Pytorch hooks gradient differs from parameter gradients

pytorchnewbie: <p>Hi! So I’m currently working on trying to learn the best affine transformation for cropping an image. The way I’m doing this is I’m taking an image, then setting a 2x3 matrix’s, lets call it M, parameters as:</p>
<p>[scale * 1, 0, dx<br>
0, scale * 1, dy]  , where the scale,dx,dy are the parameters being learned.</p>
<p>for explanation I will refer to these values as:<br>
[a, b, c<br>
d, e, f]</p>
<p>then using affine_grid, grid_sample with the learned matrix to transform the image, and using a custom pixel-to-pixel loss with the ground truth crop image as the loss to learn the matrix M on a single image.</p>
<p>Problems:</p>
<p>First of all, when I print the dx,dy, and scale parameters’ gradients directly they are different from the gradients of the M matrix. This is wrong.</p>
<p>Second of all, when I print the M gradients, “b”, and “d” variables should never have any gradient as those two are not parameters (yet when I print the M’s gradients they do have non-zero gradients), and then the"a" and “e” should have equal gradients since they’re both just scale*gradient.</p>
<p>Below is the code for you to see, as well as what was printed, please note to compare the Matrix gradients, and individual scale+param gradients for when the counters are equal in the print statements.</p>
<p>code:</p>
<pre><code class="lang-auto">cat= TF.to_tensor(np.array(Image.open("images/just_dog.png").convert('RGB')))
cat_dog = TF.to_tensor(np.array(Image.open("images/mask_rect_65_5_30_35_dog_patch.png").convert('RGB')))
folder_path = "images/results_mask_dog_rect_65_5_30_35_patch/"
translated_params = torch.unsqueeze(torch.tensor([0.0,0.0]),1)
translated_params.requires_grad_(True)

scale = torch.unsqueeze(torch.tensor([1.0]),1)
scale.requires_grad_(True)
counter = 0
loss_level = 0

def forward2(x,dxdy,the_scale): 

    M= torch.cat((torch.eye(2)*the_scale, dxdy),dim=1)
    M.register_hook(lambda grad : print("counter is: " , counter, grad))

    grid = F.affine_grid(torch.unsqueeze(M,dim=0),[1] + list(x.shape))
    transformed_image = F.grid_sample(x[None,:,:,:], grid, mode='bilinear')[0]
    
    return transformed_image

optimizer = torch.optim.Adam([scale,translated_params], lr=0.007)

for i in range(601): 
    optimizer.zero_grad()
    predicted= forward2(cat_dog,translated_params,scale)
    criterion = LapLoss(loss_level = loss_level)
    
    if i == 0:
        criterion = LapLoss(loss_level = loss_level, save = True)
    
    if i%200==0 and i!=0:
        
        criterion = LapLoss(loss_level = loss_level,save=True)
        loss_level = loss_level + 1
        if loss_level &gt; 2:
            loss_level = 0
        
        
    loss = criterion.forward(torch.unsqueeze(predicted,0),torch.unsqueeze(cat,0))
    
    loss.backward()
    
    counter = counter + 1 
    
    optimizer.step()

    print("counter is: ", counter, "gradients are: " , "translated=" , translated_params.grad.data, "scale=",   scale.grad.data)
        
    
</code></pre>
<p>printed:</p>
<pre><code class="lang-auto">counter is:  0 Matrix grads are:  tensor([[-0.1344,  0.0153,  0.4624],
        [ 0.1192, -0.4274,  0.3631]])
counter is:  1 Inidivdual gradients are:  translated= tensor([[0.4624],
        [0.3631]]) scale= tensor([[-0.5617]])
counter is:  1 Matrix grads are:  tensor([[-0.5981,  0.0277,  1.2482],
        [ 0.1807, -0.8871,  0.9514]])
counter is:  2 Inidivdual gradients are:  translated= tensor([[1.2482],
        [0.9514]]) scale= tensor([[-1.4852]])
counter is:  2 Matrix grads are:  tensor([[ 0.0132,  0.1046,  0.6005],
        [ 0.3383, -0.6538,  0.7037]])
counter is:  3 Inidivdual gradients are:  translated= tensor([[0.6005],
        [0.7037]]) scale= tensor([[-0.6406]])
counter is:  3 Matrix grads are:  tensor([[ 0.5854,  0.1962, -0.0363],
        [ 0.4518, -0.3168,  0.3824]])
counter is:  4 Inidivdual gradients are:  translated= tensor([[-0.0363],
        [ 0.3824]]) scale= tensor([[0.2686]])
counter is:  4 Matrix grads are:  tensor([[ 0.8189,  0.1707, -0.2715],
        [ 0.4192, -0.1115,  0.1299]])
</code></pre>
<p>Thank you so much! Please let me know if you want to actually run it yourselves and then I’ll post the rest of the code…</p>