# Conditional sweep config **URL:** \ **Category:** W&B Help\ **Tags:** sweeps\ **Created:** [March 7, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/conditional-sweep-config/4017 "2023-03-07T13:12:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![hogru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/eb9ed0/32.png) [@hogru](https://community.wandb.ai/u/hogru)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2023, 1:12pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/conditional-sweep-config/4017/1 "2023-03-07T13:12:53Z")
I guess the answer to this is “not supported” when looking at similar requests, but at least… let me add a +1 to the feature request. Simplified, presume I have two approaches to training a model, each with its own sub-approaches. Is there a way to define a sweep config in a way that I can do a search over sub-approaches that depend on the main approach, i.e., how to build something like: ```bash python3 train.py --approach a --sub_approach a1 python3 train.py --approach a --sub_approach a2 python3 train.py --approach b --sub_approach b1 python3 train.py --approach b --sub_approach b2 ``` I could… - do 2 sweeps for a anb b in that toy example, but I think I cannot combine the results of different sweeps into a single graph, right? - Or I could check in `train.py` and abort the program for invalid combinations; in this case I think I need to tell wandb to continue with the sweep since there would be a number of “crashes” - Or use a different hyper param optimizer and integrate into wandb (but would like to avoid that). Any other options? If different hyper param optimizer, any recommendation because of better/easier integration with wandb? Thanks for your input/ideas. ---
**Author:** ![artsiom](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/artsiom/32/1001_2.png) [@artsiom](https://community.wandb.ai/u/artsiom)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/conditional-sweep-config/4017/2 "2023-03-08T16:41:01Z")
Hi Stephan! This is a very popular feature request. I just +1’ed it and raised the priority on it for you. Hopefully, we’ll see this feature asap! Cheers, Artsiom ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/366b649231631dbab896843020da0056074ac79d.png) [@system](https://community.wandb.ai/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2023, 1:13pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/conditional-sweep-config/4017/3 "2023-05-06T13:13:30Z")
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**Author:** ![corey-strausman](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/corey-strausman/32/1561_2.png) [@corey-strausman](https://community.wandb.ai/u/corey-strausman)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/conditional-sweep-config/4017/4 "2023-12-14T14:19:09Z")
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**Author:** ![xavier\_gonzalez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/b9e5f3/32.png) [@xavier\_gonzalez](https://community.wandb.ai/u/xavier_gonzalez)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/conditional-sweep-config/4017/5 "2024-12-30T18:02:00Z")
Has this feature been added?