Continue¶
SMAC can automatically restore states where it left off if a run was interrupted or prematurely finished. To do so, it reads in old files (derived from scenario’s name, output_directory and seed) and obtains the scenario information of the previous run from those to continue the run.
The behavior can be controlled by setting the parameter overwrite in the facade to True or False, respectively:
If set to True, SMAC overwrites the run results if a previous run is found that is consistent in the meta data with the current setup.
If set to False and a previous run is found that
is consistent in the meta data, the run is continued.
is not consistent in the meta data, the user is asked for the exact behaviour (overwrite completely or rename old run first).
Warning
If you changed any code affecting the run’s meta data and specified a name, SMAC will ask you whether you still want to overwrite the old run or rename the old run first. If you did not specify a name, SMAC generates a new name and the old run is not affected.
Please have a look at our continue example.