lr_scheduler.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Copyright (c) Facebook, Inc. and its affiliates.
# This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the
# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
"""
Code for LR Schedulers.

See ParlAILRScheduler (super class) and subclasses for detailed documentation
"""

import math
from typing import Optional
from parlai.core.params import ParlaiParser
from parlai.core.opt import Opt
from abc import abstractmethod
from torch import optim
import numpy as np

from parlai.core.exceptions import StopTrainException
from parlai.utils.misc import warn_once


class ParlAILRScheduler(object):
    """
    Class for LR Schedulers.

    Includes some basic functionality by default - setting up the warmup
    scheduler, passing the correct number of steps to train_step, loading and
    saving states.
    Subclasses must implement abstract methods train_step() and valid_step().
    Schedulers should be initialized with lr_scheduler_factory().
    __init__() should not be called directly.
    """

    def __init__(self, warmup_updates, warmup_rate):
        """
        Initialize warmup scheduler. Specific main schedulers should be initialized in
        the subclasses. Do not invoke this method diretly.

        :param int warmup_updates:
            Number of training step updates warmup scheduler should take.
        :param float warmup_rate:
            Starting multiplier for warmup scheduler.
        """
        self._number_training_updates = 0
        self.warmup_updates = max(0, warmup_updates)
        self.warmup_rate = warmup_rate
        self.warmup_scheduler = None

    def _init_warmup_scheduler(self, optimizer, states, hard_reset):
        """
        :param optimizer optimizer:
            Optimizer being used for training. May be wrapped in
            fp16_optimizer_wrapper depending on whether fp16 is used.
        :param states:
            A dict containing loaded states
        """
        updates_so_far = states.get('number_training_updates', 0)
        if self.warmup_updates > 0 and (
            updates_so_far < self.warmup_updates or hard_reset
        ):
            # initializing LambdaLR scheduler can mess up learning rates,
            # so try to avoid it, when warmup is already done
            last_epoch = -1 if updates_so_far == 0 or hard_reset else updates_so_far
            self.warmup_scheduler = optim.lr_scheduler.LambdaLR(
                optimizer, self._warmup_lr, last_epoch=last_epoch
            )

    def get_last_lr(self):
        s = self.warmup_scheduler if self._is_lr_warming_up() else self.scheduler
        try:
            # pytorch 1.5 or newer
            return s.get_last_lr()[0]
        except AttributeError:
            # TODO: upon getting rid of pytorch 1.4, kill this
            # pytorch 1.4 or older
            return s.optimizer.param_groups[0]['lr']

    def _is_lr_warming_up(self):
        """
        Check if we're warming up the learning rate.
        """
        return (
            self.warmup_scheduler is not None
            and self._number_training_updates < self.warmup_updates
        )

    def _warmup_lr(self, step):
        """
        Return lr multiplier (on initial lr) for warmup scheduler.
        """
        start = self.warmup_rate
        end = 1.0
        progress = min(1.0, step / self.warmup_updates)
        lr_mult = start + (end - start) * progress
        return lr_mult

    def load_state(self, states):
        """
        Load state of scheduler from states.
        """
        if states.get('warmup_scheduler') and getattr(self, 'warmup_scheduler', None):
            self.warmup_scheduler.load_state_dict(states['warmup_scheduler'])
        if self.scheduler and 'lr_scheduler' in states:
            self.scheduler.load_state_dict(states['lr_scheduler'])
        self._number_training_updates = states.get('number_training_updates', 0)

        try:
            if self._is_lr_warming_up():
                self.warmup_scheduler.get_last_lr()
            else:
                self.scheduler.get_last_lr()
        except AttributeError:
            # on older pytorches
            self.step(self._number_training_updates)

    def get_initial_number_training_updates(self):
        return self._number_training_updates

    def get_state_dict(self):
        """
        Return scheduler state dictionary.
        """
        return self.scheduler.state_dict()

    def get_warmup_state_dict(self):
        """
        Return warmup scheduler state dictionary.
        """
        if self.warmup_scheduler is None:
            return None
        return self.warmup_scheduler.state_dict()

    @classmethod
    def add_cmdline_args(
        cls, parser: ParlaiParser, partial_opt: Optional[Opt] = None
    ) -> ParlaiParser:
        lr_group = parser.add_argument_group('Learning Rate Scheduler')
        lr_group.add_argument(
            '--lr-scheduler',
            type=str,
            default='reduceonplateau',
            choices=['reduceonplateau', 'none', 'fixed', 'invsqrt', 'cosine', 'linear'],
            help='Learning rate scheduler.',
        )
        lr_group.add_argument(
            '--lr-scheduler-patience',
            type=int,
            default=3,
            help='LR scheduler patience. In number of validation runs. If using '
            'fixed scheduler, LR is decayed every <patience> validations.',
        )
        lr_group.add_argument(
            '--lr-scheduler-decay',
            type=float,
            default=0.5,
            help='Decay factor for LR scheduler, or how much LR is multiplied by '
            'when it is lowered.',
        )
        lr_group.add_argument(
            '--invsqrt-lr-decay-gamma',
            type=int,
            default=-1,
            help='Constant used only to find the lr multiplier for the invsqrt '
            'scheduler. Must be set for --lr-scheduler invsqrt',
        )
        lr_group.add_argument(
            '--warmup-updates',
            type=int,
            default=-1,
            hidden=True,
            help='Learning rate warmup period, in number of SGD updates. '
            'Linearly scales up LR over period. Only enabled if > 0.',
        )
        lr_group.add_argument(
            '--warmup-rate',
            type=float,
            default=1e-4,
            hidden=True,
            help='Warmup learning rate *multiplier*. Initial LR is multiplied by '
            'this value. Linearly adjusted up to 1.0 across --warmup-updates '
            'steps.',
        )
        lr_group.add_argument(
            '--update-freq',
            type=int,
            default=1,
            hidden=True,
            help='Accumulate gradients N times before performing an optimizer.step().',
        )
        return parser

    @classmethod
    def lr_scheduler_factory(cls, opt, optimizer, states, hard_reset=False):
        """
        Create the learning rate scheduler, and assign it to self.scheduler. This
        scheduler will be updated upon a call to receive_metrics. May also create
        self.warmup_scheduler, if appropriate.

        :param opt opt:
            Arguments received by torch_agent
        :param optimizer optimizer:
            Optimizer being used for training. May be wrapped in
            fp16_optimizer_wrapper depending on whether fp16 is used.
        :param state_dict states:
            Possible state_dict provided by model checkpoint, for restoring
            LR state.
        :param bool hard_reset:
            If true, the LR scheduler should ignore the state dictionary.
        :return: ParlAILRScheduler object
        """

        patience = opt.get('lr_scheduler_patience', 3)
        decay = opt.get('lr_scheduler_decay', 0.5)
        warmup_updates = opt.get('warmup_updates', -1)
        warmup_rate = opt.get('warmup_rate', 1e-4)
        max_lr_steps = opt.get('max_train_steps', -1)
        if opt.get('max_lr_steps', -1) > 0:
            raise ValueError(
                '--max-lr-steps is **DEPRECATED**; please set --max-train-steps directly'
            )
        invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma = opt.get('invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma', -1)

        if opt.get('lr_scheduler') == 'none':
            return None
        elif decay == 1.0:
            warn_once(
                "Your LR decay is set to 1.0. Assuming you meant you wanted "
                "to disable learning rate scheduling. Adjust --lr-scheduler-decay "
                "if this is not correct."
            )
            return None
        elif opt.get('lr_scheduler') == 'reduceonplateau':
            scheduler = ReduceOnPlateauLRScheduler(
                optimizer, patience, decay, warmup_updates, warmup_rate
            )
        elif opt.get('lr_scheduler') == 'fixed':
            scheduler = FixedLRScheduler(
                optimizer, patience, decay, warmup_updates, warmup_rate
            )
        elif opt.get('lr_scheduler') == 'invsqrt':
            scheduler = InvSqrtLRScheduler(
                optimizer,
                patience,
                decay,
                warmup_updates,
                warmup_rate,
                invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma,
                max_lr_steps,
            )
        elif opt.get('lr_scheduler') == 'cosine':
            scheduler = CosineLRScheduler(
                optimizer, patience, decay, warmup_updates, warmup_rate, max_lr_steps
            )
        elif opt.get('lr_scheduler') == 'linear':
            scheduler = LinearLRScheduler(
                optimizer, patience, decay, warmup_updates, warmup_rate, max_lr_steps
            )
        else:
            raise ValueError(
                "Don't know what to do with --lr-scheduler '{}'".format(
                    opt.get('lr_scheduler')
                )
            )

        # time to load LR state from the checkpoint, if possible.
        if (
            # there is already an old LR scheduler saved on disk
            states
            # and there was a scheduler in the dump
            and 'lr_scheduler_type' in states
            # and the old LR scheduler is different
            and states.get('lr_scheduler_type') != opt['lr_scheduler']
            # and we're not already using a fresh scheduler
            and not hard_reset
        ):
            # the LR scheduler changed, start things fresh
            warn_once(
                f"LR scheduler ({opt['lr_scheduler']}) is different from saved "
                f"({states.get('lr_scheduler_type')}). Starting fresh!"
            )
            hard_reset = True

        # setup warmup scheduler after loading saved scheduler
        scheduler._init_warmup_scheduler(optimizer, states, hard_reset)

        if not hard_reset:
            # do the actual loading (if possible)
            scheduler.load_state(states)

        return scheduler

    def step(self, num_steps):
        """
        Use the number of train steps to adjust the warmup scheduler or the main
        scheduler, depending on where in training we are.

        Override this method to override the behavior for training schedulers.
        """
        self._number_training_updates = num_steps
        if self._is_lr_warming_up():
            self.warmup_scheduler.step()
        else:
            scheduler_steps = num_steps - self.warmup_updates
            self.train_step(scheduler_steps)

    @abstractmethod
    def train_step(self, scheduler_steps):
        """
        Use the number of train steps to decide when to adjust LR schedule.

        Override this method to override the behavior for training schedulers.
        """
        pass

    @abstractmethod
    def valid_step(self, metrics_dict):
        """
        Use the metrics to decide when to adjust LR schedule.

        This uses the loss as the validation metric if present, if not this
        function does nothing. Note that the model must be reporting loss for
        this to work.

        Override this method to override the behavior for validation schedulers.
        """
        pass


class ReduceOnPlateauLRScheduler(ParlAILRScheduler):
    """
    Scheduler that decays by a multiplicative rate when valid loss plateaus.
    """

    def __init__(self, optimizer, patience, decay, warmup_updates, warmup_rate):
        super().__init__(warmup_updates, warmup_rate)
        self.scheduler = optim.lr_scheduler.ReduceLROnPlateau(
            optimizer, 'min', factor=decay, patience=patience, verbose=True
        )

    def train_step(self, scheduler_steps):
        pass

    def valid_step(self, metrics_dict):
        if self._is_lr_warming_up():
            # we're not done warming up, so don't start using validation
            # metrics to adjust schedule
            return
        if 'loss' not in metrics_dict:
            # nothing to step on, just skip
            warn_once("LR scheduler expected to see loss metric, but didn't.")
            return
        self.scheduler.step(metrics_dict['loss'])


class FixedLRScheduler(ParlAILRScheduler):
    """
    Scheduler that decays by a fixed multiplicative rate at each valid step.
    """

    def __init__(self, optimizer, patience, decay, warmup_updates, warmup_rate):
        super().__init__(warmup_updates, warmup_rate)
        self.scheduler = optim.lr_scheduler.StepLR(optimizer, patience, gamma=decay)

    def train_step(self, scheduler_steps):
        pass

    def valid_step(self, metrics_dict):
        if self._is_lr_warming_up():
            # we're not done warming up, so don't start using validation
            # metrics to adjust schedule
            return
        self.scheduler.step()


class InvSqrtLRScheduler(ParlAILRScheduler):
    """
    Scheduler that decays at an inverse square root rate.
    """

    def __init__(
        self,
        optimizer,
        patience,
        decay,
        warmup_updates,
        warmup_rate,
        invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma,
        max_lr_steps,
    ):
        """
        invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma determines the cycle length of the inverse square root
        scheduler.

        When steps taken == invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma, the lr multiplier is 1
        """
        super().__init__(warmup_updates, warmup_rate)
        assert self.warmup_updates >= 0
        self.max_lr_steps = max_lr_steps - self.warmup_updates
        self.invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma = invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma
        if invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma <= 0:
            warn_once(
                '--lr-scheduler invsqrt requires a value for '
                '--invsqrt-lr-decay-gamma. Defaulting to set gamma to '
                '--warmup-updates value for backwards compatibility.'
            )
            self.invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma = self.warmup_updates

        self.decay_factor = np.sqrt(max(1, self.invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma))
        self.scheduler = optim.lr_scheduler.LambdaLR(optimizer, self._invsqrt_lr)

    def _invsqrt_lr(self, step):
        return self.decay_factor / np.sqrt(max(1, self.invsqrt_lr_decay_gamma + step))

    def train_step(self, scheduler_steps):
        if self.max_lr_steps > 0 and scheduler_steps >= self.max_lr_steps:
            raise StopTrainException('Maximum LR steps')
        self.scheduler.step()

    def valid_step(self, metrics_dict):
        # this is a training step lr scheduler, nothing to adjust in validation
        pass


class CosineLRScheduler(ParlAILRScheduler):
    """
    Scheduler that decays by a cosine function.
    """

    def __init__(
        self, optimizer, patience, decay, warmup_updates, warmup_rate, max_lr_steps
    ):
        """
        max_lr_steps determines the cycle length of the cosine annealing.

        It indicates the number of steps from 1.0 multiplier to 0.0, which corresponds
        to going from cos(0) to cos(pi)
        """
        super().__init__(warmup_updates, warmup_rate)
        if max_lr_steps <= 0:
            raise ValueError('--lr-scheduler cosine requires setting --max-train-steps')
        assert self.warmup_updates >= 0
        self.max_lr_steps = max_lr_steps - self.warmup_updates
        self.scheduler = optim.lr_scheduler.LambdaLR(optimizer, self._cosine_lr)

    def _cosine_lr(self, step):
        return math.cos(math.pi * step / (2 * self.max_lr_steps))

    def train_step(self, scheduler_steps):
        if scheduler_steps >= self.max_lr_steps:
            raise StopTrainException('End of Cosine LR Schedule')
        self.scheduler.step()

    def valid_step(self, metrics_dict):
        pass


class LinearLRScheduler(ParlAILRScheduler):
    """
    Scheduler that decays linearly.
    """

    def __init__(
        self, optimizer, patience, decay, warmup_updates, warmup_rate, max_lr_steps
    ):
        """
        max_lr_steps determines the cycle length of the linear annealing.

        It indicates the number of steps from 1.0 multiplier to 0.0
        """
        super().__init__(warmup_updates, warmup_rate)
        if max_lr_steps <= 0:
            raise ValueError('--lr-scheduler linear requires setting --max-train-steps')
        assert self.warmup_updates >= 0
        self.max_lr_steps = max_lr_steps - self.warmup_updates
        self.scheduler = optim.lr_scheduler.LambdaLR(optimizer, self._linear_lr)

    def _linear_lr(self, step):
        # this multiplicative factor ensures linear decay rate
        lr_mult = max(0.0, 1.0 - step / self.max_lr_steps)
        return lr_mult

    def train_step(self, scheduler_steps):
        if scheduler_steps >= self.max_lr_steps:
            raise StopTrainException('End of Linear LR Schedule')
        self.scheduler.step()

    def valid_step(self, metrics_dict):
        pass