Hook callbacks¶

This provides both a standalone class and a callback for registering and automatically deregistering PyTorch hooks, along with some pre-defined hooks. Hooks can be attached to any nn.Module, for either the forward or the backward pass.

We'll start by looking at the pre-defined hook ActivationStats, then we'll see how to create our own.

ActivationStats saves the layer activations in self.stats for all modules passed to it. By default it will save activations for all modules. For instance:

The saved stats is a FloatTensor of shape (2,num_modules,num_batches). The first axis is (mean,stdev).

So this shows the standard deviation (axis0==1) of 5th last layer (axis1==-5) for each batch (axis2):

Registers and manually deregisters a PyTorch hook. Your hook_func will be called automatically when forward/backward (depending on is_forward) for your module m is run, and the result of that function is placed in self.stored.

Deregister the hook, if not called already.

Acts as a Collection (i.e. len(hooks) and hooks[i]) and an Iterator (i.e. for hook in hooks) of a group of hooks, one for each module in ms, with the ability to remove all as a group. Use stored to get all hook results. hook_func and is_forward behavior is the same as Hook. See the source code for HookCallback for a simple example.

Deregister all hooks created by this class, if not previously called.

Convenience functions for hooks¶

Function that creates a Hook for module that simply stores the output of the layer.

Function that creates a Hook for all passed modules that simply stores the output of the layers. For example, the (slightly simplified) source code of model_sizes is:

def model_sizes(m, size):
    x = m(torch.zeros(1, in_channels(m), *size))
    return [o.stored.shape for o in hook_outputs(m)]

It can be useful to get the size of each layer of a model (e.g. for printing a summary, or for generating cross-connections for a DynamicUnet), however they depend on the size of the input. This function calculates the layer sizes by passing in a minimal tensor of size.

For all modules, uses a callback to automatically register a method self.hook (that you must define in an inherited class) as a hook. This method must have the signature:

def hook(self, m:Model, input:Tensors, output:Tensors)

If do_remove then the hook is automatically deregistered at the end of training. See ActivationStats for a simple example of inheriting from this class.

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