ESPnet3 autoresearch loadmap

Atlas Roadmap

Motivation

Atlas provides config-driven automatic research workflows via coding agents for ESPnet recipes.

The project should support simple local workflows first, then scale to external executors and reusable applications. Core graph execution must remain generic. Applications such as hyperparameter search should add their own domain state and lifecycle without making those concepts part of the core runtime.

New Features

• Recipe-level configuration validation.
• Study initialization, inspection, and graceful stop commands.
• Durable CSV state and producer queue support.
• Local and external executor support.
• Configurable command runner for submitted jobs.
• Remove Pixi- and Bash-specific assumptions from detached execution.
• Generic detached controller lifecycle.
• Graph node execution, routing, retries, and durable job reconciliation.
• Generic nested graph support through nested_graph.path.
• Durable graph instance state.
• Parent waiting and child completion routing.
• Scoped controller execution for one graph instance.
• Structured logs, events, artifacts, and job inspection.
• Command-level integration tests.

Recipes and Applications

• Hyperparameter search application.
• Trial execution as a nested graph.
• Application-owned trial state, monitoring, budgets, and best-result logic.
• Architecture search application.
• Recipe templates for new Atlas applications.
• mini_an4 command integration coverage.
• Opt-in or nightly real recipe flows: train -> infer -> measure.

Planned Pull Requests

• PR 1: CLI cleanup for init, show, stop, and check-config.
• PR 2: Runtime documentation and configurable command runner.
• PR 3: Core graph and state foundation.
• PR 4: Core nested graph runtime.
• PR 5: Generic detached controller lifecycle.
• PR 6: Hyperparameter-search trial graph migration.
• PR 7: Hyperparameter-search monitor and state cleanup.
• PR 8: mini_an4 command integration tests.