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Source code for tensorplay.autograd.anomaly_mode
# mypy: allow-untyped-defs
r"""Autograd anomaly mode.
Anomaly checks record useful operation context and can surface the operation
that created a failing backward node.
"""
import warnings
import tensorplay
import tensorplay._C._autograd as _autograd
__all__ = ["detect_anomaly", "set_detect_anomaly"]
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class detect_anomaly:
r"""Context-manager that enables anomaly detection for the autograd engine.
This does two things:
- Running the forward pass with detection enabled will allow the backward
pass to print the traceback of the forward operation that created the failing
backward function.
- If ``check_nan`` is ``True``, any backward computation that generates "nan"
value will raise an error. Default ``True``.
.. warning::
This mode should be enabled only for debugging as the different tests
will slow down your program execution.
Example:
>>> import tensorplay
>>> from tensorplay import autograd
>>> class MyFunc(autograd.Function):
... @staticmethod
... def forward(ctx, inp):
... return inp.clone()
...
... @staticmethod
... def backward(ctx, gO):
... # Error during the backward pass
... raise RuntimeError("Some error in backward")
... return gO.clone()
>>> def run_fn(a):
... out = MyFunc.apply(a)
... return out.sum()
>>> inp = tensorplay.rand(10, 10, requires_grad=True)
>>> out = run_fn(inp)
>>> out.backward()
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
out.backward()
RuntimeError: Some error in backward
>>> with autograd.detect_anomaly():
... inp = tensorplay.rand(10, 10, requires_grad=True)
... out = run_fn(inp)
... out.backward()
Traceback of forward call that caused the error:
File "tmp.py", line 53, in <module>
out = run_fn(inp)
File "tmp.py", line 44, in run_fn
out = MyFunc.apply(a)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 4, in <module>
RuntimeError: Some error in backward
"""
def __init__(self, check_nan=True) -> None:
self.prev = _autograd.is_anomaly_enabled()
self.check_nan = check_nan
self.prev_check_nan = _autograd.is_anomaly_check_nan_enabled()
warnings.warn(
"Anomaly Detection has been enabled. "
"This mode will increase the runtime "
"and should only be enabled for debugging.",
stacklevel=2,
)
def __enter__(self) -> None:
_autograd.set_anomaly_enabled(True, self.check_nan)
def __exit__(self, *args: object) -> None:
_autograd.set_anomaly_enabled(self.prev, self.prev_check_nan)
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class set_detect_anomaly:
r"""Context-manager that sets the anomaly detection for the autograd engine on or off.
``set_detect_anomaly`` will enable or disable the autograd anomaly detection
based on its argument :attr:`mode`.
It can be used as a context-manager or as a function.
See ``detect_anomaly`` above for details of the anomaly detection behaviour.
Args:
mode (bool): Flag whether to enable anomaly detection (``True``),
or disable (``False``).
check_nan (bool): Flag whether to raise an error when the backward
generate "nan"
"""
def __init__(self, mode: bool, check_nan: bool = True) -> None:
self.prev = _autograd.is_anomaly_enabled()
self.prev_check_nan = _autograd.is_anomaly_check_nan_enabled()
_autograd.set_anomaly_enabled(mode, check_nan)
def __enter__(self) -> None:
pass
def __exit__(self, *args: object) -> None:
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