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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright    2021-2023  Xiaomi Corp.        (authors: Fangjun Kuang,
+#                                                       Wei Kang,
+#                                                       Mingshuang Luo,
+#                                                       Zengwei Yao,
+#                                                       Daniel Povey)
+#
+# See ../../../../LICENSE for clarification regarding multiple authors
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+"""
+Usage:
+
+export CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES="0,1,2,3"
+
+# For non-streaming model training:
+./zipformer/train.py \
+  --world-size 4 \
+  --num-epochs 30 \
+  --start-epoch 1 \
+  --use-fp16 1 \
+  --exp-dir zipformer/exp \
+  --max-duration 1000
+
+# For streaming model training:
+./zipformer/train.py \
+  --world-size 4 \
+  --num-epochs 30 \
+  --start-epoch 1 \
+  --use-fp16 1 \
+  --exp-dir zipformer/exp \
+  --causal 1 \
+  --max-duration 1000
+
+It supports training with:
+  - transducer loss (default), with `--use-transducer True --use-ctc False`
+  - ctc loss (not recommended), with `--use-transducer False --use-ctc True`
+  - transducer loss & ctc loss, with `--use-transducer True --use-ctc True`
+"""
+
+
+import argparse
+import copy
+import logging
+import warnings
+from pathlib import Path
+from shutil import copyfile
+from typing import Any, Dict, Optional, Tuple, Union
+
+import k2
+import optim
+import torch
+import torch.multiprocessing as mp
+import torch.nn as nn
+from asr_datamodule import WenetSpeechAsrDataModule
+from lhotse.cut import Cut
+from lhotse.dataset.sampling.base import CutSampler
+from lhotse.utils import fix_random_seed
+from model import AsrModel
+from optim import Eden, ScaledAdam
+from scaling import ScheduledFloat
+from torch import Tensor
+from torch.cuda.amp import GradScaler
+from torch.nn.parallel import DistributedDataParallel as DDP
+from torch.utils.tensorboard import SummaryWriter
+from train import (
+    add_model_arguments,
+    add_training_arguments,
+    display_and_save_batch,
+    get_adjusted_batch_count,
+    get_model,
+    get_params,
+    load_checkpoint_if_available,
+    save_checkpoint,
+    scan_pessimistic_batches_for_oom,
+    set_batch_count,
+)
+
+from icefall import diagnostics
+from icefall.char_graph_compiler import CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler
+from icefall.checkpoint import remove_checkpoints
+from icefall.checkpoint import save_checkpoint as save_checkpoint_impl
+from icefall.checkpoint import (
+    save_checkpoint_with_global_batch_idx,
+    update_averaged_model,
+)
+from icefall.dist import cleanup_dist, setup_dist
+from icefall.env import get_env_info
+from icefall.hooks import register_inf_check_hooks
+from icefall.lexicon import Lexicon
+from icefall.utils import (
+    AttributeDict,
+    MetricsTracker,
+    get_parameter_groups_with_lrs,
+    setup_logger,
+    str2bool,
+    text_to_pinyin,
+)
+
+LRSchedulerType = Union[torch.optim.lr_scheduler._LRScheduler, optim.LRScheduler]
+
+
+def get_parser():
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--lang-dir",
+        type=str,
+        default="data/lang_partial_tone",
+        help="Path to the pinyin lang directory",
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--pinyin-type",
+        type=str,
+        default="partial_with_tone",
+        help="""
+            The style of the output pinyin, should be:
+              full_with_tone : zhong1 guo2
+              full_no_tone : zhong guo
+              partial_with_tone : zh ong1 g uo2
+              partial_no_tone : zh ong g uo
+        """,
+    )
+
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--pinyin-errors",
+        default="split",
+        type=str,
+        help="""How to handle characters that has no pinyin,
+        see `text_to_pinyin` in icefall/utils.py for details
+        """,
+    )
+
+    add_training_arguments(parser)
+    add_model_arguments(parser)
+
+    return parser
+
+
+def compute_loss(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: Union[nn.Module, DDP],
+    graph_compiler: CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler,
+    batch: dict,
+    is_training: bool,
+) -> Tuple[Tensor, MetricsTracker]:
+    """
+    Compute CTC loss given the model and its inputs.
+
+    Args:
+      params:
+        Parameters for training. See :func:`get_params`.
+      model:
+        The model for training. It is an instance of Zipformer in our case.
+      batch:
+        A batch of data. See `lhotse.dataset.K2SpeechRecognitionDataset()`
+        for the content in it.
+      is_training:
+        True for training. False for validation. When it is True, this
+        function enables autograd during computation; when it is False, it
+        disables autograd.
+     warmup: a floating point value which increases throughout training;
+        values >= 1.0 are fully warmed up and have all modules present.
+    """
+    device = model.device if isinstance(model, DDP) else next(model.parameters()).device
+    feature = batch["inputs"]
+    # at entry, feature is (N, T, C)
+    assert feature.ndim == 3
+    feature = feature.to(device)
+
+    supervisions = batch["supervisions"]
+    feature_lens = supervisions["num_frames"].to(device)
+
+    batch_idx_train = params.batch_idx_train
+    warm_step = params.warm_step
+
+    texts = batch["supervisions"]["text"]
+    y = graph_compiler.texts_to_ids(texts, sep="/")
+    y = k2.RaggedTensor(y).to(device)
+
+    with torch.set_grad_enabled(is_training):
+        simple_loss, pruned_loss, _ = model(
+            x=feature,
+            x_lens=feature_lens,
+            y=y,
+            prune_range=params.prune_range,
+            am_scale=params.am_scale,
+            lm_scale=params.lm_scale,
+        )
+
+        s = params.simple_loss_scale
+        # take down the scale on the simple loss from 1.0 at the start
+        # to params.simple_loss scale by warm_step.
+        simple_loss_scale = (
+            s
+            if batch_idx_train >= warm_step
+            else 1.0 - (batch_idx_train / warm_step) * (1.0 - s)
+        )
+        pruned_loss_scale = (
+            1.0
+            if batch_idx_train >= warm_step
+            else 0.1 + 0.9 * (batch_idx_train / warm_step)
+        )
+
+        loss = simple_loss_scale * simple_loss + pruned_loss_scale * pruned_loss
+
+    assert loss.requires_grad == is_training
+
+    info = MetricsTracker()
+    with warnings.catch_warnings():
+        warnings.simplefilter("ignore")
+        info["frames"] = (feature_lens // params.subsampling_factor).sum().item()
+
+    # Note: We use reduction=sum while computing the loss.
+    info["loss"] = loss.detach().cpu().item()
+    info["simple_loss"] = simple_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+    info["pruned_loss"] = pruned_loss.detach().cpu().item()
+
+    return loss, info
+
+
+def compute_validation_loss(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: Union[nn.Module, DDP],
+    graph_compiler: CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler,
+    valid_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    world_size: int = 1,
+) -> MetricsTracker:
+    """Run the validation process."""
+    model.eval()
+
+    tot_loss = MetricsTracker()
+
+    for batch_idx, batch in enumerate(valid_dl):
+        loss, loss_info = compute_loss(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
+            batch=batch,
+            is_training=False,
+        )
+        assert loss.requires_grad is False
+        tot_loss = tot_loss + loss_info
+
+    if world_size > 1:
+        tot_loss.reduce(loss.device)
+
+    loss_value = tot_loss["loss"] / tot_loss["frames"]
+    if loss_value < params.best_valid_loss:
+        params.best_valid_epoch = params.cur_epoch
+        params.best_valid_loss = loss_value
+
+    return tot_loss
+
+
+def train_one_epoch(
+    params: AttributeDict,
+    model: Union[nn.Module, DDP],
+    optimizer: torch.optim.Optimizer,
+    scheduler: LRSchedulerType,
+    graph_compiler: CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler,
+    train_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    valid_dl: torch.utils.data.DataLoader,
+    scaler: GradScaler,
+    model_avg: Optional[nn.Module] = None,
+    tb_writer: Optional[SummaryWriter] = None,
+    world_size: int = 1,
+    rank: int = 0,
+) -> None:
+    """Train the model for one epoch.
+
+    The training loss from the mean of all frames is saved in
+    `params.train_loss`. It runs the validation process every
+    `params.valid_interval` batches.
+
+    Args:
+      params:
+        It is returned by :func:`get_params`.
+      model:
+        The model for training.
+      optimizer:
+        The optimizer we are using.
+      scheduler:
+        The learning rate scheduler, we call step() every step.
+      train_dl:
+        Dataloader for the training dataset.
+      valid_dl:
+        Dataloader for the validation dataset.
+      scaler:
+        The scaler used for mix precision training.
+      model_avg:
+        The stored model averaged from the start of training.
+      tb_writer:
+        Writer to write log messages to tensorboard.
+      world_size:
+        Number of nodes in DDP training. If it is 1, DDP is disabled.
+      rank:
+        The rank of the node in DDP training. If no DDP is used, it should
+        be set to 0.
+    """
+    model.train()
+
+    tot_loss = MetricsTracker()
+
+    cur_batch_idx = params.get("cur_batch_idx", 0)
+
+    saved_bad_model = False
+
+    def save_bad_model(suffix: str = ""):
+        save_checkpoint_impl(
+            filename=params.exp_dir / f"bad-model{suffix}-{rank}.pt",
+            model=model,
+            model_avg=model_avg,
+            params=params,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+            scaler=scaler,
+            rank=0,
+        )
+
+    for batch_idx, batch in enumerate(train_dl):
+        if batch_idx % 10 == 0:
+            set_batch_count(model, get_adjusted_batch_count(params))
+        if batch_idx < cur_batch_idx:
+            continue
+        cur_batch_idx = batch_idx
+
+        params.batch_idx_train += 1
+        batch_size = len(batch["supervisions"]["text"])
+
+        try:
+            with torch.cuda.amp.autocast(enabled=params.use_fp16):
+                loss, loss_info = compute_loss(
+                    params=params,
+                    model=model,
+                    graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
+                    batch=batch,
+                    is_training=True,
+                )
+            # summary stats
+            tot_loss = (tot_loss * (1 - 1 / params.reset_interval)) + loss_info
+
+            # NOTE: We use reduction==sum and loss is computed over utterances
+            # in the batch and there is no normalization to it so far.
+            scaler.scale(loss).backward()
+            scheduler.step_batch(params.batch_idx_train)
+
+            scaler.step(optimizer)
+            scaler.update()
+            optimizer.zero_grad()
+        except:  # noqa
+            save_bad_model()
+            display_and_save_batch(batch, params=params, graph_compiler=graph_compiler)
+            raise
+
+        if params.print_diagnostics and batch_idx == 5:
+            return
+
+        if (
+            rank == 0
+            and params.batch_idx_train > 0
+            and params.batch_idx_train % params.average_period == 0
+        ):
+            update_averaged_model(
+                params=params,
+                model_cur=model,
+                model_avg=model_avg,
+            )
+
+        if (
+            params.batch_idx_train > 0
+            and params.batch_idx_train % params.save_every_n == 0
+        ):
+            params.cur_batch_idx = batch_idx
+            save_checkpoint_with_global_batch_idx(
+                out_dir=params.exp_dir,
+                global_batch_idx=params.batch_idx_train,
+                model=model,
+                model_avg=model_avg,
+                params=params,
+                optimizer=optimizer,
+                scheduler=scheduler,
+                sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+                scaler=scaler,
+                rank=rank,
+            )
+            del params.cur_batch_idx
+            remove_checkpoints(
+                out_dir=params.exp_dir,
+                topk=params.keep_last_k,
+                rank=rank,
+            )
+
+        if batch_idx % 100 == 0 and params.use_fp16:
+            # If the grad scale was less than 1, try increasing it.    The _growth_interval
+            # of the grad scaler is configurable, but we can't configure it to have different
+            # behavior depending on the current grad scale.
+            cur_grad_scale = scaler._scale.item()
+
+            if cur_grad_scale < 8.0 or (cur_grad_scale < 32.0 and batch_idx % 400 == 0):
+                scaler.update(cur_grad_scale * 2.0)
+            if cur_grad_scale < 0.01:
+                if not saved_bad_model:
+                    save_bad_model(suffix="-first-warning")
+                    saved_bad_model = True
+                logging.warning(f"Grad scale is small: {cur_grad_scale}")
+            if cur_grad_scale < 1.0e-05:
+                save_bad_model()
+                raise RuntimeError(
+                    f"grad_scale is too small, exiting: {cur_grad_scale}"
+                )
+
+        if batch_idx % params.log_interval == 0:
+            cur_lr = max(scheduler.get_last_lr())
+            cur_grad_scale = scaler._scale.item() if params.use_fp16 else 1.0
+
+            logging.info(
+                f"Epoch {params.cur_epoch}, "
+                f"batch {batch_idx}, loss[{loss_info}], "
+                f"tot_loss[{tot_loss}], batch size: {batch_size}, "
+                f"lr: {cur_lr:.2e}, "
+                + (f"grad_scale: {scaler._scale.item()}" if params.use_fp16 else "")
+            )
+
+            if tb_writer is not None:
+                tb_writer.add_scalar(
+                    "train/learning_rate", cur_lr, params.batch_idx_train
+                )
+
+                loss_info.write_summary(
+                    tb_writer, "train/current_", params.batch_idx_train
+                )
+                tot_loss.write_summary(tb_writer, "train/tot_", params.batch_idx_train)
+                if params.use_fp16:
+                    tb_writer.add_scalar(
+                        "train/grad_scale", cur_grad_scale, params.batch_idx_train
+                    )
+
+        if batch_idx % params.valid_interval == 0 and not params.print_diagnostics:
+            logging.info("Computing validation loss")
+            valid_info = compute_validation_loss(
+                params=params,
+                model=model,
+                graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
+                valid_dl=valid_dl,
+                world_size=world_size,
+            )
+            model.train()
+            logging.info(f"Epoch {params.cur_epoch}, validation: {valid_info}")
+            logging.info(
+                f"Maximum memory allocated so far is {torch.cuda.max_memory_allocated()//1000000}MB"
+            )
+            if tb_writer is not None:
+                valid_info.write_summary(
+                    tb_writer, "train/valid_", params.batch_idx_train
+                )
+
+    loss_value = tot_loss["loss"] / tot_loss["frames"]
+    params.train_loss = loss_value
+    if params.train_loss < params.best_train_loss:
+        params.best_train_epoch = params.cur_epoch
+        params.best_train_loss = params.train_loss
+
+
+def run(rank, world_size, args):
+    """
+    Args:
+      rank:
+        It is a value between 0 and `world_size-1`, which is
+        passed automatically by `mp.spawn()` in :func:`main`.
+        The node with rank 0 is responsible for saving checkpoint.
+      world_size:
+        Number of GPUs for DDP training.
+      args:
+        The return value of get_parser().parse_args()
+    """
+    params = get_params()
+    params.update(vars(args))
+
+    fix_random_seed(params.seed)
+    if world_size > 1:
+        setup_dist(rank, world_size, params.master_port)
+
+    setup_logger(f"{params.exp_dir}/log/log-train")
+    logging.info("Training started")
+
+    if args.tensorboard and rank == 0:
+        tb_writer = SummaryWriter(log_dir=f"{params.exp_dir}/tensorboard")
+    else:
+        tb_writer = None
+
+    device = torch.device("cpu")
+    if torch.cuda.is_available():
+        device = torch.device("cuda", rank)
+    logging.info(f"Device: {device}")
+
+    lexicon = Lexicon(params.lang_dir)
+    graph_compiler = CharCtcTrainingGraphCompiler(
+        lexicon=lexicon,
+        device=device,
+    )
+
+    params.blank_id = lexicon.token_table["<blk>"]
+    params.vocab_size = max(lexicon.tokens) + 1
+
+    if not params.use_transducer:
+        params.ctc_loss_scale = 1.0
+
+    logging.info(params)
+
+    logging.info("About to create model")
+    model = get_model(params)
+
+    num_param = sum([p.numel() for p in model.parameters()])
+    logging.info(f"Number of model parameters: {num_param}")
+
+    assert params.save_every_n >= params.average_period
+    model_avg: Optional[nn.Module] = None
+    if rank == 0:
+        # model_avg is only used with rank 0
+        model_avg = copy.deepcopy(model).to(torch.float64)
+
+    assert params.start_epoch > 0, params.start_epoch
+    checkpoints = load_checkpoint_if_available(
+        params=params, model=model, model_avg=model_avg
+    )
+
+    model.to(device)
+    if world_size > 1:
+        logging.info("Using DDP")
+        model = DDP(model, device_ids=[rank], find_unused_parameters=True)
+
+    optimizer = ScaledAdam(
+        get_parameter_groups_with_lrs(model, lr=params.base_lr, include_names=True),
+        lr=params.base_lr,  # should have no effect
+        clipping_scale=2.0,
+    )
+
+    scheduler = Eden(optimizer, params.lr_batches, params.lr_epochs)
+
+    if checkpoints and "optimizer" in checkpoints:
+        logging.info("Loading optimizer state dict")
+        optimizer.load_state_dict(checkpoints["optimizer"])
+
+    if (
+        checkpoints
+        and "scheduler" in checkpoints
+        and checkpoints["scheduler"] is not None
+    ):
+        logging.info("Loading scheduler state dict")
+        scheduler.load_state_dict(checkpoints["scheduler"])
+
+    if params.print_diagnostics:
+        opts = diagnostics.TensorDiagnosticOptions(
+            2**22
+        )  # allow 4 megabytes per sub-module
+        diagnostic = diagnostics.attach_diagnostics(model, opts)
+
+    if params.inf_check:
+        register_inf_check_hooks(model)
+
+    wenetspeech = WenetSpeechAsrDataModule(args)
+
+    train_cuts = wenetspeech.train_cuts()
+
+    def remove_short_and_long_utt(c: Cut):
+        # Keep only utterances with duration between 1 second and 20 seconds
+        #
+        # Caution: There is a reason to select 20.0 here. Please see
+        # ../local/display_manifest_statistics.py
+        #
+        # You should use ../local/display_manifest_statistics.py to get
+        # an utterance duration distribution for your dataset to select
+        # the threshold
+        if c.duration < 1.0 or c.duration > 15.0:
+            # logging.warning(
+            #     f"Exclude cut with ID {c.id} from training. Duration: {c.duration}"
+            # )
+            return False
+
+        return True
+
+    def encode_text(c: Cut):
+        # Text normalize for each sample
+        text = c.supervisions[0].text
+        text = "/".join(
+            text_to_pinyin(text, mode=params.pinyin_type, errors=params.pinyin_errors)
+        )
+        c.supervisions[0].text = text
+        return c
+
+    train_cuts = train_cuts.filter(remove_short_and_long_utt)
+    train_cuts = train_cuts.map(encode_text)
+
+    if params.start_batch > 0 and checkpoints and "sampler" in checkpoints:
+        # We only load the sampler's state dict when it loads a checkpoint
+        # saved in the middle of an epoch
+        sampler_state_dict = checkpoints["sampler"]
+    else:
+        sampler_state_dict = None
+
+    train_dl = wenetspeech.train_dataloaders(
+        train_cuts, sampler_state_dict=sampler_state_dict
+    )
+
+    valid_cuts = wenetspeech.valid_cuts()
+    valid_cuts = valid_cuts.map(encode_text)
+    valid_dl = wenetspeech.valid_dataloaders(valid_cuts)
+
+    if not params.print_diagnostics:
+        # scan_pessimistic_batches_for_oom(
+        #    model=model,
+        #    train_dl=train_dl,
+        #    optimizer=optimizer,
+        #    graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
+        #    params=params,
+        # )
+        pass
+
+    scaler = GradScaler(enabled=params.use_fp16, init_scale=1.0)
+    if checkpoints and "grad_scaler" in checkpoints:
+        logging.info("Loading grad scaler state dict")
+        scaler.load_state_dict(checkpoints["grad_scaler"])
+
+    for epoch in range(params.start_epoch, params.num_epochs + 1):
+        scheduler.step_epoch(epoch - 1)
+        fix_random_seed(params.seed + epoch - 1)
+        train_dl.sampler.set_epoch(epoch - 1)
+
+        if tb_writer is not None:
+            tb_writer.add_scalar("train/epoch", epoch, params.batch_idx_train)
+
+        params.cur_epoch = epoch
+
+        train_one_epoch(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            model_avg=model_avg,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            graph_compiler=graph_compiler,
+            train_dl=train_dl,
+            valid_dl=valid_dl,
+            scaler=scaler,
+            tb_writer=tb_writer,
+            world_size=world_size,
+            rank=rank,
+        )
+
+        if params.print_diagnostics:
+            diagnostic.print_diagnostics()
+            break
+
+        save_checkpoint(
+            params=params,
+            model=model,
+            model_avg=model_avg,
+            optimizer=optimizer,
+            scheduler=scheduler,
+            sampler=train_dl.sampler,
+            scaler=scaler,
+            rank=rank,
+        )
+
+    logging.info("Done!")
+
+    if world_size > 1:
+        torch.distributed.barrier()
+        cleanup_dist()
+
+
+def main():
+    parser = get_parser()
+    WenetSpeechAsrDataModule.add_arguments(parser)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    args.lang_dir = Path(args.lang_dir)
+    args.exp_dir = Path(args.exp_dir)
+
+    world_size = args.world_size
+    assert world_size >= 1
+    if world_size > 1:
+        mp.spawn(run, args=(world_size, args), nprocs=world_size, join=True)
+    else:
+        run(rank=0, world_size=1, args=args)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()