Source code for mxnet.optimizer.sgd

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"""SGD optimizer"""
from __future__ import absolute_import
import numpy
from ..ndarray import (zeros, clip)
from ..ndarray import (sgd_update, sgd_mom_update,
                       mp_sgd_update, mp_sgd_mom_update,
                       multi_sgd_update, multi_sgd_mom_update,
                       multi_mp_sgd_update, multi_mp_sgd_mom_update)
from .optimizer import Optimizer, register
from .utils import _flatten_list

__all__ = ['SGD']


[docs]@register class SGD(Optimizer): """The SGD optimizer with momentum and weight decay. If the storage types of grad is ``row_sparse`` and ``lazy_update`` is True, \ **lazy updates** are applied by:: for row in grad.indices: rescaled_grad[row] = clip(rescale_grad * grad[row] + wd * weight[row], clip_gradient) state[row] = momentum[row] * state[row] + lr * rescaled_grad[row] weight[row] = weight[row] - state[row] The sparse update only updates the momentum for the weights whose row_sparse gradient indices appear in the current batch, rather than updating it for all indices. Compared with the original update, it can provide large improvements in model training throughput for some applications. However, it provides slightly different semantics than the original update, and may lead to different empirical results. In the case when ``update_on_kvstore`` is set to False (either globally via MXNET_UPDATE_ON_KVSTORE=0 environment variable or as a parameter in :class:`~mxnet.gluon.Trainer`) SGD optimizer can perform aggregated update of parameters, which may lead to improved performance. The aggregation size is controlled by ``aggregate_num`` and defaults to 4. Otherwise, **standard updates** are applied by:: rescaled_grad = clip(rescale_grad * grad, clip_gradient)) + wd * weight state = momentum * state + lr * rescaled_grad weight = weight - state For details of the update algorithm see :class:`~mxnet.ndarray.sgd_update` and :class:`~mxnet.ndarray.sgd_mom_update`. This optimizer accepts the following parameters in addition to those accepted by :class:`.Optimizer`. Parameters ---------- learning_rate : float, default 0.1 The initial learning rate. If None, the optimization will use the learning rate from ``lr_scheduler``. If not None, it will overwrite the learning rate in ``lr_scheduler``. If None and ``lr_scheduler`` is also None, then it will be set to 0.01 by default. momentum : float, default 0. The momentum value. lazy_update : bool, default False Default is False. If True, lazy updates are applied \ if the storage types of weight and grad are both ``row_sparse``. multi_precision: bool, default False Flag to control the internal precision of the optimizer. False: results in using the same precision as the weights (default), True: makes internal 32-bit copy of the weights and applies gradients in 32-bit precision even if actual weights used in the model have lower precision. Turning this on can improve convergence and accuracy when training with float16. aggregate_num : int, default 1 Number of weights to be aggregated in a list. They are passed to the optimizer for a single optimization step. use_fused_step : bool, default True Whether or not to use fused kernels for optimizer. When use_fused_step=False, step is called, otherwise, fused_step is called. """ def __init__(self, learning_rate=0.1, momentum=0.0, lazy_update=False, multi_precision=False, use_fused_step=True, aggregate_num=1, **kwargs): super(SGD, self).__init__(learning_rate=learning_rate, multi_precision=multi_precision, aggregate_num=aggregate_num, use_fused_step=use_fused_step, **kwargs) if not self.use_fused_step: assert not lazy_update, \ 'When use_fused_step is set to False, lazy_update has to be turned off.' if lazy_update: assert not multi_precision, \ 'When lazy_update is set to True, multi_precision has be turned off.' self.momentum = momentum self.lazy_update = lazy_update
[docs] def create_state(self, index, weight): momentum = None if self.momentum != 0.0: stype = weight.stype if self.lazy_update else 'default' momentum = zeros(weight.shape, weight.context, dtype=weight.dtype, stype=stype) return momentum
[docs] def step(self, indices, weights, grads, states): """Perform an optimization step using gradients and states. Parameters ---------- indices : list of int List of unique indices of the parameters into the individual learning rates and weight decays. Learning rates and weight decay may be set via `set_lr_mult()` and `set_wd_mult()`, respectively. weights : list of NDArray List of parameters to be updated. grads : list of NDArray List of gradients of the objective with respect to this parameter. states : List of any obj List of state returned by `create_state()`. """ for index, weight, grad, state in zip(indices, weights, grads, states): self._update_count(index) lr = self._get_lr(index) wd = self._get_wd(index) # preprocess grad grad *= self.rescale_grad if self.clip_gradient is not None: grad = clip(grad, -self.clip_gradient, self.clip_gradient) grad += wd * weight # update mom mom = state if mom is not None: mom[:] *= self.momentum mom[:] -= lr * grad else: mom = -lr * grad # update weight weight[:] += mom
[docs] def fused_step(self, indices, weights, grads, states): """Perform a fused optimization step using gradients and states. Fused kernel is used for update. Parameters ---------- indices : list of int List of unique indices of the parameters into the individual learning rates and weight decays. Learning rates and weight decay may be set via `set_lr_mult()` and `set_wd_mult()`, respectively. weights : list of NDArray List of parameters to be updated. grads : list of NDArray List of gradients of the objective with respect to this parameter. states : List of any obj List of state returned by `create_state()`. """ # When either weight or gradient is sparse, aggregate is False. aggregate = self.aggregate_num > 1 for weight, grad in zip(weights, grads): aggregate = (aggregate and weight.stype == 'default' and grad.stype == 'default') self._update_count(indices) lrs = self._get_lrs(indices) wds = self._get_wds(indices) kwargs = {'rescale_grad': self.rescale_grad} if self.momentum > 0: kwargs['momentum'] = self.momentum if self.clip_gradient: kwargs['clip_gradient'] = self.clip_gradient if aggregate: # update `aggregate_num` number of weights in a single kernel. # this does not support sparse weight or gradient. multi_precision = self.multi_precision and weights[0].dtype == numpy.float16 if not multi_precision: if self.momentum > 0: multi_sgd_mom_update(*_flatten_list(zip(weights, grads, states)), out=weights, num_weights=len(weights), lrs=lrs, wds=wds, **kwargs) else: multi_sgd_update(*_flatten_list(zip(weights, grads)), out=weights, num_weights=len(weights), lrs=lrs, wds=wds, **kwargs) else: states = list(zip(*states)) weights32, moms = states if self.momentum > 0: multi_mp_sgd_mom_update(*_flatten_list(zip(weights, grads, moms, weights32)), out=weights, num_weights=len(weights), lrs=lrs, wds=wds, **kwargs) else: multi_mp_sgd_update(*_flatten_list(zip(weights, grads, weights32)), out=weights, num_weights=len(weights), lrs=lrs, wds=wds, **kwargs) else: for weight, grad, state, lr, wd in zip(weights, grads, states, lrs, wds): multi_precision = self.multi_precision and weight.dtype == numpy.float16 if not multi_precision: mom = state if mom is not None: sgd_mom_update(weight, grad, mom, out=weight, lazy_update=self.lazy_update, lr=lr, wd=wd, **kwargs) else: sgd_update(weight, grad, out=weight, lazy_update=self.lazy_update, lr=lr, wd=wd, **kwargs) else: # weight32 is a float32 copy of weight. # in the kernel, we firstly update weight32, # and then cast the result to float16 and save it to weight. weight32, mom = state if mom is not None: mp_sgd_mom_update(weight, grad, mom, weight32, out=weight, lr=lr, wd=wd, **kwargs) else: mp_sgd_update(weight, grad, weight32, out=weight, lr=lr, wd=wd, **kwargs)
[docs] def update_multi_precision(self, indices, weights, grads, states): """Override update_multi_precision. """ if self.use_fused_step: self.update(indices, weights, grads, states) else: super(SGD, self).update_multi_precision(indices, weights, grads, states)