adaptive_gradient_clip.py

def unitwise_norm(x):
    if len(x.squeeze().shape) <= 1:
        dim = None
        keepdim = False
    elif len(x.shape) in (2, 3):
        dim = 1
        keepdim = True
    elif len(x.shape) == 4:
        dim = (1, 2, 3)      # pytorch convolution kernel is OIHW
        keepdim = True
    else:
        raise ValueError(f'got a parameter with shape not in (1, 2, 3, 4) {x}')

    return x.norm(dim = dim, keepdim = keepdim, p = 2)

def adaptive_clip_grad_(parameters, clipping = 0.01, eps = 1e-3):
    parameters = [p for p in parameters if p.grad is not None]

    if len(parameters) == 0:
        return

    for p in parameters:
        param_norm = unitwise_norm(p).clamp_(min = eps)
        grad_norm = unitwise_norm(p.grad)
        max_norm = param_norm * clipping
        trigger = grad_norm > max_norm
        clipped_grad = p.grad * (max_norm / grad_norm.clamp(min = 1e-6))
        new_grads = torch.where(trigger, clipped_grad, p.grad)
        p.grad.detach().copy_(new_grads)

Hi @lucidrains.

Thank you for providing it!

Could you explain why the additional clamping is required in https://gist.github.com/lucidrains/0d6560077edac419ab5d3aa29e674d5c#file-adaptive_gradient_clip-py-L27?

@sayakpaul Hello! It was done for extra insurance in the original deepmind repo apparently (they had a comment explaining it)