[doc] Add DataPipeline + Callbacks + Registry (#207)

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Co-authored-by: Kaushik B <[email protected]>

.github/workflows/ci-testing.yml

@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ jobs:
     - name: Setup macOS
       if: runner.os == 'macOS'
       run: |
+        brew update
         brew install libomp  # https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/20030
 
     - name: Set min. dependencies

docs/source/custom_task.rst

@@ -1,29 +1,54 @@
 Tutorial: Creating a Custom Task
 ================================
 
-In this tutorial we will go over the process of creating a custom task,
-along with a custom data module.
+In this tutorial we will go over the process of creating a custom :class:`~flash.core.model.Task`,
+along with a custom :class:`~flash.data.data_module.DataModule`.
+
+
+The tutorial objective is to create a ``RegressionTask`` to learn to predict if someone has ``diabetes`` or not.
+We will use ``scikit-learn`` `Diabetes dataset <https://scikit-learn.org/stable/datasets/toy_dataset.html#diabetes-dataset>`__.
+which is stored as numpy arrays.
+
+.. note::
+
+    Find the complete tutorial example at
+    `flash_examples/custom_task.py <https://github.com/PyTorchLightning/lightning-flash/blob/revamp_doc/flash_examples/custom_task.py>`_.
+
+
+1. Imports
+----------
+
 
 .. testcode:: python
 
-    import flash
+    from typing import Any, List, Tuple
 
+    import numpy as np
     import torch
-    from torch.utils.data import TensorDataset, DataLoader
-    from torch import nn
+    from pytorch_lightning import seed_everything
     from sklearn import datasets
     from sklearn.model_selection import train_test_split
+    from torch import nn
+
+    import flash
+    from flash.data.auto_dataset import AutoDataset
+    from flash.data.process import Postprocess, Preprocess
 
-The Task: Linear regression
----------------------------
+    # set the random seeds.
+    seed_everything(42)
+
+
+2. The Task: Linear regression
+-------------------------------
 
 Here we create a basic linear regression task by subclassing
-``flash.Task``. For the majority of tasks, you will likely only need to
+:class:`~flash.core.model.Task`. For the majority of tasks, you will likely only need to
 override the ``__init__`` and ``forward`` methods.
 
 .. testcode::
 
-    class LinearRegression(flash.Task):
+    class RegressionTask(flash.Task):
+
         def __init__(self, num_inputs, learning_rate=0.001, metrics=None):
             # what kind of model do we want?
             model = nn.Linear(num_inputs, 1)
@@ -46,6 +71,15 @@ override the ``__init__`` and ``forward`` methods.
             # we don't actually need to override this method for this example
             return self.model(x)
 
+.. note::
+
+    Lightning Flash provides registries.
+    Registries are Flash internal key-value database to store a mapping between a name and a function.
+    In simple words, they are just advanced dictionary storing a function from a key string.
+    They are useful to store list of backbones and make them available for a :class:`~flash.core.model.Task`.
+    Check out to learn more :ref:`registry`.
+
+
 Where is the training step?
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -56,36 +90,157 @@ override ``step`` (which is called for training, validation, and
 testing) or override ``training_step``, ``validation_step``, and
 ``test_step`` individually. These methods behave identically to PyTorch
 Lightning’s
-`methods <https://pytorch-lightning.readthedocs.io/en/latest/lightning_module.html#methods>`__.
+`methods <https://pytorch-lightning.readthedocs.io/en/latest/common/lightning_module.html#methods>`__.
 
-The Data
---------
+Here is the pseudo code behind :class:`~flash.core.model.Task` step.
 
-For a task you will likely need a specific way of loading data. For this
-example, lets say we want a ``flash.DataModule`` to be used explicitly
-for the prediction of diabetes disease progression. We can create this
-``DataModule`` below, wrapping the scikit-learn `Diabetes
-dataset <https://scikit-learn.org/stable/datasets/toy_dataset.html#diabetes-dataset>`__.
+Example::
+
+    def step(self, batch: Any, batch_idx: int) -> Any:
+        """
+        The training/validation/test step. Override for custom behavior.
+        """
+        x, y = batch
+        y_hat = self(x)
+        # compute the logs, loss and metrics as an output dictionary
+        ...
+        return output
+
+
+3.a The DataModule API
+----------------------
+
+Now that we have defined our ``RegressionTask``, we need to load our data.
+We will define a custom ``NumpyDataModule`` class subclassing :class:`~flash.data.data_module.DataModule`.
+This ``NumpyDataModule`` class will provide a ``from_xy_dataset`` helper ``classmethod`` to instantiate
+:class:`~flash.data.data_module.DataModule` from x, y numpy arrays.
+
+Here is how it would look like:
+
+Example::
+
+    x, y = ...
+    preprocess_cls = ...
+    datamodule = NumpyDataModule.from_xy_dataset(x, y, preprocess_cls)
+
+Here is the ``NumpyDataModule`` implementation:
+
+Example::
+
+    from flash import DataModule
+    from flash.data.process import Preprocess
+    import numpy as np
+
+    ND = np.ndarray
+
+    class NumpyDataModule(DataModule):
 
+        @classmethod
+        def from_xy_dataset(
+            cls,
+            x: ND,
+            y: ND,
+            preprocess_cls: Preprocess = NumpyPreprocess,
+            batch_size: int = 64,
+            num_workers: int = 0
+        ):
 
-You’ll notice we added a ``DataPipeline``, which will be used when we
-call ``.predict()`` on our model. In this case we want to nicely format
-our ouput from the model with the string ``"disease progression"``, but
-you could do any sort of post processing you want (see :ref:`datapipeline`).
+            preprocess = preprocess_cls()
 
-Fit
----
+            x_train, x_test, y_train, y_test = train_test_split(
+                x, y, test_size=.20, random_state=0)
+
+            # Make sure to call ``from_load_data_inputs``.
+            # The ``train_load_data_input`` value will be given to ``Preprocess``
+            # ``train_load_data`` function.
+            dm = cls.from_load_data_inputs(
+                train_load_data_input=(x_train, y_train),
+                test_load_data_input=(x_test, y_test),
+                preprocess=preprocess,  # DON'T FORGET TO PROVIDE THE PREPROCESS
+                batch_size=batch_size,
+                num_workers=num_workers
+            )
+            # Some metatada can be accessed from ``train_ds`` directly.
+            dm.num_inputs = dm.train_dataset.num_inputs
+            return dm
+
+
+.. note::
+
+    The :class:`~flash.data.data_module.DataModule` provides a ``from_load_data_inputs`` helper function. This function will take care
+    of connecting the provided :class:`~flash.data.process.Preprocess` with the :class:`~flash.data.data_module.DataModule`.
+    Make sure to instantiate your :class:`~flash.data.data_module.DataModule` with this helper if you rely on :class:`~flash.data.process.Preprocess`
+    objects.
+
+3.b The Preprocess API
+----------------------
+
+A :class:`~flash.data.process.Preprocess` object provides a series of hooks that can be overridden with custom data processing logic.
+It allows the user much more granular control over their data processing flow.
+
+.. note::
+
+    Why introducing :class:`~flash.data.process.Preprocess` ?
+
+    The :class:`~flash.data.process.Preprocess` object reduces the engineering overhead to make inference on raw data or
+    to deploy the model in production environnement compared to traditional
+    `Dataset <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/data.html#torch.utils.data.Dataset>`_.
+
+    You can override ``predict_{hook_name}`` hooks to handle data processing logic specific for inference.
+
+Example::
+
+    import torch
+    from torch import Tensor
+    import numpy as np
+
+    ND = np.ndarray
+
+    class NumpyPreprocess(Preprocess):
+
+        def load_data(self, data: Tuple[ND, ND], dataset: AutoDataset) -> List[Tuple[ND, float]]:
+            if self.training:
+                dataset.num_inputs = data[0].shape[1]
+            return [(x, y) for x, y in zip(*data)]
+
+        def to_tensor_transform(self, sample: Any) -> Tuple[Tensor, Tensor]:
+            x, y = sample
+            x = torch.from_numpy(x).float()
+            y = torch.tensor(y, dtype=torch.float)
+            return x, y
+
+        def predict_load_data(self, data: ND) -> ND:
+            return data
+
+        def predict_to_tensor_transform(self, sample: ND) -> ND:
+            return torch.from_numpy(sample).float()
+
+
+You now have a new customized Flash Task! Congratulations !
+
+You can fit, finetune, validate and predict directly with those objects.
+
+4. Fitting
+----------
+
+For this task, here is how to fit the ``RegressionTask`` Task on ``scikit-learn`` `Diabetes
+dataset <https://scikit-learn.org/stable/datasets/toy_dataset.html#diabetes-dataset>`__.
 
 Like any Flash Task, we can fit our model using the ``flash.Trainer`` by
 supplying the task itself, and the associated data:
 
 .. code:: python
 
-    data = DiabetesData()
-    model = LinearRegression(num_inputs=data.num_inputs)
+    x, y = datasets.load_diabetes(return_X_y=True)
+    datamodule = NumpyDataModule.from_xy_dataset(x, y)
+    model = RegressionTask(num_inputs=datamodule.num_inputs)
 
     trainer = flash.Trainer(max_epochs=1000)
-    trainer.fit(model, data)
+    trainer.fit(model, datamodule=datamodule)
+
+
+5. Predicting
+-------------
 
 With a trained model we can now perform inference. Here we will use a
 few examples from the test set of our data:
@@ -97,17 +252,9 @@ few examples from the test set of our data:
         [-0.0128, -0.0446,  0.0606,  0.0529,  0.0480,  0.0294, -0.0176,  0.0343, 0.0702,  0.0072],
         [ 0.0381,  0.0507,  0.0089,  0.0425, -0.0428, -0.0210, -0.0397, -0.0026, -0.0181,  0.0072],
         [-0.0128, -0.0446, -0.0235, -0.0401, -0.0167,  0.0046, -0.0176, -0.0026, -0.0385, -0.0384],
-        [-0.0237, -0.0446,  0.0455,  0.0907, -0.0181, -0.0354,  0.0707, -0.0395, -0.0345, -0.0094]])
-
-    model.predict(predict_data)
-
-Because of our custom data pipeline’s ``after_uncollate`` method, we
-will get a nicely formatted output like the following:
-
-.. code::
+        [-0.0237, -0.0446,  0.0455,  0.0907, -0.0181, -0.0354,  0.0707, -0.0395, -0.0345, -0.0094]]
+    )
 
-   ['disease progression: 155.90',
-    'disease progression: 156.59',
-    'disease progression: 152.69',
-    'disease progression: 149.05',
-    'disease progression: 150.90']
+    predictions = model.predict(predict_data)
+    print(predictions)
+    #out: [tensor([14.7190]), tensor([14.7100]), tensor([14.7288]), tensor([14.6685]), tensor([14.6687])]

docs/source/general/callback.rst

@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+########
+Callback
+########
+
+.. _callback:
+
+**************
+Flash Callback
+**************
+
+:class:`~flash.data.callback.FlashCallback` is an extension of the PyTorch Lightning `Callback <https://pytorch-lightning.readthedocs.io/en/latest/extensions/callbacks.html>`__.
+
+A callback is a self-contained program that can be reused across projects.
+
+Flash and Lightning have a callback system to execute callbacks when needed.
+
+Callbacks should capture any NON-ESSENTIAL logic that is NOT required for your lightning module to run.
+
+Same as PyTorch Lightning, Callbacks can be provided directly to the Trainer.
+
+Example::
+
+   trainer = Trainer(callbacks=[MyCustomCallback()])
+
+
+*******************
+Available Callbacks
+*******************
+
+
+BaseDataFetcher
+_______________
+
+.. autoclass:: flash.data.callback.BaseDataFetcher
+   :members: enable
+
+BaseVisualization
+_________________
+
+.. autoclass:: flash.data.base_viz.BaseVisualization
+   :members:
+
+
+*************
+API reference
+*************
+
+
+FlashCallback
+_____________
+
+.. autoclass:: flash.data.callback.FlashCallback
+    :members: