Workflow

Introduction

• Data
  • Loading
  • Processing
  • Slicing
• Model
  • Training and inference
  • Saving and loading
• Evaluation
  • Forcast signal analysis
  • Backtest

Complete Example

qlib_init:
    provider_uri: "~/.qlib/qlib_data/cn_data"
    region: cn
market: &market csi300
benchmark: &benchmark SH000300
# data handler config process the data. Diveided into 2 parts: data fitting and data processing. 
# This config will be used in dataset. 
data_handler_config: &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: *market
port_analysis_config: &port_analysis_config
    strategy:
        class: TopkDropoutStrategy
        module_path: qlib.contrib.strategy.strategy
        kwargs:
            topk: 50
            n_drop: 5
            signal: <PRED>
    backtest:
        limit_threshold: 0.095
        account: 100000000
        benchmark: *benchmark
        deal_price: close
        open_cost: 0.0005
        close_cost: 0.0015
        min_cost: 5
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
          kwargs: {}
        - class: PortAnaRecord
          module_path: qlib.workflow.record_temp
          kwargs:
              config: *port_analysis_config

run the workflow

qrun configuration.yaml
# or run under debug mode
python -m pdb qlib/workflow/cli.py examples/benchmarks/LightGBM/workflow_config_lightgbm_Alpha158.yaml

Tips

1. qrun will be placed in your $PATH directory when installing Qlib.

2. The symbol & in yaml file stands for an anchor of a field, which is useful when another fields include this parameter as part of the value. Taking the configuration file above as an example, users can directly change the value of market and benchmark without traversing the entire configuration file.

Configuration follows the designe of init_instance_by_config. The following yaml and code are equivalent.

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

from qlib.contrib.model.gbdt import LGBModel
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,
}
LGBModel(kwargs)