Passing of booleans in the config file

[alexanderbuchholz]

I tried to pass a boolean via the config file, i.e.,

config = {..., "disable_grad_weight": False, ... }
execute_experiment_job(..., config_space = config, ....)

However the value gets set to True when arriving at the learner. Is this a know bug?
I could work around this by passing an int (and modifying the argument's type accordingly).

[wistuba]

I assume you did not properly setup the parsing logic for this parameter. Check early_stopping for an example:

Renate/src/renate/cli/parsing_functions.py

Lines 289 to 297 in aeae35c

	"early_stopping": {
	"type": str,
	"default": str(defaults.EARLY_STOPPING),
	"choices": ["True", "False"],
	"help": "Enables the early stopping of the optimization. Default: "
	f"{defaults.EARLY_STOPPING}.",
	"argument_group": OPTIONAL_ARGS_GROUP,
	"true_type": bool,
	},

The important part here is that type is str even though you are using a bool and the true_type is bool. That way, your boolean will be converted to a string, passed as a command line argument and converted back to a boolean. Right now, it is probably always True since every non-empty string is True.