I have issue with the progress bar in the web interface. I launch a web instance with a new database instance, but the progress bar always shows 11% instead of 0%.
I tried annotate a few images, but the progress kept at 11%.
After a certain number of annotations, it changes to 44%.
The command I used:
prodigy image.manual images_datase2t test_dataset --label PERSON,SKATEBOARD
Hi @paradm,
The source based progress estimator, which Prodigy uses by default, represents how much of the input file/dataset has been read, rather than completed annotations. More concretely, it's the the quotient of the Source reader position and the size of the Source.
This explains why the source progress will never be at zero at the beginning because some part of the input file or dataset is being read during the session initialization.
It also explains why the progress increments in batches: the increment batches correspond to the batches in which the input file/dataset is being read.
Although source progress might seem unintuitive at first, it offers the most tractable way of estimating progress especially in multi-annotator scenarios.
If you'd like make the progress bar represent the completed annotations rather than progress through the input file, you can switch to TARGET PROGRESS by setting total_examples_target if you know up front how many examples are there to annotate in your source.
You can find more information on Source and the different kinds of progress representation that Prodigy offers in out docs, here (especially in "What is source" section).
Thank you.
