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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):
        self.optim.add_param_group(param_group)
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