This is a new version of #15648 based on the latest master branch.
Unlike the previous PR where I fixed a lot of the doctests in addition to integrating xdoctest, I'm going to reduce the scope here. I'm simply going to integrate xdoctest, and then I'm going to mark all of the failing tests as "SKIP". This will let xdoctest run on the dashboards, provide some value, and still let the dashboards pass. I'll leave fixing the doctests themselves to another PR.
In my initial commit, I do the bare minimum to get something running with failing dashboards. The few tests that I marked as skip are causing segfaults. Running xdoctest results in 293 failed, 201 passed tests. The next commits will be to disable those tests. (unfortunately I don't have a tool that will insert the `#xdoctest: +SKIP` directive over every failing test, so I'm going to do this mostly manually.)
Fixes https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/71105
@ezyang
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/82797
Approved by: https://github.com/ezyang
Summary:
Fixes https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/47123
Follows https://github.com/pyro-ppl/pyro/pull/2701
This turns on `Distribution` validation by default. The motivation is to favor beginners by providing helpful error messages. Advanced users focused on speed can disable validation by calling
```py
torch.distributions.Distribution.set_default_validate_args(False)
```
or by disabling individual distribution validation via `MyDistribution(..., validate_args=False)`.
In practice I have found many beginners forget or do not know about validation. Therefore I have [enabled it by default](https://github.com/pyro-ppl/pyro/pull/2701) in Pyro. I believe PyTorch could also benefit from this change. Indeed validation caught a number of bugs in `.icdf()` methods, in tests, and in PPL benchmarks, all of which have been fixed in this PR.
## Release concerns
- This may slightly slow down some models. Concerned users may disable validation.
- This may cause new `ValueErrors` in models that rely on unsupported behavior, e.g. `Categorical.log_prob()` applied to continuous-valued tensors (only {0,1}-valued tensors are supported).
We should clearly note this change in release notes.
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/48743
Reviewed By: heitorschueroff
Differential Revision: D25304247
Pulled By: neerajprad
fbshipit-source-id: 8d50f28441321ae691f848c55f71aa80cb356b41
