Python v0.3.0

Optimizer

class dragon.vm.torch.optim.Optimizer(
  params,
  defaults,
  **kwargs
)[source]

The base class of optimizers.

Inherit this class to design a new optimizer:

class MyOptimizer(torch.optim.Optimizer):
    def __init__(params, hp1, hp2):
        defaults = dict(hp1=hp1, hp2=hp2)
        super(MyOptimizer, self).__init__(params, defaults)

__init__

Optimizer.__init__(
  params,
  defaults,
  **kwargs
)[source]

Create a Optimizer.

Parameters:
  • params (Sequence[dragon.vm.torch.nn.Parameter]) – The parameters to optimize.
  • defaults (dict) – The pre-defined default hyper-parameters.

Methods

add_param_group

Optimizer.add_param_group(param_group)[source]

Add a new param group into the optimizer.

attr:param_group is a dict containing the defaults:

# A group defined ``lr`` and ``weight_decay``
param_group = {'params': [], 'lr': 0.01, 'weight_decay': 0.0001}
Parameters:
  • param_group (dict) – The param group to add.

step

Optimizer.step()[source]

Update all parameter groups using gradients.

Call this method after a backward pass:

x = torch.ones(1, 3, requires_grad=True)
y = x + 1
y.backward()
optimizer.step()

sum_grad

Optimizer.sum_grad()[source]

Sum the gradients of all parameters.

Call this method after each backward pass:

x = torch.ones(1, requires_grad=True)
optimizer = torch.optim.SGD([x], lr=0.1)
for epoch in range(2):
    for step in range(3):
        y = x + 1
        y.backward()
        optimizer.sum_grad()
    optimizer.step()
print(x)  # 0.4

zero_grad

Optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=False)[source]

Set the gradients of all parameters to zero.

This method is not necessary usually, as we will overwrite the gradients in the next computation.

However, if some gradients are not computed every time, remember to set them to none before step(...):

m1 = torch.nn.Linear(3, 3)
m2 = torch.nn.Linear(3, 3)
x = torch.ones(1, 3, requires_grad=True)
for i in range(10):
    x = m1(x)
    if i in (2, 4, 6):
        x += m2(x)
optimizer.zero_grad(set_to_none=True)
x.backward()
optimizer.step()
Parameters:
  • set_to_none (bool, optional, default=False) – Whether to remove the gradients instead of zeroing.