# Copyright 2019 DeepMind Technologies Limited. All Rights Reserved. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. # ============================================================================== """Gradient transformations for accumulating gradients across updates.""" from typing import Any, Callable, NamedTuple, Optional, Protocol, Union import chex from jax import lax from jax import tree_util as jtu import jax.numpy as jnp from optax import tree_utils as otu from optax._src import base from optax._src import numerics from optax._src import utils class TraceState(NamedTuple): """Holds an aggregation of past updates.""" trace: base.Params def trace( decay: float, nesterov: bool = False, accumulator_dtype: Optional[Any] = None, ) -> base.GradientTransformation: """Compute a trace of past updates. Note: `trace` and `ema` have very similar but distinct updates; `trace = decay * trace + t`, while `ema = decay * ema + (1-decay) * t`. Both are frequently found in the optimization literature. Args: decay: Decay rate for the trace of past updates. nesterov: Whether to use Nesterov momentum. accumulator_dtype: Optional `dtype` to be used for the accumulator; if `None` then the `dtype` is inferred from `params` and `updates`. Returns: A `GradientTransformation` object. """ accumulator_dtype = utils.canonicalize_dtype(accumulator_dtype) def init_fn(params): return TraceState( trace=otu.tree_zeros_like(params, dtype=accumulator_dtype)) def update_fn(updates, state, params=None): del params f = lambda g, t: g + decay * t new_trace = jtu.tree_map(f, updates, state.trace) updates = jtu.tree_map(f, updates, new_trace) if nesterov else new_trace new_trace = otu.tree_cast(new_trace, accumulator_dtype) return updates, TraceState(trace=new_trace) return base.GradientTransformation(init_fn, update_fn) class EmaState(NamedTuple): """Holds an exponential moving average of past updates.""" count: chex.Array # shape=(), dtype=jnp.int32. ema: base.Params def ema( decay: float, debias: bool = True, accumulator_dtype: Optional[Any] = None ) -> base.GradientTransformation: """Compute an exponential moving average of past updates. Note: `trace` and `ema` have very similar but distinct updates; `ema = decay * ema + (1-decay) * t`, while `trace = decay * trace + t`. Both are frequently found in the optimization literature. Args: decay: Decay rate for the exponential moving average. debias: Whether to debias the transformed gradient. accumulator_dtype: Optional `dtype` to used for the accumulator; if `None` then the `dtype` is inferred from `params` and `updates`. Returns: A `GradientTransformation` object. """ accumulator_dtype = utils.canonicalize_dtype(accumulator_dtype) def init_fn(params): return EmaState( count=jnp.zeros([], jnp.int32), ema=otu.tree_zeros_like(params, dtype=accumulator_dtype)) def update_fn(updates, state, params=None): del params updates = new_ema = otu.tree_update_moment( updates, state.ema, decay, order=1) count_inc = utils.safe_int32_increment(state.count) if debias: updates = otu.tree_bias_correction(new_ema, decay, count_inc) state_ema = otu.tree_cast(new_ema, accumulator_dtype) return updates, EmaState(count=count_inc, ema=state_ema) return base.GradientTransformation(init_fn, update_fn) class ShouldSkipUpdateFunction(Protocol): def __call__( self, updates: base.Updates, gradient_step: chex.Array, params: Optional[base.Params] ) -> tuple[chex.Array, chex.ArrayTree]: """Returns true to indicate that updates should be skipped in a multi-step. Args: updates: The updates that the gradient transformation has proposed. gradient_step: The current gradient step (see `MultiStepsState.gradient_step`). This can be used for example to reject large gradients with an annealed maximum allowed gradient norm. params: If known, the current params of the function being transformed. Returns: A tuple: * First element is an array with a single bool indicating whether or not the updates should be applied. * Second element is an arbitrary py-tree that will be stored in `MultiStepsState.skip_state`. Debugging info can be put here. """ def skip_not_finite( updates: base.Updates, gradient_step: chex.Array, params: Optional[base.Params] ) -> tuple[chex.Array, chex.ArrayTree]: """Returns True iff any of the `updates` contains an inf or a NaN. Args: updates: see `ShouldSkipUpdateFunction`. gradient_step: see `ShouldSkipUpdateFunction`. params: see `ShouldSkipUpdateFunction`. Returns: A tuple: * First element is a scalar array of type bool. * Second element is a dictionary with keys: - `should_skip`: True iff `updates` contains an inf or a NaN. - `num_not_finite`: total number of inf and NaN found in `updates`. """ del gradient_step, params all_is_finite = [jnp.sum(jnp.logical_not(jnp.isfinite(p))) for p in jtu.tree_leaves(updates)] num_not_finite = jnp.sum(jnp.array(all_is_finite)) should_skip = num_not_finite > 0 return should_skip, dict(should_skip=should_skip, num_not_finite=num_not_finite) def skip_large_updates( updates: base.Updates, gradient_step: chex.Array, params: Optional[base.Params], max_squared_norm: float ) -> tuple[chex.Array, chex.ArrayTree]: """Returns True if the global norm square of `updates` is small enough. Args: updates: see `ShouldSkipUpdateFunction`. gradient_step: see `ShouldSkipUpdateFunction`. params: see `ShouldSkipUpdateFunction`. max_squared_norm: max square norm that can be accepted in updates. Returns: A tuple: * First element is a scalar array of type bool. * Second element is a dictionary with keys: - `should_skip`: iff ||updates||^2 is greater than `max_squared_norm`. - `norm_squared`: overall norm square of the `updates`. """ del gradient_step, params norm_sq = jnp.sum( jnp.array([jnp.sum(p**2) for p in jtu.tree_leaves(updates)])) # This will also return True if `norm_sq` is NaN. should_skip = jnp.logical_not(norm_sq < max_squared_norm) return should_skip, dict(should_skip=should_skip, norm_squared=norm_sq) class MultiStepsState(NamedTuple): """State of the `GradientTransformation` returned by `MultiSteps`. Attributes: mini_step: current mini-step counter. At an update, this either increases by 1 or is reset to 0. gradient_step: gradient step counter. This only increases after enough mini-steps have been accumulated. inner_opt_state: the state of the wrapped optimiser. acc_grads: accumulated gradients over multiple mini-steps. skip_state: an arbitrarily py tree. This is only relevant when passing a `should_skip_update_fn` to `MultiSteps`. """ mini_step: chex.Array gradient_step: chex.Array inner_opt_state: Any acc_grads: Any skip_state: chex.ArrayTree = () class MultiSteps: """An optimizer wrapper to accumulate gradients over multiple steps. This wrapper collects together the updates passed to its ``update`` function over consecutive steps until a given number of scheduled steps is reached. In each of these intermediate steps, the returned value from the optimizer is a tree of zeros of the same shape of the updates passed as input. Once the scheduled number of intermediate 'mini-steps' has been reached, the gradients accumulated to the current time will be passed to the wrapped optimizer's update function, (with the inner optimizer's state being updated appropriately) and then returned to the caller. The wrapper's accumulated gradients are then set back to zero and the process starts again. The number of mini-steps per gradient update is controlled by a function, and can vary over training, this also allows varying batch size over training. """ def __init__( self, opt: base.GradientTransformation, every_k_schedule: Union[int, Callable[[chex.Array], chex.Array]], use_grad_mean: bool = True, should_skip_update_fn: Optional[ShouldSkipUpdateFunction] = None): # pylint: disable=line-too-long """Initialiser. Args: opt: the wrapped optimizer. every_k_schedule: an int or a function. * As a function, it returns how many mini-steps should be accumulated in a single gradient step. Its only argument is the current gradient step count. By varying the returned value, users can vary the overall training batch size. * If an ``int``, this is the constant number of mini-steps per gradient update. use_grad_mean: if ``True`` (the default), gradients accumulated over multiple mini-steps are averaged. Otherwise, they are summed. should_skip_update_fn: if provided, this function is used to decide when to accept or reject the updates from a mini-step. When a mini-step is rejected, the inner state of `MultiSteps` is not updated. In other words, it is as if this mini-step never happened. For example: * to ignore updates containing inf or NaN, do ``should_skip_update_fn=skip_not_finite``; * to ignore updates with a norm square larger then 42, do: ``should_skip_update_fn=functools.partial(skip_large_updates, max_norm_sq=42.)`` Note that the optimizer's state :class:`optax.MultiStepsState` contains a keyword argument ``skip_state`` in which debugging and monitoring information returned by ``should_skip_update_fn`` is written. """ # pylint: enable=line-too-long self._opt = base.with_extra_args_support(opt) if isinstance(every_k_schedule, int): self._every_k_schedule = lambda step: every_k_schedule else: self._every_k_schedule = every_k_schedule self._use_grad_mean = use_grad_mean if self._use_grad_mean: # Use Welford algorithm for numerically stable aggregation of mean. self._acc_update = ( lambda grad, acc, *, n_acc: acc + (grad - acc) / (n_acc + 1)) else: self._acc_update = lambda grad, acc, *, n_acc: grad + acc if should_skip_update_fn is None: def should_skip_update_fn(*unused_args, **unused_kwargs): return jnp.array(False, dtype=jnp.bool_), () self._should_skip_update_fn = should_skip_update_fn @property def inner_opt(self): return self._opt def init(self, params: Any) -> MultiStepsState: """Builds and returns initial `MultiStepsState`.""" updates = otu.tree_zeros_like(params) gradient_step = jnp.zeros([], dtype=jnp.int32) _, skip_state = self._should_skip_update_fn(updates, gradient_step, params) init_state = MultiStepsState( mini_step=jnp.zeros([], dtype=jnp.int32), gradient_step=gradient_step, inner_opt_state=self._opt.init(params), acc_grads=updates, skip_state=skip_state) return init_state def update(self, updates: base.Updates, state: MultiStepsState, params: Optional[base.Params] = None, **extra_args: Any, ) -> tuple[base.Updates, MultiStepsState]: """Accumulates gradients and proposes non-zero updates every `k_steps`.""" k_steps = self._every_k_schedule(state.gradient_step) should_skip_update, skip_state = self._should_skip_update_fn( updates, state.gradient_step, params) if (should_skip_update.dtype, should_skip_update.shape) != (jnp.bool_, ()): raise ValueError( 'The `should_skip_update_fn` function should return a boolean scalar ' f'array, but it returned an array of dtype {should_skip_update.dtype}' f' and shape {should_skip_update.shape}' ) # Note: we do not enclose variables to allow JAX to re-use memory buffers. def _do_update(updates, state, params): acc_grads = jtu.tree_map( lambda upd, acc: self._acc_update(upd, acc, n_acc=state.mini_step), updates, state.acc_grads, ) final_updates, new_inner_state = self._opt.update( acc_grads, state.inner_opt_state, params=params, **extra_args ) emit = state.mini_step == (k_steps - 1) new_state = MultiStepsState( mini_step=numerics.safe_int32_increment(state.mini_step) % k_steps, gradient_step=emit * numerics.safe_int32_increment(state.gradient_step) + (1 - emit) * state.gradient_step, inner_opt_state=jtu.tree_map( lambda st, nst: jnp.where(emit, nst, st), state.inner_opt_state, new_inner_state, ), acc_grads=jtu.tree_map( lambda ga: (1 - emit) * ga, acc_grads ), skip_state=skip_state, ) final_updates = jtu.tree_map( lambda ga: emit * ga, final_updates ) return final_updates, new_state def _skip_update(updates, state, params): del updates, params multi_state_when_skip = MultiStepsState( mini_step=state.mini_step, gradient_step=state.gradient_step, inner_opt_state=state.inner_opt_state, acc_grads=state.acc_grads, skip_state=skip_state, ) zero_updates = otu.tree_zeros_like(state.acc_grads) return zero_updates, multi_state_when_skip new_updates, new_state = lax.cond( should_skip_update, _skip_update, _do_update, *(updates, state, params) ) return new_updates, new_state def has_updated( self, state: Union[MultiStepsState, chex.ArrayTree]) -> chex.Array: # Use `getattr` to bypass pytype checks. return jnp.logical_and( getattr(state, 'mini_step') == 0, getattr(state, 'gradient_step') > 0 ) def gradient_transformation(self) -> base.GradientTransformation: return base.GradientTransformation(init=self.init, update=self.update)