private void SaveExcludedTrainingIDInfo() throws Exception {
   ArrayList<String> excludedTrainingIDs =
       Singletons.InstanceVault.GetCrossValidationAssignments().GetAllExcludedTrainIDs();
   if (excludedTrainingIDs.size() > 0) {
     String filePath = Settings.GetOutputSettingsDir(true) + "Excluded_Training_IDs.txt";
     String output = ListUtilities.Join(excludedTrainingIDs, "\n");
     FileUtilities.WriteLineToFile(
         filePath,
         "# IDs of data instances that were excluded randomly from training sets, according to the specified experiment settings. If this is a cross-validation experiment, the instances were removed from different folds.");
     FileUtilities.AppendLineToFile(filePath, output);
   }
 }
  /**
   * Executes a series of tasks that are "locked" such that only one thread should execute each.
   * These are locked across multiple compute nodes as well.
   *
   * @param description Name of the series of tasks that will be executed
   * @param lockedCallables Tasks that will be executed
   * @throws Exception
   */
  public static void ExecuteLockTasks(String description, ArrayList<LockedCallable> lockedCallables)
      throws Exception {
    MultiThreadedTaskHandler taskHandler = new MultiThreadedTaskHandler(description);

    // Prepare the tasks to be executed
    for (LockedCallable callable : lockedCallables) {
      FileUtilities.CreateFileDirectoryIfNotExists(callable.StatusFilePath);
      taskHandler.Add(callable);
    }

    try {
      // See if any of the tasks returned a false value and if so, pause then retry
      if (ListUtilities.AnyFalse(ListUtilities.CreateBooleanList(taskHandler.Execute()))) {
        Pause(description);
        ExecuteLockTasks(description, lockedCallables);
      }
    } catch (Exception ex) {
      // If an exception occurred, log it, pause, then try again
      Singletons.Log.Exception(ex);
      Pause(description);
      ExecuteLockTasks(description, lockedCallables);
    }
  }
  /**
   * The purpose of this method is to parse the information that is listed in the learners
   * configuration file.
   *
   * @throws Exception
   */
  public static void ParseLearners() throws Exception {
    for (String line : FileUtilities.ReadLinesFromFile(LEARNER_TEMPLATES_FILE)) {
      if (line.startsWith("#") || line.trim().length() == 0) // Ignore comment characters
      continue;

      ArrayList<String> lineItems = ListUtilities.CreateStringList(line.split(";"));
      String description = lineItems.get(0);
      String learnerClassName = lineItems.get(1);
      String commandTemplate = (lineItems.size() > 2) ? lineItems.get(2) : "";

      LearnerConfigMap.put(
          description, new LearnerConfig(description, learnerClassName, commandTemplate));
    }
  }
  /**
   * The purpose of this method is to parse the algorithms that have been defined in the algorithm
   * configuration files.
   *
   * @throws Exception
   */
  public static void ParseAlgorithms() throws Exception {
    for (String line : FileUtilities.ReadLinesFromFile(CLASSIFICATION_ALGORITHMS_FILE)) {
      if (line.startsWith("#") || line.trim().length() == 0) // Ignore comment characters
      continue;

      ArrayList<String> lineItems = ListUtilities.CreateStringList(line.split(";"));
      String key = lineItems.remove(0);
      String learnerKey = lineItems.remove(0);

      CheckLearnerKey(key, learnerKey);
      ClassificationAlgorithms.put(key, new ClassificationAlgorithm(key, learnerKey, lineItems));
    }

    for (String line : FileUtilities.ReadLinesFromFile(FEATURE_SELECTION_ALGORITHMS_FILE)) {
      if (line.startsWith("#") || line.trim().length() == 0) // Ignore comment characters
      continue;

      ArrayList<String> lineItems = ListUtilities.CreateStringList(line.split(";"));

      String key = lineItems.remove(0);
      String learnerKey = lineItems.remove(0);
      ArrayList<String> parameters = lineItems;

      CheckLearnerKey(key, learnerKey);
      FeatureSelectionAlgorithms.put(
          key, new FeatureSelectionAlgorithm(key, learnerKey, parameters));
    }

    // The following algorithms are made available to any experiment and aren't specified in the
    // config file
    FeatureSelectionAlgorithms.put(
        "None", new FeatureSelectionAlgorithm("None", "", new ArrayList<String>()));
    FeatureSelectionAlgorithms.put(
        "PriorKnowledge",
        new FeatureSelectionAlgorithm("PriorKnowledge", "", new ArrayList<String>()));
  }