Unused model definition influence the training result

username: Jerry_Mao
cooked: <p>when I set a unused model like this</p>
<pre><code class="lang-auto">model = any_model()
</code></pre>
<p>the result of my main model result will change( have set fixed random seed)<br>
then I comment out the ‘model = any_model()’<br>
The result will go back to the origin one.<br>
Why it happens?</p>

username: InnovArul
cooked: <p>Can you post some code related to your model and training?<br>
Also, specifications like which optimizer you are using, how are you constructing the optimizer etc, will be helpful.</p>

username: Jerry_Mao
cooked: <pre><code class="lang-auto">import os
import numpy as np
import torch
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.utils.data as Data
import torchvision
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import random
#set random seed
#############################
seed = 0
torch.manual_seed(seed)
torch.cuda.manual_seed_all(seed)
np.random.seed(seed)
random.seed(seed)
torch.backends.cudnn.benchmark = False
torch.backends.cudnn.deterministic = True
#############################

# Hyper Parameters
EPOCH = 1               # train the training data n times, to save time, we just train 1 epoch
BATCH_SIZE = 50
LR = 0.001              # learning rate
DOWNLOAD_MNIST = False


# Mnist digits dataset
if not(os.path.exists('./mnist/')) or not os.listdir('./mnist/'):
    # not mnist dir or mnist is empyt dir
    DOWNLOAD_MNIST = True

train_data = torchvision.datasets.MNIST(
    root='./mnist/',
    train=True,                                     # this is training data
    transform=torchvision.transforms.ToTensor(),    # Converts a PIL.Image or numpy.ndarray to
                                                    # torch.FloatTensor of shape (C x H x W) and normalize in the range [0.0, 1.0]
    download=DOWNLOAD_MNIST,
)

# Data Loader for easy mini-batch return in training, the image batch shape will be (50, 1, 28, 28)
train_loader = Data.DataLoader(dataset=train_data, batch_size=BATCH_SIZE, shuffle=True)

# pick 2000 samples to speed up testing
test_data = torchvision.datasets.MNIST(root='./mnist/', train=False)
test_x = torch.unsqueeze(test_data.test_data, dim=1).type(torch.FloatTensor)[:2000]/255.   # shape from (2000, 28, 28) to (2000, 1, 28, 28), value in range(0,1)
test_y = test_data.test_labels[:2000]

# model for show the problem
class TEST(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super(TEST, self).__init__()
        self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(1, 32, (3, 3))

    def forward(self, x):
        return x

class CNN(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super(CNN, self).__init__()
        self.conv1 = nn.Sequential(         # input shape (1, 28, 28)
            nn.Conv2d(
                in_channels=1,              # input height
                out_channels=16,            # n_filters
                kernel_size=5,              # filter size
                stride=1,                   # filter movement/step
                padding=2,                  # if want same width and length of this image after Conv2d, padding=(kernel_size-1)/2 if stride=1
            ),                              # output shape (16, 28, 28)
            nn.ReLU(),                      # activation
            nn.MaxPool2d(kernel_size=2),    # choose max value in 2x2 area, output shape (16, 14, 14)
        )
        self.conv2 = nn.Sequential(         # input shape (16, 14, 14)
            nn.Conv2d(16, 32, 5, 1, 2),     # output shape (32, 14, 14)
            nn.ReLU(),                      # activation
            nn.MaxPool2d(2),                # output shape (32, 7, 7)
        )
        self.out = nn.Linear(32 * 7 * 7, 10)   # fully connected layer, output 10 classes

    def forward(self, x):
        x = self.conv1(x)
        x = self.conv2(x)
        x = x.view(x.size(0), -1)           # flatten the output of conv2 to (batch_size, 32 * 7 * 7)
        output = self.out(x)
        return output, x    # return x for visualization

###################################
cnn = CNN()
#model = TEST()
###################################


optimizer = torch.optim.Adam(cnn.parameters(), lr=LR)   # optimize all cnn parameters
loss_func = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()                       # the target label is not one-hotted
# training and testing
for epoch in range(EPOCH):
    for step, (b_x, b_y) in enumerate(train_loader):   # gives batch data, normalize x when iterate train_loader
        output = cnn(b_x)[0]               # cnn output
        loss = loss_func(output, b_y)   # cross entropy loss
        optimizer.zero_grad()           # clear gradients for this training step
        loss.backward()                 # backpropagation, compute gradients
        optimizer.step()                # apply gradients
        if step % 50 == 0:
            test_output, last_layer = cnn(test_x)
            pred_y = torch.max(test_output, 1)[1].data.numpy()
            accuracy = float((pred_y == test_y.data.numpy()).astype(int).sum()) / float(test_y.size(0))
            print('Epoch: ', epoch, '| train loss: %.4f' % loss.data.numpy(), '| test accuracy: %.2f' % accuracy)
</code></pre>
<p>a simple example of training a model about MNIST<br>
when comment-out the model=TEST(), the first shown result will change.<br>
I guess the initialization of parameters changes when a new model was  initialized.<br>
But how to interprete this in a pytorch way.</p>

username: ptrblck
cooked: <p>Initilizing modules will reset the parameters and (usually) call into the pseudorandom number generator, so that seeding the code will not yield the same results anymore.<br>
<a href="https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/unused-model-parameters-affect-optimization-for-adam/27563/10">This post</a> as well as the follow-up posts explain this behavior in detail.</p>