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<span id="design-doc-refactorization-overview"></span><h1>Design Doc: Refactorization Overview<a class="headerlink" href="#design-doc-refactorization-overview" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p>The goal of refactorizaiton include:</p>
<ol class="simple">
<li>Make it easy for external contributors to write new elementory computaiton operations.</li>
<li>Make the codebase clean and readable.</li>
<li>Introduce a new design of computation representation &#8211; a computation graph of operators and variables.</li>
<li>The graph representation helps implementing auto-scalable and auto fault recoverable distributed computing.</li>
</ol>
<div class="section" id="computation-graphs">
<span id="computation-graphs"></span><h2>Computation Graphs<a class="headerlink" href="#computation-graphs" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<ol class="simple">
<li>PaddlePaddle represent the computation, training and inference of DL models, by computation graphs.</li>
<li>Please dig into <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/doc/design/graph.md">computation graphs</a> for a solid example.</li>
<li>Users write Python programs to describe the graphs and run it (locally or remotely).</li>
<li>A graph is composed of <em>variabels</em> and <em>operators</em>.</li>
<li>The description of graphs must be able to be serialized/deserialized, so it<ol>
<li>could to be sent to the cloud for distributed execution, and</li>
<li>be sent to clients for mobile or enterprise deployment.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>The Python program do<ol>
<li><em>compilation</em>: runs a Python program to generate a protobuf message representation of the graph and send it to<ol>
<li>the C++ library <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">libpaddle.so</span></code> for local execution,</li>
<li>the master process of a distributed training job for training, or</li>
<li>the server process of a Kubernetes serving job for distributed serving.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li><em>execution</em>: according to the protobuf message, constructs instances of class <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Variable</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OperatorBase</span></code>, and run them.</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="section" id="description-and-realization">
<span id="description-and-realization"></span><h2>Description and Realization<a class="headerlink" href="#description-and-realization" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>At compile time, the Python program generates protobuf message representation of the graph, or the description of the graph.</p>
<p>At runtime, the C++ program realizes the graph and run it.</p>
<p>| | Representation (protobuf messages) | Realization (C++ class objects) |
|&#8212;|&#8212;|&#8212;|
|Data|<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/paddle/framework/framework.proto#L107">VarDesc</a>|<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/paddle/framework/variable.h#L24">Variable</a>|
|Operation|<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/paddle/framework/framework.proto#L35">OpDesc</a>|<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/paddle/framework/operator.h#L64">Operator</a>|
|Block|BlockDesc|Block|</p>
<p>The word <em>graph</em> is exchangable with <em>block</em> in this document.  A graph represent computation steps and local variables as a C++/Java program block, or a pair of { and }.</p>
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<div class="section" id="compilation-and-execution">
<span id="compilation-and-execution"></span><h2>Compilation and Execution<a class="headerlink" href="#compilation-and-execution" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<ol class="simple">
<li>Run an applicaton Python program to describe the graph.  In particular,<ol>
<li>create VarDesc to represent local/intermediate variables,</li>
<li>create operators and set attributes,</li>
<li>validate attribute values,</li>
<li>inference the type and the shape of variables,</li>
<li>plan for memory-reuse for variables,</li>
<li>generate backward and optimization part of the Graph.</li>
<li>possiblly split the graph for distributed training.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>The invocation of <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">train</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">infer</span></code> in the application Python program:<ol>
<li>create a new Scope instance in the <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/doc/design/scope.md">scope hierarchy</a> for each run of a block,<ol>
<li>realize local variables defined in the BlockDesc message in the new scope,</li>
<li>a scope is similar to the stack frame in programming languages,</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>create an instance of class <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block</span></code>, in which,<ol>
<li>realize operators in the BlockDesc message,</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>run the Block by calling<ol>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block::Eval(vector&lt;Variable&gt;*</span> <span class="pre">targets)</span></code> for forward and backward computations, or</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Block::Eval(vector&lt;Operator&gt;*</span> <span class="pre">targets)</span></code> for optimization.</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
</li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="section" id="intermediate-representation-ir">
<span id="intermediate-representation-ir"></span><h2>Intermediate Representation (IR)<a class="headerlink" href="#intermediate-representation-ir" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<div class="highlight-text"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>Compile Time -&gt; IR -&gt; Runtime
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="benefit">
<span id="benefit"></span><h3>Benefit<a class="headerlink" href="#benefit" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h3>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Optimization</p>
<div class="highlight-text"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>Compile Time -&gt; IR -&gt; Optimized IR -&gt; Runtime
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Send automatically partitioned IR to different nodes.</p>
<ul>
<li><p class="first">Automatic data parallel</p>
<div class="highlight-text"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>Compile Time
|-&gt; Single GPU IR
    |-&gt; [trainer-IR-0, trainer-IR-1, pserver-IR]
        |-&gt; Node-0 (runs trainer-IR-0)
        |-&gt; Node-1 (runs trainer-IR-1)
        |-&gt; Node-2 (runs pserver-IR)
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p class="first">Automatic model parallel (planned for future)</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<hr class="docutils" />
<div class="section" id="operator-opwithkernel-opkernel">
<span id="operator-opwithkernel-opkernel"></span><h1>Operator/OpWithKernel/OpKernel<a class="headerlink" href="#operator-opwithkernel-opkernel" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p><img alt="class_diagram" src="http://api.paddlepaddle.org/graphviz?dot=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/reyoung/53df507f6749762675dff3e7ce53372f/raw/49caf1fb70820fb4a6c217634317c9306f361f36/op_op_with_kern_class_diagram.dot" /></p>
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<hr class="docutils" />
<div class="section" id="operator">
<span id="operator"></span><h1>Operator<a class="headerlink" href="#operator" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p><img alt="class_diagram" src="http://api.paddlepaddle.org/graphviz?dot=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/reyoung/53df507f6749762675dff3e7ce53372f/raw/dd598e8f1976f5759f58af5e5ef94738a6b2e661/op.dot" /></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Operator</span></code> is the fundamental building block as the user interface.<ul>
<li>Operator stores input/output variable name, and attributes.</li>
<li>The <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">InferShape</span></code> interface is used to infer output variable shapes by its input shapes.</li>
<li>Use <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Run</span></code> to compute <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">input</span> <span class="pre">variables</span></code> to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">output</span> <span class="pre">variables</span></code>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<hr class="docutils" />
<div class="section" id="opwithkernel-kernel">
<span id="opwithkernel-kernel"></span><h1>OpWithKernel/Kernel<a class="headerlink" href="#opwithkernel-kernel" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<p><img alt="class_diagram" src="http://api.paddlepaddle.org/graphviz?dot=https://gist.githubusercontent.com/reyoung/53df507f6749762675dff3e7ce53372f/raw/9d7f4eba185cf41c8e2fbfb40ae21890dbddcd39/op_with_kernel.dot" /></p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OpWithKernel</span></code> inherits <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Operator</span></code>.</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OpWithKernel</span></code> contains a Kernel map.<ul>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OpWithKernel::Run</span></code> get device&#8217;s kernel, and invoke <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OpKernel::Compute</span></code>.</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OpKernelKey</span></code> is the map key. Only device place now, but may be data type later.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<hr class="docutils" />
<div class="section" id="why-separate-kernel-and-operator">
<span id="why-separate-kernel-and-operator"></span><h1>Why separate Kernel and Operator<a class="headerlink" href="#why-separate-kernel-and-operator" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Separate GPU and CPU code.<ul>
<li>Make Paddle can run without GPU.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Make one operator (which is user interface) can contain many implementations.<ul>
<li>Same mul op, different FP16, FP32 Kernel. different MKL, eigen kernel.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
<hr class="docutils" />
<div class="section" id="libraries-for-kernel-development">
<span id="libraries-for-kernel-development"></span><h1>Libraries for Kernel development<a class="headerlink" href="#libraries-for-kernel-development" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Eigen::Tensor</span></code> contains basic math and element-wise functions.<ul>
<li>Note that <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Eigen::Tensor</span></code> has broadcast implementation.</li>
<li>Limit number of <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">tensor.device(dev)</span> <span class="pre">=</span></code> in your code.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">thrust::tranform</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">std::transform</span></code>.<ul>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">thrust</span></code> has the same API as C++ standard library. Using <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">transform</span></code> can quickly implement a customized elementwise kernel.</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">thrust</span></code> has more complex API, like <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">scan</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">reduce</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">reduce_by_key</span></code>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Hand-writing <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GPUKernel</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CPU</span></code> code<ul>
<li>Do not write <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.h</span></code>. CPU Kernel should be in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.cc</span></code>. CPU kernel should be in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.cu</span></code>. (<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GCC</span></code> cannot compile GPU code.)</li>
</ul>
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</ul>
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<div class="section" id="operator-register">
<span id="operator-register"></span><h1>Operator Register<a class="headerlink" href="#operator-register" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="why-register-is-necessary">
<span id="why-register-is-necessary"></span><h2>Why register is necessary?<a class="headerlink" href="#why-register-is-necessary" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>We need a method to build mappings between Op type names and Op classes.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="how-to-do-the-register">
<span id="how-to-do-the-register"></span><h2>How to do the register?<a class="headerlink" href="#how-to-do-the-register" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>Maintain a map, whose key is the type name and value is corresponding Op constructor.</p>
</div>
</div>
<hr class="docutils" />
<div class="section" id="the-registry-map">
<span id="the-registry-map"></span><h1>The Registry Map<a class="headerlink" href="#the-registry-map" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="opinfomap">
<span id="opinfomap"></span><h2><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OpInfoMap</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#opinfomap" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">op_type(string)</span></code> -&gt; <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OpInfo</span></code></p>
<p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OpInfo</span></code>:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><strong><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">creator</span></code></strong>: The Op constructor.</li>
<li><strong><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">grad_op_type</span></code></strong>: The type of the gradient Op.</li>
<li><strong><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">proto</span></code></strong>: The Op&#8217;s Protobuf, including inputs, outputs and required attributes.</li>
<li><strong><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">checker</span></code></strong>: Used to check attributes.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="section" id="related-concepts">
<span id="related-concepts"></span><h1>Related Concepts<a class="headerlink" href="#related-concepts" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="op-maker">
<span id="op-maker"></span><h2>Op_Maker<a class="headerlink" href="#op-maker" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>It&#8217;s constructor takes <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">proto</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">checker</span></code>. They are compeleted during Op_Maker&#8217;s construction. (<a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/paddle/operators/scale_op.cc#L37">ScaleOpMaker</a>)</p>
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<div class="section" id="register-macros">
<span id="register-macros"></span><h2>Register Macros<a class="headerlink" href="#register-macros" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<div class="highlight-cpp"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">REGISTER_OP</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">op_type</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">op_class</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">op_maker_class</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">grad_op_type</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">grad_op_class</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">REGISTER_OP_WITHOUT_GRADIENT</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">op_type</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">op_class</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">op_maker_class</span><span class="p">)</span>
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<div class="section" id="use-macros">
<span id="use-macros"></span><h2><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">USE</span></code> Macros<a class="headerlink" href="#use-macros" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<p>make sure the registration process is executed and linked.</p>
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<div class="section" id="register-process">
<span id="register-process"></span><h1>Register Process<a class="headerlink" href="#register-process" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<ol class="simple">
<li>Write Op class, as well as its gradient Op class if there is.</li>
<li>Write Op maker class. In the constructor, describe its inputs, outputs, and attributes.</li>
<li>Invoke macro <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">REGISTER_OP</span></code>. The macro will<ol>
<li>call maker class to complete <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">proto</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">checker</span></code></li>
<li>with the completed <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">proto</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">checker</span></code>, build a new key-value pair in the <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OpInfoMap</span></code></li>
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<li>Invoke <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">USE</span></code> macro in where the Op is used to make sure it is linked.</li>
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<div class="section" id="backward-module-1-2">
<span id="backward-module-1-2"></span><h1>Backward Module (1/2)<a class="headerlink" href="#backward-module-1-2" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="create-backward-operator">
<span id="create-backward-operator"></span><h2>Create Backward Operator<a class="headerlink" href="#create-backward-operator" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Mapping from forwarding Op to backward Op
<img alt="backward" src="https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dzhwinter/a6fbd4623ee76c459f7f94591fd1abf0/raw/61026ab6e518e66bde66a889bc42557a1fccff33/backward.png" /></li>
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<div class="section" id="backward-module-2-2">
<span id="backward-module-2-2"></span><h1>Backward Module (2/2)<a class="headerlink" href="#backward-module-2-2" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="build-backward-network">
<span id="build-backward-network"></span><h2>Build Backward Network<a class="headerlink" href="#build-backward-network" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><strong>Input</strong> graph of forwarding operators</li>
<li><strong>Output</strong> graph of backward operators</li>
<li><strong>corner case in construction</strong><ul>
<li>shared variable =&gt; insert <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Add</span></code> operator</li>
<li>no gradient =&gt; insert <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fill_zero_grad</span></code> operator</li>
<li>recursive netOp =&gt; call <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Backward</span></code> recursively</li>
<li>RNN Op =&gt; recursively call <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Backward</span></code> on stepnet</li>
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</li>
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<div class="section" id="scope-variable-tensor">
<span id="scope-variable-tensor"></span><h1>Scope, Variable, Tensor<a class="headerlink" href="#scope-variable-tensor" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Tensor</span></code> is an n-dimension array with type.<ul>
<li>Only dims and data pointers are stored in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Tensor</span></code>.</li>
<li>All operators on <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Tensor</span></code> is written in <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Operator</span></code> or global functions.</li>
<li>variable length Tensor design <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/PaddlePaddle/Paddle/blob/develop/paddle/framework/lod_tensor.md">LoDTensor</a></li>
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</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Variable</span></code> is the inputs and outputs of an operator. Not just <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Tensor</span></code>.<ul>
<li>step_scopes in RNN is a variable and not a tensor.</li>
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</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Scope</span></code> is where variables store at.<ul>
<li>map&lt;string/*var name */, Variable&gt;</li>
<li><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Scope</span></code> has a hierarchical structure. The local scope can get variable from its parent scope.</li>
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<div class="section" id="block-in-design">
<span id="block-in-design"></span><h1>Block (in design)<a class="headerlink" href="#block-in-design" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<div class="section" id="the-difference-with-original-rnnop">
<span id="the-difference-with-original-rnnop"></span><h2>the difference with original RNNOp<a class="headerlink" href="#the-difference-with-original-rnnop" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>as an operator is more intuitive than <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">RNNOp</span></code>,</li>
<li>offers new interface <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Eval(targets)</span></code> to deduce the minimal block to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Run</span></code>,</li>
<li>fits the compile-time/ runtime separation design.<ul>
<li>during the compilation, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">SymbolTable</span></code> stores <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">VarDesc</span></code>s and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">OpDesc</span></code>s and serialize to a <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BlockDesc</span></code></li>
<li>when graph executes, a Block with <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BlockDesc</span></code> passed in creates <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Op</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Var</span></code> then <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Run</span></code></li>
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<div class="section" id="milestone">
<span id="milestone"></span><h1>Milestone<a class="headerlink" href="#milestone" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>take Paddle/books as the main line, the requirement of the models motivates framework refactoring,</li>
<li>model migration<ul>
<li>framework development gives <strong>priority support</strong> to model migration, for example,<ul>
<li>the MNIST demo needs a Python interface,</li>
<li>the RNN models require the framework to support <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">LoDTensor</span></code>.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>determine some timelines,</li>
<li>heavily-relied Ops need to be migrated first,</li>
<li>different models can be migrated parallelly.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>improve the framework at the same time</li>
<li>accept imperfection, concentrated on solving the specific problem at the right price.</li>
</ul>
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<div class="section" id="control-the-migration-quality">
<span id="control-the-migration-quality"></span><h1>Control the migration quality<a class="headerlink" href="#control-the-migration-quality" title="Permalink to this headline"></a></h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>compare the performance of migrated models with old ones.</li>
<li>follow google C style</li>
<li>build the automatic workflow of generating Python/C++ documentations<ul>
<li>the documentation of layers and ops should be written inside the code</li>
<li>take the documentation quality into account when doing PR</li>
<li>preview the documentations, read and improve them from users&#8217; perspective</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
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