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* gradient accumulation during warmup in train.py Context: `accumulate` is the number of batches/gradients accumulated before calling the next optimizer.step(). During warmup, it is ramped up from 1 to the final value nbs / batch_size. Although I have not seen this in other libraries, I like the idea. During warmup, as grads are large, too large steps are more of on issue than gradient noise due to small steps. The bug: The condition to perform the opt step is wrong > if ni % accumulate == 0: This produces irregular step sizes if `accumulate` is not constant. It becomes relevant when batch_size is small and `accumulate` changes many times during warmup. This demo also shows the proposed solution, to use a ">=" condition instead: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1MA2z2eCXYB_BC5UZqgXueqL_y1Tz_XVq?usp=sharing Further, I propose not to restrict the number of warmup iterations to >= 1000. If the user changes hyp['warmup_epochs'], this causes unexpected behavior. Also, it makes evolution unstable if this parameter was to be optimized. * replace last_opt_step tracking by do_step(ni) * add docstrings * move down nw * Update train.py * revert math import move Co-authored-by: Glenn Jocher <glenn.jocher@ultralytics.com>
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