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title: metric
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<h2 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric</code></h2>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>BaseMetric()</code></pre>
<p>Abstract base class for all eval metrics.</p>
<p>Two execution shapes:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><strong>Per-sample</strong> (<code>is_set_metric=False</code>, default) — implement
  :meth:<code>compute</code>. The Evaluator calls it once per input sample and
  returns one :class:<code>MetricResult</code> per sample.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><strong>Set-vs-set</strong> (<code>is_set_metric=True</code>) — implement
  :meth:<code>accumulate</code> (called once per sample to buffer features)
  and :meth:<code>finalize</code> (called once after all samples to compute
  the corpus-level result). Use :meth:<code>reset</code> to clear buffers and
  :meth:<code>merge_from</code> to fold multi-GPU per-worker state together.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Optionally override :meth:<code>setup</code> to eagerly load models. Metrics
that chunk along the time dim for memory hardcode their own chunk
size in <code>__init__</code> (see <code>optical_flow</code> for the canonical
example). Eval always processes one video per
:meth:<code>Evaluator.evaluate</code> call; <code>compute</code> / <code>accumulate</code>
receive a single sample, not a batch.</p>

<h3 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.to"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.to</code></h3>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>to(device: str | torch.device) -&gt; BaseMetric</code></pre>
<p>Move metric (and its internal models) to <em>device</em>.</p>
<h3 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.setup"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.setup</code></h3>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>setup() -&gt; None</code></pre>
<p>Eagerly load models. Called once by :class:<code>EvalWorker</code>.</p>
<p>Default is a no-op; metrics with no eager state (pixel math,
closed-form ops) inherit this. Override only if your metric
needs to load weights.</p>
<h3 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.compute"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.compute</code></h3>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>compute(sample: dict) -&gt; MetricResult</code></pre>
<p>Per-sample metrics: compute the score for one sample.</p>
<p><code>sample["video"]</code> is <code>(T, C, H, W)</code> float in <code>[0, 1]</code>.
<code>sample["reference"]</code> (if used) has the same shape. Return
<code>self._skip(sample, reason)</code> for missing inputs.</p>
<h3 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.reset"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.reset</code></h3>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>reset() -&gt; None</code></pre>
<p>Clear accumulator state at the start of each evaluate() call.</p>
<h3 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.accumulate"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.accumulate</code></h3>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>accumulate(sample: dict) -&gt; None</code></pre>
<p>Buffer per-sample features for a corpus-level metric.</p>
<h3 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.finalize"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.finalize</code></h3>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>finalize() -&gt; MetricResult</code></pre>
<p>Compute the corpus-level result from buffered state.</p>
<h3 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.merge_from"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.BaseMetric.merge_from</code></h3>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>merge_from(other: BaseMetric) -&gt; None</code></pre>
<p>Multi-GPU: fold another worker's accumulator state into this one.</p>
<h2 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.register"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.register</code></h2>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>register(name: str)</code></pre>
<p>Decorator to register a metric class.</p>
<p>Usage::</p>
<pre><code>@register("ssim")
class SSIMMetric(BaseMetric):
    ...
</code></pre>
<h2 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.MetricResult"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.MetricResult</code></h2>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>MetricResult(name: str, score: float | None, details: dict&#91;str, Any&#93; = dict())</code></pre>
<p>Standard result container returned by all metrics.</p>
<p><code>score</code> is <code>None</code> when the metric was skipped (e.g. missing
required input).  Check <code>details["skipped"]</code> for the reason.</p>

<h2 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.compute_mse"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.compute_mse</code></h2>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>compute_mse(video1_frames: np.ndarray, video2_frames: np.ndarray) -&gt; list&#91;float&#93;</code></pre>

<h2 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.prepare_pair"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.prepare_pair</code></h2>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>prepare_pair(sample: dict&#91;str, Any&#93;, *, prep_kwargs: dict&#91;str, Any&#93; | None = None) -&gt; PreparedPhysicsIQPair</code></pre>
<p>Resolve a sample into a prepared (gen, ref) pair.</p>
<p>Caches the result on <code>sample['_physics_iq_pair']</code> so other physics_iq
sub-metrics on the same sample reuse it instead of re-decoding.</p>
<h2 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.PhysicsIQMSEMetric"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.PhysicsIQMSEMetric</code></h2>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>PhysicsIQMSEMetric(**kwargs: Any)</code></pre>


<details><summary>Source</summary><pre><code>@register(&quot;physics_iq.mse&quot;)
class PhysicsIQMSEMetric(BaseMetric):
    name = &quot;physics_iq.mse&quot;
    requires_reference = True
    higher_is_better = False

    def __init__(self, **kwargs: Any) -&gt; None:
        super().__init__()
        self._kwargs = kwargs

    def compute(self, sample: dict) -&gt; MetricResult:
        prepared = prepare_pair(sample, prep_kwargs=self._kwargs)
        per_frame = compute_mse(prepared.reference_quarter, prepared.generated_quarter)
        score = sum(per_frame) / len(per_frame)
        return MetricResult(name=self.name, score=score, details=&#123;&quot;per_frame&quot;: per_frame&#125;)</code></pre></details>
<h3 id="fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.PhysicsIQMSEMetric.compute"><code>fastvideo.eval.metrics.physics_iq.mse.metric.PhysicsIQMSEMetric.compute</code></h3>
<pre class="doc-signature"><code>compute(sample: dict) -&gt; MetricResult</code></pre>

<details><summary>Source</summary><pre><code>def compute(self, sample: dict) -&gt; MetricResult:
    prepared = prepare_pair(sample, prep_kwargs=self._kwargs)
    per_frame = compute_mse(prepared.reference_quarter, prepared.generated_quarter)
    score = sum(per_frame) / len(per_frame)
    return MetricResult(name=self.name, score=score, details=&#123;&quot;per_frame&quot;: per_frame&#125;)</code></pre></details>
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