How to avoid an error when using the automl python api on a classification problem

[brendanmckenna]

I am working through a basic example to get familiar with databricks automl. When I run classify, I hit an mlflow error. How can I avoid this error?

My code:

summary = databricks.automl.classify(train_df, target_col='new_cases', data_dir='dbfs:/automl/india_covid_automl', timeout_minutes=30)

The resulting error:

CellExecutionError: An error occurred while executing the following cell:
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import mlflow
import os
 
mlflow.mlflow.set_tracking_uri("databricks")
os.environ["DATABRICKS_HOST"] = "https://oregon.cloud.databricks.com"
os.environ["DATABRICKS_TOKEN"] = "[REDACTED]"
 
%matplotlib inline
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[0;31mAttributeError[0m: module 'mlflow' has no attribute 'mlflow'
AttributeError: module 'mlflow' has no attribute 'mlflow'
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
CellExecutionError                        Traceback (most recent call last)
<command-3357122079230110> in <cell line: 2>()
      1 mlflow.set_tracking_uri("databricks")
----> 2 summary = databricks.automl.classify(train_df, target_col='new_cases', data_dir='dbfs:/automl/india_covid_automl', timeout_minutes=30)
 
/local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/pythonEnv-fad1e6db-7cab-40e9-b890-7eb4c6767ee5/lib/python3.9/site-packages/databricks/automl/__init__.py in classify(dataset, target_col, data_dir, timeout_minutes, max_trials)
     28     :return: Structured summary object with info about trials.
     29     """
---> 30     return Classifier(context_type=ContextType.DATABRICKS).fit(
     31         dataset, target_col, data_dir, timeout_minutes=timeout_minutes, max_trials=max_trials)
 
/local_disk0/.ephemeral_nfs/envs/pythonEnv-fad1e6db-7cab-40e9-b890-7eb4c6767ee5/lib/python3.9/site-packages/databricks/automl/classifier.py in fit(self, dataset, target_col, data_dir, max_trials, parallelism, timeout_minutes, experiment)
    124 
    125         try:
--> 126             return self._fit_impl(dataset, target_col, data_dir, max_trials, parallelism, timeout,
    127                                   experiment)
    128         finally:

[Debayan]

Hi @Brendan McKenna​ , The error is not clear. Could you please provide the error code? Is it run in a notebook ?

[brendanmckenna]

It's run in a notebook. I resolved it by upgrading the automl version. It looks like it was because I had an early automl version installed (0.1.dev0)

[brendanmckenna · Accepted solution]

I had (accidentally) manually installed a very early version of databricks automl. Once I upgraded the error resolved.

[Kaniz]

Hi @Brendan McKenna​ , We haven’t heard from you since the last response from @Debayan Mukherjee​. Or else, If you have any solution, please share it with the community, as it can be helpful to others.

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