Subnet Hyperparameters
This document presents the description of the allowed subnet hyperparameters. For any subnet, you can see the subnet hyperparameters by running this below command and selecting the netuid (i.e., selecting the subnet):
btcli subnet hyperparameters
Not all the hyperparameters in the output of btcli subnet hyperparameters are editable. See this line of code for the editable hyperparameters. Only these are described in this document.
Setting the hyperparameters
Use the below command to set these hyperparameters:
btcli sudo set
serving_rate_limit
Description : Determines how often you can change your node's IP address on the blockchain. Expressed in number of blocks. Applies to both subnet validator and subnet miner nodes. Used when you move your node to a new machine.
Value
: Usually this is set to 100 blocks.
Setting : This parameter can be changed by the subnet owner. The value of this parameter varies from subnet to subnet.
min_difficulty, max_difficulty
Description : Obsolete. We no longer support PoW (proof-of-work) registration, hence these parameters are no longer used.
weights_version
Description : Indicates the required minimum version of the subnet validator code.
Value
: Set to 2013 for Subnet-1.
: This means that every subnet validator in Subnet-1 must have at least version 2013 of the subnet validaor code.
Setting : This parameter can be changed by the subnet owner. The value of this parameter varies from subnet to subnet. Setting this parameter to a version ensures that all the subnet validators use the same version of the code.
weights_rate_limit
Description : How often a subnet validator can set weights on the blockchain, expressed in number of blocks.
Value
: Set to 100 for Subnet-1.
: This means that after a subnet validator in Subnet-1 sends the weights to the blockchain, this subnet validator must wait for at least 100 blocks before sending the weights again to the blockchain.
Setting : This parameter can be changed by the subnet owner. The value of this parameter varies from subnet to subnet.
max_weight_limit
This is the maximum weight that can be set by a subnet validator for a subnet miner, expressed as a value between 0 and 65535. This is a u16 (unsigned integer) type.
Value
: Set to 455 for Subnet-1.
Setting : This parameter can be changed by the subnet owner. The value of this parameter varies from subnet to subnet.
Example
Consider Subnet-1 where max_weight_limit is set to 455 and min_allowed_weights is set to 8. This means that each subnet validator must set weights for at least 8 subnet miners, and each such weight must not exceed 455.
immunity_period
Description : The immunity period is expressed in number of blocks. The immunity period is the number of blocks given to a subnet miner or a subnet validator at a UID before they are considered available for deregistration.
Value
: Set to 7200 blocks for Subnet-1. The immunity_period at a UID starts when a subnet validator or a subnet miner is registered into the subnet.
Setting : This parameter can be changed by the subnet owner. The value of this parameter varies from subnet to subnet.
A subnet miner or a subnet validator at a UID can perform poorly during the immunity_period without risking deregistration. If the UID still does not perform well even after the expiry of the immunity_period, then the subnet miner or subnet validator at that UID can be removed from the subnet. They will be removed when a new entity, i.e., a subnet miner or a subnet validator, requests to join the subnet.
When a subnet miner or a subnet validator is deregistered, they are required to register again to be considered for the subnet.
Immunity period also exists for a subnet. See Immunity period for a subnet.
Example
Consider Subnet-1, that has its immunity_period set to 7200 blocks. The duration of a block is 12 seconds. Hence a subnet validator or a subnet miner at any UID in Subnet-1 has 24 hours (=7200 blocks) from the moment they have registred, before they will be considered for deregistration.
The subnet owner should modify the adjustment_interval, target_regs_per_interval and max_regs_per_block parameters to control the number of UIDs that are within the immunity_period at any given time.
min_allowed_weights
Description : The minimum number of UIDs a subnet validator must set weights on, before the subnet validator is allowed to set weights on the blockhain.
Value
: Set to 8 for Subnet-1.
: This means that any subnet validator who is trying to set weights on the blockchain must set weights on a minimum of 8 subnet miners before this subnet validator is able to successfully set its weights on the blockchain.
Setting : This parameter can be changed by the subnet owner. The value of this parameter varies from subnet to subnet.
The value of min_allowed_weights sets a lower bound for the consensus. A higher value of min_allowed_weights means that the subnet validators are forced to set weights for more subnet miners. This parameter is mainly for security reasons, to eliminate unreasonably low consensus amongst the subnet validators in the subnet.
Example
A subnet validator can be considered as poorly performing if they set weights on only five subnet miners, when the min_allowed_weights is set to 8. This might occur due to a variety of reasons, for example: Maybe the subnet validator does not have enough stake to query the subnet miners, or maybe the subnet validator is part of a cabal engaged in cheating the system.
In this case, none of the actual weight-setting extrinsics that the subnet validator sends to the chain will be accepted. Hence on the chain it will look like this subnet validator has not set any weights at all. The Yuma Consensus may conclude that this subnet validator is performing poorly and after the immunity_period expires, this subnet validator could be deregistered to make room for others waiting to be miners or validators.
activity_cutoff
Description
: Expressed in number of blocks. If a subnet validator has not set weights on the blockchain for activity_cutoff duration, then the Yuma Consensus will consider this subnet validator as offline, i.e., turned off. The weights of this subnet validator are considered too old to be useful. The weights of this subnet validator slowly lose their impact over time and eventually will no longer be considered for consensus calcuation.
Value
: Set to 5000 (blocks) for Subnet-1.
Setting : This parameter can be changed by the subnet owner. The value of this parameter varies from subnet to subnet.
network_registration_allowed
Description
: True or False. Indicates whether this subnet allows registrations.
Value
: Set to True for Subnet-1.
Setting : This parameter can be changed by the subnet owner. The value of this parameter varies from subnet to subnet.
network_pow_registration_allowed
Description
: True or False. Indicates whether this subnet allows POW (proof of work) registrations.
Setting : This parameter can be changed by the subnet owner. The value of this parameter varies from subnet to subnet.
min_burn, max_burn
Description : Minimum and maximum cost to register on this subnet. Expressed in Rao (10-9 TAO).
Setting : This parameter is automatically updated by the blockchain.