DecoupledAdamW

class composer.optim.DecoupledAdamW(params, lr=0.001, betas=(0.9, 0.95), eps=1e-08, weight_decay=1e-05, amsgrad=False)

Adam optimizer with the weight decay term decoupled from the learning rate.

NOTE: Since weight_decay is no longer scaled by lr, you will likely want to use much smaller values for weight_decay than you would if using torch.optim.Adam or torch.optim.AdamW. In this optimizer, the value weight_decay translates exactly to: ‘On every optimizer update, every weight element will be multiplied by (1.0 - weight_decay_t)’. The term weight_decay_t will follow the same schedule as lr_t but crucially will not be scaled by lr.

Argument defaults are similar to torch.optim.AdamW but we make two changes: * The default for weight_decay is changed from 1e-2 -> 1e-5 because in DecoupledAdamW, the weight decay is decoupled and no longer scaled by the lr=1e-3. * The default for betas is changed from (0.9, 0.999) to (0.9, 0.95) to reflect community best-practices for the beta2 hyperparameter.

Why use this optimizer? The standard AdamW optimizer explicitly couples the weight decay term with the learning rate. This ties the optimal value of weight_decay to lr and can also hurt generalization in practice. For more details on why decoupling might be desirable, see Decoupled Weight Decay Regularization.

Parameters

• params (iterable) – Iterable of parameters to optimize or dicts defining parameter groups.

• lr (float, optional) – Learning rate. Default: 1e-3.

• betas (tuple, optional) – Coefficients used for computing running averages of gradient and its square Default: (0.9, 0.95).

• eps (float, optional) – Term added to the denominator to improve numerical stability. Default: 1e-8.

• weight_decay (float, optional) – Decoupled weight decay factor. Default: 1e-5.

• amsgrad (bool, optional) – Enables the amsgrad variant of Adam. Default: False.

static adamw(params, grads, exp_avgs, exp_avg_sqs, max_exp_avg_sqs, state_steps, *, amsgrad, beta1, beta2, lr, initial_lr, weight_decay, eps)

Functional API that performs AdamW algorithm computation with decoupled weight decay.

Parameters

• params (list) – List of parameters to update.

• grads (list) – List of parameter gradients.

• exp_avgs (list) – List of average gradients.

• exp_avg_sqs (list) – List of average squared gradients.

• max_exp_avg_sqs (list) – List of max average squared gradients for amsgrad updates.

• state_steps (list) – List of steps taken for all parameters.

• amsgrad (bool) – Enables amsgrad variant of Adam.

• beta1 (float) – Coefficient for computing the moving average of gradient values.

• beta2 (float) – Coefficient for computing the moving average of squared gradient values.

• lr (float) – Learning rate.

• initial_lr (float) – Initial learning rate.

• weight_decay (float) – Factor for decoupled weight decay

• eps (float) – Term added to the denominator to improve numerical stability.

pre_reduce_metrics(optimizer_metrics)

Preprocess metrics to reduce across ranks correctly.

step(closure=None)

Performs a single optimization step.

Parameters

closure (callable, optional) – A closure that reevaluates the model and returns the loss.