Understanding accumulated gradients in PyTorch

You are not actually accumulating gradients. Just leaving off optimizer.zero_grad() has no effect if you have a single .backward() call, as the gradients are already zero to begin with (technically None but they will be automatically initialised to zero). The only difference between your two versions, is how you calculate the final loss. The for … Read more

What is the class definition of nn.Linear in PyTorch?

What is the class definition of nn.Linear in pytorch? From documentation: CLASS torch.nn.Linear(in_features, out_features, bias=True) Applies a linear transformation to the incoming data: y = x*W^T + b Parameters: in_features – size of each input sample (i.e. size of x) out_features – size of each output sample (i.e. size of y) bias – If set … Read more

What is the difference between register_parameter and register_buffer in PyTorch?

Pytorch doc for register_buffer() method reads This is typically used to register a buffer that should not to be considered a model parameter. For example, BatchNorm’s running_mean is not a parameter, but is part of the persistent state. As you already observed, model parameters are learned and updated using SGD during the training process. However, … Read more

What does next() and iter() do in PyTorch’s DataLoader()

These are built-in functions of python, they are used for working with iterables. Basically iter() calls the __iter__() method on the iris_loader which returns an iterator. next() then calls the __next__() method on that iterator to get the first iteration. Running next() again will get the second item of the iterator, etc. This logic often … Read more

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