* Codemod to update our codebase to 0.4 standard
* Update some of the test scri[ts
* remove Variable in test_clip_grad_value
* fix _symbolic_override_wrapper_maker
* Autograd container for trading compute for memory
* add a unit test for checkpoint
* address comments
* address review comments
* adding some docs for the checkpoint api
* more comments
* more comments
* repro bug
* Fix a subtle bug/apply some review comments
* Update checkpoint.py
* Run everything in grad mode
* fix flake and chunk=1
* use imperative backward as per discussion
* remove Variable and also add models and test for models
* Add a simple thread local variable to check for autograd grad mode
* remove models and models test after debugging
* address review comments
* address more comments
* address more comments
This PR adds the possibility to build the C++ parts of autograd and jit, with no dependency on Python.
The goal is to allow taking a PyTorch IR representation (a tree s-expr) and running it with provided inputs.
Prerequisite: build PyTorch so that codegen runs once.
Instructions:
cd tools/cpp_build
bash build_all.sh
This will build libtorchjit and torchjit_test in tools/cpp_build/build/torchjit-build. The latter basically runs the code in test_jit.cpp for now.
While writing the PR, it turned out that a few of Python.h includes were redundant. They were removed here (PyTorch tests still pass on my machine, we'll see CI).
* Introduce Python-free builds of autograd and jit
* Remove NO_PYTHON ifdef in functions/special
* Improve Function interface
* Undo tracer changes
* Fix bug in VariableType.set_history
* Rename function_counter and sequence_number to sequence_nr
* Clarify Function documentation
* Replace swap_next_edges with next_edges() getter
* Bring back set_gradient_edge
* Simplify special.cpp
* add_gradient_edge -> create_gradient_edge
* Add mutable getters for pre/post hooks
* Use make_variable with Edge
* Remove remove_gradient_edge in favor of detach_
* Fix documentation and remove create_gradient_edge friend method
* Canonicalize some includes
* Improve Variable interface
* Address comments from @apaszke and @colesbury
* string ::operator= is not noexcept
* Remove ir.h from tracer_state.h to improve build times
* Make Variable a struct and pack SavedVariable fields
* Implement as_variable_ref
* grad_fn_ptr() -> grad_fn_unsafe()
* Reduce hackiness of set_type hack
* Include variable.h and edge.h in tracer_state.h because it uses them
* class Variable -> struct Variable because Windows cant even
* Make Variable::output_nr uint32_t instead of int
* Add comment about tracing state
* Replaced more static_cast<Variable&> and improve docs
* Remove SavedVariable destructor and construct members in init list
* Clarify docs for Variable
* Variable::set_version -> set_version_counter
Previously the side-effect free grad calculation was performed
using callbacks that could also override the decision to run a
function. However this had a few problems e.g. it forced us to iterate
over pretty much all functions in the graph and drop their buffers.
This patch improves the mechanism, by adding explicit support for this
kind of evaluation in execute(). It's safer, and the algorithm used to
decide which nodes have to be evaluated was replaced with a faster one.
This removes volatile from Variable. The functionality is mostly
replaced by a global (thread-local) flag, which is controlled by
torch.set_grad_enabled() and the context manager torch.no_grad().
In C++, the flag is exposed through GradMode::is_enabled() and GradMode::set_enabled()
Fixes#3627
* Re-initialize autograd engine in child processes
The autograd engine uses threads for backwards. These don't exist after
forks and they were not being re-initialized because the
Engine::start_threads_flag was already set. This re-initializes the
engine in child processes, which will cause it to re-create threads when
backwards() is called in the child process.
Note that we only attempt to handle the common case where fork() is
called while the backwards threads are idle.
Fixes#3966
* Avoid non-async-signal-safe functions in fork handler
Variable is now a subclass of at::Tensor backed by a VariableImpl* pImpl. The implementation of the ATen functions is defined in the auto-generated VariableType.h/cpp file.
Currently, only functions which fall through to the base type, such as sizes() and isCuda() are implemented. Differentiable ops like add() and mul() will be added in a subsequent PR.
It is not an /expression/ we trace, but it is a /graph/: that is,
a closed expression which knows its parameters. Knowing the list
of parameters is helpful and helps remove a hack when interpreting.
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@fb.com>
Previously, our AST was a DAG, where shared Nodes indicated a computation
should be reused. This commit rewrites the IR into a new functional
representation which represents sharing explicitly using variable
bindings.
We offer a few justifications for this new style:
1. The new representation is not all that different from the
old one; it is about as easy to construct, and the lack of an
explicit graph doesn't negatively impact our ability to interpret
the graph, since we've chosen, as a matter of design, to NOT have
the IR participate in the actual execution of a graph.
2. The new let-binding representation has an implicit ordering,
which we can use to conveniently keep track of the original order
the trace showed up as. This automatically gives us a topsort,
and gives us an easier to read textual representation of our
IR:
%14 = Embedding %11, %0, -1, None, 2, False, False
%15 = Dropout %14, 0.2, True, False
%16 = Index %12, 0
%17 = Index %12, 1
%18 = Index %13, 0
%19 = Index %13, 1
%20 = Index %15, 0
%21 = Linear %20, %1, %3
%22 = Linear %16, %2, %4
3. It moves us closer to a Futhark style language
(http://futhark-lang.org/publications/pldi17.pdf).
Major aspects of the diff
- Node is replaced with Expr and Arg, a pair of mutually recursive
structures which represent our new language. In BNF, the language
looks like this:
a ::= c | %i
e ::= %i, ... = e
| PyOp e, ...
| Ret %i, ...
Technically, Ret is not actually a return (no control flow is involved),
it just tuples up a series of tensors (identified by variables).
One important invariant is that locals are always tensors; they
are never constants (this is asymmetric with Args.)
- Arguments support Python constants. This is an important piece because
many operators take extra Python literals like integers and tuples in
order to specify extra parameters about how an operator operates. Adding
this was essential to getting word_language_model to work.
- As both Expr and Arg have multiple variants, there is new infrastructure
for doing case on the variants using ExprVisitor and ArgVisitor. The
strategy here is adapted from WebAssembly's visitors, although we have
generalized to permit arbitrary argument forwarding, which is necessary
to support tail-recursive visitor calls. TCO is important because our
interpreter may recurse arbitrarily deep into a stack of nested lets.
If users wish, they can also manually case on the type tag.
- Tracing is now turned on and off using _tracer_enter/_tracer_exit in
torch._C. _tracer_enter accepts a list of variables which are to be
treated as arguments; _tracer_exit accepts the list of traced variables
which should be returned when you reexecute the trace, and returns
the trace expression which can be reexecuted. GlobalTracingState
is a global variable which tracks whether or not we are tracing or not.
- You use run_forward to execute a trace on some set of parameters.
- When under tracing, variables keep track, via trace_local, what the
name of their variables in the IR are.
Here is a simple runner which leaks memory but can be used to JIT models:
import torch.autograd.function as F
import torch._C
def jit(model):
import types
real_forward = model.forward
def forward(self, *args):
def flatten(x):
return tuple(F._iter_variables(x))
if not hasattr(self, "saved_trace"):
torch._C._tracer_enter(tuple(self.parameters()) + flatten(args))
out = real_forward(*args)
self.saved_trace = torch._C._tracer_exit(flatten(out))
self.saved_outs = out
return out
else:
flat_out = Variable._execution_engine.run_forward(self.saved_trace, tuple(self.parameters()) + flatten(args))
return F._unflatten(flat_out, self.saved_outs)
Major problems:
- Sanity checking is spotty at best, especially when users pass in variables.
- The interpreter leaks tensor memory from the store. When we add back def-use
we should be able to deallocate tensors as soon as we know they are no longer
necessary.
- The interpreter needs to reach feature parity with the old execution engine.
From there, we need to see if backwards can be subsumed as well.
- I still have no confidence in having memory managed everything correctly.
This requires a close look.
- Rather than return an *open* expression as a trace, we should return a
*lambda* instead, which knows about how many formal parameters it
requires.
- The IR is not introspectable from Python at the moment, but this is simply a
matter of implementing all the binding code.
- The tracer is NOT reentrant (you can't trace while you're inside a trace.)
Furthermore, no sanity checking is done if you try to incorrectly reuse
things from one trace in another.
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@fb.com>
Simple test:
import torch
from torch.autograd import Variable
import torch._C as _C
x = Variable(torch.Tensor([4]), requires_grad=True)
y = Variable(torch.Tensor([7]), requires_grad=True)
z = x * y
z.sum().backward()
print(x.grad)
print(y.grad)
x.data[0] = 2
y.data[0] = 3
(z,) = z._execution_engine.run_forward((x, y), (z,))
z.sum().backward()
print(x.grad)
print(y.grad)
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@fb.com>
* A pile of misc doc fixes.
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@fb.com>
* Handle @apaszke review comments.
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@fb.com>
* Initial csrc documentation.
Signed-off-by: Edward Z. Yang <ezyang@fb.com>
* Fix segfault in autograd:
1) Every "output" variable must have a grad_fn or grad_accumulator
2) compute_partial_exec_callbacks uses Python errors
* assertRaisesRegexp was renamed assertRaisesRegex in 3.2
* Use HANDLE_TH_ERRORS macro
Because of this Variables can no longer appear in the graph.
Every usage of a leaf Variable will leave an AccumulateGrad
function that has no outputs, but modifies var.grad as a side
effect.
The core autograd Variable, Function, and Engine no longer depend on the
Python API. This let's us implement functions in C++. In the future, we
can also multithread engine and release the GIL for most of the
non-Python backwards.
