oneflow.optim.Optimizer.zero_grad¶
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Optimizer.
zero_grad
(set_to_none: bool = False)¶ Sets the gradients of all optimized
oneflow.Tensor
s to zero.- Parameters
set_to_none (bool) – instead of setting to zero, set the grads to None. This will in general have lower memory footprint, and can modestly improve performance. However, it changes certain behaviors.
- For example:
1. When the user tries to access a gradient and perform manual ops on it, a None attribute or a Tensor full of 0s will behave differently.
2. If the user requests zero_grad(set_to_none=True) followed by a backward pass, grads are guaranteed to be None for params that did not receive a gradient.
3. Optimizers have a different behavior if the gradient is 0 or None (in one case it does the step with a gradient of 0 and in the other it skips the step altogether).