Summary:
Retake on https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/40493 after all the feedback from albanD
This PR implements the generic Lazy mechanism and a sample `LazyLinear` layer with the `UninitializedParameter`.
The main differences with the previous PR are two;
Now `torch.nn.Module` remains untouched.
We don't require an explicit initialization or a dummy forward pass before starting the training or inference of the actual module. Making this much simpler to use from the user side.
As we discussed offline, there was the suggestion of not using a mixin, but changing the `__class__` attribute of `LazyLinear` to become `Linear` once it's completely initialized. While this can be useful, by the time being we need `LazyLinear` to be a `torch.nn.Module` subclass since there are many checks that rely on the modules being instances of `torch.nn.Module`.
This can cause problems when we create complex modules such as
```
class MyNetwork(torch.nn.Module):
def __init__(self):
super(MyNetwork, self).__init__()
self.conv = torch.nn.Conv2d(20, 4, 2)
self.linear = torch.nn.LazyLinear(10)
def forward(self, x):
y = self.conv(x).clamp(min=0)
return self.linear(y)
```
Here, when the __setattr__ function is called at the time LazyLinear is registered, it won't be added to the child modules of `MyNetwork`, so we have to manually do it later, but currently there is no way to do such thing as we can't access the parent module from LazyLinear once it becomes the Linear module. (We can add a workaround to this if needed).
TODO:
Add convolutions once the design is OK
Fix docstrings
Pull Request resolved: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/pull/44538
Reviewed By: ngimel
Differential Revision: D24162854
Pulled By: albanD
fbshipit-source-id: 6d58dfe5d43bfb05b6ee506e266db3cf4b885f0c
