""" Adaptive Gradient Clipping An impl of AGC, as per (https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06171): @article{brock2021high, author={Andrew Brock and Soham De and Samuel L. Smith and Karen Simonyan}, title={High-Performance Large-Scale Image Recognition Without Normalization}, journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:}, year={2021} } Code references: * Official JAX impl (paper authors): https://github.com/deepmind/deepmind-research/tree/master/nfnets * Phil Wang's PyTorch gist: https://gist.github.com/lucidrains/0d6560077edac419ab5d3aa29e674d5c Hacked together by / Copyright 2021 Ross Wightman """ import torch def unitwise_norm(x, norm_type=2.0): if x.ndim <= 1: return x.norm(norm_type) else: # works for nn.ConvNd and nn,Linear where output dim is first in the kernel/weight tensor # might need special cases for other weights (possibly MHA) where this may not be true return x.norm(norm_type, dim=tuple(range(1, x.ndim)), keepdim=True) def adaptive_clip_grad(parameters, clip_factor=0.01, eps=1e-3, norm_type=2.0): if isinstance(parameters, torch.Tensor): parameters = [parameters] for p in parameters: if p.grad is None: continue p_data = p.detach() g_data = p.grad.detach() max_norm = unitwise_norm(p_data, norm_type=norm_type).clamp_(min=eps).mul_(clip_factor) grad_norm = unitwise_norm(g_data, norm_type=norm_type) clipped_grad = g_data * (max_norm / grad_norm.clamp(min=1e-6)) new_grads = torch.where(grad_norm < max_norm, g_data, clipped_grad) p.grad.detach().copy_(new_grads)