Chain

class psynet.trial.chain.ChainNetwork(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: TrialNetwork

Implements a network in the form of a chain. Intended for use with ChainTrialMaker. Typically the user won’t have to override anything here, but they can optionally override validate().

Parameters:

  • experiment – An instantiation of psynet.experiment.Experiment, corresponding to the current experiment.

  • chain_type – Either "within" for within-participant chains, or "across" for across-participant chains.

  • trials_per_node – Number of satisfactory trials to be received by the last node in the chain before another chain will be added. Most paradigms have this equal to 1.

  • target_n_nodes – Indicates the target number of nodes for that network. In a network with one trial per node, the total number of nodes will generally be one greater than the total number of trials. This is because we start with one node, representing the random starting location of the chain, and each new trial takes us to a new node.

  • participant – Optional participant with which to associate the network.

  • id_within_participant – If participant is not None, then this provides an optional ID for the network that is unique within a given participant.

target_n_trials

Indicates the target number of trials for that network. Left empty by default, but can be set by custom __init__ functions.

Type:

int or None

earliest_async_process_start_time

Time at which the earliest pending async process was called.

Type:

Optional[datetime]

n_alive_nodes

Returns the number of non-failed nodes in the network.

Type:

int

n_completed_trials

Returns the number of completed and non-failed trials in the network (irrespective of asynchronous processes, but excluding repeat trials).

Type:

int

var

A repository for arbitrary variables; see VarStore for details.

Type:

VarStore

participant_id

The ID of the associated participant, or None if there is no such participant. Set by default in the __init__ function.

Type:

int

id_within_participant

If participant is not None, then this provides an optional ID for the network that is unique within a given participant. Set by default in the __init__ function.

chain_type

Either "within" for within-participant chains, or "across" for across-participant chains. Set by default in the __init__ function.

trials_per_node

Number of satisfactory trials to be received by the last node in the chain before another chain will be added. Most paradigms have this equal to 1. Set by default in the __init__ function.

add_node(node)

Adds a node to the network. This method is responsible for setting self.full = True if the network is full as a result.

balance_across_networks(values)

Chooses a value from a list, with choices being balanced across networks. Relies on the fact that network IDs are guaranteed to be consecutive. sequences of integers.

Suppose we wish to assign our networks to colors, and we want to balance color assignment across networks. We might write the following:

colors = ["red", "green", "blue"]
chosen_color = self.balance_across_networks(colors)

In across-participant chain designs, balance_across_networks() will ensure that the distribution of colors is maximally uniform across the experiment by assigning the first network to red, the second network to green, the third to blue, then the fourth to red, the fifth to green, the sixth to blue, and so on. This is achieved by referring to the network’s id attribute. In within-participant chain designs, the same method is used but within participants, so that each participant’s first network is assigned to red, their second network to green, their third to blue, then their fourth, fifth, and sixth to red, green, and blue respectively.

Parameters:

values (list) – The list of values from which to choose.

Returns:

  • Object – An object from the provided list.

creation_time

the time at which the Network was created.

details

a generic column for storing structured JSON data

failed

boolean indicating whether the Network has failed which prompts Dallinger to ignore it unless specified otherwise. Objects are usually failed to indicate something has gone wrong.

failed_reason

an optional reason the object was failed. If the object is failed as part of a cascading failure triggered from another object, the chain of objects will be captured in this field.

full

Whether the network is currently full

id

a unique number for every entry. 1, 2, 3 and so on…

make_definition()

Derives the definition for the network. This definition represents some collection of attributes that is shared by all nodes/trials in a network, but that may differ between networks.

Suppose one wishes to have multiple networks in the experiment, each characterised by a different value of an attribute (e.g. a different color). One approach would be to sample randomly; however, this would not guarantee an even distribution of attribute values. In this case, a better approach is to use the psynet.trial.chain.ChainNetwork.balance_across_networks() method, as follows:

colors = ["red", "green", "blue"]
return {
    "color": self.balance_across_networks(colors)
}

See psynet.trial.chain.ChainNetwork.balance_across_networks() for details on how this balancing works.

Returns:

  • object – By default this returns an empty dictionary, but this can be customised by subclasses. The object should be suitable for serialisation to JSON.

max_size

How big the network can get, this number is used by the full() method to decide whether the network is full

property1

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property2

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property3

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property4

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property5

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

role

The role of the network. By default dallinger initializes all networks as either “practice” or “experiment”

time_of_death

the time at which failing occurred

type

A String giving the name of the class. Defaults to “network”. This allows subclassing.

validate()

Runs at the end of the constructor function to check that the network object has a legal structure. This can be useful for checking that the user hasn’t passed illegal argument values.

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class psynet.trial.chain.ChainNode(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: TrialNode

Represents a node in a chain network. In an experimental context, the node represents a state in the experiment; in particular, the last node in the chain represents a current state in the experiment.

This class is intended for use with ChainTrialMaker. It subclasses dallinger.models.Node.

The most important attribute is definition. This is the core information that represents the current state of the node. In a transmission chain of drawings, this might be an (encoded) drawing; in a Markov Chain Monte Carlo with People paradigm, this might be the current state from the proposal is sampled.

The user is required to override the following abstract methods:

  • create_definition_from_seed(), which creates a node definition from the seed passed from the previous source or node in the chain;

  • summarize_trials(), which summarizes the trials at a given node to produce a seed that can be passed to the next node in the chain.

Parameters:

  • seed – The seed which is used to initialize the node, potentially stochastically. This seed typically comes from either a ChainSource or from another ChainNode via the create_seed() method. For example, in a transmission chain of drawings, the seed might be a serialised version of the last drawn image.

  • degree – The position of the node in the chain, where 0 indicates the source, where 1 indicates the first node, 2 the second node, and so on.

  • network – The network with which the node is to be associated.

  • experiment – An instantiation of psynet.experiment.Experiment, corresponding to the current experiment.

  • propagate_failure – If True, the failure of a trial is propagated to other parts of the experiment (the nature of this propagation is left up to the implementation).

  • participant – Optional participant with which to associate the node.

degree

See the __init__ function.

child_id

See the __init__ function.

seed

See the __init__ function.

definition

This is the core information that represents the current state of the node. In a transmission chain of drawings, this might be an (encoded) drawing; in a Markov Chain Monte Carlo with People paradigm, this might be the current state from the proposal is sampled. It is set by the ChainNode:create_definition_from_seed() method.

propagate_failure

See the __init__ function.

var

A repository for arbitrary variables; see VarStore for details.

Type:

VarStore

child

The node’s child (i.e. direct descendant) in the chain, or None if no child exists.

target_n_trials

The target number of trials for the node, set from psynet.trial.chain.ChainNetwork.trials_per_node.

ready_to_spawn

Returns True if the node is ready to spawn a child. Not intended for overriding.

complete_and_processed_trials

Returns all completed trials associated with the node, excluding those that are awaiting some asynchronous processing. excludes failed nodes.

completed_trials

Returns all completed trials associated with the node. Excludes failed nodes and repeat trials.

n_completed_trials

Counts the number of completed trials associated with the node. Excludes failed nodes and repeat_trials.

all_trials

A list of all trials owned by that node.

Type:

list

alive_trials

A list of all non-failed trials owned by that node.

Type:

list

failed_trials

A list of all failed trials owned by that node.

Type:

list

viable_trials

Returns all viable trials associated with the node, i.e. all trials that have not failed.

create_definition_from_seed(seed, experiment, participant)

Creates a node definition from a seed. The seed comes from the previous node in the chain. In many cases (e.g. iterated reproduction) the definition will be trivially equal to the seed, but in some cases we may introduce some kind of stochastic alteration to produce the definition.

Parameters:

  • seed (object) – The seed, passed from the previous state in the chain.

  • experiment – An instantiation of psynet.experiment.Experiment, corresponding to the current experiment.

  • participant – The participant who initiated the creation of the node.

Returns:

  • object – The derived definition. Should be suitable for serialisation to JSON.

creation_time

the time at which the Network was created.

details

a generic column for storing structured JSON data

fail(reason=None)

Fail this object, and potentially its related objects.

Set failed to True and time_of_death to now.

If a reason argument is passed, this will be stored in failed_reason.

Failure will then be propagated to related objects as defined by the failure_cascade property.

failed

boolean indicating whether the Network has failed which prompts Dallinger to ignore it unless specified otherwise. Objects are usually failed to indicate something has gone wrong.

failed_reason

an optional reason the object was failed. If the object is failed as part of a cascading failure triggered from another object, the chain of objects will be captured in this field.

property failure_cascade

When we fail, also fails all vectors that connect to or from the node. You cannot fail a node that has already failed, but you can fail a dead node.

Instruct all not-failed vectors connected to this node, infos made by this node, transmissions to or from this node and transformations made by this node to fail.

id

a unique number for every entry. 1, 2, 3 and so on…

network

the network the node is in

network_id

the id of the network that this node is a part of

participant

the participant the node is associated with

participant_id

the id of the participant whose node this is

property1

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property2

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property3

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property4

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property5

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

summarize_trials(trials, experiment, participant)

Summarizes the trials at the node to produce a seed that can be passed to the next node in the chain.

Parameters:

  • trials (list) – Trials to be summarized. By default only trials that are completed (i.e. have received a response) and processed (i.e. aren’t waiting for an asynchronous process) are provided here.

  • experiment – An instantiation of psynet.experiment.Experiment, corresponding to the current experiment.

  • participant – The participant who initiated the creation of the node.

Returns:

  • object – The derived seed. Should be suitable for serialisation to JSON.

time_of_death

the time at which failing occurred

type

A String giving the name of the class. Defaults to node. This allows subclassing.

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class psynet.trial.chain.ChainTrial(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: Trial

Represents a trial in a ChainNetwork. The user is expected to override the following methods:

  • make_definition(), responsible for deciding on the content of the trial.

  • show_trial(), determines how the trial is turned into a webpage for presentation to the participant.

  • show_feedback(). defines an optional feedback page to be displayed after the trial.

The user must also override the time_estimate class attribute, providing the estimated duration of the trial in seconds. This is used for predicting the participant’s reward and for constructing the progress bar.

The user may also wish to override the async_post_trial() method if they wish to implement asynchronous trial processing.

This class subclasses the ~psynet.trial.main.Trial class, which in turn subclasses the Info class from Dallinger, hence it can be found in the Info table in the database. It inherits these class’s methods, which the user is welcome to use if they seem relevant.

Instances can be retrieved using SQLAlchemy; for example, the following command retrieves the ChainTrial object with an ID of 1:

ChainTrial.query.filter_by(id=1).one()
Parameters:

  • experiment – An instantiation of psynet.experiment.Experiment, corresponding to the current experiment.

  • node – An object of class dallinger.models.Node to which the Trial object should be attached. Complex experiments are often organised around networks of nodes, but in the simplest case one could just make one Network for each type of trial and one Node for each participant, and then assign the Trial to this Node. Ask us if you want to use this simple use case - it would be worth adding it as a default to this implementation, but we haven’t done that yet, because most people are using more complex designs.

  • participant – An instantiation of psynet.participant.Participant, corresponding to the current participant.

  • propagate_failure (bool) – Whether failure of a trial should be propagated to other parts of the experiment depending on that trial (for example, subsequent parts of a transmission chain).

  • run_async_post_trial (bool) – Set this to True if you want the async_post_trial() method to run after the user responds to the trial.

time_estimate

The estimated duration of the trial (including any feedback), in seconds. This should generally correspond to the (sum of the) time_estimate parameters in the page(s) generated by show_trial, plus the time_estimate parameter in the page generated by show_feedback (if defined). This is used for predicting the participant’s reward and for constructing the progress bar.

Type:

numeric

node

The class:dallinger.models.Node to which the Trial belongs.

participant_id

The ID of the associated participant. The user should not typically change this directly. Stored in property1 in the database.

Type:

int

complete

Whether the trial has been completed (i.e. received a response from the participant). The user should not typically change this directly. Stored in property2 in the database.

Type:

bool

answer

The response returned by the participant. This is serialised to JSON, so it shouldn’t be too big. The user should not typically change this directly. Stored in details in the database.

Type:

Object

earliest_async_process_start_time

Time at which the earliest pending async process was called.

Type:

Optional[datetime]

propagate_failure

Whether failure of a trial should be propagated to other parts of the experiment depending on that trial (for example, subsequent parts of a transmission chain).

Type:

bool

var

A repository for arbitrary variables; see VarStore for details.

Type:

VarStore

definition

An arbitrary Python object that somehow defines the content of a trial. Often this will be a dictionary comprising a few named parameters. The user should not typically change this directly, as it is instead determined by make_definition().

Type:

Object

complete

whether the info is ‘complete’, i.e. has received its contents

creation_time

the time at which the Network was created.

details

a generic column for storing structured JSON data

failed

boolean indicating whether the Network has failed which prompts Dallinger to ignore it unless specified otherwise. Objects are usually failed to indicate something has gone wrong.

failed_reason

an optional reason the object was failed. If the object is failed as part of a cascading failure triggered from another object, the chain of objects will be captured in this field.

property failure_cascade

When we fail, propagate the failure to our related Transmissions and Transformations.

id

a unique number for every entry. 1, 2, 3 and so on…

network

the network the info is in

network_id

the id of the network the info is in

origin

the Node that created the info.

origin_id

the id of the Node that created the info

property1

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property2

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property3

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property4

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property5

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

time_of_death

the time at which failing occurred

type

a String giving the name of the class. Defaults to “info”. This allows subclassing.

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class psynet.trial.chain.ChainTrialMaker(*, id_, trial_class, node_class, network_class=None, chain_type, expected_trials_per_participant, max_trials_per_participant=None, max_trials_per_block=None, max_nodes_per_chain=None, chains_per_participant=None, chains_per_experiment=None, trials_per_node=1, n_repeat_trials=0, target_n_participants=None, balance_across_chains=False, start_nodes=None, check_performance_at_end=False, check_performance_every_trial=False, recruit_mode='n_participants', fail_trials_on_premature_exit=False, fail_trials_on_participant_performance_check=False, propagate_failure=True, wait_for_networks=False, allow_revisiting_networks_in_across_chains=False, assets=None, choose_participant_group=None, sync_group_type=None)

Bases: NetworkTrialMaker

Administers a sequence of trials in a chain-based paradigm. This trial maker is suitable for implementing paradigms such as Markov Chain Monte Carlo with People, iterated reproduction, and so on. It is intended for use with the following helper classes, which should be customised for the particular paradigm:

A chain is initialized with a ChainSource object. This ChainSource object provides the initial seed to the chain. The ChainSource object is followed by a series of ChainNode objects which are generated through the course of the experiment. The last ChainNode in the chain represents the current state of the chain, and it determines the properties of the next trials to be drawn from that chain. A new ChainNode object is generated once sufficient ChainTrial objects have been created for that ChainNode. There can be multiple chains in an experiment, with these chains either being owned by individual participants (“within-participant” designs) or shared across participants (“across-participant” designs).

Parameters:

  • network_class (Type[ChainNetwork]) – The class object for the networks used by this maker. This should subclass ChainNetwork.

  • node_class (Type[ChainNode]) – The class object for the networks used by this maker. This should subclass ChainNode.

  • trial_class (Type[ChainTrial]) – The class object for trials administered by this maker (should subclass ChainTrial).

  • chain_type (str) – Either "within" for within-participant chains, or "across" for across-participant chains.

  • max_trials_per_participant (Optional[int]) – Maximum number of trials that each participant may complete; once this number is reached, the participant will move on to the next stage in the timeline.

  • chains_per_participant (Optional[int]) – Number of chains to be created for each participant; only relevant if chain_type="within".

  • chains_per_experiment (Optional[int]) – Number of chains to be created for the entire experiment; only relevant if chain_type="across".

  • max_nodes_per_chain (Optional[int]) – Specifies chain length in terms of the number of data-collection iterations that are required to complete a chain. The number of successful participant trials required to complete the chain then corresponds to trials_per_node * max_nodes_per_chain.

  • max_nodes_per_chain – Maximum number of nodes in the chain before the chain is marked as full and no more nodes will be added.

  • trials_per_node (int) – Number of satisfactory trials to be received by the last node in the chain before another chain will be added. Most paradigms have this equal to 1.

  • balance_across_chains (bool) – Whether trial selection should be actively balanced across chains, such that trials are preferentially sourced from chains with fewer valid trials.

  • start_nodes – A list of nodes that are used to initialize the chains. In an across-participant trial maker, this should be a simple list of instances of the class node_class. In a within-participant trial maker, a fresh set of nodes should be created for each new participant. To achieve this, start_nodes should be a lambda function that returns a list of newly created nodes. This lambda function may accept participant as one of its arguments.

  • balance_strategy (#) – # A two-element list that determines how balancing occurs, if balance_across_chains is True. # If the list contains “across”, then the balancing will take into account trials from other participants. # If it contains “within”, then the balancing will take into account trials from the present participant. # If both are selected, then the balancing strategy will prioritize balancing within the current participant, # but will use counts from other participants as a tie breaker.

  • check_performance_at_end (bool) – If True, the participant’s performance is evaluated at the end of the series of trials.

  • check_performance_every_trial (bool) – If True, the participant’s performance is evaluated after each trial.

  • recruit_mode (str) – Selects a recruitment criterion for determining whether to recruit another participant. The built-in criteria are "n_participants" and "n_trials", though the latter requires overriding of n_trials_still_required.

  • target_n_participants (Optional[int]) – Target number of participants to recruit for the experiment. All participants must successfully finish the experiment to count towards this quota. This target is only relevant if recruit_mode="n_participants".

  • fail_trials_on_premature_exit (bool) – If True, a participant’s trials are marked as failed if they leave the experiment prematurely. Defaults to False because failing such trials can end up destroying large parts of existing chains.

  • fail_trials_on_participant_performance_check (bool) – If True, a participant’s trials are marked as failed if the participant fails a performance check. Defaults to False because failing such trials can end up destroying large parts of existing chains.

  • propagate_failure (bool) – If True, the failure of a trial is propagated to other parts of the experiment (the nature of this propagation is left up to the implementation).

  • n_repeat_trials (int) – Number of repeat trials to present to the participant. These trials are typically used to estimate the reliability of the participant’s responses. Defaults to 0.

  • wait_for_networks (bool) – If True, then the participant will be made to wait if there are still more networks to participate in, but these networks are pending asynchronous processes.

  • allow_revisiting_networks_in_across_chains (bool) – If this is set to True, then participants can revisit the same network in across-participant chains. The default is False.

  • choose_participant_group (Optional[callable]) – Only relevant if the trial maker uses nodes with non-default participant groups. In this case the experimenter is expected to supply a function that takes participant as an argument and returns the chosen participant group for that trial maker.

  • sync_group_type (Optional[str]) – Optional SyncGroup type to use for synchronizing participant allocation to nodes. When this is set, then the ordinary node allocation logic will only apply to the ‘leader’ of each SyncGroup. The other members of this SyncGroup will follow that leader around, so that in every given trial the SyncGroup works on the same node together.

check_timeout_interval_sec

How often to check for trials that have timed out, in seconds (default = 30). Users are invited to override this.

Type:

float

response_timeout_sec

How long until a trial’s response times out, in seconds (default = 60) (i.e. how long PsyNet will wait for the participant’s response to a trial). This is a lower bound on the actual timeout time, which depends on when the timeout daemon next runs, which in turn depends on check_timeout_interval_sec. Users are invited to override this.

Type:

float

async_timeout_sec

How long until an async process times out, in seconds (default = 300). This is a lower bound on the actual timeout time, which depends on when the timeout daemon next runs, which in turn depends on check_timeout_interval_sec. Users are invited to override this.

Type:

float

network_query

An SQLAlchemy query for retrieving all networks owned by the current trial maker. Can be used for operations such as the following: self.network_query.count().

Type:

sqlalchemy.orm.Query

n_networks

Returns the number of networks owned by the trial maker.

Type:

int

networks

Returns the networks owned by the trial maker.

Type:

list

performance_threshold

Score threshold used by the default performance check method, defaults to 0.0. By default, corresponds to the minimum proportion of non-failed trials that the participant must achieve to pass the performance check.

Type:

float

end_performance_check_waits

If True (default), then the final performance check waits until all trials no longer have any pending asynchronous processes.

Type:

bool

choose_block_order(experiment, participant, blocks)

Determines the order of blocks for the current participant. By default this function shuffles the blocks randomly for each participant. The user is invited to override this function for alternative behaviour.

Parameters:
Returns:

  • list – A list of blocks in order of presentation, where each block is identified by a string label.

custom_network_filter(candidates, participant)

Override this function to define a custom filter for choosing the participant’s next network.

Parameters:

  • candidates – The current list of candidate networks as defined by the built-in chain procedure.

  • participant – The current participant.

Returns:

  • An updated list of candidate networks. The default implementation simply returns the original list.

  • The experimenter might alter this function to remove certain networks from the list.

finalize_trial(answer, trial, experiment, participant)

This function is run after the participant completes the trial. It can be optionally customised, for example to add some more postprocessing. If you override this, make sure you call super().finalize_trial(...) somewhere in your new method.

Parameters:

  • answer – The answer object provided by the trial.

  • trial – The Trial object representing the trial.

  • experiment – An instantiation of psynet.experiment.Experiment, corresponding to the current experiment.

  • participant – An instantiation of psynet.participant.Participant, corresponding to the current participant.

find_networks(participant, experiment)
Parameters:

  • participant

  • experiment

Returns:

  • Either “exit”, “wait”, or a list of networks.

find_node(network, participant, experiment)

Finds the node to which the participant should be attached for the next trial.

Parameters:
grow_network(network, experiment)

Extends the network if necessary by adding one or more nodes. Returns True if any nodes were added.

Parameters:

  • network – The network to be potentially extended.

  • experiment – An instantiation of psynet.experiment.Experiment, corresponding to the current experiment.

init_participant(experiment, participant)

Initializes the participant at the beginning of the sequence of trials. If you override this, make sure you call super().init_particiant(...) somewhere in your new method.

Parameters:
pre_deploy_routine(experiment)

Defines a routine for setting up the experiment prior to deployment. This is a good place to prepare networks etc.

Parameters:

experiment – An instantiation of psynet.experiment.Experiment, corresponding to the current experiment.

state_class

alias of ChainTrialMakerState

class psynet.trial.chain.ChainTrialMakerState(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: NetworkTrialMakerState

creation_time

the time at which the Network was created.

details

a generic column for storing structured JSON data

failed

boolean indicating whether the Network has failed which prompts Dallinger to ignore it unless specified otherwise. Objects are usually failed to indicate something has gone wrong.

failed_reason

an optional reason the object was failed. If the object is failed as part of a cascading failure triggered from another object, the chain of objects will be captured in this field.

id

a unique number for every entry. 1, 2, 3 and so on…

property1

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property2

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property3

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property4

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property5

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

time_of_death

the time at which failing occurred

type
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class psynet.trial.chain.ChainVector(*args, **kwargs)

Bases: SQLMixinDallinger, Vector

creation_time

the time at which the Network was created.

destination

the Node at which the vector terminates.

destination_id

the id of the Node at which the vector terminates.

details

a generic column for storing structured JSON data

failed

boolean indicating whether the Network has failed which prompts Dallinger to ignore it unless specified otherwise. Objects are usually failed to indicate something has gone wrong.

failed_reason

an optional reason the object was failed. If the object is failed as part of a cascading failure triggered from another object, the chain of objects will be captured in this field.

id

a unique number for every entry. 1, 2, 3 and so on…

network

the network the vector is in.

network_id

the id of the network the vector is in.

origin

the Node at which the vector originates.

origin_id

the id of the Node at which the vector originates

property1

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property2

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property3

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property4

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

property5

a generic column that can be used to store experiment-specific details in String form.

time_of_death

the time at which failing occurred

type

A String giving the name of the class. Defaults to vector. This allows subclassing.

Note: The type column was added in 9/2022, 7+ years after the Vector ORM class was introduced. To support importing datasets which don’t include this column we define a default value which will be used when deploying experiments from zip files.

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