.DataFrame:
         # Dataset decide how to slice data(Get more data for timeseries).
         start, end = slc.start, slc.stop
         start_idx = bisect.bisect_left(self.cal, pd.Timestamp(start))
@@ -470,6 +515,25 @@ class TSDatasetH(DatasetH):
 
         # TSDatasetH will retrieve more data for complete
         data = super()._prepare_seg(slice(pad_start, end), **kwargs)
+        return data
 
-        tsds = TSDataSampler(data=data, start=start, end=end, step_len=self.step_len)
+    def _prepare_seg(self, slc: slice, **kwargs) -> TSDataSampler:
+        """
+        split the _prepare_raw_seg is to leave a hook for data preprocessing before creating processing data
+        """
+        dtype = kwargs.pop("dtype", None)
+        start, end = slc.start, slc.stop
+        flt_col = kwargs.pop("flt_col", None)
+        # TSDatasetH will retrieve more data for complete
+        data = self._prepare_raw_seg(slc, **kwargs)
+
+        flt_kwargs = deepcopy(kwargs)
+        if flt_col is not None:
+            flt_kwargs["col_set"] = flt_col
+            flt_data = self._prepare_raw_seg(slc, **flt_kwargs)
+            assert len(flt_data.columns) == 1
+        else:
+            flt_data = None
+
+        tsds = TSDataSampler(data=data, start=start, end=end, step_len=self.step_len, dtype=dtype, flt_data=flt_data)
         return tsds

qlib/data/dataset/handler.py

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import bisect
 import logging
 import warnings
 from inspect import getfullargspec
-from typing import Union, Tuple, List, Iterator, Optional
+from typing import Callable, Union, Tuple, List, Iterator, Optional
 
 import pandas as pd
 import numpy as np
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ class DataHandler(Serializable):
     The data handler try to maintain a handler with 2 level.
     `datetime` & `instruments`.
 
-    Any order of the index level can be suported (The order will be implied in the data).
+    Any order of the index level can be supported (The order will be implied in the data).
     The order  <`datetime`, `instruments`> will be used when the dataframe index name is missed.
 
     Example of the data:
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ class DataHandler(Serializable):
                    SH600004    13.313329  11800983.0       13.313329        13.317701    0.183632  0.0042
                    SH600005    37.796539  12231662.0       38.258602        37.919757    0.970325  0.0289
 
+
+    Tips for improving the performance of datahandler
+    - Fetching data with `col_set=CS_RAW` will return the raw data and may avoid pandas from copying the data when calling `loc`
     """
 
     def __init__(
@@ -74,7 +77,7 @@ class DataHandler(Serializable):
         data_loader : Union[dict, str, DataLoader]
             data loader to load the data.
         init_data :
-            intialize the original data in the constructor.
+            initialize the original data in the constructor.
         fetch_orig : bool
             Return the original data instead of copy if possible.
         """
@@ -125,7 +128,7 @@ class DataHandler(Serializable):
 
     def setup_data(self, enable_cache: bool = False):
         """
-        Set Up the data in case of running intialization for multiple time
+        Set Up the data in case of running initialization for multiple time
 
         It is responsible for maintaining following variable
         1) self._data
@@ -163,6 +166,7 @@ class DataHandler(Serializable):
         level: Union[str, int] = "datetime",
         col_set: Union[str, List[str]] = CS_ALL,
         squeeze: bool = False,
+        proc_func: Callable = None,
     ) -> pd.DataFrame:
         """
         fetch data from underlying data source
@@ -185,6 +189,14 @@ class DataHandler(Serializable):
             - if isinstance(col_set, List[str]):
 
                 select several sets of meaningful columns, the returned data has multiple levels
+        proc_func: Callable
+            - Give a hook for processing data before fetching
+            - An example to explain the necessity of the hook:
+                - A Dataset learned some processors to process data which is related to data segmentation
+                - It will apply them every time when preparing data.
+                - The learned processor require the dataframe remains the same format when fitting and applying
+                - However the data format will change according to the parameters.
+                - So the processors should be applied to the underlayer data.
 
         squeeze : bool
             whether squeeze columns and index
@@ -193,8 +205,15 @@ class DataHandler(Serializable):
         -------
         pd.DataFrame.
         """
+        if proc_func is None:
+            df = self._data
+        else:
+            # FIXME: fetching by time first will be more friendly to `proc_func`
+            # Copy in case of `proc_func` changing the data inplace....
+            df = proc_func(fetch_df_by_index(self._data, selector, level, fetch_orig=self.fetch_orig).copy())
+
         # Fetch column  first will be more friendly to SepDataFrame
-        df = self._fetch_df_by_col(self._data, col_set)
+        df = self._fetch_df_by_col(df, col_set)
         df = fetch_df_by_index(df, selector, level, fetch_orig=self.fetch_orig)
         if squeeze:
             # squeeze columns
@@ -261,6 +280,10 @@ class DataHandler(Serializable):
 class DataHandlerLP(DataHandler):
     """
     DataHandler with **(L)earnable (P)rocessor**
+
+    Tips to improving the performance of data handler
+    - To reduce the memory cost
+        - `drop_raw=True`: this will modify the data inplace on raw data;
     """
 
     # data key
@@ -430,7 +453,7 @@ class DataHandlerLP(DataHandler):
 
     def setup_data(self, init_type: str = IT_FIT_SEQ, **kwargs):
         """
-        Set up the data in case of running intialization for multiple time
+        Set up the data in case of running initialization for multiple time
 
         Parameters
         ----------
@@ -474,6 +497,7 @@ class DataHandlerLP(DataHandler):
         level: Union[str, int] = "datetime",
         col_set=DataHandler.CS_ALL,
         data_key: str = DK_I,
+        proc_func: Callable = None,
     ) -> pd.DataFrame:
         """
         fetch data from underlying data source
@@ -488,12 +512,18 @@ class DataHandlerLP(DataHandler):
             select a set of meaningful columns.(e.g. features, columns).
         data_key : str
             the data to fetch:  DK_*.
+        proc_func: Callable
+            please refer to the doc of DataHandler.fetch
 
         Returns
         -------
         pd.DataFrame:
         """
         df = self._get_df_by_key(data_key)
+        if proc_func is not None:
+            # FIXME: fetch by time first will be more friendly to proc_func
+            # Copy incase of `proc_func` changing the data inplace....
+            df = proc_func(fetch_df_by_index(df, selector, level, fetch_orig=self.fetch_orig).copy())
         # Fetch column  first will be more friendly to SepDataFrame
         df = self._fetch_df_by_col(df, col_set)
         return fetch_df_by_index(df, selector, level, fetch_orig=self.fetch_orig)

qlib/data/dataset/loader.py

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ from qlib.data import D
 from qlib.data import filter as filter_module
 from qlib.data.filter import BaseDFilter
 from qlib.utils import load_dataset, init_instance_by_config
+from qlib.log import get_module_logger
 
 
 class DataLoader(abc.ABC):
@@ -224,6 +225,10 @@ class DataLoaderDH(DataLoader):
     DataLoader based on (D)ata (H)andler
     It is designed to load multiple data from data handler
     - If you just want to load data from single datahandler, you can write them in single data handler
+
+    TODO: What make this module not that easy to use.
+    - For online scenario
+        - The underlayer data handler should be configured. But data loader doesn't provide such interface & hook.
     """
 
     def __init__(self, handler_config: dict, fetch_kwargs: dict = {}, is_group=False):
@@ -265,7 +270,7 @@ class DataLoaderDH(DataLoader):
 
     def load(self, instruments=None, start_time=None, end_time=None) -> pd.DataFrame:
         if instruments is not None:
-            LOG.warning(f"instruments[{instruments}] is ignored")
+            get_module_logger(self.__class__.__name__).warning(f"instruments[{instruments}] is ignored")
 
         if self.is_group:
             df = pd.concat(

qlib/data/dataset/processor.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # Licensed under the MIT License.
 
 import abc
+from typing import Union, Text
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
 import copy
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ from ...utils.paral import datetime_groupby_apply
 EPS = 1e-12
 
 
-def get_group_columns(df: pd.DataFrame, group: str):
+def get_group_columns(df: pd.DataFrame, group: Union[Text, None]):
     """
     get a group of columns from multi-index columns DataFrame
 

qlib/model/ens/ensemble.py

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+Ensemble module can merge the objects in an Ensemble. For example, if there are many submodels predictions, we may need to merge them into an ensemble prediction.
+"""
+
+from typing import Union
+import pandas as pd
+from qlib.utils import FLATTEN_TUPLE, flatten_dict
+
+
+class Ensemble:
+    """Merge the ensemble_dict into an ensemble object.
+
+    For example: {Rollinga_b: object, Rollingb_c: object} -> object
+
+    When calling this class:
+
+        Args:
+            ensemble_dict (dict): the ensemble dict like {name: things} waiting for merging
+
+        Returns:
+            object: the ensemble object
+    """
+
+    def __call__(self, ensemble_dict: dict, *args, **kwargs):
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Please implement the `__call__` method.")
+
+
+class SingleKeyEnsemble(Ensemble):
+
+    """
+    Extract the object if there is only one key and value in the dict. Make the result more readable.
+    {Only key: Only value} -> Only value
+
+    If there is more than 1 key or less than 1 key, then do nothing.
+    Even you can run this recursively to make dict more readable.
+
+    NOTE: Default runs recursively.
+
+    When calling this class:
+
+        Args:
+            ensemble_dict (dict): the dict. The key of the dict will be ignored.
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: the readable dict.
+    """
+
+    def __call__(self, ensemble_dict: Union[dict, object], recursion: bool = True) -> object:
+        if not isinstance(ensemble_dict, dict):
+            return ensemble_dict
+        if recursion:
+            tmp_dict = {}
+            for k, v in ensemble_dict.items():
+                tmp_dict[k] = self(v, recursion)
+            ensemble_dict = tmp_dict
+        keys = list(ensemble_dict.keys())
+        if len(keys) == 1:
+            ensemble_dict = ensemble_dict[keys[0]]
+        return ensemble_dict
+
+
+class RollingEnsemble(Ensemble):
+
+    """Merge a dict of rolling dataframe like `prediction` or `IC` into an ensemble.
+
+    NOTE: The values of dict must be pd.DataFrame, and have the index "datetime".
+
+    When calling this class:
+
+        Args:
+            ensemble_dict (dict): a dict like {"A": pd.DataFrame, "B": pd.DataFrame}.
+            The key of the dict will be ignored.
+
+        Returns:
+            pd.DataFrame: the complete result of rolling.
+    """
+
+    def __call__(self, ensemble_dict: dict) -> pd.DataFrame:
+        artifact_list = list(ensemble_dict.values())
+        artifact_list.sort(key=lambda x: x.index.get_level_values("datetime").min())
+        artifact = pd.concat(artifact_list)
+        # If there are duplicated predition, use the latest perdiction
+        artifact = artifact[~artifact.index.duplicated(keep="last")]
+        artifact = artifact.sort_index()
+        return artifact
+
+
+class AverageEnsemble(Ensemble):
+    """
+    Average and standardize a dict of same shape dataframe like `prediction` or `IC` into an ensemble.
+
+    NOTE: The values of dict must be pd.DataFrame, and have the index "datetime". If it is a nested dict, then flat it.
+
+    When calling this class:
+
+        Args:
+            ensemble_dict (dict): a dict like {"A": pd.DataFrame, "B": pd.DataFrame}.
+            The key of the dict will be ignored.
+
+        Returns:
+            pd.DataFrame: the complete result of averaging and standardizing.
+    """
+
+    def __call__(self, ensemble_dict: dict) -> pd.DataFrame:
+        # need to flatten the nested dict
+        ensemble_dict = flatten_dict(ensemble_dict, sep=FLATTEN_TUPLE)
+        values = list(ensemble_dict.values())
+        results = pd.concat(values, axis=1)
+        results = results.groupby("datetime").apply(lambda df: (df - df.mean()) / df.std())
+        results = results.mean(axis=1)
+        results = results.sort_index()
+        return results

qlib/model/ens/group.py

@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+Group can group a set of objects based on `group_func` and change them to a dict.
+After group, we provide a method to reduce them. 
+
+For example: 
+
+group: {(A,B,C1): object, (A,B,C2): object} -> {(A,B): {C1: object, C2: object}}
+reduce: {(A,B): {C1: object, C2: object}} -> {(A,B): object}
+
+"""
+
+from qlib.model.ens.ensemble import Ensemble, RollingEnsemble
+from typing import Callable, Union
+from joblib import Parallel, delayed
+
+
+class Group:
+    """Group the objects based on dict"""
+
+    def __init__(self, group_func=None, ens: Ensemble = None):
+        """
+        Init Group.
+
+        Args:
+            group_func (Callable, optional): Given a dict and return the group key and one of the group elements.
+
+                For example: {(A,B,C1): object, (A,B,C2): object} -> {(A,B): {C1: object, C2: object}}
+
+            Defaults to None.
+
+            ens (Ensemble, optional): If not None, do ensemble for grouped value after grouping.
+        """
+        self._group_func = group_func
+        self._ens_func = ens
+
+    def group(self, *args, **kwargs) -> dict:
+        """
+        Group a set of objects and change them to a dict.
+
+        For example: {(A,B,C1): object, (A,B,C2): object} -> {(A,B): {C1: object, C2: object}}
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: grouped dict
+        """
+        if isinstance(getattr(self, "_group_func", None), Callable):
+            return self._group_func(*args, **kwargs)
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError(f"Please specify valid `group_func`.")
+
+    def reduce(self, *args, **kwargs) -> dict:
+        """
+        Reduce grouped dict.
+
+        For example: {(A,B): {C1: object, C2: object}} -> {(A,B): object}
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: reduced dict
+        """
+        if isinstance(getattr(self, "_ens_func", None), Callable):
+            return self._ens_func(*args, **kwargs)
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError(f"Please specify valid `_ens_func`.")
+
+    def __call__(self, ungrouped_dict: dict, n_jobs: int = 1, verbose: int = 0, *args, **kwargs) -> dict:
+        """
+        Group the ungrouped_dict into different groups.
+
+        Args:
+            ungrouped_dict (dict): the ungrouped dict waiting for grouping like {name: things}
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: grouped_dict like {G1: object, G2: object}
+            n_jobs: how many progress you need.
+            verbose: the print mode for Parallel.
+        """
+
+        # NOTE: The multiprocessing will raise error if you use `Serializable`
+        # Because the `Serializable` will affect the behaviors of pickle
+        grouped_dict = self.group(ungrouped_dict, *args, **kwargs)
+
+        key_l = []
+        job_l = []
+        for key, value in grouped_dict.items():
+            key_l.append(key)
+            job_l.append(delayed(Group.reduce)(self, value))
+        return dict(zip(key_l, Parallel(n_jobs=n_jobs, verbose=verbose)(job_l)))
+
+
+class RollingGroup(Group):
+    """Group the rolling dict"""
+
+    def group(self, rolling_dict: dict) -> dict:
+        """Given an rolling dict likes {(A,B,R): things}, return the grouped dict likes {(A,B): {R:things}}
+
+        NOTE: There is an assumption which is the rolling key is at the end of the key tuple, because the rolling results always need to be ensemble firstly.
+
+        Args:
+            rolling_dict (dict): an rolling dict. If the key is not a tuple, then do nothing.
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: grouped dict
+        """
+        grouped_dict = {}
+        for key, values in rolling_dict.items():
+            if isinstance(key, tuple):
+                grouped_dict.setdefault(key[:-1], {})[key[-1]] = values
+        return grouped_dict
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__(ens=RollingEnsemble())

qlib/model/task.py

@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-import abc
-import typing
-
-
-class TaskGen(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
-    @abc.abstractmethod
-    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs) -> typing.List[dict]:
-        """
-        generate
-
-        Parameters
-        ----------
-        args, kwargs:
-            The info for generating tasks
-            Example 1):
-                input: a specific task template
-                output: rolling version of the tasks
-            Example 2):
-                input: a specific task template
-                output: a set of tasks with different losses
-
-        Returns
-        -------
-        typing.List[dict]:
-            A list of tasks
-        """
-        pass

qlib/model/trainer.py

@@ -1,42 +1,446 @@
 # Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
 # Licensed under the MIT License.
 
-from qlib.utils import init_instance_by_config, flatten_dict
+"""
+The Trainer will train a list of tasks and return a list of model recorders.
+There are two steps in each Trainer including ``train``(make model recorder) and ``end_train``(modify model recorder).
+
+This is a concept called ``DelayTrainer``, which can be used in online simulating for parallel training.
+In ``DelayTrainer``, the first step is only to save some necessary info to model recorders, and the second step which will be finished in the end can do some concurrent and time-consuming operations such as model fitting.
+
+``Qlib`` offer two kinds of Trainer, ``TrainerR`` is the simplest way and ``TrainerRM`` is based on TaskManager to help manager tasks lifecycle automatically. 
+"""
+
+import socket
+from typing import Callable, List
+
+from qlib.data.dataset import Dataset
+from qlib.model.base import Model
+from qlib.utils import flatten_dict, get_cls_kwargs, init_instance_by_config
 from qlib.workflow import R
 from qlib.workflow.record_temp import SignalRecord
+from qlib.workflow.recorder import Recorder
+from qlib.workflow.task.manage import TaskManager, run_task
 
 
-def task_train(task_config: dict, experiment_name):
+def begin_task_train(task_config: dict, experiment_name: str, recorder_name: str = None) -> Recorder:
     """
-    task based training
+    Begin task training to start a recorder and save the task config.
+
+    Args:
+        task_config (dict): the config of a task
+        experiment_name (str): the name of experiment
+        recorder_name (str): the given name will be the recorder name. None for using rid.
+
+    Returns:
+        Recorder: the model recorder
+    """
+    with R.start(experiment_name=experiment_name, recorder_name=recorder_name):
+        R.log_params(**flatten_dict(task_config))
+        R.save_objects(**{"task": task_config})  # keep the original format and datatype
+        R.set_tags(**{"hostname": socket.gethostname()})
+        recorder: Recorder = R.get_recorder()
+    return recorder
+
+
+def end_task_train(rec: Recorder, experiment_name: str) -> Recorder:
+    """
+    Finish task training with real model fitting and saving.
+
+    Args:
+        rec (Recorder): the recorder will be resumed
+        experiment_name (str): the name of experiment
+
+    Returns:
+        Recorder: the model recorder
+    """
+    with R.start(experiment_name=experiment_name, recorder_id=rec.info["id"], resume=True):
+        task_config = R.load_object("task")
+        # model & dataset initiation
+        model: Model = init_instance_by_config(task_config["model"])
+        dataset: Dataset = init_instance_by_config(task_config["dataset"])
+        # model training
+        model.fit(dataset)
+        R.save_objects(**{"params.pkl": model})
+        # this dataset is saved for online inference. So the concrete data should not be dumped
+        dataset.config(dump_all=False, recursive=True)
+        R.save_objects(**{"dataset": dataset})
+        # generate records: prediction, backtest, and analysis
+        records = task_config.get("record", [])
+        if isinstance(records, dict):  # prevent only one dict
+            records = [records]
+        for record in records:
+            cls, kwargs = get_cls_kwargs(record, default_module="qlib.workflow.record_temp")
+            if cls is SignalRecord:
+                rconf = {"model": model, "dataset": dataset, "recorder": rec}
+            else:
+                rconf = {"recorder": rec}
+            r = cls(**kwargs, **rconf)
+            r.generate()
+
+    return rec
+
+
+def task_train(task_config: dict, experiment_name: str) -> Recorder:
+    """
+    Task based training, will be divided into two steps.
 
     Parameters
     ----------
     task_config : dict
-        A dict describes a task setting.
+        The config of a task.
+    experiment_name: str
+        The name of experiment
+
+    Returns
+    ----------
+    Recorder: The instance of the recorder
+    """
+    recorder = begin_task_train(task_config, experiment_name)
+    recorder = end_task_train(recorder, experiment_name)
+    return recorder
+
+
+class Trainer:
+    """
+    The trainer can train a list of models.
+    There are Trainer and DelayTrainer, which can be distinguished by when it will finish real training.
     """
 
-    # model initiaiton
+    def __init__(self):
-    model = init_instance_by_config(task_config["model"])
+        self.delay = False
-    dataset = init_instance_by_config(task_config["dataset"])
 
-    # start exp
+    def train(self, tasks: list, *args, **kwargs) -> list:
-    with R.start(experiment_name=experiment_name):
+        """
-        # train model
+        Given a list of task definitions, begin training, and return the models.
-        R.log_params(**flatten_dict(task_config))
-        model.fit(dataset)
-        recorder = R.get_recorder()
-        R.save_objects(**{"params.pkl": model})
 
-        # generate records: prediction, backtest, and analysis
+        For Trainer, it finishes real training in this method.
-        for record in task_config["record"]:
+        For DelayTrainer, it only does some preparation in this method.
-            if record["class"] == SignalRecord.__name__:
+
-                srconf = {"model": model, "dataset": dataset, "recorder": recorder}
+        Args:
-                record["kwargs"].update(srconf)
+            tasks: a list of tasks
-                sr = init_instance_by_config(record)
+
-                sr.generate()
+        Returns:
-            else:
+            list: a list of models
-                rconf = {"recorder": recorder}
+        """
-                record["kwargs"].update(rconf)
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Please implement the `train` method.")
-                ar = init_instance_by_config(record)
+
-                ar.generate()
+    def end_train(self, models: list, *args, **kwargs) -> list:
+        """
+        Given a list of models, finished something at the end of training if you need.
+        The models may be Recorder, txt file, database, and so on.
+
+        For Trainer, it does some finishing touches in this method.
+        For DelayTrainer, it finishes real training in this method.
+
+        Args:
+            models: a list of models
+
+        Returns:
+            list: a list of models
+        """
+        # do nothing if you finished all work in `train` method
+        return models
+
+    def is_delay(self) -> bool:
+        """
+        If Trainer will delay finishing `end_train`.
+
+        Returns:
+            bool: if DelayTrainer
+        """
+        return self.delay
+
+
+class TrainerR(Trainer):
+    """
+    Trainer based on (R)ecorder.
+    It will train a list of tasks and return a list of model recorders in a linear way.
+
+    Assumption: models were defined by `task` and the results will be saved to `Recorder`.
+    """
+
+    # Those tag will help you distinguish whether the Recorder has finished traning
+    STATUS_KEY = "train_status"
+    STATUS_BEGIN = "begin_task_train"
+    STATUS_END = "end_task_train"
+
+    def __init__(self, experiment_name: str = None, train_func: Callable = task_train):
+        """
+        Init TrainerR.
+
+        Args:
+            experiment_name (str, optional): the default name of experiment.
+            train_func (Callable, optional): default training method. Defaults to `task_train`.
+        """
+        super().__init__()
+        self.experiment_name = experiment_name
+        self.train_func = train_func
+
+    def train(self, tasks: list, train_func: Callable = None, experiment_name: str = None, **kwargs) -> List[Recorder]:
+        """
+        Given a list of `task`s and return a list of trained Recorder. The order can be guaranteed.
+
+        Args:
+            tasks (list): a list of definitions based on `task` dict
+            train_func (Callable): the training method which needs at least `tasks` and `experiment_name`. None for the default training method.
+            experiment_name (str): the experiment name, None for use default name.
+            kwargs: the params for train_func.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[Recorder]: a list of Recorders
+        """
+        if len(tasks) == 0:
+            return []
+        if train_func is None:
+            train_func = self.train_func
+        if experiment_name is None:
+            experiment_name = self.experiment_name
+        recs = []
+        for task in tasks:
+            rec = train_func(task, experiment_name, **kwargs)
+            rec.set_tags(**{self.STATUS_KEY: self.STATUS_BEGIN})
+            recs.append(rec)
+        return recs
+
+    def end_train(self, recs: list, **kwargs) -> List[Recorder]:
+        """
+        Set STATUS_END tag to the recorders.
+
+        Args:
+            recs (list): a list of trained recorders.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[Recorder]: the same list as the param.
+        """
+        for rec in recs:
+            rec.set_tags(**{self.STATUS_KEY: self.STATUS_END})
+        return recs
+
+
+class DelayTrainerR(TrainerR):
+    """
+    A delayed implementation based on TrainerR, which means `train` method may only do some preparation and `end_train` method can do the real model fitting.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, experiment_name: str = None, train_func=begin_task_train, end_train_func=end_task_train):
+        """
+        Init TrainerRM.
+
+        Args:
+            experiment_name (str): the default name of experiment.
+            train_func (Callable, optional): default train method. Defaults to `begin_task_train`.
+            end_train_func (Callable, optional): default end_train method. Defaults to `end_task_train`.
+        """
+        super().__init__(experiment_name, train_func)
+        self.end_train_func = end_train_func
+        self.delay = True
+
+    def end_train(self, recs, end_train_func=None, experiment_name: str = None, **kwargs) -> List[Recorder]:
+        """
+        Given a list of Recorder and return a list of trained Recorder.
+        This class will finish real data loading and model fitting.
+
+        Args:
+            recs (list): a list of Recorder, the tasks have been saved to them
+            end_train_func (Callable, optional): the end_train method which needs at least `recorder`s and `experiment_name`. Defaults to None for using self.end_train_func.
+            experiment_name (str): the experiment name, None for use default name.
+            kwargs: the params for end_train_func.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[Recorder]: a list of Recorders
+        """
+        if end_train_func is None:
+            end_train_func = self.end_train_func
+        if experiment_name is None:
+            experiment_name = self.experiment_name
+        for rec in recs:
+            if rec.list_tags()[self.STATUS_KEY] == self.STATUS_END:
+                continue
+            end_train_func(rec, experiment_name, **kwargs)
+            rec.set_tags(**{self.STATUS_KEY: self.STATUS_END})
+        return recs
+
+
+class TrainerRM(Trainer):
+    """
+    Trainer based on (R)ecorder and Task(M)anager.
+    It can train a list of tasks and return a list of model recorders in a multiprocessing way.
+
+    Assumption: `task` will be saved to TaskManager and `task` will be fetched and trained from TaskManager
+    """
+
+    # Those tag will help you distinguish whether the Recorder has finished traning
+    STATUS_KEY = "train_status"
+    STATUS_BEGIN = "begin_task_train"
+    STATUS_END = "end_task_train"
+
+    def __init__(self, experiment_name: str = None, task_pool: str = None, train_func=task_train):
+        """
+        Init TrainerR.
+
+        Args:
+            experiment_name (str): the default name of experiment.
+            task_pool (str): task pool name in TaskManager. None for use same name as experiment_name.
+            train_func (Callable, optional): default training method. Defaults to `task_train`.
+        """
+        super().__init__()
+        self.experiment_name = experiment_name
+        self.task_pool = task_pool
+        self.train_func = train_func
+
+    def train(
+        self,
+        tasks: list,
+        train_func: Callable = None,
+        experiment_name: str = None,
+        before_status: str = TaskManager.STATUS_WAITING,
+        after_status: str = TaskManager.STATUS_DONE,
+        **kwargs,
+    ) -> List[Recorder]:
+        """
+        Given a list of `task`s and return a list of trained Recorder. The order can be guaranteed.
+
+        This method defaults to a single process, but TaskManager offered a great way to parallel training.
+        Users can customize their train_func to realize multiple processes or even multiple machines.
+
+        Args:
+            tasks (list): a list of definitions based on `task` dict
+            train_func (Callable): the training method which needs at least `task`s and `experiment_name`. None for the default training method.
+            experiment_name (str): the experiment name, None for use default name.
+            before_status (str): the tasks in before_status will be fetched and trained. Can be STATUS_WAITING, STATUS_PART_DONE.
+            after_status (str): the tasks after trained will become after_status. Can be STATUS_WAITING, STATUS_PART_DONE.
+            kwargs: the params for train_func.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[Recorder]: a list of Recorders
+        """
+        if len(tasks) == 0:
+            return []
+        if train_func is None:
+            train_func = self.train_func
+        if experiment_name is None:
+            experiment_name = self.experiment_name
+        task_pool = self.task_pool
+        if task_pool is None:
+            task_pool = experiment_name
+        tm = TaskManager(task_pool=task_pool)
+        _id_list = tm.create_task(tasks)  # all tasks will be saved to MongoDB
+        run_task(
+            train_func,
+            task_pool,
+            experiment_name=experiment_name,
+            before_status=before_status,
+            after_status=after_status,
+            **kwargs,
+        )
+
+        recs = []
+        for _id in _id_list:
+            rec = tm.re_query(_id)["res"]
+            rec.set_tags(**{self.STATUS_KEY: self.STATUS_BEGIN})
+            recs.append(rec)
+        return recs
+
+    def end_train(self, recs: list, **kwargs) -> List[Recorder]:
+        """
+        Set STATUS_END tag to the recorders.
+
+        Args:
+            recs (list): a list of trained recorders.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[Recorder]: the same list as the param.
+        """
+        for rec in recs:
+            rec.set_tags(**{self.STATUS_KEY: self.STATUS_END})
+        return recs
+
+
+class DelayTrainerRM(TrainerRM):
+    """
+    A delayed implementation based on TrainerRM, which means `train` method may only do some preparation and `end_train` method can do the real model fitting.
+
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        experiment_name: str = None,
+        task_pool: str = None,
+        train_func=begin_task_train,
+        end_train_func=end_task_train,
+    ):
+        """
+        Init DelayTrainerRM.
+
+        Args:
+            experiment_name (str): the default name of experiment.
+            task_pool (str): task pool name in TaskManager. None for use same name as experiment_name.
+            train_func (Callable, optional): default train method. Defaults to `begin_task_train`.
+            end_train_func (Callable, optional): default end_train method. Defaults to `end_task_train`.
+        """
+        super().__init__(experiment_name, task_pool, train_func)
+        self.end_train_func = end_train_func
+        self.delay = True
+
+    def train(self, tasks: list, train_func=None, experiment_name: str = None, **kwargs) -> List[Recorder]:
+        """
+        Same as `train` of TrainerRM, after_status will be STATUS_PART_DONE.
+
+        Args:
+            tasks (list): a list of definition based on `task` dict
+            train_func (Callable): the train method which need at least `task`s and `experiment_name`. Defaults to None for using self.train_func.
+            experiment_name (str): the experiment name, None for use default name.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[Recorder]: a list of Recorders
+        """
+        if len(tasks) == 0:
+            return []
+        return super().train(
+            tasks,
+            train_func=train_func,
+            experiment_name=experiment_name,
+            after_status=TaskManager.STATUS_PART_DONE,
+            **kwargs,
+        )
+
+    def end_train(self, recs, end_train_func=None, experiment_name: str = None, **kwargs) -> List[Recorder]:
+        """
+        Given a list of Recorder and return a list of trained Recorder.
+        This class will finish real data loading and model fitting.
+
+        NOTE: This method will train all STATUS_PART_DONE tasks in the task pool, not only the ``recs``.
+
+        Args:
+            recs (list): a list of Recorder, the tasks have been saved to them.
+            end_train_func (Callable, optional): the end_train method which need at least `recorder`s and `experiment_name`. Defaults to None for using self.end_train_func.
+            experiment_name (str): the experiment name, None for use default name.
+            kwargs: the params for end_train_func.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[Recorder]: a list of Recorders
+        """
+
+        if end_train_func is None:
+            end_train_func = self.end_train_func
+        if experiment_name is None:
+            experiment_name = self.experiment_name
+        task_pool = self.task_pool
+        if task_pool is None:
+            task_pool = experiment_name
+        tasks = []
+        for rec in recs:
+            tasks.append(rec.load_object("task"))
+
+        run_task(
+            end_train_func,
+            task_pool,
+            query={"filter": {"$in": tasks}},  # only train these tasks
+            experiment_name=experiment_name,
+            before_status=TaskManager.STATUS_PART_DONE,
+            **kwargs,
+        )
+        for rec in recs:
+            rec.set_tags(**{self.STATUS_KEY: self.STATUS_END})
+        return recs

qlib/utils/__init__.py

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ from __future__ import division
 from __future__ import print_function
 
 import os
+import pickle
 import re
 import copy
 import json
@@ -24,7 +25,9 @@ import collections
 import numpy as np
 import pandas as pd
 from pathlib import Path
-from typing import Union, Tuple, Text, Optional
+from typing import Union, Tuple, Any, Text, Optional
+from types import ModuleType
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
 
 from ..config import C
 from ..log import get_module_logger, set_log_with_config
@@ -165,24 +168,25 @@ def parse_field(field):
     return re.sub(r"\$(\w+)", r'Feature("\1")', re.sub(r"(\w+\s*)\(", r"Operators.\1(", field))
 
 
-def get_module_by_module_path(module_path):
+def get_module_by_module_path(module_path: Union[str, ModuleType]):
     """Load module path
 
     :param module_path:
     :return:
     """
-
+    if isinstance(module_path, ModuleType):
-    if module_path.endswith(".py"):
+        module = module_path
-        module_spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("", module_path)
-        module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(module_spec)
-        module_spec.loader.exec_module(module)
     else:
-        module = importlib.import_module(module_path)
+        if module_path.endswith(".py"):
-
+            module_spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("", module_path)
+            module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(module_spec)
+            module_spec.loader.exec_module(module)
+        else:
+            module = importlib.import_module(module_path)
     return module
 
 
-def get_cls_kwargs(config: Union[dict, str], module) -> (type, dict):
+def get_cls_kwargs(config: Union[dict, str], default_module: Union[str, ModuleType] = None) -> (type, dict):
     """
     extract class and kwargs from config info
 
@@ -191,8 +195,10 @@ def get_cls_kwargs(config: Union[dict, str], module) -> (type, dict):
     config : [dict, str]
         similar to config
 
-    module : Python module
+    default_module : Python module or str
         It should be a python module to load the class type
+        This function will load class from the config['module_path'] first.
+        If config['module_path'] doesn't exists, it will load the class from default_module.
 
     Returns
     -------
@@ -200,10 +206,14 @@ def get_cls_kwargs(config: Union[dict, str], module) -> (type, dict):
         the class object and it's arguments.
     """
     if isinstance(config, dict):
+        module = get_module_by_module_path(config.get("module_path", default_module))
+
         # raise AttributeError
         klass = getattr(module, config["class"])
         kwargs = config.get("kwargs", {})
     elif isinstance(config, str):
+        module = get_module_by_module_path(default_module)
+
         klass = getattr(module, config)
         kwargs = {}
     else:
@@ -212,8 +222,8 @@ def get_cls_kwargs(config: Union[dict, str], module) -> (type, dict):
 
 
 def init_instance_by_config(
-    config: Union[str, dict, object], module=None, accept_types: Union[type, Tuple[type]] = (), **kwargs
+    config: Union[str, dict, object], default_module=None, accept_types: Union[type, Tuple[type]] = (), **kwargs
-) -> object:
+) -> Any:
     """
     get initialized instance with config
 
@@ -227,13 +237,19 @@ def init_instance_by_config(
                 'model_path': path, # It is optional if module is given
             }
         str example.
-            "ClassName":  getattr(module, config)() will be used.
+            1) specify a pickle object
+                - path like 'file:///<path to pickle file>/obj.pkl'
+            2) specify a class name
+                - "ClassName":  getattr(module, config)() will be used.
         object example:
             instance of accept_types
-    module : Python module
+    default_module : Python module
         Optional. It should be a python module.
         NOTE: the "module_path" will be override by `module` arguments
 
+        This function will load class from the config['module_path'] first.
+        If config['module_path'] doesn't exists, it will load the class from default_module.
+
     accept_types: Union[type, Tuple[type]]
         Optional. If the config is a instance of specific type, return the config directly.
         This will be passed into the second parameter of isinstance.
@@ -246,10 +262,14 @@ def init_instance_by_config(
     if isinstance(config, accept_types):
         return config
 
-    if module is None:
+    if isinstance(config, str):
-        module = get_module_by_module_path(config["module_path"])
+        # path like 'file:///<path to pickle file>/obj.pkl'
+        pr = urlparse(config)
+        if pr.scheme == "file":
+            with open(os.path.join(pr.netloc, pr.path), "rb") as f:
+                return pickle.load(f)
 
-    klass, cls_kwargs = get_cls_kwargs(config, module)
+    klass, cls_kwargs = get_cls_kwargs(config, default_module=default_module)
     return klass(**cls_kwargs, **kwargs)
 
 
@@ -502,7 +522,7 @@ def get_date_range(trading_date, left_shift=0, right_shift=0, future=False):
     return calendar
 
 
-def get_date_by_shift(trading_date, shift, future=False, clip_shift=True):
+def get_date_by_shift(trading_date, shift, future=False, clip_shift=True, freq="day"):
     """get trading date with shift bias wil cur_date
         e.g. : shift == 1,  return next trading date
                shift == -1, return previous trading date
@@ -515,7 +535,7 @@ def get_date_by_shift(trading_date, shift, future=False, clip_shift=True):
     """
     from qlib.data import D
 
-    cal = D.calendar(future=future)
+    cal = D.calendar(future=future, freq=freq)
     if pd.to_datetime(trading_date) not in list(cal):
         raise ValueError("{} is not trading day!".format(str(trading_date)))
     _index = bisect.bisect_left(cal, trading_date)
@@ -696,23 +716,33 @@ def lazy_sort_index(df: pd.DataFrame, axis=0) -> pd.DataFrame:
         return df.sort_index(axis=axis)
 
 
-def flatten_dict(d, parent_key="", sep="."):
+FLATTEN_TUPLE = "_FLATTEN_TUPLE"
-    """flatten_dict.
+
+
+def flatten_dict(d, parent_key="", sep=".") -> dict:
+    """
+    Flatten a nested dict.
+
         >>> flatten_dict({'a': 1, 'c': {'a': 2, 'b': {'x': 5, 'y' : 10}}, 'd': [1, 2, 3]})
         >>> {'a': 1, 'c.a': 2, 'c.b.x': 5, 'd': [1, 2, 3], 'c.b.y': 10}
 
-    Parameters
+        >>> flatten_dict({'a': 1, 'c': {'a': 2, 'b': {'x': 5, 'y' : 10}}, 'd': [1, 2, 3]}, sep=FLATTEN_TUPLE)
-    ----------
+        >>> {'a': 1, ('c','a'): 2, ('c','b','x'): 5, 'd': [1, 2, 3], ('c','b','y'): 10}
-    d :
+
-        d
+    Args:
-    parent_key :
+        d (dict): the dict waiting for flatting
-        parent_key
+        parent_key (str, optional): the parent key, will be a prefix in new key. Defaults to "".
-    sep :
+        sep (str, optional): the separator for string connecting. FLATTEN_TUPLE for tuple connecting.
-        sep
+
+    Returns:
+        dict: flatten dict
     """
     items = []
     for k, v in d.items():
-        new_key = parent_key + sep + k if parent_key else k
+        if sep == FLATTEN_TUPLE:
+            new_key = (parent_key, k) if parent_key else k
+        else:
+            new_key = parent_key + sep + k if parent_key else k
         if isinstance(v, collections.abc.MutableMapping):
             items.extend(flatten_dict(v, new_key, sep=sep).items())
         else:

qlib/utils/serial.py

@@ -3,16 +3,24 @@
 
 from pathlib import Path
 import pickle
+import typing
+import dill
+from typing import Union
 
 
 class Serializable:
     """
-    Serializable behaves like pickle.
+    Serializable will change the behaviors of pickle.
-    But it only saves the state whose name **does not** start with `_`
+    - It only saves the state whose name **does not** start with `_`
+    It provides a syntactic sugar for distinguish the attributes which user doesn't want.
+    - For examples, a learnable Datahandler just wants to save the parameters without data when dumping to disk
     """
 
+    pickle_backend = "pickle"  # another optional value is "dill" which can pickle more things of python.
+    default_dump_all = False  # if dump all things
+
     def __init__(self):
-        self._dump_all = False
+        self._dump_all = self.default_dump_all
         self._exclude = []
 
     def __getstate__(self) -> dict:
@@ -33,18 +41,86 @@ class Serializable:
     @property
     def exclude(self):
         """
-        What attribute will be dumped
+        What attribute will not be dumped
         """
         return getattr(self, "_exclude", [])
 
-    def config(self, dump_all: bool = None, exclude: list = None):
+    FLAG_KEY = "_qlib_serial_flag"
-        if dump_all is not None:
-            self._dump_all = dump_all
 
-        if exclude is not None:
+    def config(self, dump_all: bool = None, exclude: list = None, recursive=False):
-            self._exclude = exclude
+        """
+        configure the serializable object
 
-    def to_pickle(self, path: [Path, str], dump_all: bool = None, exclude: list = None):
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        dump_all : bool
+            will the object dump all object
+        exclude : list
+            What attribute will not be dumped
+        recursive : bool
+            will the configuration be recursive
+        """
+
+        params = {"dump_all": dump_all, "exclude": exclude}
+
+        for k, v in params.items():
+            if v is not None:
+                attr_name = f"_{k}"
+                setattr(self, attr_name, v)
+
+        if recursive:
+            for obj in self.__dict__.values():
+                # set flag to prevent endless loop
+                self.__dict__[self.FLAG_KEY] = True
+                if isinstance(obj, Serializable) and self.FLAG_KEY not in obj.__dict__:
+                    obj.config(**params, recursive=True)
+                del self.__dict__[self.FLAG_KEY]
+
+    def to_pickle(self, path: Union[Path, str], dump_all: bool = None, exclude: list = None):
+        """
+        Dump self to a pickle file.
+
+        Args:
+            path (Union[Path, str]): the path to dump
+            dump_all (bool, optional): if need to dump all things. Defaults to None.
+            exclude (list, optional): will exclude the attributes in this list when dumping. Defaults to None.
+        """
         self.config(dump_all=dump_all, exclude=exclude)
         with Path(path).open("wb") as f:
-            pickle.dump(self, f)
+            self.get_backend().dump(self, f)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def load(cls, filepath):
+        """
+        Load the collector from a filepath.
+
+        Args:
+            filepath (str): the path of file
+
+        Raises:
+            TypeError: the pickled file must be `Collector`
+
+        Returns:
+            Collector: the instance of Collector
+        """
+        with open(filepath, "rb") as f:
+            object = cls.get_backend().load(f)
+        if isinstance(object, cls):
+            return object
+        else:
+            raise TypeError(f"The instance of {type(object)} is not a valid `{type(cls)}`!")
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_backend(cls):
+        """
+        Return the real backend of a Serializable class. The pickle_backend value can be "pickle" or "dill".
+
+        Returns:
+            module: pickle or dill module based on pickle_backend
+        """
+        if cls.pickle_backend == "pickle":
+            return pickle
+        elif cls.pickle_backend == "dill":
+            return dill
+        else:
+            raise ValueError("Unknown pickle backend, please use 'pickle' or 'dill'.")

qlib/workflow/__init__.py

@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ class QlibRecorder:
         """
         self.exp_manager.set_uri(uri)
 
-    def get_recorder(self, recorder_id=None, recorder_name=None, experiment_name=None):
+    def get_recorder(self, recorder_id=None, recorder_name=None, experiment_name=None) -> Recorder:
         """
         Method for retrieving a recorder.
 

qlib/workflow/online/manager.py

@@ -0,0 +1,304 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+OnlineManager can manage a set of `Online Strategy <#Online Strategy>`_ and run them dynamically.
+
+With the change of time, the decisive models will be also changed. In this module, we call those contributing models `online` models.
+In every routine(such as every day or every minute), the `online` models may be changed and the prediction of them needs to be updated.
+So this module provides a series of methods to control this process. 
+
+This module also provides a method to simulate `Online Strategy <#Online Strategy>`_ in history.
+Which means you can verify your strategy or find a better one.
+
+There are 4 total situations for using different trainers in different situations:
+
+
+
+=========================  ===================================================================================
+Situations                 Description
+=========================  ===================================================================================
+Online + Trainer           When you REAL want to do a routine, the Trainer will help you train the models. 
+
+Online + DelayTrainer      In normal online routine, whether Trainer or DelayTrainer will REAL train models
+                           in this routine. So it is not necessary to use DelayTrainer when do a REAL routine.
+
+Simulation + Trainer       When your models have some temporal dependence on the previous models, then you
+                           need to consider using Trainer. This means it will REAL train your models in
+                           every routine and prepare signals for every routine.
+
+Simulation + DelayTrainer  When your models don't have any temporal dependence, you can use DelayTrainer
+                           for the ability to multitasking. It means all tasks in all routines
+                           can be REAL trained at the end of simulating. The signals will be prepared well at 
+                           different time segments (based on whether or not any new model is online).
+=========================  ===================================================================================
+"""
+
+import logging
+from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Union
+
+import pandas as pd
+from qlib import get_module_logger
+from qlib.data.data import D
+from qlib.log import set_global_logger_level
+from qlib.model.ens.ensemble import AverageEnsemble
+from qlib.model.trainer import DelayTrainerR, Trainer, TrainerR
+from qlib.utils import flatten_dict
+from qlib.utils.serial import Serializable
+from qlib.workflow.online.strategy import OnlineStrategy
+from qlib.workflow.task.collect import MergeCollector
+
+
+class OnlineManager(Serializable):
+    """
+    OnlineManager can manage online models with `Online Strategy <#Online Strategy>`_.
+    It also provides a history recording of which models are online at what time.
+    """
+
+    STATUS_SIMULATING = "simulating"  # when calling `simulate`
+    STATUS_NORMAL = "normal"  # the normal status
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        strategies: Union[OnlineStrategy, List[OnlineStrategy]],
+        trainer: Trainer = None,
+        begin_time: Union[str, pd.Timestamp] = None,
+        freq="day",
+    ):
+        """
+        Init OnlineManager.
+        One OnlineManager must have at least one OnlineStrategy.
+
+        Args:
+            strategies (Union[OnlineStrategy, List[OnlineStrategy]]): an instance of OnlineStrategy or a list of OnlineStrategy
+            begin_time (Union[str,pd.Timestamp], optional): the OnlineManager will begin at this time. Defaults to None for using the latest date.
+            trainer (Trainer): the trainer to train task. None for using TrainerR.
+            freq (str, optional): data frequency. Defaults to "day".
+        """
+        self.logger = get_module_logger(self.__class__.__name__)
+        if not isinstance(strategies, list):
+            strategies = [strategies]
+        self.strategies = strategies
+        self.freq = freq
+        if begin_time is None:
+            begin_time = D.calendar(freq=self.freq).max()
+        self.begin_time = pd.Timestamp(begin_time)
+        self.cur_time = self.begin_time
+        # OnlineManager will recorder the history of online models, which is a dict like {pd.Timestamp, {strategy, [online_models]}}.
+        self.history = {}
+        if trainer is None:
+            trainer = TrainerR()
+        self.trainer = trainer
+        self.signals = None
+        self.status = self.STATUS_NORMAL
+
+    def first_train(self, strategies: List[OnlineStrategy] = None, model_kwargs: dict = {}):
+        """
+        Get tasks from every strategy's first_tasks method and train them.
+        If using DelayTrainer, it can finish training all together after every strategy's first_tasks.
+
+        Args:
+            strategies (List[OnlineStrategy]): the strategies list (need this param when adding strategies). None for use default strategies.
+            model_kwargs (dict): the params for `prepare_online_models`
+        """
+        if strategies is None:
+            strategies = self.strategies
+        for strategy in strategies:
+
+            self.logger.info(f"Strategy `{strategy.name_id}` begins first training...")
+            tasks = strategy.first_tasks()
+            models = self.trainer.train(tasks, experiment_name=strategy.name_id)
+            models = self.trainer.end_train(models, experiment_name=strategy.name_id)
+            self.logger.info(f"Finished training {len(models)} models.")
+
+            online_models = strategy.prepare_online_models(models, **model_kwargs)
+            self.history.setdefault(self.cur_time, {})[strategy] = online_models
+
+    def routine(
+        self,
+        cur_time: Union[str, pd.Timestamp] = None,
+        task_kwargs: dict = {},
+        model_kwargs: dict = {},
+        signal_kwargs: dict = {},
+    ):
+        """
+        Typical update process for every strategy and record the online history.
+
+        The typical update process after a routine, such as day by day or month by month.
+        The process is: Update predictions -> Prepare tasks -> Prepare online models -> Prepare signals.
+
+        If using DelayTrainer, it can finish training all together after every strategy's prepare_tasks.
+
+        Args:
+            cur_time (Union[str,pd.Timestamp], optional): run routine method in this time. Defaults to None.
+            task_kwargs (dict): the params for `prepare_tasks`
+            model_kwargs (dict): the params for `prepare_online_models`
+            signal_kwargs (dict): the params for `prepare_signals`
+        """
+        if cur_time is None:
+            cur_time = D.calendar(freq=self.freq).max()
+        self.cur_time = pd.Timestamp(cur_time)  # None for latest date
+
+        for strategy in self.strategies:
+            self.logger.info(f"Strategy `{strategy.name_id}` begins routine...")
+            if self.status == self.STATUS_NORMAL:
+                strategy.tool.update_online_pred()
+
+            tasks = strategy.prepare_tasks(self.cur_time, **task_kwargs)
+            models = self.trainer.train(tasks)
+            if self.status == self.STATUS_NORMAL or not self.trainer.is_delay():
+                models = self.trainer.end_train(models, experiment_name=strategy.name_id)
+            self.logger.info(f"Finished training {len(models)} models.")
+            online_models = strategy.prepare_online_models(models, **model_kwargs)
+            self.history.setdefault(self.cur_time, {})[strategy] = online_models
+
+        if not self.trainer.is_delay():
+            self.prepare_signals(**signal_kwargs)
+
+    def get_collector(self) -> MergeCollector:
+        """
+        Get the instance of `Collector <../advanced/task_management.html#Task Collecting>`_ to collect results from every strategy.
+        This collector can be a basis as the signals preparation.
+
+        Returns:
+            MergeCollector: the collector to merge other collectors.
+        """
+        collector_dict = {}
+        for strategy in self.strategies:
+            collector_dict[strategy.name_id] = strategy.get_collector()
+        return MergeCollector(collector_dict, process_list=[])
+
+    def add_strategy(self, strategies: Union[OnlineStrategy, List[OnlineStrategy]]):
+        """
+        Add some new strategies to OnlineManager.
+
+        Args:
+            strategy (Union[OnlineStrategy, List[OnlineStrategy]]): a list of OnlineStrategy
+        """
+        if not isinstance(strategies, list):
+            strategies = [strategies]
+        self.first_train(strategies)
+        self.strategies.extend(strategies)
+
+    def prepare_signals(self, prepare_func: Callable = AverageEnsemble(), over_write=False):
+        """
+        After preparing the data of the last routine (a box in box-plot) which means the end of the routine, we can prepare trading signals for the next routine.
+
+        NOTE: Given a set prediction, all signals before these prediction end times will be prepared well.
+
+        Even if the latest signal already exists, the latest calculation result will be overwritten.
+
+        .. note::
+
+            Given a prediction of a certain time, all signals before this time will be prepared well.
+
+        Args:
+            prepare_func (Callable, optional): Get signals from a dict after collecting. Defaults to AverageEnsemble(), the results collected by MergeCollector must be {xxx:pred}.
+            over_write (bool, optional): If True, the new signals will overwrite. If False, the new signals will append to the end of signals. Defaults to False.
+
+        Returns:
+            pd.DataFrame: the signals.
+        """
+        signals = prepare_func(self.get_collector()())
+        old_signals = self.signals
+        if old_signals is not None and not over_write:
+            old_max = old_signals.index.get_level_values("datetime").max()
+            new_signals = signals.loc[old_max:]
+            signals = pd.concat([old_signals, new_signals], axis=0)
+        else:
+            new_signals = signals
+        self.logger.info(f"Finished preparing new {len(new_signals)} signals.")
+        self.signals = signals
+        return new_signals
+
+    def get_signals(self) -> Union[pd.Series, pd.DataFrame]:
+        """
+        Get prepared online signals.
+
+        Returns:
+            Union[pd.Series, pd.DataFrame]: pd.Series for only one signals every datetime.
+            pd.DataFrame for multiple signals, for example, buy and sell operations use different trading signals.
+        """
+        return self.signals
+
+    SIM_LOG_LEVEL = logging.INFO + 1  # when simulating, reduce information
+    SIM_LOG_NAME = "SIMULATE_INFO"
+
+    def simulate(
+        self, end_time, frequency="day", task_kwargs={}, model_kwargs={}, signal_kwargs={}
+    ) -> Union[pd.Series, pd.DataFrame]:
+        """
+        Starting from the current time, this method will simulate every routine in OnlineManager until the end time.
+
+        Considering the parallel training, the models and signals can be prepared after all routine simulating.
+
+        The delay training way can be ``DelayTrainer`` and the delay preparing signals way can be ``delay_prepare``.
+
+        Args:
+            end_time: the time the simulation will end
+            frequency: the calendar frequency
+            task_kwargs (dict): the params for `prepare_tasks`
+            model_kwargs (dict): the params for `prepare_online_models`
+            signal_kwargs (dict): the params for `prepare_signals`
+
+        Returns:
+            Union[pd.Series, pd.DataFrame]: pd.Series for only one signals every datetime.
+            pd.DataFrame for multiple signals, for example, buy and sell operations use different trading signals.
+        """
+        self.status = self.STATUS_SIMULATING
+        cal = D.calendar(start_time=self.cur_time, end_time=end_time, freq=frequency)
+        self.first_train()
+
+        simulate_level = self.SIM_LOG_LEVEL
+        set_global_logger_level(simulate_level)
+        logging.addLevelName(simulate_level, self.SIM_LOG_NAME)
+
+        for cur_time in cal:
+            self.logger.log(level=simulate_level, msg=f"Simulating at {str(cur_time)}......")
+            self.routine(
+                cur_time,
+                task_kwargs=task_kwargs,
+                model_kwargs=model_kwargs,
+                signal_kwargs=signal_kwargs,
+            )
+        # delay prepare the models and signals
+        if self.trainer.is_delay():
+            self.delay_prepare(model_kwargs=model_kwargs, signal_kwargs=signal_kwargs)
+
+        # FIXME: get logging level firstly and restore it here
+        set_global_logger_level(logging.DEBUG)
+        self.logger.info(f"Finished preparing signals")
+        self.status = self.STATUS_NORMAL
+        return self.get_signals()
+
+    def delay_prepare(self, model_kwargs={}, signal_kwargs={}):
+        """
+        Prepare all models and signals if something is waiting for preparation.
+
+        Args:
+            model_kwargs: the params for `end_train`
+            signal_kwargs: the params for `prepare_signals`
+        """
+        last_models = {}
+        signals_time = D.calendar()[0]
+        need_prepare = False
+        for cur_time, strategy_models in self.history.items():
+            self.cur_time = cur_time
+
+            for strategy, models in strategy_models.items():
+                # only new online models need to prepare
+                if last_models.setdefault(strategy, set()) != set(models):
+                    models = self.trainer.end_train(models, experiment_name=strategy.name_id, **model_kwargs)
+                    strategy.tool.reset_online_tag(models)
+                    need_prepare = True
+                last_models[strategy] = set(models)
+
+            if need_prepare:
+                # NOTE: Assumption: the predictions of online models need less than next cur_time, or this method will work in a wrong way.
+                self.prepare_signals(**signal_kwargs)
+                if signals_time > cur_time:
+                    self.logger.warn(
+                        f"The signals have already parpred to {signals_time} by last preparation, but current time is only {cur_time}. This may be because the online models predict more than they should, which can cause signals to be contaminated by the offline models."
+                    )
+                need_prepare = False
+                signals_time = self.signals.index.get_level_values("datetime").max()

qlib/workflow/online/strategy.py

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+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+OnlineStrategy module is an element of online serving.
+"""
+
+from copy import deepcopy
+from typing import List, Tuple, Union
+from qlib.data.data import D
+from qlib.log import get_module_logger
+from qlib.model.ens.group import RollingGroup
+from qlib.workflow.online.utils import OnlineTool, OnlineToolR
+from qlib.workflow.recorder import Recorder
+from qlib.workflow.task.collect import Collector, RecorderCollector
+from qlib.workflow.task.gen import RollingGen, task_generator
+from qlib.workflow.task.utils import TimeAdjuster
+
+
+class OnlineStrategy:
+    """
+    OnlineStrategy is working with `Online Manager <#Online Manager>`_, responding to how the tasks are generated, the models are updated and signals are prepared.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, name_id: str):
+        """
+        Init OnlineStrategy.
+        This module **MUST** use `Trainer <../reference/api.html#Trainer>`_ to finishing model training.
+
+        Args:
+            name_id (str): a unique name or id.
+            trainer (Trainer, optional): a instance of Trainer. Defaults to None.
+        """
+        self.name_id = name_id
+        self.logger = get_module_logger(self.__class__.__name__)
+        self.tool = OnlineTool()
+
+    def prepare_tasks(self, cur_time, **kwargs) -> List[dict]:
+        """
+        After the end of a routine, check whether we need to prepare and train some new tasks based on cur_time (None for latest)..
+        Return the new tasks waiting for training.
+
+        You can find the last online models by OnlineTool.online_models.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Please implement the `prepare_tasks` method.")
+
+    def prepare_online_models(self, trained_models, cur_time=None) -> List[object]:
+        """
+        Select some models from trained models and set them to online models.
+        This is a typical implementation to online all trained models, you can override it to implement the complex method.
+        You can find the last online models by OnlineTool.online_models if you still need them.
+
+        NOTE: Reset all online models to trained models. If there are no trained models, then do nothing.
+
+        Args:
+            models (list): a list of models.
+            cur_time (pd.Dataframe): current time from OnlineManger. None for the latest.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[object]: a list of online models.
+        """
+        if not trained_models:
+            return self.tool.online_models()
+        self.tool.reset_online_tag(trained_models)
+        return trained_models
+
+    def first_tasks(self) -> List[dict]:
+        """
+        Generate a series of tasks firstly and return them.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Please implement the `first_tasks` method.")
+
+    def get_collector(self) -> Collector:
+        """
+        Get the instance of `Collector <../advanced/task_management.html#Task Collecting>`_ to collect different results of this strategy.
+
+        For example:
+            1) collect predictions in Recorder
+            2) collect signals in a txt file
+
+        Returns:
+            Collector
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Please implement the `get_collector` method.")
+
+
+class RollingStrategy(OnlineStrategy):
+
+    """
+    This example strategy always uses the latest rolling model sas online models.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        name_id: str,
+        task_template: Union[dict, List[dict]],
+        rolling_gen: RollingGen,
+    ):
+        """
+        Init RollingStrategy.
+
+        Assumption: the str of name_id, the experiment name, and the trainer's experiment name are the same.
+
+        Args:
+            name_id (str): a unique name or id. Will be also the name of the Experiment.
+            task_template (Union[dict, List[dict]]): a list of task_template or a single template, which will be used to generate many tasks using rolling_gen.
+            rolling_gen (RollingGen): an instance of RollingGen
+        """
+        super().__init__(name_id=name_id)
+        self.exp_name = self.name_id
+        if not isinstance(task_template, list):
+            task_template = [task_template]
+        self.task_template = task_template
+        self.rg = rolling_gen
+        self.tool = OnlineToolR(self.exp_name)
+        self.ta = TimeAdjuster()
+
+    def get_collector(self, process_list=[RollingGroup()], rec_key_func=None, rec_filter_func=None, artifacts_key=None):
+        """
+        Get the instance of `Collector <../advanced/task_management.html#Task Collecting>`_ to collect results. The returned collector must distinguish results in different models.
+
+        Assumption: the models can be distinguished based on the model name and rolling test segments.
+        If you do not want this assumption, please implement your method or use another rec_key_func.
+
+        Args:
+            rec_key_func (Callable): a function to get the key of a recorder. If None, use recorder id.
+            rec_filter_func (Callable, optional): filter the recorder by return True or False. Defaults to None.
+            artifacts_key (List[str], optional): the artifacts key you want to get. If None, get all artifacts.
+        """
+
+        def rec_key(recorder):
+            task_config = recorder.load_object("task")
+            model_key = task_config["model"]["class"]
+            rolling_key = task_config["dataset"]["kwargs"]["segments"]["test"]
+            return model_key, rolling_key
+
+        if rec_key_func is None:
+            rec_key_func = rec_key
+
+        artifacts_collector = RecorderCollector(
+            experiment=self.exp_name,
+            process_list=process_list,
+            rec_key_func=rec_key_func,
+            rec_filter_func=rec_filter_func,
+            artifacts_key=artifacts_key,
+        )
+
+        return artifacts_collector
+
+    def first_tasks(self) -> List[dict]:
+        """
+        Use rolling_gen to generate different tasks based on task_template.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[dict]: a list of tasks
+        """
+        return task_generator(
+            tasks=self.task_template,
+            generators=self.rg,  # generate different date segment
+        )
+
+    def prepare_tasks(self, cur_time) -> List[dict]:
+        """
+        Prepare new tasks based on cur_time (None for the latest).
+
+        You can find the last online models by OnlineToolR.online_models.
+
+        Returns:
+            List[dict]: a list of new tasks.
+        """
+        latest_records, max_test = self._list_latest(self.tool.online_models())
+        if max_test is None:
+            self.logger.warn(f"No latest online recorders, no new tasks.")
+            return []
+        calendar_latest = D.calendar(end_time=cur_time)[-1] if cur_time is None else cur_time
+        self.logger.info(
+            f"The interval between current time {calendar_latest} and last rolling test begin time {max_test[0]} is {self.ta.cal_interval(calendar_latest, max_test[0])}, the rolling step is {self.rg.step}"
+        )
+        if self.ta.cal_interval(calendar_latest, max_test[0]) >= self.rg.step:
+            old_tasks = []
+            tasks_tmp = []
+            for rec in latest_records:
+                task = rec.load_object("task")
+                old_tasks.append(deepcopy(task))
+                test_begin = task["dataset"]["kwargs"]["segments"]["test"][0]
+                # modify the test segment to generate new tasks
+                task["dataset"]["kwargs"]["segments"]["test"] = (test_begin, calendar_latest)
+                tasks_tmp.append(task)
+            new_tasks_tmp = task_generator(tasks_tmp, self.rg)
+            new_tasks = [task for task in new_tasks_tmp if task not in old_tasks]
+            return new_tasks
+        return []
+
+    def _list_latest(self, rec_list: List[Recorder]):
+        """
+        List latest recorder form rec_list
+
+        Args:
+            rec_list (List[Recorder]): a list of Recorder
+
+        Returns:
+            List[Recorder], pd.Timestamp: the latest recorders and their test end time
+        """
+        if len(rec_list) == 0:
+            return rec_list, None
+        max_test = max(rec.load_object("task")["dataset"]["kwargs"]["segments"]["test"] for rec in rec_list)
+        latest_rec = []
+        for rec in rec_list:
+            if rec.load_object("task")["dataset"]["kwargs"]["segments"]["test"] == max_test:
+                latest_rec.append(rec)
+        return latest_rec, max_test

qlib/workflow/online/update.py

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+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+Updater is a module to update artifacts such as predictions when the stock data is updating.
+"""
+
+from abc import ABCMeta, abstractmethod
+
+import pandas as pd
+from qlib import get_module_logger
+from qlib.data import D
+from qlib.data.dataset import DatasetH
+from qlib.data.dataset.handler import DataHandlerLP
+from qlib.model import Model
+from qlib.utils import get_date_by_shift
+from qlib.workflow.recorder import Recorder
+
+
+class RMDLoader:
+    """
+    Recorder Model Dataset Loader
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, rec: Recorder):
+        self.rec = rec
+
+    def get_dataset(self, start_time, end_time, segments=None) -> DatasetH:
+        """
+        Load, config and setup dataset.
+
+        This dataset is for inference.
+
+        Args:
+            start_time :
+                the start_time of underlying data
+            end_time :
+                the end_time of underlying data
+            segments : dict
+                the segments config for dataset
+                Due to the time series dataset (TSDatasetH), the test segments maybe different from start_time and end_time
+
+        Returns:
+            DatasetH: the instance of DatasetH
+
+        """
+        if segments is None:
+            segments = {"test": (start_time, end_time)}
+        dataset: DatasetH = self.rec.load_object("dataset")
+        dataset.config(handler_kwargs={"start_time": start_time, "end_time": end_time}, segments=segments)
+        dataset.setup_data(handler_kwargs={"init_type": DataHandlerLP.IT_LS})
+        return dataset
+
+    def get_model(self) -> Model:
+        return self.rec.load_object("params.pkl")
+
+
+class RecordUpdater(metaclass=ABCMeta):
+    """
+    Update a specific recorders
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, record: Recorder, *args, **kwargs):
+        self.record = record
+        self.logger = get_module_logger(self.__class__.__name__)
+
+    @abstractmethod
+    def update(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """
+        Update info for specific recorder
+        """
+        ...
+
+
+class PredUpdater(RecordUpdater):
+    """
+    Update the prediction in the Recorder
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, record: Recorder, to_date=None, hist_ref: int = 0, freq="day"):
+        """
+        Init PredUpdater.
+
+        Args:
+            record : Recorder
+            to_date :
+                update to prediction to the `to_date`
+            hist_ref : int
+                Sometimes, the dataset will have historical depends.
+                Leave the problem to users to set the length of historical dependency
+
+                .. note::
+
+                    the start_time is not included in the hist_ref
+
+        """
+        # TODO: automate this hist_ref in the future.
+        super().__init__(record=record)
+
+        self.to_date = to_date
+        self.hist_ref = hist_ref
+        self.freq = freq
+        self.rmdl = RMDLoader(rec=record)
+
+        if to_date == None:
+            to_date = D.calendar(freq=freq)[-1]
+        self.to_date = pd.Timestamp(to_date)
+        self.old_pred = record.load_object("pred.pkl")
+        self.last_end = self.old_pred.index.get_level_values("datetime").max()
+
+    def prepare_data(self) -> DatasetH:
+        """
+        Load dataset
+
+        Separating this function will make it easier to reuse the dataset
+
+        Returns:
+            DatasetH: the instance of DatasetH
+        """
+        start_time_buffer = get_date_by_shift(self.last_end, -self.hist_ref + 1, clip_shift=False, freq=self.freq)
+        start_time = get_date_by_shift(self.last_end, 1, freq=self.freq)
+        seg = {"test": (start_time, self.to_date)}
+        dataset = self.rmdl.get_dataset(start_time=start_time_buffer, end_time=self.to_date, segments=seg)
+        return dataset
+
+    def update(self, dataset: DatasetH = None):
+        """
+        Update the prediction in a recorder.
+
+        Args:
+            DatasetH: the instance of DatasetH. None for reprepare.
+        """
+        # FIXME: the problem below is not solved
+        # The model dumped on GPU instances can not be loaded on CPU instance. Follow exception will raised
+        # RuntimeError: Attempting to deserialize object on a CUDA device but torch.cuda.is_available() is False. If you are running on a CPU-only machine, please use torch.load with map_location=torch.device('cpu') to map your storages to the CPU.
+        # https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/16797
+
+        start_time = get_date_by_shift(self.last_end, 1, freq=self.freq)
+        if start_time >= self.to_date:
+            self.logger.info(
+                f"The prediction in {self.record.info['id']} are latest ({start_time}). No need to update to {self.to_date}."
+            )
+            return
+
+        # load dataset
+        if dataset is None:
+            # For reusing the dataset
+            dataset = self.prepare_data()
+
+        # Load model
+        model = self.rmdl.get_model()
+
+        new_pred: pd.Series = model.predict(dataset)
+
+        cb_pred = pd.concat([self.old_pred, new_pred.to_frame("score")], axis=0)
+        cb_pred = cb_pred.sort_index()
+
+        self.record.save_objects(**{"pred.pkl": cb_pred})
+
+        self.logger.info(f"Finish updating new {new_pred.shape[0]} predictions in {self.record.info['id']}.")

qlib/workflow/online/utils.py

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+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+OnlineTool is a module to set and unset a series of `online` models.
+The `online` models are some decisive models in some time points, which can be changed with the change of time.
+This allows us to use efficient submodels as the market-style changing.
+"""
+
+from typing import List, Union
+
+from qlib.log import get_module_logger
+from qlib.workflow.online.update import PredUpdater
+from qlib.workflow.recorder import Recorder
+from qlib.workflow.task.utils import list_recorders
+
+
+class OnlineTool:
+    """
+    OnlineTool will manage `online` models in an experiment that includes the model recorders.
+    """
+
+    ONLINE_KEY = "online_status"  # the online status key in recorder
+    ONLINE_TAG = "online"  # the 'online' model
+    OFFLINE_TAG = "offline"  # the 'offline' model, not for online serving
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        """
+        Init OnlineTool.
+        """
+        self.logger = get_module_logger(self.__class__.__name__)
+
+    def set_online_tag(self, tag, recorder: Union[list, object]):
+        """
+        Set `tag` to the model to sign whether online.
+
+        Args:
+            tag (str): the tags in `ONLINE_TAG`, `OFFLINE_TAG`
+            recorder (Union[list,object]): the model's recorder
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Please implement the `set_online_tag` method.")
+
+    def get_online_tag(self, recorder: object) -> str:
+        """
+        Given a model recorder and return its online tag.
+
+        Args:
+            recorder (Object): the model's recorder
+
+        Returns:
+            str: the online tag
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Please implement the `get_online_tag` method.")
+
+    def reset_online_tag(self, recorder: Union[list, object]):
+        """
+        Offline all models and set the recorders to 'online'.
+
+        Args:
+            recorder (Union[list,object]):
+                the recorder you want to reset to 'online'.
+
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Please implement the `reset_online_tag` method.")
+
+    def online_models(self) -> list:
+        """
+        Get current `online` models
+
+        Returns:
+            list: a list of `online` models.
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Please implement the `online_models` method.")
+
+    def update_online_pred(self, to_date=None):
+        """
+        Update the predictions of `online` models to to_date.
+
+        Args:
+            to_date (pd.Timestamp): the pred before this date will be updated. None for updating to the latest.
+
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Please implement the `update_online_pred` method.")
+
+
+class OnlineToolR(OnlineTool):
+    """
+    The implementation of OnlineTool based on (R)ecorder.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, experiment_name: str):
+        """
+        Init OnlineToolR.
+
+        Args:
+            experiment_name (str): the experiment name.
+        """
+        super().__init__()
+        self.exp_name = experiment_name
+
+    def set_online_tag(self, tag, recorder: Union[Recorder, List]):
+        """
+        Set `tag` to the model's recorder to sign whether online.
+
+        Args:
+            tag (str): the tags in `ONLINE_TAG`, `NEXT_ONLINE_TAG`, `OFFLINE_TAG`
+            recorder (Union[Recorder, List]): a list of Recorder or an instance of Recorder
+        """
+        if isinstance(recorder, Recorder):
+            recorder = [recorder]
+        for rec in recorder:
+            rec.set_tags(**{self.ONLINE_KEY: tag})
+        self.logger.info(f"Set {len(recorder)} models to '{tag}'.")
+
+    def get_online_tag(self, recorder: Recorder) -> str:
+        """
+        Given a model recorder and return its online tag.
+
+        Args:
+            recorder (Recorder): an instance of recorder
+
+        Returns:
+            str: the online tag
+        """
+        tags = recorder.list_tags()
+        return tags.get(self.ONLINE_KEY, self.OFFLINE_TAG)
+
+    def reset_online_tag(self, recorder: Union[Recorder, List]):
+        """
+        Offline all models and set the recorders to 'online'.
+
+        Args:
+            recorder (Union[Recorder, List]):
+                the recorder you want to reset to 'online'.
+
+        """
+        if isinstance(recorder, Recorder):
+            recorder = [recorder]
+        recs = list_recorders(self.exp_name)
+        self.set_online_tag(self.OFFLINE_TAG, list(recs.values()))
+        self.set_online_tag(self.ONLINE_TAG, recorder)
+
+    def online_models(self) -> list:
+        """
+        Get current `online` models
+
+        Returns:
+            list: a list of `online` models.
+        """
+        return list(list_recorders(self.exp_name, lambda rec: self.get_online_tag(rec) == self.ONLINE_TAG).values())
+
+    def update_online_pred(self, to_date=None):
+        """
+        Update the predictions of online models to to_date.
+
+        Args:
+            to_date (pd.Timestamp): the pred before this date will be updated. None for updating to latest time in Calendar.
+        """
+        online_models = self.online_models()
+        for rec in online_models:
+            hist_ref = 0
+            task = rec.load_object("task")
+            # Special treatment of historical dependencies
+            if task["dataset"]["class"] == "TSDatasetH":
+                hist_ref = task["dataset"]["kwargs"]["step_len"]
+            PredUpdater(rec, to_date=to_date, hist_ref=hist_ref).update()
+
+        self.logger.info(f"Finished updating {len(online_models)} online model predictions of {self.exp_name}.")

qlib/workflow/record_temp.py

@@ -151,6 +151,10 @@ class SignalRecord(RecordTemp):
                 del params["data_key"]
                 # The backend handler should be DataHandler
                 raw_label = self.dataset.prepare(**params)
+            except AttributeError:
+                # The data handler is initialize with `drop_raw=True`...
+                # So raw_label is not available
+                raw_label = None
 
             self.recorder.save_objects(**{"label.pkl": raw_label})
             self.dataset.__class__ = orig_cls
@@ -236,6 +240,9 @@ class SigAnaRecord(SignalRecord):
 
         pred = self.load("pred.pkl")
         label = self.load("label.pkl")
+        if label is None or not isinstance(label, pd.DataFrame) or label.empty:
+            logger.warn(f"Empty label.")
+            return
         ic, ric = calc_ic(pred.iloc[:, 0], label.iloc[:, 0])
         metrics = {
             "IC": ic.mean(),

qlib/workflow/recorder.py

@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@ class Recorder:
     def __str__(self):
         return str(self.info)
 
+    def __hash__(self) -> int:
+        return hash(self.info["id"])
+
     @property
     def info(self):
         output = dict()
@@ -232,6 +235,14 @@ class MLflowRecorder(Recorder):
             client=self.client,
         )
 
+    def __hash__(self) -> int:
+        return hash(self.info["id"])
+
+    def __eq__(self, o: object) -> bool:
+        if isinstance(o, MLflowRecorder):
+            return self.info["id"] == o.info["id"]
+        return False
+
     @property
     def uri(self):
         return self._uri

qlib/workflow/task/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+"""
+Task related workflow is implemented in this folder
+
+A typical task workflow
+
+| Step                  | Description                                    |
+|-----------------------+------------------------------------------------|
+| TaskGen               | Generating tasks.                              |
+| TaskManager(optional) | Manage generated tasks                         |
+| run task              | retrive  tasks from TaskManager and run tasks. |
+"""

qlib/workflow/task/collect.py

@@ -0,0 +1,219 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+Collector module can collect objects from everywhere and process them such as merging, grouping, averaging and so on.
+"""
+
+from typing import Callable, Dict, List
+from qlib.utils.serial import Serializable
+from qlib.workflow import R
+
+
+class Collector(Serializable):
+    """The collector to collect different results"""
+
+    pickle_backend = "dill"  # use dill to dump user method
+
+    def __init__(self, process_list=[]):
+        """
+        Init Collector.
+
+        Args:
+            process_list (list or Callable):  the list of processors or the instance of a processor to process dict.
+        """
+        if not isinstance(process_list, list):
+            process_list = [process_list]
+        self.process_list = process_list
+
+    def collect(self) -> dict:
+        """
+        Collect the results and return a dict like {key: things}
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: the dict after collecting.
+
+            For example:
+
+            {"prediction": pd.Series}
+
+            {"IC": {"Xgboost": pd.Series, "LSTM": pd.Series}}
+
+            ......
+        """
+        raise NotImplementedError(f"Please implement the `collect` method.")
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def process_collect(collected_dict, process_list=[], *args, **kwargs) -> dict:
+        """
+        Do a series of processing to the dict returned by collect and return a dict like {key: things}
+        For example, you can group and ensemble.
+
+        Args:
+            collected_dict (dict): the dict return by `collect`
+            process_list (list or Callable): the list of processors or the instance of a processor to process dict.
+            The processor order is the same as the list order.
+                For example: [Group1(..., Ensemble1()), Group2(..., Ensemble2())]
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: the dict after processing.
+        """
+        if not isinstance(process_list, list):
+            process_list = [process_list]
+        result = {}
+        for artifact in collected_dict:
+            value = collected_dict[artifact]
+            for process in process_list:
+                if not callable(process):
+                    raise NotImplementedError(f"{type(process)} is not supported in `process_collect`.")
+                value = process(value, *args, **kwargs)
+            result[artifact] = value
+        return result
+
+    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs) -> dict:
+        """
+        Do the workflow including ``collect`` and ``process_collect``
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: the dict after collecting and processing.
+        """
+        collected = self.collect()
+        return self.process_collect(collected, self.process_list, *args, **kwargs)
+
+
+class MergeCollector(Collector):
+    """
+    A collector to collect the results of other Collectors
+
+    For example:
+
+        We have 2 collector, which named A and B.
+        A can collect {"prediction": pd.Series} and B can collect {"IC": {"Xgboost": pd.Series, "LSTM": pd.Series}}.
+        Then after this class's collect, we can collect {"A_prediction": pd.Series, "B_IC": {"Xgboost": pd.Series, "LSTM": pd.Series}}
+
+        ......
+
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, collector_dict: Dict[str, Collector], process_list: List[Callable] = [], merge_func=None):
+        """
+        Init MergeCollector.
+
+        Args:
+            collector_dict (Dict[str,Collector]): the dict like {collector_key, Collector}
+            process_list (List[Callable]): the list of processors or the instance of processor to process dict.
+            merge_func (Callable): a method to generate outermost key. The given params are ``collector_key`` from collector_dict and ``key`` from every collector after collecting.
+                None for using tuple to connect them, such as "ABC"+("a","b") -> ("ABC", ("a","b")).
+        """
+        super().__init__(process_list=process_list)
+        self.collector_dict = collector_dict
+        self.merge_func = merge_func
+
+    def collect(self) -> dict:
+        """
+        Collect all results of collector_dict and change the outermost key to a recombination key.
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: the dict after collecting.
+        """
+        collect_dict = {}
+        for collector_key, collector in self.collector_dict.items():
+            tmp_dict = collector()
+            for key, value in tmp_dict.items():
+                if self.merge_func is not None:
+                    collect_dict[self.merge_func(collector_key, key)] = value
+                else:
+                    collect_dict[(collector_key, key)] = value
+        return collect_dict
+
+
+class RecorderCollector(Collector):
+    ART_KEY_RAW = "__raw"
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        experiment,
+        process_list=[],
+        rec_key_func=None,
+        rec_filter_func=None,
+        artifacts_path={"pred": "pred.pkl"},
+        artifacts_key=None,
+    ):
+        """
+        Init RecorderCollector.
+
+        Args:
+            experiment (Experiment or str): an instance of an Experiment or the name of an Experiment
+            process_list (list or Callable): the list of processors or the instance of a processor to process dict.
+            rec_key_func (Callable): a function to get the key of a recorder. If None, use recorder id.
+            rec_filter_func (Callable, optional): filter the recorder by return True or False. Defaults to None.
+            artifacts_path (dict, optional): The artifacts name and its path in Recorder. Defaults to {"pred": "pred.pkl", "IC": "sig_analysis/ic.pkl"}.
+            artifacts_key (str or List, optional): the artifacts key you want to get. If None, get all artifacts.
+        """
+        super().__init__(process_list=process_list)
+        if isinstance(experiment, str):
+            experiment = R.get_exp(experiment_name=experiment)
+        self.experiment = experiment
+        self.artifacts_path = artifacts_path
+        if rec_key_func is None:
+            rec_key_func = lambda rec: rec.info["id"]
+        if artifacts_key is None:
+            artifacts_key = list(self.artifacts_path.keys())
+        self.rec_key_func = rec_key_func
+        self.artifacts_key = artifacts_key
+        self.rec_filter_func = rec_filter_func
+
+    def collect(self, artifacts_key=None, rec_filter_func=None, only_exist=True) -> dict:
+        """
+        Collect different artifacts based on recorder after filtering.
+
+        Args:
+            artifacts_key (str or List, optional): the artifacts key you want to get. If None, use the default.
+            rec_filter_func (Callable, optional): filter the recorder by return True or False. If None, use the default.
+            only_exist (bool, optional): if only collect the artifacts when a recorder really has.
+                If True, the recorder with exception when loading will not be collected. But if False, it will raise the exception.
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: the dict after collected like {artifact: {rec_key: object}}
+        """
+        if artifacts_key is None:
+            artifacts_key = self.artifacts_key
+        if rec_filter_func is None:
+            rec_filter_func = self.rec_filter_func
+
+        if isinstance(artifacts_key, str):
+            artifacts_key = [artifacts_key]
+
+        collect_dict = {}
+        # filter records
+        recs = self.experiment.list_recorders()
+        recs_flt = {}
+        for rid, rec in recs.items():
+            if rec_filter_func is None or rec_filter_func(rec):
+                recs_flt[rid] = rec
+
+        for _, rec in recs_flt.items():
+            rec_key = self.rec_key_func(rec)
+            for key in artifacts_key:
+                if self.ART_KEY_RAW == key:
+                    artifact = rec
+                else:
+                    try:
+                        artifact = rec.load_object(self.artifacts_path[key])
+                    except Exception as e:
+                        if only_exist:
+                            # only collect existing artifact
+                            continue
+                        raise e
+                collect_dict.setdefault(key, {})[rec_key] = artifact
+
+        return collect_dict
+
+    def get_exp_name(self) -> str:
+        """
+        Get experiment name
+
+        Returns:
+            str: experiment name
+        """
+        return self.experiment.name

qlib/workflow/task/gen.py

@@ -0,0 +1,231 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+"""
+TaskGenerator module can generate many tasks based on TaskGen and some task templates.
+"""
+import abc
+import copy
+from typing import List, Union, Callable
+from .utils import TimeAdjuster
+
+
+def task_generator(tasks, generators) -> list:
+    """
+    Use a list of TaskGen and a list of task templates to generate different tasks.
+
+    For examples:
+
+        There are 3 task templates a,b,c and 2 TaskGen A,B. A will generates 2 tasks from a template and B will generates 3 tasks from a template.
+        task_generator([a, b, c], [A, B]) will finally generate 3*2*3 = 18 tasks.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    tasks : List[dict] or dict
+        a list of task templates or a single task
+    generators : List[TaskGen] or TaskGen
+        a list of TaskGen or a single TaskGen
+
+    Returns
+    -------
+    list
+        a list of tasks
+    """
+
+    if isinstance(tasks, dict):
+        tasks = [tasks]
+    if isinstance(generators, TaskGen):
+        generators = [generators]
+
+    # generate gen_task_list
+    for gen in generators:
+        new_task_list = []
+        for task in tasks:
+            new_task_list.extend(gen.generate(task))
+        tasks = new_task_list
+
+    return tasks
+
+
+class TaskGen(metaclass=abc.ABCMeta):
+    """
+    The base class for generating different tasks
+
+    Example 1:
+
+        input: a specific task template and rolling steps
+
+        output: rolling version of the tasks
+
+    Example 2:
+
+        input: a specific task template and losses list
+
+        output: a set of tasks with different losses
+
+    """
+
+    @abc.abstractmethod
+    def generate(self, task: dict) -> List[dict]:
+        """
+        Generate different tasks based on a task template
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        task: dict
+            a task template
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        typing.List[dict]:
+            A list of tasks
+        """
+        pass
+
+    def __call__(self, *args, **kwargs):
+        """
+        This is just a syntactic sugar for generate
+        """
+        return self.generate(*args, **kwargs)
+
+
+def handler_mod(task: dict, rolling_gen):
+    """
+    Help to modify the handler end time when using RollingGen
+
+    Args:
+        task (dict): a task template
+        rg (RollingGen): an instance of RollingGen
+    """
+    try:
+        interval = rolling_gen.ta.cal_interval(
+            task["dataset"]["kwargs"]["handler"]["kwargs"]["end_time"],
+            task["dataset"]["kwargs"]["segments"][rolling_gen.test_key][1],
+        )
+        # if end_time < the end of test_segments, then change end_time to allow load more data
+        if interval < 0:
+            task["dataset"]["kwargs"]["handler"]["kwargs"]["end_time"] = copy.deepcopy(
+                task["dataset"]["kwargs"]["segments"][rolling_gen.test_key][1]
+            )
+    except KeyError:
+        # Maybe dataset do not have handler, then do nothing.
+        pass
+
+
+class RollingGen(TaskGen):
+    ROLL_EX = TimeAdjuster.SHIFT_EX  # fixed start date, expanding end date
+    ROLL_SD = TimeAdjuster.SHIFT_SD  # fixed segments size, slide it from start date
+
+    def __init__(self, step: int = 40, rtype: str = ROLL_EX, ds_extra_mod_func: Union[None, Callable] = handler_mod):
+        """
+        Generate tasks for rolling
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        step : int
+            step to rolling
+        rtype : str
+            rolling type (expanding, sliding)
+        ds_extra_mod_func: Callable
+            A method like: handler_mod(task: dict, rg: RollingGen)
+            Do some extra action after generating a task. For example, use ``handler_mod`` to modify the end time of the handler of a dataset.
+        """
+        self.step = step
+        self.rtype = rtype
+        self.ds_extra_mod_func = ds_extra_mod_func
+        self.ta = TimeAdjuster(future=True)
+
+        self.test_key = "test"
+        self.train_key = "train"
+
+    def generate(self, task: dict) -> List[dict]:
+        """
+        Converting the task into a rolling task.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        task: dict
+            A dict describing a task. For example.
+
+            .. code-block:: python
+
+                DEFAULT_TASK = {
+                    "model": {
+                        "class": "LGBModel",
+                        "module_path": "qlib.contrib.model.gbdt",
+                    },
+                    "dataset": {
+                        "class": "DatasetH",
+                        "module_path": "qlib.data.dataset",
+                        "kwargs": {
+                            "handler": {
+                                "class": "Alpha158",
+                                "module_path": "qlib.contrib.data.handler",
+                                "kwargs": {
+                                    "start_time": "2008-01-01",
+                                    "end_time": "2020-08-01",
+                                    "fit_start_time": "2008-01-01",
+                                    "fit_end_time": "2014-12-31",
+                                    "instruments": "csi100",
+                                },
+                            },
+                            "segments": {
+                                "train": ("2008-01-01", "2014-12-31"),
+                                "valid": ("2015-01-01", "2016-12-20"),  # Please avoid leaking the future test data into validation
+                                "test": ("2017-01-01", "2020-08-01"),
+                            },
+                        },
+                    },
+                    "record": [
+                        {
+                            "class": "SignalRecord",
+                            "module_path": "qlib.workflow.record_temp",
+                        },
+                    ]
+                }
+
+        Returns
+        ----------
+        List[dict]: a list of tasks
+        """
+        res = []
+
+        prev_seg = None
+        test_end = None
+        while True:
+            t = copy.deepcopy(task)
+
+            # calculate segments
+            if prev_seg is None:
+                # First rolling
+                # 1) prepare the end point
+                segments: dict = copy.deepcopy(self.ta.align_seg(t["dataset"]["kwargs"]["segments"]))
+                test_end = self.ta.max() if segments[self.test_key][1] is None else segments[self.test_key][1]
+                # 2) and init test segments
+                test_start_idx = self.ta.align_idx(segments[self.test_key][0])
+                segments[self.test_key] = (self.ta.get(test_start_idx), self.ta.get(test_start_idx + self.step - 1))
+            else:
+                segments = {}
+                try:
+                    for k, seg in prev_seg.items():
+                        # decide how to shift
+                        # expanding only for train data, the segments size of test data and valid data won't change
+                        if k == self.train_key and self.rtype == self.ROLL_EX:
+                            rtype = self.ta.SHIFT_EX
+                        else:
+                            rtype = self.ta.SHIFT_SD
+                        # shift the segments data
+                        segments[k] = self.ta.shift(seg, step=self.step, rtype=rtype)
+                    if segments[self.test_key][0] > test_end:
+                        break
+                except KeyError:
+                    # We reach the end of tasks
+                    # No more rolling
+                    break
+
+            # update segments of this task
+            t["dataset"]["kwargs"]["segments"] = copy.deepcopy(segments)
+            prev_seg = segments
+            if self.ds_extra_mod_func is not None:
+                self.ds_extra_mod_func(t, self)
+            res.append(t)
+        return res

qlib/workflow/task/manage.py

@@ -0,0 +1,493 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+TaskManager can fetch unused tasks automatically and manage the lifecycle of a set of tasks with error handling.
+These features can run tasks concurrently and ensure every task will be used only once.
+Task Manager will store all tasks in `MongoDB <https://www.mongodb.com/>`_.
+Users **MUST** finished the configuration of `MongoDB <https://www.mongodb.com/>`_ when using this module.
+
+A task in TaskManager consists of 3 parts
+- tasks description: the desc will define the task
+- tasks status: the status of the task
+- tasks result: A user can get the task with the task description and task result.
+"""
+import concurrent
+import pickle
+import time
+from contextlib import contextmanager
+from typing import Callable, List
+
+import fire
+import pymongo
+from bson.binary import Binary
+from bson.objectid import ObjectId
+from pymongo.errors import InvalidDocument
+from qlib import auto_init, get_module_logger
+from tqdm.cli import tqdm
+
+from .utils import get_mongodb
+
+
+class TaskManager:
+    """
+    TaskManager
+
+    Here is what will a task looks like when it created by TaskManager
+
+    .. code-block:: python
+
+        {
+            'def': pickle serialized task definition.  using pickle will make it easier
+            'filter': json-like data. This is for filtering the tasks.
+            'status': 'waiting' | 'running' | 'done'
+            'res': pickle serialized task result,
+        }
+
+    The tasks manager assumes that you will only update the tasks you fetched.
+    The mongo fetch one and update will make it date updating secure.
+
+    .. note::
+
+        Assumption: the data in MongoDB was encoded and the data out of MongoDB was decoded
+
+    Here are four status which are:
+
+        STATUS_WAITING: waiting for training
+
+        STATUS_RUNNING: training
+
+        STATUS_PART_DONE: finished some step and waiting for next step
+
+        STATUS_DONE: all work done
+    """
+
+    STATUS_WAITING = "waiting"
+    STATUS_RUNNING = "running"
+    STATUS_DONE = "done"
+    STATUS_PART_DONE = "part_done"
+
+    ENCODE_FIELDS_PREFIX = ["def", "res"]
+
+    def __init__(self, task_pool: str = None):
+        """
+        Init Task Manager, remember to make the statement of MongoDB url and database name firstly.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        task_pool: str
+            the name of Collection in MongoDB
+        """
+        self.mdb = get_mongodb()
+        if task_pool is not None:
+            self.task_pool = getattr(self.mdb, task_pool)
+        self.logger = get_module_logger(self.__class__.__name__)
+
+    def list(self) -> list:
+        """
+        List the all collection(task_pool) of the db
+
+        Returns:
+            list
+        """
+        return self.mdb.list_collection_names()
+
+    def _encode_task(self, task):
+        for prefix in self.ENCODE_FIELDS_PREFIX:
+            for k in list(task.keys()):
+                if k.startswith(prefix):
+                    task[k] = Binary(pickle.dumps(task[k]))
+        return task
+
+    def _decode_task(self, task):
+        for prefix in self.ENCODE_FIELDS_PREFIX:
+            for k in list(task.keys()):
+                if k.startswith(prefix):
+                    task[k] = pickle.loads(task[k])
+        return task
+
+    def _dict_to_str(self, flt):
+        return {k: str(v) for k, v in flt.items()}
+
+    def replace_task(self, task, new_task):
+        """
+        Use a new task to replace a old one
+
+        Args:
+            task: old task
+            new_task: new task
+        """
+        new_task = self._encode_task(new_task)
+        query = {"_id": ObjectId(task["_id"])}
+        try:
+            self.task_pool.replace_one(query, new_task)
+        except InvalidDocument:
+            task["filter"] = self._dict_to_str(task["filter"])
+            self.task_pool.replace_one(query, new_task)
+
+    def insert_task(self, task):
+        """
+        Insert a task.
+
+        Args:
+            task: the task waiting for insert
+
+        Returns:
+            pymongo.results.InsertOneResult
+        """
+        try:
+            insert_result = self.task_pool.insert_one(task)
+        except InvalidDocument:
+            task["filter"] = self._dict_to_str(task["filter"])
+            insert_result = self.task_pool.insert_one(task)
+        return insert_result
+
+    def insert_task_def(self, task_def):
+        """
+        Insert a task to task_pool
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        task_def: dict
+            the task definition
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        pymongo.results.InsertOneResult
+        """
+        task = self._encode_task(
+            {
+                "def": task_def,
+                "filter": task_def,  # FIXME: catch the raised error
+                "status": self.STATUS_WAITING,
+            }
+        )
+        insert_result = self.insert_task(task)
+        return insert_result
+
+    def create_task(self, task_def_l, dry_run=False, print_nt=False) -> List[str]:
+        """
+        If the tasks in task_def_l are new, then insert new tasks into the task_pool, and record inserted_id.
+        If a task is not new, then just query its _id.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        task_def_l: list
+            a list of task
+        dry_run: bool
+            if insert those new tasks to task pool
+        print_nt: bool
+            if print new task
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        List[str]
+            a list of the _id of task_def_l
+        """
+        new_tasks = []
+        _id_list = []
+        for t in task_def_l:
+            try:
+                r = self.task_pool.find_one({"filter": t})
+            except InvalidDocument:
+                r = self.task_pool.find_one({"filter": self._dict_to_str(t)})
+            if r is None:
+                new_tasks.append(t)
+                if not dry_run:
+                    insert_result = self.insert_task_def(t)
+                    _id_list.append(insert_result.inserted_id)
+                else:
+                    _id_list.append(None)
+            else:
+                _id_list.append(self._decode_task(r)["_id"])
+
+        self.logger.info(f"Total Tasks: {len(task_def_l)}, New Tasks: {len(new_tasks)}")
+
+        if print_nt:  # print new task
+            for t in new_tasks:
+                print(t)
+
+        if dry_run:
+            return []
+
+        return _id_list
+
+    def fetch_task(self, query={}, status=STATUS_WAITING) -> dict:
+        """
+        Use query to fetch tasks.
+
+        Args:
+            query (dict, optional): query dict. Defaults to {}.
+            status (str, optional): [description]. Defaults to STATUS_WAITING.
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: a task(document in collection) after decoding
+        """
+        query = query.copy()
+        if "_id" in query:
+            query["_id"] = ObjectId(query["_id"])
+        query.update({"status": status})
+        task = self.task_pool.find_one_and_update(
+            query, {"$set": {"status": self.STATUS_RUNNING}}, sort=[("priority", pymongo.DESCENDING)]
+        )
+        # null will be at the top after sorting when using ASCENDING, so the larger the number higher, the higher the priority
+        if task is None:
+            return None
+        task["status"] = self.STATUS_RUNNING
+        return self._decode_task(task)
+
+    @contextmanager
+    def safe_fetch_task(self, query={}, status=STATUS_WAITING):
+        """
+        Fetch task from task_pool using query with contextmanager
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        query: dict
+            the dict of query
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        dict: a task(document in collection) after decoding
+        """
+        task = self.fetch_task(query=query, status=status)
+        try:
+            yield task
+        except Exception:
+            if task is not None:
+                self.logger.info("Returning task before raising error")
+                self.return_task(task)
+                self.logger.info("Task returned")
+            raise
+
+    def task_fetcher_iter(self, query={}):
+        while True:
+            with self.safe_fetch_task(query=query) as task:
+                if task is None:
+                    break
+                yield task
+
+    def query(self, query={}, decode=True):
+        """
+        Query task in collection.
+        This function may raise exception `pymongo.errors.CursorNotFound: cursor id not found` if it takes too long to iterate the generator
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        query: dict
+            the dict of query
+        decode: bool
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        dict: a task(document in collection) after decoding
+        """
+        query = query.copy()
+        if "_id" in query:
+            query["_id"] = ObjectId(query["_id"])
+        for t in self.task_pool.find(query):
+            yield self._decode_task(t)
+
+    def re_query(self, _id):
+        """
+        Use _id to query task.
+
+        Args:
+            _id (str): _id of a document
+
+        Returns:
+            dict: a task(document in collection) after decoding
+        """
+        t = self.task_pool.find_one({"_id": ObjectId(_id)})
+        return self._decode_task(t)
+
+    def commit_task_res(self, task, res, status=STATUS_DONE):
+        """
+        Commit the result to task['res'].
+
+        Args:
+            task ([type]): [description]
+            res (object): the result you want to save
+            status (str, optional): STATUS_WAITING, STATUS_RUNNING, STATUS_DONE, STATUS_PART_DONE. Defaults to STATUS_DONE.
+        """
+        # A workaround to use the class attribute.
+        if status is None:
+            status = TaskManager.STATUS_DONE
+        self.task_pool.update_one({"_id": task["_id"]}, {"$set": {"status": status, "res": Binary(pickle.dumps(res))}})
+
+    def return_task(self, task, status=STATUS_WAITING):
+        """
+        Return a task to status. Alway using in error handling.
+
+        Args:
+            task ([type]): [description]
+            status (str, optional): STATUS_WAITING, STATUS_RUNNING, STATUS_DONE, STATUS_PART_DONE. Defaults to STATUS_WAITING.
+        """
+        if status is None:
+            status = TaskManager.STATUS_WAITING
+        update_dict = {"$set": {"status": status}}
+        self.task_pool.update_one({"_id": task["_id"]}, update_dict)
+
+    def remove(self, query={}):
+        """
+        Remove the task using query
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        query: dict
+            the dict of query
+
+        """
+        query = query.copy()
+        if "_id" in query:
+            query["_id"] = ObjectId(query["_id"])
+        self.task_pool.delete_many(query)
+
+    def task_stat(self, query={}) -> dict:
+        """
+        Count the tasks in every status.
+
+        Args:
+            query (dict, optional): the query dict. Defaults to {}.
+
+        Returns:
+            dict
+        """
+        query = query.copy()
+        if "_id" in query:
+            query["_id"] = ObjectId(query["_id"])
+        tasks = self.query(query=query, decode=False)
+        status_stat = {}
+        for t in tasks:
+            status_stat[t["status"]] = status_stat.get(t["status"], 0) + 1
+        return status_stat
+
+    def reset_waiting(self, query={}):
+        """
+        Reset all running task into waiting status. Can be used when some running task exit unexpected.
+
+        Args:
+            query (dict, optional): the query dict. Defaults to {}.
+        """
+        query = query.copy()
+        # default query
+        if "status" not in query:
+            query["status"] = self.STATUS_RUNNING
+        return self.reset_status(query=query, status=self.STATUS_WAITING)
+
+    def reset_status(self, query, status):
+        query = query.copy()
+        if "_id" in query:
+            query["_id"] = ObjectId(query["_id"])
+        print(self.task_pool.update_many(query, {"$set": {"status": status}}))
+
+    def prioritize(self, task, priority: int):
+        """
+        Set priority for task
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        task : dict
+            The task query from the database
+        priority : int
+            the target priority
+        """
+        update_dict = {"$set": {"priority": priority}}
+        self.task_pool.update_one({"_id": task["_id"]}, update_dict)
+
+    def _get_undone_n(self, task_stat):
+        return task_stat.get(self.STATUS_WAITING, 0) + task_stat.get(self.STATUS_RUNNING, 0)
+
+    def _get_total(self, task_stat):
+        return sum(task_stat.values())
+
+    def wait(self, query={}):
+        task_stat = self.task_stat(query)
+        total = self._get_total(task_stat)
+        last_undone_n = self._get_undone_n(task_stat)
+        with tqdm(total=total, initial=total - last_undone_n) as pbar:
+            while True:
+                time.sleep(10)
+                undone_n = self._get_undone_n(self.task_stat(query))
+                pbar.update(last_undone_n - undone_n)
+                last_undone_n = undone_n
+                if undone_n == 0:
+                    break
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return f"TaskManager({self.task_pool})"
+
+
+def run_task(
+    task_func: Callable,
+    task_pool: str,
+    query: dict = {},
+    force_release: bool = False,
+    before_status: str = TaskManager.STATUS_WAITING,
+    after_status: str = TaskManager.STATUS_DONE,
+    **kwargs,
+):
+    """
+    While the task pool is not empty (has WAITING tasks), use task_func to fetch and run tasks in task_pool
+
+    After running this method, here are 4 situations (before_status -> after_status):
+
+        STATUS_WAITING -> STATUS_DONE: use task["def"] as `task_func` param
+
+        STATUS_WAITING -> STATUS_PART_DONE: use task["def"] as `task_func` param
+
+        STATUS_PART_DONE -> STATUS_PART_DONE: use task["res"] as `task_func` param
+
+        STATUS_PART_DONE -> STATUS_DONE: use task["res"] as `task_func` param
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    task_func : Callable
+        def (task_def, **kwargs) -> <res which will be committed>
+            the function to run the task
+    task_pool : str
+        the name of the task pool (Collection in MongoDB)
+    query: dict
+        will use this dict to query task_pool when fetching task
+    force_release : bool
+        will the program force to release the resource
+    before_status : str:
+        the tasks in before_status will be fetched and trained. Can be STATUS_WAITING, STATUS_PART_DONE.
+    after_status : str:
+        the tasks after trained will become after_status. Can be STATUS_WAITING, STATUS_PART_DONE.
+    kwargs
+        the params for `task_func`
+    """
+    tm = TaskManager(task_pool)
+
+    ever_run = False
+
+    while True:
+        with tm.safe_fetch_task(status=before_status, query=query) as task:
+            if task is None:
+                break
+            get_module_logger("run_task").info(task["def"])
+            # when fetching `WAITING` task, use task["def"] to train
+            if before_status == TaskManager.STATUS_WAITING:
+                param = task["def"]
+            # when fetching `PART_DONE` task, use task["res"] to train because the middle result has been saved to task["res"]
+            elif before_status == TaskManager.STATUS_PART_DONE:
+                param = task["res"]
+            else:
+                raise ValueError("The fetched task must be `STATUS_WAITING` or `STATUS_PART_DONE`!")
+            if force_release:
+                with concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutor(max_workers=1) as executor:
+                    res = executor.submit(task_func, param, **kwargs).result()
+            else:
+                res = task_func(param, **kwargs)
+            tm.commit_task_res(task, res, status=after_status)
+            ever_run = True
+
+    return ever_run
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    # This is for using it in cmd
+    # E.g. : `python -m qlib.workflow.task.manage list`
+    auto_init()
+    fire.Fire(TaskManager)

qlib/workflow/task/utils.py

@@ -0,0 +1,258 @@
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""
+Some tools for task management.
+"""
+
+import bisect
+import pandas as pd
+from qlib.data import D
+from qlib.workflow import R
+from qlib.config import C
+from qlib.log import get_module_logger
+from pymongo import MongoClient
+from pymongo.database import Database
+from typing import Union
+
+
+def get_mongodb() -> Database:
+
+    """
+    Get database in MongoDB, which means you need to declare the address and the name of a database at first.
+
+    For example:
+
+        Using qlib.init():
+
+            mongo_conf = {
+                "task_url": task_url,  # your MongoDB url
+                "task_db_name": task_db_name,  # database name
+            }
+            qlib.init(..., mongo=mongo_conf)
+
+        After qlib.init():
+
+            C["mongo"] = {
+                "task_url" : "mongodb://localhost:27017/",
+                "task_db_name" : "rolling_db"
+            }
+
+    Returns:
+        Database: the Database instance
+    """
+    try:
+        cfg = C["mongo"]
+    except KeyError:
+        get_module_logger("task").error("Please configure `C['mongo']` before using TaskManager")
+        raise
+
+    client = MongoClient(cfg["task_url"])
+    return client.get_database(name=cfg["task_db_name"])
+
+
+def list_recorders(experiment, rec_filter_func=None):
+    """
+    List all recorders which can pass the filter in an experiment.
+
+    Args:
+        experiment (str or Experiment): the name of an Experiment or an instance
+        rec_filter_func (Callable, optional): return True to retain the given recorder. Defaults to None.
+
+    Returns:
+        dict: a dict {rid: recorder} after filtering.
+    """
+    if isinstance(experiment, str):
+        experiment = R.get_exp(experiment_name=experiment)
+    recs = experiment.list_recorders()
+    recs_flt = {}
+    for rid, rec in recs.items():
+        if rec_filter_func is None or rec_filter_func(rec):
+            recs_flt[rid] = rec
+
+    return recs_flt
+
+
+class TimeAdjuster:
+    """
+    Find appropriate date and adjust date.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, future=True, end_time=None):
+        self._future = future
+        self.cals = D.calendar(future=future, end_time=end_time)
+
+    def set_end_time(self, end_time=None):
+        """
+        Set end time. None for use calendar's end time.
+
+        Args:
+            end_time
+        """
+        self.cals = D.calendar(future=self._future, end_time=end_time)
+
+    def get(self, idx: int):
+        """
+        Get datetime by index.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        idx : int
+            index of the calendar
+        """
+        if idx >= len(self.cals):
+            return None
+        return self.cals[idx]
+
+    def max(self) -> pd.Timestamp:
+        """
+        Return the max calendar datetime
+        """
+        return max(self.cals)
+
+    def align_idx(self, time_point, tp_type="start") -> int:
+        """
+        Align the index of time_point in the calendar.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        time_point
+        tp_type : str
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        index : int
+        """
+        time_point = pd.Timestamp(time_point)
+        if tp_type == "start":
+            idx = bisect.bisect_left(self.cals, time_point)
+        elif tp_type == "end":
+            idx = bisect.bisect_right(self.cals, time_point) - 1
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError(f"This type of input is not supported")
+        return idx
+
+    def cal_interval(self, time_point_A, time_point_B) -> int:
+        """
+        Calculate the trading day interval (time_point_A - time_point_B)
+
+        Args:
+            time_point_A : time_point_A
+            time_point_B : time_point_B (is the past of time_point_A)
+
+        Returns:
+            int: the interval between A and B
+        """
+        return self.align_idx(time_point_A) - self.align_idx(time_point_B)
+
+    def align_time(self, time_point, tp_type="start") -> pd.Timestamp:
+        """
+        Align time_point to trade date of calendar
+
+        Args:
+            time_point
+                Time point
+            tp_type : str
+                time point type (`"start"`, `"end"`)
+
+        Returns:
+            pd.Timestamp
+        """
+        return self.cals[self.align_idx(time_point, tp_type=tp_type)]
+
+    def align_seg(self, segment: Union[dict, tuple]) -> Union[dict, tuple]:
+        """
+        Align the given date to the trade date
+
+        for example:
+
+            .. code-block:: python
+
+                input: {'train': ('2008-01-01', '2014-12-31'), 'valid': ('2015-01-01', '2016-12-31'), 'test': ('2017-01-01', '2020-08-01')}
+
+                output: {'train': (Timestamp('2008-01-02 00:00:00'), Timestamp('2014-12-31 00:00:00')),
+                        'valid': (Timestamp('2015-01-05 00:00:00'), Timestamp('2016-12-30 00:00:00')),
+                        'test': (Timestamp('2017-01-03 00:00:00'), Timestamp('2020-07-31 00:00:00'))}
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        segment
+
+        Returns
+        -------
+        Union[dict, tuple]: the start and end trade date (pd.Timestamp) between the given start and end date.
+        """
+        if isinstance(segment, dict):
+            return {k: self.align_seg(seg) for k, seg in segment.items()}
+        elif isinstance(segment, tuple) or isinstance(segment, list):
+            return self.align_time(segment[0], tp_type="start"), self.align_time(segment[1], tp_type="end")
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError(f"This type of input is not supported")
+
+    def truncate(self, segment: tuple, test_start, days: int) -> tuple:
+        """
+        Truncate the segment based on the test_start date
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        segment : tuple
+            time segment
+        test_start
+        days : int
+            The trading days to be truncated
+            the data in this segment may need 'days' data
+
+        Returns
+        ---------
+        tuple: new segment
+        """
+        test_idx = self.align_idx(test_start)
+        if isinstance(segment, tuple):
+            new_seg = []
+            for time_point in segment:
+                tp_idx = min(self.align_idx(time_point), test_idx - days)
+                assert tp_idx > 0
+                new_seg.append(self.get(tp_idx))
+            return tuple(new_seg)
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError(f"This type of input is not supported")
+
+    SHIFT_SD = "sliding"
+    SHIFT_EX = "expanding"
+
+    def shift(self, seg: tuple, step: int, rtype=SHIFT_SD) -> tuple:
+        """
+        Shift the datatime of segment
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        seg :
+            datetime segment
+        step : int
+            rolling step
+        rtype : str
+            rolling type ("sliding" or "expanding")
+
+        Returns
+        --------
+        tuple: new segment
+
+        Raises
+        ------
+        KeyError:
+            shift will raise error if the index(both start and end) is out of self.cal
+        """
+        if isinstance(seg, tuple):
+            start_idx, end_idx = self.align_idx(seg[0], tp_type="start"), self.align_idx(seg[1], tp_type="end")
+            if rtype == self.SHIFT_SD:
+                start_idx += step
+                end_idx += step
+            elif rtype == self.SHIFT_EX:
+                end_idx += step
+            else:
+                raise NotImplementedError(f"This type of input is not supported")
+            if start_idx > len(self.cals):
+                raise KeyError("The segment is out of valid calendar")
+            return self.get(start_idx), self.get(end_idx)
+        else:
+            raise NotImplementedError(f"This type of input is not supported")

setup.py

@@ -55,7 +55,9 @@ REQUIRED = [
     "tornado",
     "joblib>=0.17.0",
     "ruamel.yaml>=0.16.12",
+    "pymongo==3.7.2",  # For task management
     "scikit-learn>=0.22",
+    "dill",
 ]
 
 # Numpy include