Mixed precision training

Catalyst support a variety of backends for mixed precision training. After PyTorch 1.6 release, it’s possible to use AMP natively inside torch.amp package.

Suppose you have the following pipeline with Linear Regression:

import torch
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, TensorDataset
from catalyst.dl import SupervisedRunner

# data
num_samples, num_features = int(1e4), int(1e1)
X, y = torch.rand(num_samples, num_features), torch.rand(num_samples)
dataset = TensorDataset(X, y)
loader = DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=32, num_workers=1)
loaders = {"train": loader, "valid": loader}

# model, criterion, optimizer, scheduler
model = torch.nn.Linear(num_features, 1)
criterion = torch.nn.MSELoss()
optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(model.parameters())
scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.MultiStepLR(optimizer, [3, 6])

# model training
runner = SupervisedRunner()
runner.train(
    model=model,
    criterion=criterion,
    optimizer=optimizer,
    scheduler=scheduler,
    loaders=loaders,
    logdir="./logdir",
    valid_loader="valid",
    valid_metric="loss",
    minimize_valid_metric=True,
    num_epochs=8,
    verbose=True,
)

Torch AMP

If you would like to use native AMP support, you could do the following:

import torch
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader, TensorDataset
from catalyst.dl import SupervisedRunner

# data
num_samples, num_features = int(1e4), int(1e1)
X, y = torch.rand(num_samples, num_features), torch.rand(num_samples)
dataset = TensorDataset(X, y)
loader = DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=32, num_workers=1)
loaders = {"train": loader, "valid": loader}

# model, criterion, optimizer, scheduler
model = torch.nn.Linear(num_features, 1)
criterion = torch.nn.MSELoss()
optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(model.parameters())
scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.MultiStepLR(optimizer, [3, 6])

# model training
runner = SupervisedRunner()
runner.train(
    model=model,
    criterion=criterion,
    optimizer=optimizer,
    scheduler=scheduler,
    loaders=loaders,
    logdir="./logdir",
    valid_loader="valid",
    valid_metric="loss",
    minimize_valid_metric=True,
    num_epochs=8,
    verbose=True,
    fp16=True,
)

You could also check out the example above in this Google Colab notebook

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