# Copyright (c) 2021 PaddlePaddle Authors. All Rights Reserved. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. from paddle.fluid import core from paddle.fluid import framework import paddle __all__ = ['backward'] @framework.dygraph_only def backward(tensors, grad_tensors=None, retain_graph=False): """ Compute the backward gradients of given tensors. Args: tensors(list of Tensors): the tensors which the gradient to be computed. The tensors can not contain the same tensor. grad_tensors(list of Tensors of None, optional): the init gradients of the `tensors`` .If not None, it must have the same length with ``tensors`` , and if any of the elements is None, then the init gradient is the default value which is filled with 1.0. If None, all the gradients of the ``tensors`` is the default value which is filled with 1.0. Defaults to None. retain_graph(bool, optional): If False, the graph used to compute grads will be freed. If you would like to add more ops to the built graph after calling this method( :code:`backward` ), set the parameter :code:`retain_graph` to True, then the grads will be retained. Thus, seting it to False is much more memory-efficient. Defaults to False. Returns: NoneType: None Examples: .. code-block:: python import paddle x = paddle.to_tensor([[1, 2], [3, 4]], dtype='float32', stop_gradient=False) y = paddle.to_tensor([[3, 2], [3, 4]], dtype='float32') grad_tensor1 = paddle.to_tensor([[1,2], [2, 3]], dtype='float32') grad_tensor2 = paddle.to_tensor([[1,1], [1, 1]], dtype='float32') z1 = paddle.matmul(x, y) z2 = paddle.matmul(x, y) paddle.autograd.backward([z1, z2], [grad_tensor1, grad_tensor2], True) print(x.grad) #[[12. 18.] # [17. 25.]] x.clear_grad() paddle.autograd.backward([z1, z2], [grad_tensor1, None], True) print(x.grad) #[[12. 18.] # [17. 25.]] x.clear_grad() paddle.autograd.backward([z1, z2]) print(x.grad) #[[10. 14.] # [10. 14.]] """ def check_tensors(in_out_list, name): assert in_out_list is not None, "{} should not be None".format(name) if isinstance(in_out_list, (list, tuple)): assert len(in_out_list) > 0, "{} connot be empyt".format(name) for each_var in in_out_list: assert isinstance( each_var, paddle. Tensor), "Elements of {} must be paddle.Tensor".format(name) return in_out_list else: assert isinstance( in_out_list, paddle.Tensor), "{} must be Tensor or list of Tensor".format( name) return [in_out_list] tensors = check_tensors(tensors, "tensors") assert len(tensors) == len( set(tensors) ), "The argument 'tensors' of paddle.autograd.backward contains duplicate paddle.Tensor object." if grad_tensors is not None: if not isinstance(grad_tensors, (list, tuple)): grad_tensors = [grad_tensors] for each_tensor in grad_tensors: if each_tensor is not None: assert isinstance( each_tensor, paddle.Tensor ), "The argument 'grad_tensors' of paddle.autograd.backward is invalid, it can be 'None', 'paddle.Tensor' or 'list[None/paddle.Tensor]'." else: grad_tensors = [None] * len(tensors) if len(grad_tensors) > 0: assert len(tensors) == len( grad_tensors), "The length of grad_tensors must be equal to tensors" assert isinstance(retain_graph, bool), "retain_graph must be True or False" core.dygraph_run_backward(tensors, grad_tensors, retain_graph, framework._dygraph_tracer())