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<h1>Training Loop</h1>
<p>The lightning training loop handles everything except the actual computations of your model. To decide what will happen in your training loop, define the <a href="https://williamfalcon.github.io/pytorch-lightning/LightningModule/RequiredTrainerInterface/#training_step">training_step function</a>.</p>
<p>Below are all the things lightning automates for you in the training loop.</p>
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<h4 id="accumulated-gradients">Accumulated gradients</h4>
<p>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.</p>
<table class="codehilitetable"><tr><td class="linenos"><div class="linenodiv"><pre>1
2</pre></div></td><td class="code"><div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># DEFAULT (ie: no accumulated grads)</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">accumulate_grad_batches</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h4 id="force-training-for-min-or-max-epochs">Force training for min or max epochs</h4>
<p>It can be useful to force training for a minimum number of epochs or limit to a max number</p>
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<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">min_nb_epochs</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">max_nb_epochs</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1000</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h4 id="early-stopping">Early stopping</h4>
<p>The trainer already sets up default early stopping for you.
To modify this behavior, pass in your own EarlyStopping callback.</p>
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<span class="c1"># DEFAULTS used by Trainer</span>
<span class="n">early_stop_callback</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">EarlyStopping</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="n">monitor</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;val_loss&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">min_delta</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">0.00</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">patience</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">verbose</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="n">mode</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;min&#39;</span>
<span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># without passing anything in, uses the default callback above</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="c1"># pass in your own to override the default callback</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">early_stop_callback</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">early_stop_callback</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># pass in None to disable it</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">early_stop_callback</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h4 id="force-disable-early-stop">Force disable early stop</h4>
<p>To disable early stopping pass None to the early_stop_callback</p>
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<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">early_stop_callback</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h4 id="gradient-clipping">Gradient Clipping</h4>
<p>Gradient clipping may be enabled to avoid exploding gradients.
Specifically, this will <a href="https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html#torch.nn.utils.clip_grad_norm_">clip the gradient norm computed over all model parameters <em>together</em></a>.</p>
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<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">gradient_clip_val</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># clip gradients with norm above 0.5</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">gradient_clip_val</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">0.5</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h4 id="inspect-gradient-norms">Inspect gradient norms</h4>
<p>Looking at grad norms can help you figure out where training might be going wrong.</p>
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<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">track_grad_norm</span><span class="o">=-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># track the LP norm (P=2 here)</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">track_grad_norm</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h4 id="set-how-much-of-the-training-set-to-check">Set how much of the training set to check</h4>
<p>If you don't want to check 100% of the training set (for debugging or if it's huge), set this flag.</p>
<p>train_percent_check will be overwritten by overfit_pct if <code>overfit_pct &gt; 0</code></p>
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<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">train_percent_check</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">1.0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># check 10% only</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">train_percent_check</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mf">0.1</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h4 id="packed-sequences-as-inputs">Packed sequences as inputs</h4>
<p>When using PackedSequence, do 2 things:
1. return either a padded tensor in dataset or a list of variable length tensors in the dataloader collate_fn (example above shows the list implementation). <br />
2. Pack the sequence in forward or training and validation steps depending on use case.</p>
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<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">collate_fn</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">batch</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">item</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">item</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">batch</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">item</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">item</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">batch</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">y</span>
<span class="c1"># In module</span>
<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">training_step</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">batch</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">batch_nb</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">rnn</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pack_sequence</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">batch</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">enforce_sorted</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">y</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">rnn</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pack_sequence</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">batch</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">],</span> <span class="n">enforce_sorted</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">False</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<h4 id="truncated-back-propagation-through-time">Truncated Back Propagation Through Time</h4>
<p>There are times when multiple backwards passes are needed for each batch. For example, it may save memory to use Truncated Back Propagation Through Time when training RNNs.</p>
<p>When this flag is enabled each batch is split into sequences of size truncated_bptt_steps and passed to training_step(...) separately. A default splitting function is provided, however, you can override it for more flexibility. See <a href="https://williamfalcon.github.io/pytorch-lightning/Trainer/hooks#tbptt_split_batch">tbptt_split_batch</a>.</p>
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5</pre></div></td><td class="code"><div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><span class="c1"># DEFAULT (single backwards pass per batch)</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">truncated_bptt_steps</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">None</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># (split batch into sequences of size 2)</span>
<span class="n">trainer</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trainer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">truncated_bptt_steps</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
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