Turn off natural gradient update for biases.

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Daniel Povey 2022-06-03 18:40:14 +08:00
parent 3fff0c75bb
commit 8085ed6ef9

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@ -270,26 +270,32 @@ class Cain(Optimizer):
scale_delta)
delta.add_(p, alpha=scale_delta)
grad = self._change_coordinates(grad, state, forward=True)
p_transformed = self._change_coordinates(p, state, forward=True, is_grad=False)
# Decay the second moment running average coefficient
exp_avg_sq.mul_(beta2).addcmul_(grad, grad, value=1 - beta2)
bias_correction2 = 1 - beta2 ** self._step_for_bias_correction(step)
grad_rms = (exp_avg_sq.sqrt()).add_(eps).mul_(1.0 / bias_correction2)
this_delta = grad / grad_rms
smoothed_grad_rms = ng_eps * grad_rms.mean() + grad_rms
lr_factor = (smoothed_grad_rms ** ng_pow)
lr_factor_mean = lr_factor.mean()
# this `lr` contains all the terms in learning rate except param_rms. Imagine
# that param_rms is 1.0 for purposes of computing the shrinkage coefficient; actually
# it does not matter.
this_lr = (lr / (target_rms * lr_factor_mean)) * lr_factor
if p.ndim() > 1:
smoothed_grad_rms = ng_eps * grad_rms.mean() + grad_rms
lr_factor = (smoothed_grad_rms ** ng_pow)
lr_factor_mean = lr_factor.mean()
# this `lr` contains all the terms in learning rate except param_rms. Imagine
# that param_rms is 1.0 for purposes of computing the shrinkage coefficient; actually
# it does not matter.
this_lr = (lr / (target_rms * lr_factor_mean)) * lr_factor
else:
# turn off this natural gradient for biases, it seems to have
# a bad effect, possibly because we don't decorrelate in this case, or
# because their gradients are not dominated by noise.
this_lr = lr / target_rms
# change sign so it's an actual parameter change,
# incorporate param_rms at this point.
this_delta *= -this_lr * state["param_rms"].clamp(min=rms_eps)
@ -323,8 +329,6 @@ class Cain(Optimizer):
return loss
def _change_coordinates(self,
grad: Tensor,
state: dict,