funman: Functional Model Analysis tool

The funman package performs Functional Model Analysis by processing a request and model pair that describes an analysis scenario. funman answers the question:

"Under which parameter assignements will my model behave well?"

funman encodes and reasons about parameterized models in the SMT framework. As illustrated in the figure above, funman labels regions of a parameter space that satisfy (green, "true") or do not satisfy (red, "false") a number of constraints on the model dynamics (dashed lines). Each point in the parameter space corresponds (black arrows) to a trajectory (green and red curves).

Quickstart

This section explains how to run funman, and the following section describes the analysis request in more detail.

We recommend using a pre-built docker image to run or develop the funman source, due to a few build dependencies. To run funman via its API, (in the funman root directory) start the API with the script:

sh terarium/scripts/run-api-in-docker.sh

This will pull the latest release of the funman API image and start a new container. Then, to submit analysis requests to the API, run the following script:

terarium/run_example.sh petrinet-sir

This script will run a request, as specified in resources/terarium-tests.json.

Running the example will POST a model analysis request, wait, and then GET the results. funman analysis runs in an anytime fashion, and the GET request may return only partial results. The example will generate the following output:

Running example 'petrinet-sir':
{
  "name": "petrinet-sir",
  "model-path": "amr/petrinet/terrarium-tests/sir.json",
  "request-path": "amr/petrinet/terrarium-tests/sir_request.json"
}
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Making POST request to http://127.0.0.1:8190/api/queries with contents:
{
    "model": <Contents of /home/danbryce/funman/resources/amr/petrinet/terrarium-tests/sir.json>
    "request": <Contents of /home/danbryce/funman/resources/amr/petrinet/terrarium-tests/sir_request.json>
}
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Response for query:
{
  "id": "cfabd91c-4a6a-42aa-8d10-e88b4ca2dd5f",
  "model": "Removed for brevity",
  "request": "Removed for brevity"
}
################################################################################
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Work Id is 'cfabd91c-4a6a-42aa-8d10-e88b4ca2dd5f'
Waiting for 5 seconds...
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Making GET request to http://127.0.0.1:8190/api/queries/cfabd91c-4a6a-42aa-8d10-e88b4ca2dd5f:
{
  "id": "cfabd91c-4a6a-42aa-8d10-e88b4ca2dd5f",
  "model": "Removed for brevity",
  "progress": {
    "progress": 0.6918088739568541,
    "coverage_of_search_space": 0.6918088739568541
  },
  "request": "Removed for brevity",
  "parameter_space": {
    "num_dimensions": 6,
    "true_boxes": [ {"Removed for brevity"}, {"Removed for brevity"}, ...]
    "false_boxes": [ {"Removed for brevity"}, {"Removed for brevity"}, ...]
  }
}

The response is the status of the query, which includes the model and request used in the query, as well as progress and the current parameter space.

Quickstart Example Description

The quickstart example performs an analysis of the SIR model:

$\dot{S} = -\beta SI$

$\dot{I} = \beta SI - \gamma I$

$\dot{R} = \gamma I$

where $\beta$ and $\gamma$ are parameters. The SIR model captures how a susceptible $S$ population becomes infected $I$ at a rate $\beta SI$, and an infected population becomes recovered $R$ with a rate $\gamma I$. The $\beta$ parameter describes the transmissibility of a pathogen and the $\gamma$ parameter, the impact (recovery time) of the pathogen on individuals. The example defines an initial condition where $S(0) = 0.99$, $I(0) = 0.01$, and $R(0) = 0.0$.

In the example, funman analyzes which values of

$\beta \in [0.08, 0.1)$ and

$\gamma \in [0.02, 0.03)$

will satisfy the constraint

$0.15 \leq I(t) < 1.0$, for $t \in [50, 50)$.

In this analysis request the analyst would like to know what assumptions on $\beta$ and $\gamma$ are needed so that the infected population is greater than 0.15, 50 days from today.

Solving this analysis problem generates a parameter space, as summarized by the following plot.

The plot illustrates the parameter space as a matrix of 2D plots for each pair of parameters. (This example includes parameters $S0$, $I0$, and $R0$ for the initial state assignment). funman introduces the timestep as an additional parameter to support reasoning about different time spans. This timestep is important for many scenarios because the constraints may be satsified or not under different assumptions about the scenario time span.

The upper left plot for $\beta$-$\gamma$ projects all boxes onto $\beta$ and $\gamma$, indicating that there are values of the other parameters where any assignment to the pair will satisfy the constraint. Unsurprisingly, larger values for $\beta$ and smaller values for $\gamma$ result in more scenario time spans where the constraints are satisfied (darker green regions include more true regions that are stacked/projected onto $\beta$ and $\gamma$).

The lower left plots for $\beta$-timestep and $\gamma$-timestep help to interpret the $\beta$-$\gamma$ plot. Timesteps 5-10 (corresponding to 50-100 days) include several false regions (also stacked) where the constraints are not satisfied, and a few true regions where they are satisfied.

Plotting the points generated while creating the parameter space, will result in the following trajectories.

The plot illustrates $S$, $I$, and $R$ for all points that funman generates to construct the parameter space. The green lines correspond to true points, and red, false. The lines that begin near 1.0 a time 0 correspond to $S$. The group of lines near 0.2 at time 50 correspond to $I$, and the remaining group, to $R$. The false trajectories are truncated at time 50 because they violate the constraint and will not satisfy it if extended to longer time spans. (This is also the reason that the parameter space includes many false regions for time steps 5 and greater.)

funman inputs

funman requires two inputs: a model and an analysis request. There are several ways to configure these inputs, but the most simple is to write a pair of json files. It is also possible to define these inputs via python objects, as illustrated by tests in tests/test_use_cases.py.

funman supports a number of model formats, which correspond to the classes in funman.models:

• GeneratedPetriNet: AMR model for petri nets generated
• GeneratedRegNet: AMR model for regulatory networks
• RegnetModel: MIRA model for regulatory networks
• PetrinetModel: MIRA model for petri nets
• BilayerModel: ASKE model for bilayer networks

Requests correspond to the class funman.server.query.FunmanWorkRequest and specify the following keys:

• query: a soft constraint that a model must satisfy (legacy support, deprecated)
• constraints: a list of hard or soft constraints that a model must satisfy
• parameters: a list of bounded parameters that funman will either synthesize ("label": "all") or satsify ("label": "any"). funman will check "all" values within the parameter bounds or if "any" within the bounds permit the model to satisfy the query and constraints.
• config: A dictionary of funman configuration options. label regions of the parameter space as satisfying the query and constraints, if synthesized, or find any legal value if asked to satsify.
• structure_parameters: parameters shaping the way that funman structures its analysis. funman requires that either the num_steps and step_size parameters are specified, or the schedules parameter is specified. If all are omitted, then funman defaults to checking one unit-sized step.

The example illustrated in the quickstart uses the request resources/amr/petrinet/terrarium-tests/sir_request.json

{
    "constraints": [
        {
            "name": "I",
            "variable": "I",
            "interval": {
                "lb": 0.15,
                "ub": 1.0
            },
            "timepoints": {
                "lb": 50,
                "ub": 50,
                "closed_upper_bound": true
            }
        }
    ],
    "parameters": [
        {
            "name": "beta",
            "interval": {
                "lb": 0.08,
                "ub": 0.1
            },
            "label": "all"
        },
        {
            "name": "gamma",
            "interval": {
                "lb": 0.02,
                "ub": 0.03
            },
            "label": "all"
        },
        {
            "name": "S0",
            "interval": {
                "lb": 0.99,
                "ub": 0.99
            },
            "label": "all"
        },
        {
            "name": "I0",
            "interval": {
                "lb": 0.01,
                "ub": 0.01
            },
            "label": "all"
        },
        {
            "name": "R0",
            "interval": {
                "lb": 0,
                "ub": 0
            },
            "label": "all"
        }
    ],
    "structure_parameters": [
        {
            "name": "schedules",
            "schedules": [
                {
                    "timepoints": [
                        0,
                        10,
                        20,
                        30,
                        40,
                        50,
                        60,
                        70,
                        80,
                        90,
                        100
                    ]
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "config": {
        "use_compartmental_constraints": true,
        "normalization_constant": 1,
        "tolerance": 0.02
    }
}

Running funman

There are multiple ways to run funman on a model and request pair. We recommend running funman in Docker, due to some complex dependencies on dReal (and its dependency on ibex). funman has a Makefile that supports building three Docker use cases: 1) run a development container that mounts the source code, 2) run a container with a jupyter server, and 3) run a container with uvicorn serving a REST API. Examples of running each of these cases are illustrated by the tests (test/test_api.py, and test/test_terarium.py). It is also possible to pull a pre-generated image that will run the API, as described in terarium/README.md.

Use cases

The documentation at https://siftech.github.io/funman/use_cases.html describes several epidemiology use cases for funman. These use cases are also implemented by tests in tests/test_use_cases.py

Development Setup

Code layout

• .config: linting configuration
• .devcontainer: dev container configuration
• .github/workflows: workflow configuration (create docker images)
• artifacts: analysis artifacts
• auxiliary_packages:
  • funman_benchmarks: tools to benchmark configurations of funman
  • funman_demo: tools related to specific demos
  • funman_dreal: extensions to pysmt configuration that include dreal
  • funman_plot: plotting helpers
  • ibex_tests: ibex usage testing
  • pde2petri: convert PDE models to petri nets
• docker: docker files for building containers
• docs: sphinx/read-the-docs static content and configuration
• notebooks: usage notebooks
• notes: development notes
• resources: models and requests
• scratch: old demos and prototyping
• src/funman:
  • api: REST API
  • config.py: flags for request configuration dictionary
  • constants.py: constants
  • funman.py: main entrypoint
  • init.py: global imports
  • model: input model representations
  • representation: internal and output representations
  • scenario: scenario definitions
  • search: search methods to generate parameter spaces
  • server: API server
  • translate: methods for encoding to SMT
  • utils: utilities
  • _version.py: current version
• terarium: scripts and examples for terarium integration
• test: unit tests
• tools: helper scripts
• .gitignore
• .pre-commit-config.yaml: precommit hook config
• .pylintrc: pylint config
• LICENSE
• Makefile
• Makefile.uncharted: Uncharted's custom make
• README.md
• pyproject.toml: project configuration
• requirements-dev-extras.txt: extra development dependencies
• requirements-dev.txt: development dependencies
• setup.py: pip install configuration

Pre-commit hooks

funman has a set of pre-commit hooks to help with code uniformity. These hooks will share the same rules as any automated testing so it is recommended to install the hooks locally to ease the development process.

To use the pre-commit hooks you with need the tools listed in requirements-dev.txt. These should be installed in the same environment where you git tooling operates.

pip install -r requirements-dev.txt

Once install you should be able to run the following from the root of the repo:

make install-pre-commit-hooks

Once installed you should begin to receive isort/black feedback when committing. These should not alter the code during a commit but instead just fail and prevent a commit if the code does not conform to the specification.

To autoformat the entire repo you can use:

make format

Code coverage

Pytest is configured to generate code coverage, and requires the pytest-cov package to be installed. The pytest-cov package is included in the requirements-dev.txt (see above) and will be installed with the other dev dependencies. The code coverage will be displayed in the pytest output (i.e., term) and saved to the coverage.xml file. The Coverage Gutters VSCode plugin will use the coverage.xml to display code coverage highlighting over the source files.

Development Setup: Docker dev container

funman provides tooling to build a Docker image that can be used as a development container. The image builds on either arm64 or amd64 architectures.

The dev container itself is meant to be ephemeral. The launch-dev-container command will delete the existing dev container if an newer image has been made available in the local cache. Any data that is meant to be retained from the dev-container must be kept in one of the mounted volumes.

The dev container supports editing and rebuilding of dreal4 as well. This requires that a dreal4 repository is cloned as a sibling to the funman directory (../dreal4). So long as that directory is present, the next time the funman-dev container is created will also result in a bind mount of the dreal4 directory to the container.

Build the image:

# For building with your local arch
make build

# For building to a target arch
TARGET_ARCH=arm64 make build

Launch the dev container:

make launch-dev-container

If building a local dreal4 instead of the built-in version:

# from within the container
update-dreal

(DEPRECATED) Development Setup: Ubuntu 20.04

# install python 3.9
sudo apt install python3.9 python3.9-dev
# install dev dependencies
sudo apt install make
pip install --user pipenv
# install pygraphviz dependencies
sudo apt install graphviz libgraphviz-dev pkg-config
# Initialize development environment
make setup-dev-env

(DEPRECATED) Development Setup: OSX M1

# install python 3.9
brew install python@3.9 
# install dev dependencies
brew install make
pip3 install --user pipenv
# install pygraphviz dependencies
brew install graphviz pkg-config
# install z3
brew install z3
# install miniconda
brew install miniforge
# Initialize development environment
make setup-conda-dev-env

Z3 issue

On the M1, installing with conda gets pysmt with z3 for the wrong architecture. To fix this, if it happens, replace the z3lib.dylib in your virtual environment (in my case this was .venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/z3/lib/libz3.dylib) with a symbolic link to the library that you get from your brew install of z3. For example

ln -s /opt/homebrew/Cellar/z3/4.11.0/lib/libz3.dylib ~/projects/askem/funman/.venv/lib/python3.9/site-packages/z3/lib/

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Pipenv issue and conda

When I (rpg) tried to set up the environment with only pipenv (make setup-dev-env), it didn't work because pip tried to build the pygraphviz wheel and when it did, it used the Xcode compiler, which did not work with the version of graphviz I had installed with brew.

Suggest dealing with this by using setup-CONDA-dev-env [caps for emphasis] instead.

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Error during setup: "Could not find a version that matches"

Try updating pipenv: pip install pipenv --upgrade

Generating docs

pipenv run pip install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme matplotlib

# Needed only if the gh-pages branch is not at origin
make init-pages 

# Run sphinx and pyreverse on source, generate docs/
make docs 

# push docs/ to origin
make deploy-pages