Some cleanups

egs/librispeech/ASR/pruned_transducer_stateless7/optim.py

@@ -889,12 +889,17 @@ param_rms_smooth1: Smoothing proportion for parameter matrix, if assumed rank of
             # rms of eigenvalues, or spectral 2-norm.
             return _mean(_diag(Y), exclude_dims=[0], keepdim=True).unsqueeze(-1)
 
-        def rms_eig(Y):
-            # rms of eigenvalues, or spectral 2-norm.
-            return (_sum(Y*Y.transpose(2,3), exclude_dims=[0], keepdim=True) / size).sqrt()
+        def rms_eig(Y, M):
+            # rms of eigenvalues, or spectral 2-norm, of A = M^{0.5} Y M^{0.5}.
+            # We can compute this as (tr(A A) / size).sqrt(), since A is symmetric.
+            # tr(A ) ==  tr(M^{0.5} Y M^{0.5} M^{0.5} Y M^{0.5}) = tr(M Y M Y) = tr(Z Z) if Z == M Y.
+            # tr(Z Z) can be computed as sum(Z*Z.t())
+            Z = torch.matmul(Y, M)
+            return (_sum(Z*Z.transpose(2,3), exclude_dims=[0], keepdim=True) / size).sqrt()
 
-        # make sure eigs of M^{0.5} X M^{0.5} have rms value 1.   This imposes limit on the max.
-        X /= rms_eig(torch.matmul(X, M))
+        # make sure eigs of M^{0.5} X M^{0.5} have rms value 1.  This imposes a
+        # limit on the max.
+        X /= rms_eig(X, M)
 
         # eig_ceil is the maximum possible eigenvalue that X could possibly
         # have at this time, equal to num_blocks * block_size.
@@ -928,6 +933,9 @@ param_rms_smooth1: Smoothing proportion for parameter matrix, if assumed rank of
         X = 0.5 * (X + X.transpose(-2, -1)) # make sure exactly symmetric.
 
         if min_eig != 0.0:
+            # conceptually we want tr(M^{0.5} X M^{0.5}), but this is the same as tr(X M).
+            # we can compute this as the sum of the elements of X * M^T, because if Y=matmul(X, M),
+            # Y_{ii} is the sum of X_{ij} * M_{ji}.
             mean_XM_eig = _sum(X * M.transpose(2, 3), exclude_dims=[0], keepdim=True) / size
             XM_over_X = mean_XM_eig / mean_eig(X)
             X /= mean_XM_eig