ray-distributed-trainer

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Distributed computing skill using Ray for parallel training, hyperparameter search, and resource management.

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the ray-distributed-trainer skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by a5c-ai/babysitter in library/specializations/data-science-ml/skills/ray-distributed-trainer/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Overview

Distributed computing skill using Ray for parallel training, hyperparameter search, and resource management across clusters.

Capabilities

  • Ray Train for distributed training
  • Ray Tune for hyperparameter search at scale
  • Cluster resource management
  • Fault tolerance and checkpointing
  • Actor-based parallelism
  • Integration with PyTorch and TensorFlow
  • Elastic training support
  • Multi-node orchestration

Target Processes

  • Distributed Training Orchestration
  • AutoML Pipeline Orchestration
  • Model Training Pipeline

Tools and Libraries

  • Ray
  • Ray Train
  • Ray Tune
  • Ray Cluster

Input Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["mode", "config"],
  "properties": {
    "mode": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": ["train", "tune", "cluster"],
      "description": "Ray operation mode"
    },
    "config": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "numWorkers": { "type": "integer" },
        "useGpu": { "type": "boolean" },
        "resourcesPerWorker": {
          "type": "object",
          "properties": {
            "cpu": { "type": "number" },
            "gpu": { "type": "number" }
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "trainConfig": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "trainerPath": { "type": "string" },
        "framework": { "type": "string", "enum": ["pytorch", "tensorflow", "xgboost"] },
        "scalingConfig": { "type": "object" }
      }
    },
    "tuneConfig": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "searchSpace": { "type": "object" },
        "scheduler": { "type": "string" },
        "numSamples": { "type": "integer" },
        "metric": { "type": "string" },
        "mode": { "type": "string", "enum": ["min", "max"] }
      }
    }
  }
}

Output Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": ["status", "results"],
  "properties": {
    "status": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": ["success", "error", "partial"]
    },
    "results": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "bestConfig": { "type": "object" },
        "bestMetric": { "type": "number" },
        "numTrials": { "type": "integer" },
        "completedTrials": { "type": "integer" }
      }
    },
    "checkpointPath": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "clusterStatus": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "numNodes": { "type": "integer" },
        "totalCpu": { "type": "number" },
        "totalGpu": { "type": "number" }
      }
    },
    "trainingTime": {
      "type": "number"
    }
  }
}

Usage Example

{
  kind: 'skill',
  title: 'Distributed hyperparameter tuning',
  skill: {
    name: 'ray-distributed-trainer',
    context: {
      mode: 'tune',
      config: {
        numWorkers: 4,
        useGpu: true,
        resourcesPerWorker: { cpu: 2, gpu: 1 }
      },
      tuneConfig: {
        searchSpace: {
          lr: { type: 'loguniform', min: 1e-5, max: 1e-1 },
          batchSize: { type: 'choice', values: [16, 32, 64] }
        },
        scheduler: 'asha',
        numSamples: 100,
        metric: 'val_loss',
        mode: 'min'
      }
    }
  }
}

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