# Copyright 2017 The TensorFlow 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. # ============================================================================== """Library of common learning rate schedules.""" import numpy as np import tensorflow as tf def exponential_decay_with_burnin(global_step, learning_rate_base, learning_rate_decay_steps, learning_rate_decay_factor, burnin_learning_rate=0.0, burnin_steps=0, min_learning_rate=0.0, staircase=True): """Exponential decay schedule with burn-in period. In this schedule, learning rate is fixed at burnin_learning_rate for a fixed period, before transitioning to a regular exponential decay schedule. Args: global_step: int tensor representing global step. learning_rate_base: base learning rate. learning_rate_decay_steps: steps to take between decaying the learning rate. Note that this includes the number of burn-in steps. learning_rate_decay_factor: multiplicative factor by which to decay learning rate. burnin_learning_rate: initial learning rate during burn-in period. If 0.0 (which is the default), then the burn-in learning rate is simply set to learning_rate_base. burnin_steps: number of steps to use burnin learning rate. min_learning_rate: the minimum learning rate. staircase: whether use staircase decay. Returns: a (scalar) float tensor representing learning rate """ if burnin_learning_rate == 0: burnin_learning_rate = learning_rate_base post_burnin_learning_rate = tf.train.exponential_decay( learning_rate_base, global_step - burnin_steps, learning_rate_decay_steps, learning_rate_decay_factor, staircase=staircase) return tf.maximum(tf.where( tf.less(tf.cast(global_step, tf.int32), tf.constant(burnin_steps)), tf.constant(burnin_learning_rate), post_burnin_learning_rate), min_learning_rate, name='learning_rate') def cosine_decay_with_warmup(global_step, learning_rate_base, total_steps, warmup_learning_rate=0.0, warmup_steps=0, hold_base_rate_steps=0): """Cosine decay schedule with warm up period. Cosine annealing learning rate as described in: Loshchilov and Hutter, SGDR: Stochastic Gradient Descent with Warm Restarts. ICLR 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.03983 In this schedule, the learning rate grows linearly from warmup_learning_rate to learning_rate_base for warmup_steps, then transitions to a cosine decay schedule. Args: global_step: int64 (scalar) tensor representing global step. learning_rate_base: base learning rate. total_steps: total number of training steps. warmup_learning_rate: initial learning rate for warm up. warmup_steps: number of warmup steps. hold_base_rate_steps: Optional number of steps to hold base learning rate before decaying. Returns: a (scalar) float tensor representing learning rate. Raises: ValueError: if warmup_learning_rate is larger than learning_rate_base, or if warmup_steps is larger than total_steps. """ if total_steps < warmup_steps: raise ValueError('total_steps must be larger or equal to ' 'warmup_steps.') learning_rate = 0.5 * learning_rate_base * (1 + tf.cos( np.pi * (tf.cast(global_step, tf.float32) - warmup_steps - hold_base_rate_steps ) / float(total_steps - warmup_steps - hold_base_rate_steps))) if hold_base_rate_steps > 0: learning_rate = tf.where(global_step > warmup_steps + hold_base_rate_steps, learning_rate, learning_rate_base) if warmup_steps > 0: if learning_rate_base < warmup_learning_rate: raise ValueError('learning_rate_base must be larger or equal to ' 'warmup_learning_rate.') slope = (learning_rate_base - warmup_learning_rate) / warmup_steps warmup_rate = slope * tf.cast(global_step, tf.float32) + warmup_learning_rate learning_rate = tf.where(global_step < warmup_steps, warmup_rate, learning_rate) return tf.where(global_step > total_steps, 0.0, learning_rate, name='learning_rate') def manual_stepping(global_step, boundaries, rates, warmup=False): """Manually stepped learning rate schedule. This function provides fine grained control over learning rates. One must specify a sequence of learning rates as well as a set of integer steps at which the current learning rate must transition to the next. For example, if boundaries = [5, 10] and rates = [.1, .01, .001], then the learning rate returned by this function is .1 for global_step=0,...,4, .01 for global_step=5...9, and .001 for global_step=10 and onward. Args: global_step: int64 (scalar) tensor representing global step. boundaries: a list of global steps at which to switch learning rates. This list is assumed to consist of increasing positive integers. rates: a list of (float) learning rates corresponding to intervals between the boundaries. The length of this list must be exactly len(boundaries) + 1. warmup: Whether to linearly interpolate learning rate for steps in [0, boundaries[0]]. Returns: a (scalar) float tensor representing learning rate Raises: ValueError: if one of the following checks fails: 1. boundaries is a strictly increasing list of positive integers 2. len(rates) == len(boundaries) + 1 3. boundaries[0] != 0 """ if any([b < 0 for b in boundaries]) or any( [not isinstance(b, int) for b in boundaries]): raise ValueError('boundaries must be a list of positive integers') if any([bnext <= b for bnext, b in zip(boundaries[1:], boundaries[:-1])]): raise ValueError('Entries in boundaries must be strictly increasing.') if any([not isinstance(r, float) for r in rates]): raise ValueError('Learning rates must be floats') if len(rates) != len(boundaries) + 1: raise ValueError('Number of provided learning rates must exceed ' 'number of boundary points by exactly 1.') if boundaries and boundaries[0] == 0: raise ValueError('First step cannot be zero.') if warmup and boundaries: slope = (rates[1] - rates[0]) * 1.0 / boundaries[0] warmup_steps = range(boundaries[0]) warmup_rates = [rates[0] + slope * step for step in warmup_steps] boundaries = warmup_steps + boundaries rates = warmup_rates + rates[1:] else: boundaries = [0] + boundaries num_boundaries = len(boundaries) rate_index = tf.reduce_max(tf.where(tf.greater_equal(global_step, boundaries), list(range(num_boundaries)), [0] * num_boundaries)) return tf.reduce_sum(rates * tf.one_hot(rate_index, depth=num_boundaries), name='learning_rate')