PyTorch Ignite

Integrate W&B with PyTorch Ignite to automatically log training metrics, model parameters, and experiment configs.

This page shows how to use the W&B handler with PyTorch Ignite to automatically log training and validation metrics, model and optimizer parameters, gradients, and model checkpoints during your experiments.

Ignite supports a W&B handler to log metrics, model and optimizer parameters, and gradients during training and validation. You can also use it to log model checkpoints to the W&B cloud. This class wraps the wandb module, so you can call any wandb function using this wrapper. See examples on how to save model parameters and gradients.

For additional context, see the following resources:

• See the resulting visualizations in this example W&B report.
• Try running the code yourself in this example hosted notebook.

Basic setup

The following example defines a simple convolutional model and data loaders for MNIST. The logging examples that follow use these pieces.

from argparse import ArgumentParser
import wandb
import torch
from torch import nn
from torch.optim import SGD
from torch.utils.data import DataLoader
import torch.nn.functional as F
from torchvision.transforms import Compose, ToTensor, Normalize
from torchvision.datasets import MNIST

from ignite.engine import Events, create_supervised_trainer, create_supervised_evaluator
from ignite.metrics import Accuracy, Loss

from tqdm import tqdm


class Net(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super(Net, self).__init__()
        self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(1, 10, kernel_size=5)
        self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(10, 20, kernel_size=5)
        self.conv2_drop = nn.Dropout2d()
        self.fc1 = nn.Linear(320, 50)
        self.fc2 = nn.Linear(50, 10)

    def forward(self, x):
        x = F.relu(F.max_pool2d(self.conv1(x), 2))
        x = F.relu(F.max_pool2d(self.conv2_drop(self.conv2(x)), 2))
        x = x.view(-1, 320)
        x = F.relu(self.fc1(x))
        x = F.dropout(x, training=self.training)
        x = self.fc2(x)
        return F.log_softmax(x, dim=-1)


def get_data_loaders(train_batch_size, val_batch_size):
    data_transform = Compose([ToTensor(), Normalize((0.1307,), (0.3081,))])

    train_loader = DataLoader(MNIST(download=True, root=".", transform=data_transform, train=True),
                              batch_size=train_batch_size, shuffle=True)

    val_loader = DataLoader(MNIST(download=False, root=".", transform=data_transform, train=False),
                            batch_size=val_batch_size, shuffle=False)
    return train_loader, val_loader

Using WandBLogger in Ignite is a modular process. First, create a WandBLogger object. Next, attach it to a trainer or evaluator to automatically log the metrics. This example shows:

• Logs training loss, attached to the trainer object.
• Logs validation loss, attached to the evaluator.
• Logs optional parameters, such as learning rate.
• Watches the model.

from ignite.contrib.handlers.wandb_logger import *
def run(train_batch_size, val_batch_size, epochs, lr, momentum, log_interval):
    train_loader, val_loader = get_data_loaders(train_batch_size, val_batch_size)
    model = Net()
    device = 'cpu'

    if torch.cuda.is_available():
        device = 'cuda'

    optimizer = SGD(model.parameters(), lr=lr, momentum=momentum)
    trainer = create_supervised_trainer(model, optimizer, F.nll_loss, device=device)
    evaluator = create_supervised_evaluator(model,
                                            metrics={'accuracy': Accuracy(),
                                                     'nll': Loss(F.nll_loss)},
                                            device=device)

    desc = "ITERATION - loss: {:.2f}"
    pbar = tqdm(
        initial=0, leave=False, total=len(train_loader),
        desc=desc.format(0)
    )
    #WandBlogger Object Creation
    wandb_logger = WandBLogger(
    project="pytorch-ignite-integration",
    name="cnn-mnist",
    config={"max_epochs": epochs,"batch_size":train_batch_size},
    tags=["pytorch-ignite", "mninst"]
    )

    wandb_logger.attach_output_handler(
    trainer,
    event_name=Events.ITERATION_COMPLETED,
    tag="training",
    output_transform=lambda loss: {"loss": loss}
    )

    wandb_logger.attach_output_handler(
    evaluator,
    event_name=Events.EPOCH_COMPLETED,
    tag="training",
    metric_names=["nll", "accuracy"],
    global_step_transform=lambda *_: trainer.state.iteration,
    )

    wandb_logger.attach_opt_params_handler(
    trainer,
    event_name=Events.ITERATION_STARTED,
    optimizer=optimizer,
    param_name='lr'  # optional
    )

    wandb_logger.watch(model)

With the logger attached, Ignite streams training and validation metrics, optimizer parameters, and model gradients to your W&B project automatically.

You can optionally use Ignite EVENTS to log the metrics directly to the terminal.

    @trainer.on(Events.ITERATION_COMPLETED(every=log_interval))
    def log_training_loss(engine):
        pbar.desc = desc.format(engine.state.output)
        pbar.update(log_interval)

    @trainer.on(Events.EPOCH_COMPLETED)
    def log_training_results(engine):
        pbar.refresh()
        evaluator.run(train_loader)
        metrics = evaluator.state.metrics
        avg_accuracy = metrics['accuracy']
        avg_nll = metrics['nll']
        tqdm.write(
            "Training Results - Epoch: {}  Avg accuracy: {:.2f} Avg loss: {:.2f}"
            .format(engine.state.epoch, avg_accuracy, avg_nll)
        )

    @trainer.on(Events.EPOCH_COMPLETED)
    def log_validation_results(engine):
        evaluator.run(val_loader)
        metrics = evaluator.state.metrics
        avg_accuracy = metrics['accuracy']
        avg_nll = metrics['nll']
        tqdm.write(
            "Validation Results - Epoch: {}  Avg accuracy: {:.2f} Avg loss: {:.2f}"
            .format(engine.state.epoch, avg_accuracy, avg_nll))

        pbar.n = pbar.last_print_n = 0

    trainer.run(train_loader, max_epochs=epochs)
    pbar.close()


if __name__ == "__main__":
    parser = ArgumentParser()
    parser.add_argument('--batch_size', type=int, default=64,
                        help='input batch size for training (default: 64)')
    parser.add_argument('--val_batch_size', type=int, default=1000,
                        help='input batch size for validation (default: 1000)')
    parser.add_argument('--epochs', type=int, default=10,
                        help='number of epochs to train (default: 10)')
    parser.add_argument('--lr', type=float, default=0.01,
                        help='learning rate (default: 0.01)')
    parser.add_argument('--momentum', type=float, default=0.5,
                        help='SGD momentum (default: 0.5)')
    parser.add_argument('--log_interval', type=int, default=10,
                        help='how many batches to wait before logging training status')

    args = parser.parse_args()
    run(args.batch_size, args.val_batch_size, args.epochs, args.lr, args.momentum, args.log_interval)

This code generates these visualizations:

Refer to the Ignite Docs for more details.