[Feature] OR logic for Filters

[richardrl]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I find myself needing an OR operation between filters all the time. It's very hard to select runs otherwise.

Describe the solution you'd like In the filter screen, if I click checkmarks next to two filters, it does an AND operation between the filters. But for example, I want to find all runs that are "status=running" or "name=dog". This is excruciating to do right now in the current interface.

Describe alternatives you've considered A simple line of logic to allow OR logic between filters.

Additional context

Add a UI element that enables OR operations here.

[tyomhak]

Hey @richardrl , thank you for the feature request! We'll bump up the priority for this feature.

[richardrl]

@tyomhak Hi, just wondering if there's any update here, or if there's some other way to accomplish what I want?

[cvphelps]

@richardrl if you create a report with multiple run sets in a section, those run sets will operate as "OR". Here's an example from our docs. As you can see, each run set is filtering to a group of runs, which are then displayed above together on the charts.

[cvphelps]

I'd like to note that we do have this ticket in the backlog, and would like to improve the filter UI to directly support that.

[richardrl]

@richardrl if you create a report with multiple run sets in a section, those run sets will operate as "OR". Here's an example from our docs. As you can see, each run set is filtering to a group of runs, which are then displayed above together on the charts.

Hi, the problem is I (and I imagine many others) need to do this dozens of time per day, manipulating the report to do it is too time consuming.

[richardrl]

I'd like to note that we do have this ticket in the backlog, and would like to improve the filter UI to directly support that.

Is there any update here? Still hurting for this feature. Very hard to compare new runs with key old runs unless I do a bunch of unnecessary tagging. I should be able to see how the "currently running" runs compare with a few select old runs, without generating a bunch of unnecesssary tags.

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[anmolmann]

Hi @richardrl , not yet. I've escalated your request to our eng team, though. Thanks for your patience.

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[richardrl]

@anmolmann Any update? Myself and many other researchers I know are hurting for this future.

[paulhager]

Would like to echo how useful this would be! I have some boolean flag arguments and as of right now I have no way of filtering for multiple flags at the same time.

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WandB Internal User commented: paulhager commented: Would like to echo how useful this would be!

[alinafdima]

Would also really love such a feature, eg. for setting baselines that have entirely different hyperparameters. One idea would be to have multiple filter profiles, and only filter out the runs that do not match any of the filter profiles.

[anmolmann]

Thanks for the context @alinafdima! I've made an internal note for this!

[najwalb]

Not sure if this is a new feature, but using the 'in' and 'not in' operators seems to achieve this purpose now.

[anmolmann]

Thanks for the update, @najwalb! We worked on lots of improvements and features in the past year, hence, the reason the operators IN and NOT IN help you achieve the purpose. Happy to help in case you have further queries.