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Source code for tensorplay.distributed.optim.post_localSGD_optimizer
import warnings
from tensorplay import optim
import tensorplay.distributed.algorithms.model_averaging.averagers as averagers
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class PostLocalSGDOptimizer(optim.Optimizer):
r"""
Wraps an arbitrary :class:`tensorplay.optim.Optimizer` and runs `post-local SGD <https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.07217>`_,
This optimizer runs local optimizer at every step.
After the warm-up stage, it averages parameters periodically after the local optimizer is applied.
Args:
optim: The local optimizer.
averager: A model averager instance to run post-localSGD algorithm.
Example::
>>> # xdoctest: +SKIP("undefined variables")
>>> local_optim = tp.optim.SGD(params=model.parameters(), lr=0.01)
>>> opt = PostLocalSGDOptimizer(
>>> optim=local_optim,
>>> averager=averagers.PeriodicModelAverager(period=4, warmup_steps=100)
>>> )
>>> for step in range(0, 200):
>>> opt.zero_grad()
>>> loss = loss_fn(output, labels)
>>> loss.backward()
>>> opt.step()
"""
def __init__(self, optim: optim.Optimizer, averager: averagers.ModelAverager):
self.optim = optim
self.param_groups = self.optim.param_groups
self.averager = averager
@property
def state(self): # type: ignore[override]
return self.optim.state
def __repr__(self):
return self.optim.__repr__()
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def state_dict(self):
r"""
This is the same as :class:`tensorplay.optim.Optimizer` :meth:`state_dict`,
but adds an extra entry to record model averager's step to the checkpoint
to ensure reload does not cause unnecessary warm up again.
"""
optim_state_dict = self.optim.state_dict()
optim_state_dict["step"] = self.averager.step
return optim_state_dict
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def load_state_dict(self, state_dict):
r"""
This is the same as :class:`tensorplay.optim.Optimizer` :meth:`load_state_dict`,
but also restores model averager's step value to the one
saved in the provided ``state_dict``.
If there is no ``"step"`` entry in ``state_dict``,
it will raise a warning and initialize the model averager's step to 0.
"""
self.optim.load_state_dict(state_dict)
if "step" in state_dict:
self.averager.step = state_dict["step"]
else:
warnings.warn(
"Loaded state dict does not contain a step counter for an averager. "
"Setting step counter to 0.",
stacklevel=2,
)
self.averager.step = 0
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def step(self): # type: ignore[override]
r"""
Performs a single optimization step (parameter update).
"""
self.optim.step()
self.averager.average_parameters(params=self.param_groups)
def zero_grad(self, set_to_none: bool = True): # type: ignore[override]
self.optim.zero_grad(set_to_none=set_to_none)
def add_param_group(self, param_group):
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