lamb_optimizer.py

# coding=utf-8

"""Functions and classes related to optimization (weight updates)."""

from __future__ import absolute_import
from __future__ import division
from __future__ import print_function

import re
import six
import tensorflow.compat.v1 as tf

# pylint: disable=g-direct-tensorflow-import
from tensorflow.python.ops import array_ops
from tensorflow.python.ops import linalg_ops
from tensorflow.python.ops import math_ops
# pylint: enable=g-direct-tensorflow-import


class LAMBOptimizer(tf.train.Optimizer):
  """LAMB (Layer-wise Adaptive Moments optimizer for Batch training)."""
  # A new optimizer that includes correct L2 weight decay, adaptive
  # element-wise updating, and layer-wise justification. The LAMB optimizer
  # was proposed by Yang You, Jing Li, Jonathan Hseu, Xiaodan Song,
  # James Demmel, and Cho-Jui Hsieh in a paper titled as Reducing BERT
  # Pre-Training Time from 3 Days to 76 Minutes (arxiv.org/abs/1904.00962)

  def __init__(self,
               learning_rate,
               weight_decay_rate=0.0,
               beta_1=0.9,
               beta_2=0.999,
               epsilon=1e-6,
               exclude_from_weight_decay=None,
               exclude_from_layer_adaptation=None,
               name="LAMBOptimizer"):
    """Constructs a LAMBOptimizer."""
    super(LAMBOptimizer, self).__init__(False, name)

    self.learning_rate = learning_rate
    self.weight_decay_rate = weight_decay_rate
    self.beta_1 = beta_1
    self.beta_2 = beta_2
    self.epsilon = epsilon
    self.exclude_from_weight_decay = exclude_from_weight_decay
    # exclude_from_layer_adaptation is set to exclude_from_weight_decay if the
    # arg is None.
    # TODO(jingli): validate if exclude_from_layer_adaptation is necessary.
    if exclude_from_layer_adaptation:
      self.exclude_from_layer_adaptation = exclude_from_layer_adaptation
    else:
      self.exclude_from_layer_adaptation = exclude_from_weight_decay

  def apply_gradients(self, grads_and_vars, global_step=None, name=None):
    """See base class."""
    assignments = []
    for (grad, param) in grads_and_vars:
      if grad is None or param is None:
        continue

      param_name = self._get_variable_name(param.name)

      m = tf.get_variable(
          name=six.ensure_str(param_name) + "/adam_m",
          shape=param.shape.as_list(),
          dtype=tf.float32,
          trainable=False,
          initializer=tf.zeros_initializer())
      v = tf.get_variable(
          name=six.ensure_str(param_name) + "/adam_v",
          shape=param.shape.as_list(),
          dtype=tf.float32,
          trainable=False,
          initializer=tf.zeros_initializer())

      # Standard Adam update.
      next_m = (
          tf.multiply(self.beta_1, m) + tf.multiply(1.0 - self.beta_1, grad))
      next_v = (
          tf.multiply(self.beta_2, v) + tf.multiply(1.0 - self.beta_2,
                                                    tf.square(grad)))

      update = next_m / (tf.sqrt(next_v) + self.epsilon)

      # Just adding the square of the weights to the loss function is *not*
      # the correct way of using L2 regularization/weight decay with Adam,
      # since that will interact with the m and v parameters in strange ways.
      #
      # Instead we want ot decay the weights in a manner that doesn't interact
      # with the m/v parameters. This is equivalent to adding the square
      # of the weights to the loss with plain (non-momentum) SGD.
      if self._do_use_weight_decay(param_name):
        update += self.weight_decay_rate * param

      ratio = 1.0
      if self._do_layer_adaptation(param_name):
        w_norm = linalg_ops.norm(param, ord=2)
        g_norm = linalg_ops.norm(update, ord=2)
        ratio = array_ops.where(math_ops.greater(w_norm, 0), array_ops.where(
            math_ops.greater(g_norm, 0), (w_norm / g_norm), 1.0), 1.0)

      update_with_lr = ratio * self.learning_rate * update

      next_param = param - update_with_lr

      assignments.extend(
          [param.assign(next_param),
           m.assign(next_m),
           v.assign(next_v)])
    return tf.group(*assignments, name=name)

  def _do_use_weight_decay(self, param_name):
    """Whether to use L2 weight decay for `param_name`."""
    if not self.weight_decay_rate:
      return False
    if self.exclude_from_weight_decay:
      for r in self.exclude_from_weight_decay:
        if re.search(r, param_name) is not None:
          return False
    return True

  def _do_layer_adaptation(self, param_name):
    """Whether to do layer-wise learning rate adaptation for `param_name`."""
    if self.exclude_from_layer_adaptation:
      for r in self.exclude_from_layer_adaptation:
        if re.search(r, param_name) is not None:
          return False
    return True

  def _get_variable_name(self, param_name):
    """Get the variable name from the tensor name."""
    m = re.match("^(.*):\\d+$", six.ensure_str(param_name))
    if m is not None:
      param_name = m.group(1)
    return param_name