๐Ÿš€ Quick Start#

Access our library of speedup methods with the ฦ’() Functional API:

import logging
from composer import functional as CF
import torchvision.models as models

logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO)
model = models.resnet50()

CF.apply_blurpool(model)

This creates a ResNet50 model and replaces several pooling and convolution layers with BlurPool variants (Zhang et al, 2019). For more information, see ๐ŸŠ BlurPool. The method should log:

Applied BlurPool to model ResNet. Model now has 1 BlurMaxPool2d and 6 BlurConv2D layers.

These methods are easy to integrate into your own training loop code with just a few lines.

For an overview of the algorithms, see ๐Ÿค– Algorithms.

We make composing recipes together even easier with our (optional) Trainer. Here, we train an MNIST classifer with a recipe of methods:

from torchvision import datasets, transforms
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader

from composer import Trainer
from composer.models import mnist_model
from composer.algorithms import LabelSmoothing, CutMix, ChannelsLast

transform = transforms.Compose([transforms.ToTensor()])
dataset = datasets.MNIST("data", train=True, download=True, transform=transform)
train_dataloader = DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=128)

trainer = Trainer(
    model=mnist_model(num_classes=10),
    train_dataloader=train_dataloader,
    max_duration="2ep",
    algorithms=[
        LabelSmoothing(smoothing=0.1),
        CutMix(alpha=1.0),
        ChannelsLast(),
        ]
)
trainer.fit()

We handle inserting and running the logic during the training so that any algorithms you specify โ€œjust work.โ€

Besides easily running our built-in algorithms, Composer also features:

  • An interface to flexibly add algorithms to the training loop

  • An engine that manages the ordering of algorithms for composition

  • A trainer to handle boilerplate around numerics, distributed training, and others

  • Integration with popular model libraries such as HuggingFace Transformers

Next steps#