""" Example code of how to use a learning rate scheduler simple, in this case with a (very) small and simple Feedforward Network training on MNIST dataset with a learning rate scheduler. In this case ReduceLROnPlateau scheduler is used, but can easily be changed to any of the other schedulers available. I think simply reducing LR by 1/10 or so, when loss plateaus is a good default. Programmed by Aladdin Persson * 2020-04-10 Initial programming * 2022-12-19 Updated comments, made sure it works with latest PyTorch """ # Imports import torch import torch.nn as nn # All neural network modules, nn.Linear, nn.Conv2d, BatchNorm, Loss functions import torch.optim as optim # For all Optimization algorithms, SGD, Adam, etc. from torch.utils.data import ( DataLoader, ) # Gives easier dataset managment and creates mini batches import torchvision.datasets as datasets # Has standard datasets we can import in a nice way import torchvision.transforms as transforms # Transformations we can perform on our dataset # Set device device = torch.device("cuda" if torch.cuda.is_available() else "cpu") # Hyperparameters num_classes = 10 learning_rate = ( 0.1 # way too high learning rate, but we want to see the scheduler in action ) batch_size = 128 num_epochs = 100 # Define a very simple model model = nn.Sequential(nn.Linear(784, 50), nn.ReLU(), nn.Linear(50, 10)).to(device) # Load Data train_dataset = datasets.MNIST( root="dataset/", train=True, transform=transforms.ToTensor(), download=True ) train_loader = DataLoader(dataset=train_dataset, batch_size=batch_size, shuffle=True) # Loss and optimizer criterion = nn.CrossEntropyLoss() optimizer = optim.Adam(model.parameters(), lr=learning_rate) # Define Scheduler scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.ReduceLROnPlateau( optimizer, factor=0.1, patience=10, verbose=True ) # Train Network for epoch in range(1, num_epochs): losses = [] for batch_idx, (data, targets) in enumerate(train_loader): # Get data to cuda if possible data = data.reshape(data.shape[0], -1) data = data.to(device=device) targets = targets.to(device=device) # forward scores = model(data) loss = criterion(scores, targets) losses.append(loss.item()) # backward optimizer.zero_grad() loss.backward() optimizer.step() mean_loss = sum(losses) / len(losses) mean_loss = round(mean_loss, 2) # we should see difference in loss at 2 decimals # After each epoch do scheduler.step, note in this scheduler we need to send # in loss for that epoch! This can also be set using validation loss, and also # in the forward loop we can do on our batch but then we might need to modify # the patience parameter scheduler.step(mean_loss) print(f"Average loss for epoch {epoch} was {mean_loss}") # Check accuracy on training & test to see how good our model def check_accuracy(loader, model): num_correct = 0 num_samples = 0 model.eval() with torch.no_grad(): for x, y in loader: x = x.to(device=device) x = x.reshape(x.shape[0], -1) y = y.to(device=device) scores = model(x) _, predictions = scores.max(1) num_correct += (predictions == y).sum() num_samples += predictions.size(0) print( f"Got {num_correct} / {num_samples} with accuracy {float(num_correct)/float(num_samples)*100:.2f}" ) model.train() check_accuracy(train_loader, model)