Summary:
Initial integration of eager autocasting, supporting out-of-place ops only for easier review.
Relevant issue/RFC: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/25081
In-place ops and ops with user-supplied `out=...` can certainly be supported as well (my initial WIP https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/29552 handled many) but require substantially more complex special casing in the autocasting backend and tests. Support for these ops (much of which has already been written) will be broken into later PRs.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/32140
Differential Revision: D20346700
Pulled By: ezyang
fbshipit-source-id: 12d77b3917310186fbddf11c59b2794dc859131f
Summary:
Also, windows memory failures responsible for the earlier reversion have been fixed.
This PR (initially) contains 2 commits:
* a revert of the revert
* all changes to implement the original Apex scale update heuristic, squashed into a single commit for easier diff review
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/33366
Differential Revision: D20099026
Pulled By: ngimel
fbshipit-source-id: 339b9b6bd5134bf055057492cd1eedb7e4461529
Summary:
This PR implements the gradient scaling API that mruberry, jjsjann123, ngimel, zdevito, gchanan and I have been discussing. Relevant issue/RFC: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/25081.
Volume-wise, this PR is mostly documentation and tests. The Python API (found entirely in `torch/cuda/amp/amp_scaler.py`) is lightweight . The exposed functions are intended to make the implementation and control flow of gradient scaling convenient, intuitive, and performant.
The API is probably easiest to digest by looking at the documentation and examples. `docs/source/amp.rst` is the homepage for the Automatic Mixed Precision package. `docs/source/notes/amp_examples.rst` includes several examples demonstrating common but not-immediately-obvious use cases. Examples are backed by tests in `test_cuda.py` (and thankfully the tests pass :P).
Two small utility kernels have been added in `native/cuda/AmpKernels.cu` to improve performance and avoid host-device synchronizations wherever possible.
Existing optimizers, both in the wild and in Pytorch core, do not need to change to use the scaling API.
However, the API was also designed to establish a contract between user scripts and optimizers such that writers of _new_ custom optimizers have the control points they need to implement fast, optionally sync-free updates. User scripts that obey the scaling API can drop such custom optimizers in and reap performance benefits without having to change anything aside from the optimizer constructor itself. [I know what the contract with custom optimizers should be](35829f24ef/torch/cuda/amp/amp_scaler.py (L179-L184)), but I'm waiting for review on the rest of the API before I go about documenting it (it will be given a dedicated section in `docs/source/notes/amp_examples.rst`.
Currently, the gradient scaling examples do not include the auto-casting API as discussed in https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/25081. The gradient scaling API is intended to be orthogonal/modular relative to autocasting. Without auto-casting the gradient scaling API is fully use-_able_, but not terribly use-_ful_, so it's up to you guys whether you want to wait until auto-casting is ready before merging the scaling API as well.
### Todo
- [ ] How do I get c10 registered status for my two custom kernels? They're very simple.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/26512
Differential Revision: D19859905
Pulled By: mruberry
fbshipit-source-id: bb8ae6966214718dfee11345db824389e4286923
