Pytorch-lightning: [metrics] reuse metrics in a progress bar

[Borda]

🚀 Feature

reduce duplicated metrics in general output dict and progress bar

Motivation

it can be confusing for a user to passing the same metric multiple times in single output

Pitch

in such case just specify key/name of metric shown in progress bar... but still it would make it less flexible to show what you want
just having {'loss': None, "my-var": 123} and none mean that it takes from the general/upper-level dict?

Additional context

https://pytorch-lightning.slack.com/archives/CQXV8BRH9/p1585479078063900

[cuent]

Could you elaborate a little bit more?
The problem relies on whether a user wants to override a metric such as loss, for example, which is print by default in the progress bar. So, if the user wants to keep that parent loss, it should specify “loss”: None. I notice that the output of the progress bar is here. Where this self.add_tqdm_metrics is implemented or could you provide me an idea on where to start?

[Borda]

I assume this will be solved in #1989

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[SkafteNicki]

@Borda I think we can close this, since users just need to use the Result objects to remove such duplications

[Borda]

@Borda I think we can close this, since users just need to use the Result objects to remove such duplications

We need to keep dics, so any thoughts about this?
Cc: @PyTorchLightning/core-contributors

[SkafteNicki]

I agree that we need to keep dictionaries for backward compatibility, I just think that if we offer a solution to users that takes care of the problem (Result objects) and it is not that hard to convert from dictionaries, then it is not really a problem :]