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The main function should have 3 arguments: - hparams: a configuration of hyperparameters. - slurm_manager: Slurm cluster manager object (can be None) - dict: for you to return any values you want (useful in meta-learning, otherwise set to _) def main(hparams, cluster, results_dict): \"\"\" Main training routine specific for this project :param hparams: :return: \"\"\" # init experiment log_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) exp = Experiment( name='test_tube_exp', debug=True, save_dir=log_dir, version=0, autosave=False, description='test demo' ) # set the hparams for the experiment exp.argparse(hparams) exp.save() # build model model = MyLightningModule(hparams) # callbacks early_stop = EarlyStopping( monitor=hparams.early_stop_metric, patience=hparams.early_stop_patience, verbose=True, mode=hparams.early_stop_mode ) model_save_path = '{}/{}/{}'.format(hparams.model_save_path, exp.name, exp.version) checkpoint = ModelCheckpoint( filepath=model_save_path, save_function=None, save_best_only=True, verbose=True, monitor=hparams.model_save_monitor_value, mode=hparams.model_save_monitor_mode ) # configure trainer trainer = Trainer( experiment=exp, cluster=cluster, checkpoint_callback=checkpoint, early_stop_callback=early_stop, ) # train model trainer.fit(model) The main function will start training on your main function. If you use the HyperParameterOptimizer in hyper parameter optimization mode, this main function will get one set of hyperparameters. If you use it as a simple argument parser you get the default arguments in the argument parser. So, calling main(hyperparams) runs the model with the default argparse arguments. main(hyperparams) CPU hyperparameter search # run a grid search over 20 hyperparameter combinations. hyperparams.optimize_parallel_cpu( main_local, nb_trials=20, nb_workers=1 ) Hyperparameter search on a single or multiple GPUs # run a grid search over 20 hyperparameter combinations. hyperparams.optimize_parallel_gpu( main_local, nb_trials=20, nb_workers=1, gpus=[0,1,2,3] ) Hyperparameter search on a SLURM HPC cluster def optimize_on_cluster(hyperparams): # enable cluster training cluster = SlurmCluster( hyperparam_optimizer=hyperparams, log_path=hyperparams.tt_save_path, test_tube_exp_name=hyperparams.tt_name ) # email for cluster coms cluster.notify_job_status(email='add_email_here', on_done=True, on_fail=True) # configure cluster cluster.per_experiment_nb_gpus = hyperparams.per_experiment_nb_gpus cluster.job_time = '48:00:00' cluster.gpu_type = '1080ti' cluster.memory_mb_per_node = 48000 # any modules for code to run in env cluster.add_command('source activate pytorch_lightning') # name of exp job_display_name = hyperparams.tt_name.split('_')[0] job_display_name = job_display_name[0:3] # run hopt print('submitting jobs...') cluster.optimize_parallel_cluster_gpu( main, nb_trials=hyperparams.nb_hopt_trials, job_name=job_display_name ) # run cluster hyperparameter search optimize_on_cluster(hyperparams)","title":"Examples"},{"location":"Examples/#template-model-definition","text":"In 99% of cases you want to just copy this template to start a new lightningModule and change the core of what your model is actually trying to do. # get a copy of the module template wget https://github.com/williamFalcon/pytorch-lightning/blob/master/examples/new_project_templates/lightning_module_template.py","title":"Template model definition"},{"location":"Examples/#trainer-example","text":"__main__ function Normally, we want to let the __main__ function start the training. Inside the main we parse training arguments with whatever hyperparameters we want. Your LightningModule will have a chance to add hyperparameters. from test_tube import HyperOptArgumentParser if __name__ == '__main__': # use default args given by lightning root_dir = os.path.split(os.path.dirname(sys.modules['__main__'].__file__))[0] parent_parser = HyperOptArgumentParser(strategy='random_search', add_help=False) add_default_args(parent_parser, root_dir) # allow model to overwrite or extend args parser = ExampleModel.add_model_specific_args(parent_parser) hyperparams = parser.parse_args() # train model main(hyperparams) Main Function The main function is your entry into the program. This is where you init your model, checkpoint directory, and launch the training. The main function should have 3 arguments: - hparams: a configuration of hyperparameters. - slurm_manager: Slurm cluster manager object (can be None) - dict: for you to return any values you want (useful in meta-learning, otherwise set to _) def main(hparams, cluster, results_dict): \"\"\" Main training routine specific for this project :param hparams: :return: \"\"\" # init experiment log_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)) exp = Experiment( name='test_tube_exp', debug=True, save_dir=log_dir, version=0, autosave=False, description='test demo' ) # set the hparams for the experiment exp.argparse(hparams) exp.save() # build model model = MyLightningModule(hparams) # callbacks early_stop = EarlyStopping( monitor=hparams.early_stop_metric, patience=hparams.early_stop_patience, verbose=True, mode=hparams.early_stop_mode ) model_save_path = '{}/{}/{}'.format(hparams.model_save_path, exp.name, exp.version) checkpoint = ModelCheckpoint( filepath=model_save_path, save_function=None, save_best_only=True, verbose=True, monitor=hparams.model_save_monitor_value, mode=hparams.model_save_monitor_mode ) # configure trainer trainer = Trainer( experiment=exp, cluster=cluster, checkpoint_callback=checkpoint, early_stop_callback=early_stop, ) # train model trainer.fit(model) The main function will start training on your main function. If you use the HyperParameterOptimizer in hyper parameter optimization mode, this main function will get one set of hyperparameters. If you use it as a simple argument parser you get the default arguments in the argument parser. So, calling main(hyperparams) runs the model with the default argparse arguments. main(hyperparams)","title":"Trainer Example"},{"location":"Examples/#cpu-hyperparameter-search","text":"# run a grid search over 20 hyperparameter combinations. hyperparams.optimize_parallel_cpu( main_local, nb_trials=20, nb_workers=1 )","title":"CPU hyperparameter search"},{"location":"Examples/#hyperparameter-search-on-a-single-or-multiple-gpus","text":"# run a grid search over 20 hyperparameter combinations. hyperparams.optimize_parallel_gpu( main_local, nb_trials=20, nb_workers=1, gpus=[0,1,2,3] )","title":"Hyperparameter search on a single or multiple GPUs"},{"location":"Examples/#hyperparameter-search-on-a-slurm-hpc-cluster","text":"def optimize_on_cluster(hyperparams): # enable cluster training cluster = SlurmCluster( hyperparam_optimizer=hyperparams, log_path=hyperparams.tt_save_path, test_tube_exp_name=hyperparams.tt_name ) # email for cluster coms cluster.notify_job_status(email='add_email_here', on_done=True, on_fail=True) # configure cluster cluster.per_experiment_nb_gpus = hyperparams.per_experiment_nb_gpus cluster.job_time = '48:00:00' cluster.gpu_type = '1080ti' cluster.memory_mb_per_node = 48000 # any modules for code to run in env cluster.add_command('source activate pytorch_lightning') # name of exp job_display_name = hyperparams.tt_name.split('_')[0] job_display_name = job_display_name[0:3] # run hopt print('submitting jobs...') cluster.optimize_parallel_cluster_gpu( main, nb_trials=hyperparams.nb_hopt_trials, job_name=job_display_name ) # run cluster hyperparameter search optimize_on_cluster(hyperparams)","title":"Hyperparameter search on a SLURM HPC cluster"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/","text":"Lightning Module interface [ Github Code ] A lightning module is a strict superclass of nn.Module, it provides a standard interface for the trainer to interact with the model. The easiest thing to do is copy this template and modify accordingly. Otherwise, to Define a Lightning Module, implement the following methods: Required : training_step validation_step validation_end configure_optimizers get_save_dict load_model_specific tng_dataloader tng_dataloader test_dataloader Optional : update_tng_log_metrics add_model_specific_args training_step def training_step(self, data_batch, batch_nb) In this step you'd normally do the forward pass and calculate the loss for a batch. You can also do fancier things like multiple forward passes or something specific to your model. Params Param description data_batch The output of your dataloader. A tensor, tuple or list batch_nb Integer displaying which batch this is Return Dictionary or OrderedDict key value is required loss tensor scalar Y prog Dict for progress bar display. Must have only tensors N Example def training_step(self, data_batch, batch_nb): x, y, z = data_batch # implement your own out = self.forward(x) loss = self.loss(out, x) output = { 'loss': loss, # required 'prog': {'tng_loss': loss, 'batch_nb': batch_nb} # optional } # return a dict return output validation_step def validation_step(self, data_batch, batch_nb) In this step you'd normally do the forward pass and calculate the loss for a batch. You can also do fancier things like multiple forward passes or something specific to your model. This is most likely the same as your training_step. But unlike training step, the outputs from here will go to validation_end for collation. Params Param description data_batch The output of your dataloader. A tensor, tuple or list batch_nb Integer displaying which batch this is Return Return description optional dict Dict of OrderedDict with metrics to display in progress bar. All keys must be tensors. Y Example def validation_step(self, data_batch, batch_nb): x, y, z = data_batch # implement your own out = self.forward(x) loss = self.loss(out, x) # calculate acc labels_hat = torch.argmax(out, dim=1) val_acc = torch.sum(y == labels_hat).item() / (len(y) * 1.0) # all optional... # return whatever you need for the collation function validation_end output = OrderedDict({ 'val_loss': loss_val, 'val_acc': torch.tensor(val_acc), # everything must be a tensor }) # return an optional dict return output validation_end def validation_end(self, outputs) Called at the end of the validation loop with the output of each validation_step. Params Param description outputs List of outputs you defined in validation_step Return Return description optional dict Dict of OrderedDict with metrics to display in progress bar Y Example def validation_end(self, outputs): \"\"\" Called at the end of validation to aggregate outputs :param outputs: list of individual outputs of each validation step :return: \"\"\" val_loss_mean = 0 val_acc_mean = 0 for output in outputs: val_loss_mean += output['val_loss'] val_acc_mean += output['val_acc'] val_loss_mean /= len(outputs) val_acc_mean /= len(outputs) tqdm_dic = {'val_loss': val_loss_mean.item(), 'val_acc': val_acc_mean.item()} return tqdm_dic configure_optimizers def configure_optimizers(self) Set up as many optimizers as you need. Normally you'd need one. But in the case of GANs or something more esoteric you might have multiple. Lightning will call .backward() and .step() on each one. If you use 16 bit precision it will also handle that. Return List - List of optimizers Example # most cases def configure_optimizers(self): opt = Adam(lr=0.01) return [opt] # gan example def configure_optimizers(self): generator_opt = Adam(lr=0.01) disriminator_opt = Adam(lr=0.02) return [generator_opt, disriminator_opt] get_save_dict def get_save_dict(self) Called by lightning to checkpoint your model. Lightning saves current epoch, current batch nb, etc... All you have to return is what specifically about your lightning model you want to checkpoint. Return Dictionary - No required keys. Most of the time as described in this example. Example def get_save_dict(self): # 99% of use cases this is all you need to return checkpoint = {'state_dict': self.state_dict()} return checkpoint load_model_specific def load_model_specific(self, checkpoint) Called by lightning to restore your model. This is your chance to restore your model using the keys you added in get_save_dict. Lightning will automatically restore current epoch, batch nb, etc. Return Nothing Example def load_model_specific(self, checkpoint): # you defined 'state_dict' in get_save_dict() self.load_state_dict(checkpoint['state_dict']) tng_dataloader @property def tng_dataloader(self) Called by lightning during training loop. Define it as a property. Return Pytorch DataLoader Example @property def tng_dataloader(self): if self._tng_dataloader is None: try: transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.5,), (1.0,))]) dataset = MNIST(root='/path/to/mnist/', train=True, transform=transform, download=True) loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( dataset=dataset, batch_size=self.hparams.batch_size, shuffle=True ) self._tng_dataloader = loader except Exception as e: raise e return self._tng_dataloader val_dataloader @property def tng_dataloader(self) Called by lightning during validation loop. Define it as a property. Return Pytorch DataLoader Example @property def val_dataloader(self): if self._val_dataloader is None: try: transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.5,), (1.0,))]) dataset = MNIST(root='/path/to/mnist/', train=False, transform=transform, download=True) loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( dataset=dataset, batch_size=self.hparams.batch_size, shuffle=True ) self._val_dataloader = loader except Exception as e: raise e return self._val_dataloader test_dataloader @property def test_dataloader(self) Called by lightning during test loop. Define it as a property. Return Pytorch DataLoader Example @property def test_dataloader(self): if self._test_dataloader is None: try: transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.5,), (1.0,))]) dataset = MNIST(root='/path/to/mnist/', train=False, transform=transform, download=True) loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( dataset=dataset, batch_size=self.hparams.batch_size, shuffle=True ) self._test_dataloader = loader except Exception as e: raise e return self._test_dataloader update_tng_log_metrics def update_tng_log_metrics(self, logs) Called by lightning right before it logs metrics for this batch. This is a chance to ammend or add to the metrics about to be logged. Return Dict Example def update_tng_log_metrics(self, logs): # modify or add to logs return logs add_model_specific_args @staticmethod def add_model_specific_args(parent_parser, root_dir) Lightning has a list of default argparse commands. This method is your chance to add or modify commands specific to your model. The hyperparameter argument parser is available anywhere in your model by calling self.hparams. Return An argument parser Example @staticmethod def add_model_specific_args(parent_parser, root_dir): parser = HyperOptArgumentParser(strategy=parent_parser.strategy, parents=[parent_parser]) # param overwrites # parser.set_defaults(gradient_clip=5.0) # network params parser.opt_list('--drop_prob', default=0.2, options=[0.2, 0.5], type=float, tunable=False) parser.add_argument('--in_features', default=28*28) parser.add_argument('--out_features', default=10) parser.add_argument('--hidden_dim', default=50000) # use 500 for CPU, 50000 for GPU to see speed difference # data parser.add_argument('--data_root', default=os.path.join(root_dir, 'mnist'), type=str) # training params (opt) parser.opt_list('--learning_rate', default=0.001, type=float, options=[0.0001, 0.0005, 0.001, 0.005], tunable=False) parser.opt_list('--batch_size', default=256, type=int, options=[32, 64, 128, 256], tunable=False) parser.opt_list('--optimizer_name', default='adam', type=str, options=['adam'], tunable=False) return parser","title":"Lightning Module interface"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#lightning-module-interface","text":"[ Github Code ] A lightning module is a strict superclass of nn.Module, it provides a standard interface for the trainer to interact with the model. 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A tensor, tuple or list batch_nb Integer displaying which batch this is Return Return description optional dict Dict of OrderedDict with metrics to display in progress bar. All keys must be tensors. Y Example def validation_step(self, data_batch, batch_nb): x, y, z = data_batch # implement your own out = self.forward(x) loss = self.loss(out, x) # calculate acc labels_hat = torch.argmax(out, dim=1) val_acc = torch.sum(y == labels_hat).item() / (len(y) * 1.0) # all optional... # return whatever you need for the collation function validation_end output = OrderedDict({ 'val_loss': loss_val, 'val_acc': torch.tensor(val_acc), # everything must be a tensor }) # return an optional dict return output","title":"validation_step"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#validation_end","text":"def validation_end(self, outputs) Called at the end of the validation loop with the output of each validation_step. Params Param description outputs List of outputs you defined in validation_step Return Return description optional dict Dict of OrderedDict with metrics to display in progress bar Y Example def validation_end(self, outputs): \"\"\" Called at the end of validation to aggregate outputs :param outputs: list of individual outputs of each validation step :return: \"\"\" val_loss_mean = 0 val_acc_mean = 0 for output in outputs: val_loss_mean += output['val_loss'] val_acc_mean += output['val_acc'] val_loss_mean /= len(outputs) val_acc_mean /= len(outputs) tqdm_dic = {'val_loss': val_loss_mean.item(), 'val_acc': val_acc_mean.item()} return tqdm_dic","title":"validation_end"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#configure_optimizers","text":"def configure_optimizers(self) Set up as many optimizers as you need. Normally you'd need one. But in the case of GANs or something more esoteric you might have multiple. Lightning will call .backward() and .step() on each one. 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Example def get_save_dict(self): # 99% of use cases this is all you need to return checkpoint = {'state_dict': self.state_dict()} return checkpoint","title":"Return"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#load_model_specific","text":"def load_model_specific(self, checkpoint) Called by lightning to restore your model. This is your chance to restore your model using the keys you added in get_save_dict. Lightning will automatically restore current epoch, batch nb, etc.","title":"load_model_specific"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#return_2","text":"Nothing Example def load_model_specific(self, checkpoint): # you defined 'state_dict' in get_save_dict() self.load_state_dict(checkpoint['state_dict'])","title":"Return"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#tng_dataloader","text":"@property def tng_dataloader(self) Called by lightning during training loop. Define it as a property.","title":"tng_dataloader"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#return_3","text":"Pytorch DataLoader Example @property def tng_dataloader(self): if self._tng_dataloader is None: try: transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.5,), (1.0,))]) dataset = MNIST(root='/path/to/mnist/', train=True, transform=transform, download=True) loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( dataset=dataset, batch_size=self.hparams.batch_size, shuffle=True ) self._tng_dataloader = loader except Exception as e: raise e return self._tng_dataloader","title":"Return"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#val_dataloader","text":"@property def tng_dataloader(self) Called by lightning during validation loop. Define it as a property.","title":"val_dataloader"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#return_4","text":"Pytorch DataLoader Example @property def val_dataloader(self): if self._val_dataloader is None: try: transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.5,), (1.0,))]) dataset = MNIST(root='/path/to/mnist/', train=False, transform=transform, download=True) loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( dataset=dataset, batch_size=self.hparams.batch_size, shuffle=True ) self._val_dataloader = loader except Exception as e: raise e return self._val_dataloader","title":"Return"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#test_dataloader","text":"@property def test_dataloader(self) Called by lightning during test loop. Define it as a property.","title":"test_dataloader"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#return_5","text":"Pytorch DataLoader Example @property def test_dataloader(self): if self._test_dataloader is None: try: transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.5,), (1.0,))]) dataset = MNIST(root='/path/to/mnist/', train=False, transform=transform, download=True) loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( dataset=dataset, batch_size=self.hparams.batch_size, shuffle=True ) self._test_dataloader = loader except Exception as e: raise e return self._test_dataloader","title":"Return"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#update_tng_log_metrics","text":"def update_tng_log_metrics(self, logs) Called by lightning right before it logs metrics for this batch. This is a chance to ammend or add to the metrics about to be logged.","title":"update_tng_log_metrics"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#return_6","text":"Dict Example def update_tng_log_metrics(self, logs): # modify or add to logs return logs","title":"Return"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#add_model_specific_args","text":"@staticmethod def add_model_specific_args(parent_parser, root_dir) Lightning has a list of default argparse commands. This method is your chance to add or modify commands specific to your model. The hyperparameter argument parser is available anywhere in your model by calling self.hparams.","title":"add_model_specific_args"},{"location":"LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#return_7","text":"An argument parser Example @staticmethod def add_model_specific_args(parent_parser, root_dir): parser = HyperOptArgumentParser(strategy=parent_parser.strategy, parents=[parent_parser]) # param overwrites # parser.set_defaults(gradient_clip=5.0) # network params parser.opt_list('--drop_prob', default=0.2, options=[0.2, 0.5], type=float, tunable=False) parser.add_argument('--in_features', default=28*28) parser.add_argument('--out_features', default=10) parser.add_argument('--hidden_dim', default=50000) # use 500 for CPU, 50000 for GPU to see speed difference # data parser.add_argument('--data_root', default=os.path.join(root_dir, 'mnist'), type=str) # training params (opt) parser.opt_list('--learning_rate', default=0.001, type=float, options=[0.0001, 0.0005, 0.001, 0.005], tunable=False) parser.opt_list('--batch_size', default=256, type=int, options=[32, 64, 128, 256], tunable=False) parser.opt_list('--optimizer_name', default='adam', type=str, options=['adam'], tunable=False) return parser","title":"Return"},{"location":"LightningModule/methods/","text":"Lightning modules are strict superclasses of torch.nn.Module. A LightningModule offers the following in addition to that API. freeze Freeze all params for inference model = MyLightningModule(...) model.freeze() load_from_metrics This is the easiest/fastest way which uses the meta_tags.csv file from test-tube to rebuild the model. The meta_tags.csv file can be found in the test-tube experiment save_dir. pretrained_model = MyLightningModule.load_from_metrics( weights_path='/path/to/pytorch_checkpoint.ckpt', tags_csv='/path/to/test_tube/experiment/version/meta_tags.csv', on_gpu=True, map_location=None ) # predict pretrained_model.freeze() y_hat = pretrained_model(x) Params Param description weights_path Path to a pytorch checkpoint tags_csv Path to meta_tags.csv file generated by the test-tube Experiment on_gpu if True, puts model on GPU. Make sure to use transforms option if model devices have changed map_location A dictionary mapping saved weight GPU devices to new GPU devices Returns LightningModule - The pretrained LightningModule unfreeze Unfreeze all params for inference model = MyLightningModule(...) model.unfreeze()","title":"Methods"},{"location":"LightningModule/methods/#freeze","text":"Freeze all params for inference model = MyLightningModule(...) model.freeze()","title":"freeze"},{"location":"LightningModule/methods/#load_from_metrics","text":"This is the easiest/fastest way which uses the meta_tags.csv file from test-tube to rebuild the model. The meta_tags.csv file can be found in the test-tube experiment save_dir. pretrained_model = MyLightningModule.load_from_metrics( weights_path='/path/to/pytorch_checkpoint.ckpt', tags_csv='/path/to/test_tube/experiment/version/meta_tags.csv', on_gpu=True, map_location=None ) # predict pretrained_model.freeze() y_hat = pretrained_model(x) Params Param description weights_path Path to a pytorch checkpoint tags_csv Path to meta_tags.csv file generated by the test-tube Experiment on_gpu if True, puts model on GPU. Make sure to use transforms option if model devices have changed map_location A dictionary mapping saved weight GPU devices to new GPU devices Returns LightningModule - The pretrained LightningModule","title":"load_from_metrics"},{"location":"LightningModule/methods/#unfreeze","text":"Unfreeze all params for inference model = MyLightningModule(...) model.unfreeze()","title":"unfreeze"},{"location":"Trainer/","text":"Trainer [ Github Code ] The lightning trainer abstracts best practices for running a training, val, test routine. It calls parts of your model when it wants to hand over full control and otherwise makes training assumptions which are now standard practice in AI research. This is the basic use of the trainer: from pytorch_lightning import Trainer model = LightningTemplate() trainer = Trainer() trainer.fit(model) But of course the fun is in all the advanced things it can do: Checkpointing Model saving Model loading Computing cluster (SLURM) Running grid search on a cluster Walltime auto-resubmit Debugging Fast dev run Inspect gradient norms Log GPU usage Make model overfit on subset of data Print the parameter count by layer Pring which gradients are nan Distributed training 16-bit mixed precision Multi-GPU Multi-node Single GPU Self-balancing architecture Experiment Logging Display metrics in progress bar Log arbitrary metrics Log metric row every k batches Process position Save a snapshot of all hyperparameters Snapshot code for a training run Write logs file to csv every k batches Training loop Accumulate gradients Anneal Learning rate Force training for min or max epochs Force disable early stop Use multiple optimizers (like GANs) Set how much of the training set to check (1-100%) Validation loop Check validation every n epochs Set how much of the validation set to check Set how much of the test set to check Set validation check frequency within 1 training epoch Set the number of validation sanity steps","title":"Trainer"},{"location":"Trainer/#trainer","text":"[ Github Code ] The lightning trainer abstracts best practices for running a training, val, test routine. 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Y Example def validation_step(self, data_batch, batch_nb): x, y, z = data_batch # implement your own out = self.forward(x) loss = self.loss(out, x) # calculate acc labels_hat = torch.argmax(out, dim=1) val_acc = torch.sum(y == labels_hat).item() / (len(y) * 1.0) # all optional... # return whatever you need for the collation function validation_end output = OrderedDict({ 'val_loss': loss_val, 'val_acc': torch.tensor(val_acc), # everything must be a tensor }) # return an optional dict return output validation_end def validation_end(self, outputs) Called at the end of the validation loop with the output of each validation_step. Params Param description outputs List of outputs you defined in validation_step Return Return description optional dict Dict of OrderedDict with metrics to display in progress bar Y Example def validation_end(self, outputs): \"\"\" Called at the end of validation to aggregate outputs :param outputs: list of individual outputs of each validation step :return: \"\"\" val_loss_mean = 0 val_acc_mean = 0 for output in outputs: val_loss_mean += output['val_loss'] val_acc_mean += output['val_acc'] val_loss_mean /= len(outputs) val_acc_mean /= len(outputs) tqdm_dic = {'val_loss': val_loss_mean.item(), 'val_acc': val_acc_mean.item()} return tqdm_dic configure_optimizers def configure_optimizers(self) Set up as many optimizers as you need. Normally you'd need one. But in the case of GANs or something more esoteric you might have multiple. Lightning will call .backward() and .step() on each one. If you use 16 bit precision it will also handle that. 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Lightning will automatically restore current epoch, batch nb, etc. Return Nothing Example def load_model_specific(self, checkpoint): # you defined 'state_dict' in get_save_dict() self.load_state_dict(checkpoint['state_dict']) tng_dataloader @property def tng_dataloader(self) Called by lightning during training loop. Define it as a property. Return Pytorch DataLoader Example @property def tng_dataloader(self): if self._tng_dataloader is None: try: transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.5,), (1.0,))]) dataset = MNIST(root='/path/to/mnist/', train=True, transform=transform, download=True) loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( dataset=dataset, batch_size=self.hparams.batch_size, shuffle=True ) self._tng_dataloader = loader except Exception as e: raise e return self._tng_dataloader val_dataloader @property def tng_dataloader(self) Called by lightning during validation loop. Define it as a property. Return Pytorch DataLoader Example @property def val_dataloader(self): if self._val_dataloader is None: try: transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor(), transforms.Normalize((0.5,), (1.0,))]) dataset = MNIST(root='/path/to/mnist/', train=False, transform=transform, download=True) loader = torch.utils.data.DataLoader( dataset=dataset, batch_size=self.hparams.batch_size, shuffle=True ) self._val_dataloader = loader except Exception as e: raise e return self._val_dataloader test_dataloader @property def test_dataloader(self) Called by lightning during test loop. Define it as a property. 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A LightningModule offers the following in addition to that API. freeze Freeze all params for inference model = MyLightningModule(...) model.freeze() load_from_metrics This is the easiest/fastest way which uses the meta_tags.csv file from test-tube to rebuild the model. The meta_tags.csv file can be found in the test-tube experiment save_dir. pretrained_model = MyLightningModule.load_from_metrics( weights_path='/path/to/pytorch_checkpoint.ckpt', tags_csv='/path/to/test_tube/experiment/version/meta_tags.csv', on_gpu=True, map_location=None ) # predict pretrained_model.freeze() y_hat = pretrained_model(x) Params Param description weights_path Path to a pytorch checkpoint tags_csv Path to meta_tags.csv file generated by the test-tube Experiment on_gpu if True, puts model on GPU. 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Changing certain properties here could affect your training run.","title":"Properties"},{"location":"LightningModule/properties/#current_epoch","text":"The current epoch","title":"current_epoch"},{"location":"LightningModule/properties/#dtype","text":"Current dtype","title":"dtype"},{"location":"LightningModule/properties/#global_step","text":"Total training batches seen across all epochs","title":"global_step"},{"location":"LightningModule/properties/#gradient_clip","text":"The current gradient clip value","title":"gradient_clip"},{"location":"LightningModule/properties/#on_gpu","text":"True if your model is currently running on GPUs. Useful to set flags around the LightningModule for different CPU vs GPU behavior.","title":"on_gpu"},{"location":"LightningModule/properties/#trainer","text":"Last resort access to any state the trainer has. Changing certain properties here could affect your training run.","title":"Trainer"},{"location":"Trainer/","text":"Trainer [ Github Code ] The lightning trainer abstracts best practices for running a training, val, test routine. It calls parts of your model when it wants to hand over full control and otherwise makes training assumptions which are now standard practice in AI research. This is the basic use of the trainer: from pytorch_lightning import Trainer model = LightningTemplate() trainer = Trainer() trainer.fit(model) But of course the fun is in all the advanced things it can do: Checkpointing Model saving Model loading Computing cluster (SLURM) Running grid search on a cluster Walltime auto-resubmit Debugging Fast dev run Inspect gradient norms Log GPU usage Make model overfit on subset of data Print the parameter count by layer Pring which gradients are nan Distributed training 16-bit mixed precision Multi-GPU Multi-node Single GPU Self-balancing architecture Experiment Logging Display metrics in progress bar Log arbitrary metrics Log metric row every k batches Process position Save a snapshot of all hyperparameters Snapshot code for a training run Write logs file to csv every k batches Training loop Accumulate gradients Anneal Learning rate Force training for min or max epochs Force disable early stop Use multiple optimizers (like GANs) Set how much of the training set to check (1-100%) Validation loop Check validation every n epochs Set how much of the validation set to check Set how much of the test set to check Set validation check frequency within 1 training epoch Set the number of validation sanity steps","title":"Trainer"},{"location":"Trainer/#trainer","text":"[ Github Code ] The lightning trainer abstracts best practices for running a training, val, test routine. It calls parts of your model when it wants to hand over full control and otherwise makes training assumptions which are now standard practice in AI research. This is the basic use of the trainer: from pytorch_lightning import Trainer model = LightningTemplate() trainer = Trainer() trainer.fit(model) But of course the fun is in all the advanced things it can do: Checkpointing Model saving Model loading Computing cluster (SLURM) Running grid search on a cluster Walltime auto-resubmit Debugging Fast dev run Inspect gradient norms Log GPU usage Make model overfit on subset of data Print the parameter count by layer Pring which gradients are nan Distributed training 16-bit mixed precision Multi-GPU Multi-node Single GPU Self-balancing architecture Experiment Logging Display metrics in progress bar Log arbitrary metrics Log metric row every k batches Process position Save a snapshot of all hyperparameters Snapshot code for a training run Write logs file to csv every k batches Training loop Accumulate gradients Anneal Learning rate Force training for min or max epochs Force disable early stop Use multiple optimizers (like GANs) Set how much of the training set to check (1-100%) Validation loop Check validation every n epochs Set how much of the validation set to check Set how much of the test set to check Set validation check frequency within 1 training epoch Set the number of validation sanity steps","title":"Trainer"},{"location":"Trainer/Checkpointing/","text":"Lightning can automate saving and loading checkpoints. Model saving To enable checkpointing, define the checkpoint callback and give it to the trainer. from pytorch_lightning.utils.pt_callbacks import ModelCheckpoint checkpoint_callback = ModelCheckpoint( filepath='/path/to/store/weights.ckpt', save_best_only=True, verbose=True, monitor='val_loss', mode='min' ) trainer = Trainer(checkpoint_callback=checkpoint_callback)","title":"Checkpointing"},{"location":"Trainer/Checkpointing/#model-saving","text":"To enable checkpointing, define the checkpoint callback and give it to the trainer. from pytorch_lightning.utils.pt_callbacks import ModelCheckpoint checkpoint_callback = ModelCheckpoint( filepath='/path/to/store/weights.ckpt', save_best_only=True, verbose=True, monitor='val_loss', mode='min' ) trainer = Trainer(checkpoint_callback=checkpoint_callback)","title":"Model saving"},{"location":"Trainer/Distributed training/","text":"Lightning makes multi-gpu training and 16 bit training trivial. Note: None of the flags below require changing anything about your lightningModel definition. 16-bit mixed precision 16 bit precision can cut your memory footprint by half. If using volta architecture GPUs it can give a dramatic training speed-up as well. First, install apex (if install fails, look here ): $ git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex $ cd apex $ pip install -v --no-cache-dir --global-option=\"--cpp_ext\" --global-option=\"--cuda_ext\" ./ then set this use_amp to True. # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(amp_level='O2', use_amp=False) Single-gpu Make sure you're on a GPU machine. # set these flags os.environ[\"CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER\"] = \"PCI_BUS_ID\" os.environ[\"CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES\"] = \"0\" # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(gpus=[0]) multi-gpu Make sure you're on a GPU machine. You can set as many GPUs as you want. In this setting, the model will run on all 8 GPUs at once using DataParallel under the hood. # set these flags os.environ[\"CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER\"] = \"PCI_BUS_ID\" os.environ[\"CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES\"] = \"0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7\" # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(gpus=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7]) Multi-node COMING SOON. Self-balancing architecture Here lightning distributes parts of your module across available GPUs to optimize for speed and memory. COMING SOON.","title":"Distributed training"},{"location":"Trainer/Distributed training/#16-bit-mixed-precision","text":"16 bit precision can cut your memory footprint by half. If using volta architecture GPUs it can give a dramatic training speed-up as well. First, install apex (if install fails, look here ): $ git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/apex $ cd apex $ pip install -v --no-cache-dir --global-option=\"--cpp_ext\" --global-option=\"--cuda_ext\" ./ then set this use_amp to True. # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(amp_level='O2', use_amp=False)","title":"16-bit mixed precision"},{"location":"Trainer/Distributed training/#single-gpu","text":"Make sure you're on a GPU machine. # set these flags os.environ[\"CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER\"] = \"PCI_BUS_ID\" os.environ[\"CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES\"] = \"0\" # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(gpus=[0])","title":"Single-gpu"},{"location":"Trainer/Distributed training/#multi-gpu","text":"Make sure you're on a GPU machine. You can set as many GPUs as you want. In this setting, the model will run on all 8 GPUs at once using DataParallel under the hood. # set these flags os.environ[\"CUDA_DEVICE_ORDER\"] = \"PCI_BUS_ID\" os.environ[\"CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES\"] = \"0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7\" # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(gpus=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7])","title":"multi-gpu"},{"location":"Trainer/Distributed training/#multi-node","text":"COMING SOON.","title":"Multi-node"},{"location":"Trainer/Distributed training/#self-balancing-architecture","text":"Here lightning distributes parts of your module across available GPUs to optimize for speed and memory. COMING SOON.","title":"Self-balancing architecture"},{"location":"Trainer/Logging/","text":"Lighting offers a few options for logging information about model, gpu usage, etc (via test-tube). It also offers printing options for training monitoring. Display metrics in progress bar # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(progress_bar=True) Log metric row every k batches Every k batches lightning will make an entry in the metrics log # DEFAULT (ie: save a .csv log file every 10 batches) trainer = Trainer(add_log_row_interval=10) Process position When running multiple models on the same machine we want to decide which progress bar to use. Lightning will stack progress bars according to this value. # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(process_position=0) # if this is the second model on the node, show the second progress bar below trainer = Trainer(process_position=1) Save a snapshot of all hyperparameters Whenever you call .save() on the test-tube experiment it logs all the hyperparameters in current use. Give lightning a test-tube Experiment object to automate this for you. from test-tube import Experiment exp = Experiment(...) 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Give lightning a test-tube Experiment object to automate this for you. from test-tube import Experiment exp = Experiment(create_git_tag=True) Trainer(experiment=exp)","title":"Snapshot code for a training run"},{"location":"Trainer/Logging/#write-logs-file-to-csv-every-k-batches","text":"Every k batches, lightning will write the new logs to disk # DEFAULT (ie: save a .csv log file every 100 batches) trainer = Trainer(log_save_interval=100)","title":"Write logs file to csv every k batches"},{"location":"Trainer/SLURM Managed Cluster/","text":"Lightning supports model training on a cluster managed by SLURM in the following cases: Training on single or multi-cpus only. Training on single or multi-gpus on the same node. Coming SOON: Training across multiple nodes. Running grid search on a cluster To use lightning to run a hyperparameter search (grid-search or random-search) on a cluster do 4 things: (1). Define the parameters for the grid search from test_tube import HyperOptArgumentParser # subclass of argparse parser = HyperOptArgumentParser(strategy='random_search') parser.add_argument('--learning_rate', default=0.002, type=float, help='the learning rate') # let's enable optimizing over the number of layers in the network parser.opt_list('--nb_layers', default=2, type=int, tunable=True, options=[2, 4, 8]) hparams = parser.parse_args() (2). Define the cluster options in the SlurmCluster object (over 5 nodes and 8 gpus) from test_tube.hpc import SlurmCluster # hyperparameters is a test-tube hyper params object # see https://williamfalcon.github.io/test-tube/hyperparameter_optimization/HyperOptArgumentParser/ hyperparams = args.parse() # init cluster cluster = SlurmCluster( hyperparam_optimizer=hyperparams, log_path='/path/to/log/results/to', python_cmd='python3' ) # let the cluster know where to email for a change in job status (ie: complete, fail, etc...) cluster.notify_job_status(email='some@email.com', on_done=True, on_fail=True) # set the job options. In this instance, we'll run 20 different models # each with its own set of hyperparameters giving each one 1 GPU (ie: taking up 20 GPUs) cluster.per_experiment_nb_gpus = 8 cluster.per_experiment_nb_nodes = 5 # we'll request 10GB of memory per node cluster.memory_mb_per_node = 10000 # set a walltime of 10 minues cluster.job_time = '10:00' (3). Give trainer the cluster_manager in your main function: from pytorch_lightning import Trainer def train_fx(trial_hparams, cluster_manager, _): # hparams has a specific set of hyperparams my_model = MyLightningModel() # give the trainer the cluster object trainer = Trainer(cluster=cluster_manager) trainer.fit(my_model) (4). Start the grid search # run the models on the cluster cluster.optimize_parallel_cluster_gpu( train_fx, nb_trials=20, job_name='my_grid_search_exp_name', job_display_name='my_exp') That's it! The SlurmCluster object will automatically checkpoint the lightning model and resubmit if it runs into the walltime! Walltime auto-resubmit Lightning automatically resubmits jobs when they reach the walltime. You get this behavior for free if you give lightning a slurm cluster object. def my_main_fx(hparams, slurm_manager, _): trainer = Trainer(cluster=slurm_manager) (See the grid search example above for cluster configuration). With this feature lightning will: automatically checkpoint the model checkpoint the trainer session resubmit a continuation job. load the checkpoint and trainer session in the new model","title":"SLURM Managed Cluster"},{"location":"Trainer/SLURM Managed Cluster/#running-grid-search-on-a-cluster","text":"To use lightning to run a hyperparameter search (grid-search or random-search) on a cluster do 4 things: (1). Define the parameters for the grid search from test_tube import HyperOptArgumentParser # subclass of argparse parser = HyperOptArgumentParser(strategy='random_search') parser.add_argument('--learning_rate', default=0.002, type=float, help='the learning rate') # let's enable optimizing over the number of layers in the network parser.opt_list('--nb_layers', default=2, type=int, tunable=True, options=[2, 4, 8]) hparams = parser.parse_args() (2). Define the cluster options in the SlurmCluster object (over 5 nodes and 8 gpus) from test_tube.hpc import SlurmCluster # hyperparameters is a test-tube hyper params object # see https://williamfalcon.github.io/test-tube/hyperparameter_optimization/HyperOptArgumentParser/ hyperparams = args.parse() # init cluster cluster = SlurmCluster( hyperparam_optimizer=hyperparams, log_path='/path/to/log/results/to', python_cmd='python3' ) # let the cluster know where to email for a change in job status (ie: complete, fail, etc...) cluster.notify_job_status(email='some@email.com', on_done=True, on_fail=True) # set the job options. In this instance, we'll run 20 different models # each with its own set of hyperparameters giving each one 1 GPU (ie: taking up 20 GPUs) cluster.per_experiment_nb_gpus = 8 cluster.per_experiment_nb_nodes = 5 # we'll request 10GB of memory per node cluster.memory_mb_per_node = 10000 # set a walltime of 10 minues cluster.job_time = '10:00' (3). Give trainer the cluster_manager in your main function: from pytorch_lightning import Trainer def train_fx(trial_hparams, cluster_manager, _): # hparams has a specific set of hyperparams my_model = MyLightningModel() # give the trainer the cluster object trainer = Trainer(cluster=cluster_manager) trainer.fit(my_model) (4). Start the grid search # run the models on the cluster cluster.optimize_parallel_cluster_gpu( train_fx, nb_trials=20, job_name='my_grid_search_exp_name', job_display_name='my_exp') That's it! The SlurmCluster object will automatically checkpoint the lightning model and resubmit if it runs into the walltime!","title":"Running grid search on a cluster"},{"location":"Trainer/SLURM Managed Cluster/#walltime-auto-resubmit","text":"Lightning automatically resubmits jobs when they reach the walltime. You get this behavior for free if you give lightning a slurm cluster object. def my_main_fx(hparams, slurm_manager, _): trainer = Trainer(cluster=slurm_manager) (See the grid search example above for cluster configuration). With this feature lightning will: automatically checkpoint the model checkpoint the trainer session resubmit a continuation job. load the checkpoint and trainer session in the new model","title":"Walltime auto-resubmit"},{"location":"Trainer/Training Loop/","text":"The lightning training loop handles everything except the actual computations of your model. To decide what will happen in your training loop, define the training_step function . Below are all the things lightning automates for you in the training loop. Accumulated gradients Accumulated gradients runs K small batches of size N before doing a backwards pass. The effect is a large effective batch size of size KxN. # DEFAULT (ie: no accumulated grads) trainer = Trainer(accumulate_grad_batches=1) Anneal Learning rate Cut the learning rate by 10 at every epoch listed in this list. # DEFAULT (don't anneal) trainer = Trainer(lr_scheduler_milestones=None) # cut LR by 10 at 100, 200, and 300 epochs trainer = Trainer(lr_scheduler_milestones=[100, 200, 300]) Force training for min or max epochs It can be useful to force training for a minimum number of epochs or limit to a max number # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(min_nb_epochs=1, max_nb_epochs=1000) Force disable early stop Use this to turn off early stopping and run training to the max_epoch # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(enable_early_stop=True) Gradient Clipping Use this to turn off early stopping and run training to the max_epoch # DEFAULT (ie: don't clip) trainer = Trainer(gradient_clip=0) Inspect gradient norms Looking at grad norms can help you figure out where training might be going wrong. # DEFAULT (-1 doesn't track norms) trainer = Trainer(track_grad_norm=-1) # track the LP norm (P=2 here) trainer = Trainer(track_grad_norm=2) Set how much of the training set to check If you don't want to check 100% of the training set (for debugging or if it's huge), set this flag # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(train_percent_check=1.0) # check 10% only trainer = Trainer(train_percent_check=0.1)","title":"Training Loop"},{"location":"Trainer/Training Loop/#accumulated-gradients","text":"Accumulated gradients runs K small batches of size N before doing a backwards pass. The effect is a large effective batch size of size KxN. # DEFAULT (ie: no accumulated grads) trainer = Trainer(accumulate_grad_batches=1)","title":"Accumulated gradients"},{"location":"Trainer/Training Loop/#anneal-learning-rate","text":"Cut the learning rate by 10 at every epoch listed in this list. # DEFAULT (don't anneal) trainer = Trainer(lr_scheduler_milestones=None) # cut LR by 10 at 100, 200, and 300 epochs trainer = Trainer(lr_scheduler_milestones=[100, 200, 300])","title":"Anneal Learning rate"},{"location":"Trainer/Training Loop/#force-training-for-min-or-max-epochs","text":"It can be useful to force training for a minimum number of epochs or limit to a max number # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(min_nb_epochs=1, max_nb_epochs=1000)","title":"Force training for min or max epochs"},{"location":"Trainer/Training Loop/#force-disable-early-stop","text":"Use this to turn off early stopping and run training to the max_epoch # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(enable_early_stop=True)","title":"Force disable early stop"},{"location":"Trainer/Training Loop/#gradient-clipping","text":"Use this to turn off early stopping and run training to the max_epoch # DEFAULT (ie: don't clip) trainer = Trainer(gradient_clip=0)","title":"Gradient Clipping"},{"location":"Trainer/Training Loop/#inspect-gradient-norms","text":"Looking at grad norms can help you figure out where training might be going wrong. # DEFAULT (-1 doesn't track norms) trainer = Trainer(track_grad_norm=-1) # track the LP norm (P=2 here) trainer = Trainer(track_grad_norm=2)","title":"Inspect gradient norms"},{"location":"Trainer/Training Loop/#set-how-much-of-the-training-set-to-check","text":"If you don't want to check 100% of the training set (for debugging or if it's huge), set this flag # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(train_percent_check=1.0) # check 10% only trainer = Trainer(train_percent_check=0.1)","title":"Set how much of the training set to check"},{"location":"Trainer/Validation loop/","text":"The lightning validation loop handles everything except the actual computations of your model. To decide what will happen in your validation loop, define the validation_step function . Below are all the things lightning automates for you in the validation loop. Note Lightning will run 5 steps of validation in the beginning of training as a sanity check so you don't have to wait until a full epoch to catch possible validation issues. Check validation every n epochs If you have a small dataset you might want to check validation every n epochs # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(check_val_every_n_epoch=1) Set how much of the validation set to check If you don't want to check 100% of the validation set (for debugging or if it's huge), set this flag # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(val_percent_check=1.0) # check 10% only trainer = Trainer(val_percent_check=0.1) Set how much of the test set to check If you don't want to check 100% of the test set (for debugging or if it's huge), set this flag # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(test_percent_check=1.0) # check 10% only trainer = Trainer(test_percent_check=0.1) Set validation check frequency within 1 training epoch For large datasets it's often desirable to check validation multiple times within a training loop # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(val_check_interval=0.95) # check every .25 of an epoch trainer = Trainer(val_check_interval=0.25) Set the number of validation sanity steps Lightning runs a few steps of validation in the beginning of training. This avoids crashing in the validation loop sometime deep into a lengthy training loop. # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(nb_sanity_val_steps=5)","title":"Validation loop"},{"location":"Trainer/Validation loop/#check-validation-every-n-epochs","text":"If you have a small dataset you might want to check validation every n epochs # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(check_val_every_n_epoch=1)","title":"Check validation every n epochs"},{"location":"Trainer/Validation loop/#set-how-much-of-the-validation-set-to-check","text":"If you don't want to check 100% of the validation set (for debugging or if it's huge), set this flag # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(val_percent_check=1.0) # check 10% only trainer = Trainer(val_percent_check=0.1)","title":"Set how much of the validation set to check"},{"location":"Trainer/Validation loop/#set-how-much-of-the-test-set-to-check","text":"If you don't want to check 100% of the test set (for debugging or if it's huge), set this flag # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(test_percent_check=1.0) # check 10% only trainer = Trainer(test_percent_check=0.1)","title":"Set how much of the test set to check"},{"location":"Trainer/Validation loop/#set-validation-check-frequency-within-1-training-epoch","text":"For large datasets it's often desirable to check validation multiple times within a training loop # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(val_check_interval=0.95) # check every .25 of an epoch trainer = Trainer(val_check_interval=0.25)","title":"Set validation check frequency within 1 training epoch"},{"location":"Trainer/Validation loop/#set-the-number-of-validation-sanity-steps","text":"Lightning runs a few steps of validation in the beginning of training. This avoids crashing in the validation loop sometime deep into a lengthy training loop. # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(nb_sanity_val_steps=5)","title":"Set the number of validation sanity steps"},{"location":"Trainer/debugging/","text":"These flags are useful to help debug a model. Fast dev run This flag is meant for debugging a full train/val/test loop. It'll activate callbacks, everything but only with 1 training and 1 validation batch. 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