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deruyter92 · 2026-08-28T15:52:56Z

The Weights and Biases logger accepts a variety of extra arguments, such as notes, tags, etc. These were mediated through wandb_kwargs which could be defined at top-level. However since the introduction of the stricter pydantic schemas these top-level arguments with extra="forbid" would raise a ValidationError.

This PR:

fixes a dead wandb_kwargs field in the WandBloggerConfig (was never passed correctly to the logger)
~~adds common top-level fields such as notes, tags, group to the top-level config.~~

Edit:
To avoid breaking the current config schema I refrained from adding common WandB args like notes, tags, group as top-level fields. Since they may appear in older unversioned config yamls, I've added a before validator that scoops them into the wandb_kwargs field. I've also added testing, so that the following YAML forms are accounted for:

# Allow both top-level and nested args (even combined, when no conflicts):
logger:
  project_name: "deeplabcut"
  ...
  tags: ["mytag"]  # <-  top-level (will be moved into wandb_kwargs by the validator)
  wandb_kwargs:
     group: "mygroup"  # <- nested


# Don't allow configs like this:
logger:
  project_name: "deeplabcut"
  ...
  project: "myproject"  # <- Reserved fields are not allowed (already defined via "project name", "run_name")
  group: "mygroup"
  wandb_kwargs: 
      group: "repeated"   # <- Duplicate top-level and nested fields are not allowed.

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the PyTorch pose-estimation W&B logger configuration and initialization flow so that commonly used wandb.init parameters (e.g., notes, tags, group) can be specified at the top level without failing strict Pydantic validation, and ensures nested wandb_kwargs are actually forwarded to wandb.init.

Changes:

Extend WandbLoggerConfig’s Pydantic schema with common wandb.init parameters (entity, notes, tags, group, job_type) and clarify how wandb_kwargs should be used.
Flatten a nested wandb_kwargs mapping inside WandbLogger.__init__ before calling wandb.init.

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`deeplabcut/pose_estimation_pytorch/runners/logger.py`	Flattens nested `wandb_kwargs` before calling `wandb.init`; updates docstring.
`deeplabcut/pose_estimation_pytorch/config/logger.py`	Adds common W&B init fields to the Pydantic config schema and clarifies `wandb_kwargs` intent.

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deeplabcut/pose_estimation_pytorch/runners/logger.py:297

The new behavior that flattens nested wandb_kwargs (and the precedence between nested vs. explicit kwargs) is not covered by tests. Adding a unit test that mocks wandb.init and asserts the final kwargs passed would prevent regressions.

        wandb_kwargs.update(wandb_kwargs.pop("wandb_kwargs", None) or {})

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introducing them here would break the schema (leading to internally inconsistent versions)

…options It scoops the options into wandb_kwargs. Options cannot be duplicated.

…reserved names)

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Just a few things worth checking, all good otherwise

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deruyter92 · 2026-09-04T12:04:07Z

@C-Achard, addressed your comments. Let me know if I missed anything. Thanks for the follow-up PR as well. Let's merge it separately

C-Achard · 2026-09-04T12:08:41Z

Sounds good, thanks!

fix WandbLoggerConfig include additional kwargs in pydantic schema

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copy dict data in WandbLoggerConfig

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[Sync] merge to main for 3.0.2 release - bug fixes; knowledge indexing; future compatibility & dependencies #3495

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Expose DataLoader kwargs (TrainSettingsConfig.dataloader_kwargs) + add validation helper reject_reserved_keys #3554

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