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Summary on Supporting PyTorch

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Workflow description about ElasticDL

About start command:

elasticdl train --image_name=elasticdl:mnist: tutorials/elasticdl_local.md

setup entry: elasticdl=elasticdl_client.main:main

Create master:

elasticdl_client/api.py

Run worker:

run task (training/evaluation/prediction).Only calculate the gradient and report gradient to ps.

worker/mian.py

elastic/python/worker/worker.py

PS Client:

Push parameters to PS:elastic/python/worker/ps_client.py

How to print gradient information directly in PyTorch.

Usually, we train in PyTorch with an optimizer.

# training and testing
for epoch in range(EPOCH):
    for step, (b_x, b_y) in enumerate(train_loader):   # gives batch data, normalize x when iterate train_loader

        output = cnn(b_x)[0]            # cnn output
        loss = loss_func(output, b_y)   # cross entropy loss
        optimizer.zero_grad()           # clear gradients for this training step
        loss.backward()                 # backpropagation, compute gradients
        optimizer.step()                # apply gradients

In elacticdl framework, worker nodes pull datasets from master and compute gradients without apply gradients. At the same time, the parameter servers provide parameters to the worker. Worker nodes need to send gradients information back to the ps rather than process it themselves. So the gradients information needs to be displayed.

Here we use PyTorch Tensors and autograd to implement two-layer network.

Now we no longer use torch.optim.SGD to achieve this, weight.data and weight.grad.data is the solution.

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import torch

dtype = torch.float
device = torch.device("cpu")
# device = torch.device("cuda:0") # Uncomment this to run on GPU

# N is batch size; D_in is input dimension;
# H is hidden dimension; D_out is output dimension.
N, D_in, H, D_out = 64, 1000, 100, 10

# Create random Tensors to hold input and outputs.
# Setting requires_grad=False indicates that we do not need to compute gradients
# with respect to these Tensors during the backward pass.
x = torch.randn(N, D_in, device=device, dtype=dtype)
y = torch.randn(N, D_out, device=device, dtype=dtype)

# Create random Tensors for weights.
# Setting requires_grad=True indicates that we want to compute gradients with
# respect to these Tensors during the backward pass.
w1 = torch.randn(D_in, H, device=device, dtype=dtype, requires_grad=True)
w2 = torch.randn(H, D_out, device=device, dtype=dtype, requires_grad=True)

learning_rate = 1e-6
for t in range(500):
    # Forward pass: compute predicted y using operations on Tensors; these
    # are exactly the same operations we used to compute the forward pass using
    # Tensors, but we do not need to keep references to intermediate values since
    # we are not implementing the backward pass by hand.
    y_pred = x.mm(w1).clamp(min=0).mm(w2)

    # Compute and print loss using operations on Tensors.
    # Now loss is a Tensor of shape (1,)
    # loss.item() gets the scalar value held in the loss.
    loss = (y_pred - y).pow(2).sum()
    if t % 100 == 99:
        print(t, loss.item())

    # Use autograd to compute the backward pass. This call will compute the
    # gradient of loss with respect to all Tensors with requires_grad=True.
    # After this call w1.grad and w2.grad will be Tensors holding the gradient
    # of the loss with respect to w1 and w2 respectively.
    loss.backward()

    # Manually update weights using gradient descent. Wrap in torch.no_grad()
    # because weights have requires_grad=True, but we don't need to track this
    # in autograd.
    # An alternative way is to operate on weight.data and weight.grad.data.
    # Recall that tensor.data gives a tensor that shares the storage with
    # tensor, but doesn't track history.
    # You can also use torch.optim.SGD(optimizer.step()) to achieve this.
    with torch.no_grad():
        w1 -= learning_rate * w1.grad
        w2 -= learning_rate * w2.grad

        # Manually zero the gradients after updating weights
        w1.grad.zero_()
        w2.grad.zero_()

Calculated the gradient for the variables of non-leaf nodes

a→b→c→d
    ↓
    e

Generally, only the gradient of leaf nodes is calculated, and for the leaf nodes c and node b would not have explicitly to keep with the gradient in the process of calculation (because in general only need to update the leaf nodes), can save a large part of the memory, but in the process of debugging, sometimes we need to monitor the intermediate variable gradient, in order to ensure the effectiveness of the network.

Two methods to print out the gradient of the leaf node: Tensor.retain_grad() and hook.

Tensor.retain_grad() saves the gradient of non-leaf nodes, the cost is to increase the consumption of video memory, while the hook function method is to print directly during the reverse calculation, so it will not increase the consumption of video memory, the usage of retain_grad() is more convenient than the hook function.

# Tensor.retain_grad
x = Variable(torch.ones(2, 2), requires_grad=True)
y = x + 2
y.retain_grad()
z = y * y * 3
out = z.mean()
out.backward()
print(y.grad)

> tensor([[4.5000, 4.5000],
        [4.5000, 4.5000]])

If x is a Tensor that has x.requires_grad=True then x.grad is another Tensor holding the gradient of x with respect to some scalar value.

# hook
grads = {}
def save_grad(name):
    def hook(grad):
        grads[name] = grad
    return hook

x = Variable(torch.randn(1,1), requires_grad=True)
y = 3*x
z = y**2

# In here, save_grad('y') returns a hook (a function) that keeps 'y' as name
y.register_hook(save_grad('y'))
z.register_hook(save_grad('z'))
z.backward()

print(grads['y'])
print(grads['z'])

Example about MNIST PyTorch

import os
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.utils.data as Data
import torchvision
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt

# torch.manual_seed(1)    # reproducible

# Hyper Parameters
EPOCH = 1               # train the training data n times, to save time, we just train 1 epoch
BATCH_SIZE = 50
LR = 0.001              # learning rate
DOWNLOAD_MNIST = False


# Mnist digits dataset
if not(os.path.exists('./mnist/')) or not os.listdir('./mnist/'):
    # not mnist dir or mnist is empyt dir
    DOWNLOAD_MNIST = True

train_data = torchvision.datasets.MNIST(
    root='./mnist/',
    train=True,                                     # this is training data
    transform=torchvision.transforms.ToTensor(),    # Converts a PIL.Image or numpy.ndarray to
                                                    # torch.FloatTensor of shape (C x H x W) and normalize in the range [0.0, 1.0]
    download=DOWNLOAD_MNIST,
)

# plot one example
print(train_data.train_data.size())                 # (60000, 28, 28)
print(train_data.train_labels.size())               # (60000)
plt.imshow(train_data.train_data[0].numpy(), cmap='gray')
plt.title('%i' % train_data.train_labels[0])
plt.show()

# Data Loader for easy mini-batch return in training, the image batch shape will be (50, 1, 28, 28)
train_loader = Data.DataLoader(dataset=train_data, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, shuffle=True)

# pick 2000 samples to speed up testing
test_data = torchvision.datasets.MNIST(root='./mnist/', train=False)
test_x = torch.unsqueeze(test_data.test_data, dim=1).type(torch.FloatTensor)[:2000]/255.   # shape from (2000, 28, 28) to (2000, 1, 28, 28), value in range(0,1)
test_y = test_data.test_labels[:2000]


class CNN(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super(CNN, self).__init__()
        self.conv1 = nn.Sequential(         # input shape (1, 28, 28)
            nn.Conv2d(
                in_channels=1,              # input height
                out_channels=16,            # n_filters
                kernel_size=5,              # filter size
                stride=1,                   # filter movement/step
                padding=2,                  # if want same width and length of this image after Conv2d, padding=(kernel_size-1)/2 if stride=1
            ),                              # output shape (16, 28, 28)
            nn.ReLU(),                      # activation
            nn.MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2),    # choose max value in 2x2 area, output shape (16, 14, 14)
        )
        self.conv2 = nn.Sequential(         # input shape (16, 14, 14)
            nn.Conv2d(16, 32, 5, 1, 2),     # output shape (32, 14, 14)
            nn.ReLU(),                      # activation
            nn.MaxPool2d(2),                # output shape (32, 7, 7)
        )
        self.out = nn.Linear(32 * 7 * 7, 10)   # fully connected layer, output 10 classes

    def forward(self, x):
        x = self.conv1(x)
        x = self.conv2(x)
        x = x.view(x.size(0), -1)           # flatten the output of conv2 to (batch_size, 32 * 7 * 7)
        output = self.out(x)
        return output, x    # return x for visualization


cnn = CNN()
print(cnn)  # net architecture

optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(cnn.parameters(), lr=LR)   # optimize all cnn parameters
loss_func = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()                       # the target label is not one-hotted

# following function (plot_with_labels) is for visualization, can be ignored if not interested
from matplotlib import cm
try: from sklearn.manifold import TSNE; HAS_SK = True
except: HAS_SK = False; print('Please install sklearn for layer visualization')
def plot_with_labels(lowDWeights, labels):
    plt.cla()
    X, Y = lowDWeights[:, 0], lowDWeights[:, 1]
    for x, y, s in zip(X, Y, labels):
        c = cm.rainbow(int(255 * s / 9)); plt.text(x, y, s, backgroundcolor=c, fontsize=9)
    plt.xlim(X.min(), X.max()); plt.ylim(Y.min(), Y.max()); plt.title('Visualize last layer'); plt.show(); plt.pause(0.01)

plt.ion()
# training and testing
for epoch in range(EPOCH):
    for step, (b_x, b_y) in enumerate(train_loader):   # gives batch data, normalize x when iterate train_loader

        output = cnn(b_x)[0]               # cnn output
        loss = loss_func(output, b_y)   # cross entropy loss
        optimizer.zero_grad()           # clear gradients for this training step
        loss.backward()                 # backpropagation, compute gradients
        optimizer.step()                # apply gradients

        if step % 50 == 0:
            test_output, last_layer = cnn(test_x)
            pred_y = torch.max(test_output, 1)[1].data.numpy()
            accuracy = float((pred_y == test_y.data.numpy()).astype(int).sum()) / float(test_y.size(0))
            print('Epoch: ', epoch, '| train loss: %.4f' % loss.data.numpy(), '| test accuracy: %.2f' % accuracy)
            if HAS_SK:
                # Visualization of trained flatten layer (T-SNE)
                tsne = TSNE(perplexity=30, n_components=2, init='pca', n_iter=5000)
                plot_only = 500
                low_dim_embs = tsne.fit_transform(last_layer.data.numpy()[:plot_only, :])
                labels = test_y.numpy()[:plot_only]
                plot_with_labels(low_dim_embs, labels)
plt.ioff()

# print 10 predictions from test data
test_output, _ = cnn(test_x[:10])
pred_y = torch.max(test_output, 1)[1].data.numpy()
print(pred_y, 'prediction number')
print(test_y[:10].numpy(), 'real number')