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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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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. 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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. 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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. 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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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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. 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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. 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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) Write logs file to csv every k batches 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":"Logging"},{"location":"Trainer/Logging/#display-metrics-in-progress-bar","text":"# DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(progress_bar=True)","title":"Display metrics in progress bar"},{"location":"Trainer/Logging/#log-metric-row-every-k-batches","text":"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)","title":"Log metric row every k batches"},{"location":"Trainer/Logging/#process-position","text":"When running multiple models on the same machine we want to decide which progress bar to use. 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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. 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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. 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Use this to debug a full run of your program quickly # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(fast_dev_run=False) 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) Make model overfit on subset of data A useful debugging trick is to make your model overfit a tiny fraction of the data. # DEFAULT don't overfit (ie: normal training) trainer = Trainer(overfit_pct=0.0) # overfit on 1% of data trainer = Trainer(overfit_pct=0.01) Print the parameter count by layer By default lightning prints a list of parameters and submodules when it starts training. Print which gradients are nan This option prints a list of tensors with nan gradients. # DEFAULT trainer = Trainer(print_nan_grads=False) Log GPU usage Lightning automatically logs gpu usage to the test tube logs. 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