adapt syncbn api from other work

build.py

@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ import platform
 import subprocess
 from torch.utils.ffi import create_extension
 
+torch_ver = torch.__version__[:3]
+
 lib_path = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(torch.__file__), 'lib')
 cwd = os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__)), 'encoding/')
 encoding_lib_path = os.path.join(cwd, "lib")
@@ -25,12 +27,18 @@ subprocess.check_call(clean_cmd)
 # build CUDA library
 os.environ['TORCH_BUILD_DIR'] = lib_path
 if platform.system() == 'Darwin':
-    os.environ['TH_LIBRARIES'] = os.path.join(lib_path,'libATen.dylib')
+    if torch_ver == '0.3':
+        os.environ['TH_LIBRARIES'] = os.path.join(lib_path,'libATen.1.dylib')
+    else:
+        os.environ['TH_LIBRARIES'] = os.path.join(lib_path,'libATen.dylib')
     ENCODING_LIB = os.path.join(cwd, 'lib/libENCODING.dylib')
 
 else:
     os.environ['CFLAGS'] = '-std=c99'
-    os.environ['TH_LIBRARIES'] = os.path.join(lib_path,'libATen.so')
+    if torch_ver == '0.3':
+        os.environ['TH_LIBRARIES'] = os.path.join(lib_path,'libATen.so.1')
+    else:
+        os.environ['TH_LIBRARIES'] = os.path.join(lib_path,'libATen.so')
     ENCODING_LIB = os.path.join(cwd, 'lib/libENCODING.so')
 
 build_all_cmd = ['bash', 'encoding/make.sh']

docs/source/index.rst

@@ -9,8 +9,6 @@ Created by `Hang Zhang <http://hangzh.com/>`_
 
 An optimized PyTorch package with CUDA backend. 
 
-.. note::
-    PyTorch compatible Synchronized Cross-GPU :class:`encoding.nn.SyncBatchNorm2d` and the `MNIST example <https://github.com/zhanghang1989/PyTorch-SyncBatchNorm>`_.
 
 .. toctree::
    :glob:

docs/source/nn.rst

+.. role:: hidden
+    :class: hidden-section
+
+encoding.nn
+===========
+
+Customized NN modules in Encoding Package. For Synchronized Cross-GPU Batch Normalization, please visit :class:`encoding.nn.SyncBatchNorm2d`.
+
+.. currentmodule:: encoding.nn
+
+:hidden:`Encoding`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. autoclass:: Encoding
+    :members:
+
+:hidden:`SyncBatchNorm2d`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. autoclass:: SyncBatchNorm2d
+    :members:
+
+:hidden:`SyncBatchNorm1d`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. autoclass:: SyncBatchNorm1d
+    :members:
+
+:hidden:`SyncBatchNorm3d`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. autoclass:: SyncBatchNorm3d
+    :members:
+
+:hidden:`Inspiration`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. autoclass:: Inspiration
+    :members:
+
+:hidden:`UpsampleConv2d`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. autoclass:: UpsampleConv2d
+    :members:
+
+:hidden:`DilatedAvgPool2d`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. autoclass:: DilatedAvgPool2d
+    :members:
+
+:hidden:`GramMatrix`
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+.. autoclass:: GramMatrix
+    :members:

encoding/nn/comm.py

+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# File   : comm.py
+# Author : Jiayuan Mao
+# Email  : maojiayuan@gmail.com
+# Date   : 27/01/2018
+# 
+# This file is part of Synchronized-BatchNorm-PyTorch.
+# https://github.com/vacancy/Synchronized-BatchNorm-PyTorch
+# Distributed under MIT License.
+
+import queue
+import collections
+import threading
+
+__all__ = ['FutureResult', 'SlavePipe', 'SyncMaster']
+
+
+class FutureResult(object):
+    """A thread-safe future implementation. Used only as one-to-one pipe."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self._result = None
+        self._lock = threading.Lock()
+        self._cond = threading.Condition(self._lock)
+
+    def put(self, result):
+        with self._lock:
+            assert self._result is None, 'Previous result has\'t been fetched.'
+            self._result = result
+            self._cond.notify()
+
+    def get(self):
+        with self._lock:
+            if self._result is None:
+                self._cond.wait()
+
+            res = self._result
+            self._result = None
+            return res
+
+
+_MasterRegistry = collections.namedtuple('MasterRegistry', ['result'])
+_SlavePipeBase = collections.namedtuple('_SlavePipeBase', ['identifier', 'queue', 'result'])
+
+
+class SlavePipe(_SlavePipeBase):
+    """Pipe for master-slave communication."""
+
+    def run_slave(self, msg):
+        self.queue.put((self.identifier, msg))
+        ret = self.result.get()
+        self.queue.put(True)
+        return ret
+
+
+class SyncMaster(object):
+    """An abstract `SyncMaster` object.
+
+    - During the replication, as the data parallel will trigger an callback of each module, all slave devices should
+    call `register(id)` and obtain an `SlavePipe` to communicate with the master.
+    - During the forward pass, master device invokes `run_master`, all messages from slave devices will be collected,
+    and passed to a registered callback.
+    - After receiving the messages, the master device should gather the information and determine to message passed
+    back to each slave devices.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, master_callback):
+        """
+
+        Args:
+            master_callback: a callback to be invoked after having collected messages from slave devices.
+        """
+        self._master_callback = master_callback
+        self._queue = queue.Queue()
+        self._registry = collections.OrderedDict()
+        self._activated = False
+
+    def register_slave(self, identifier):
+        """
+        Register an slave device.
+
+        Args:
+            identifier: an identifier, usually is the device id.
+
+        Returns: a `SlavePipe` object which can be used to communicate with the master device.
+
+        """
+        if self._activated:
+            assert self._queue.empty(), 'Queue is not clean before next initialization.'
+            self._activated = False
+            self._registry.clear()
+        future = FutureResult()
+        self._registry[identifier] = _MasterRegistry(future)
+        return SlavePipe(identifier, self._queue, future)
+
+    def run_master(self, master_msg):
+        """
+        Main entry for the master device in each forward pass.
+        The messages were first collected from each devices (including the master device), and then
+        an callback will be invoked to compute the message to be sent back to each devices
+        (including the master device).
+
+        Args:
+            master_msg: the message that the master want to send to itself. This will be placed as the first
+            message when calling `master_callback`. For detailed usage, see `_SynchronizedBatchNorm` for an example.
+
+        Returns: the message to be sent back to the master device.
+
+        """
+        self._activated = True
+
+        intermediates = [(0, master_msg)]
+        for i in range(self.nr_slaves):
+            intermediates.append(self._queue.get())
+
+        results = self._master_callback(intermediates)
+        assert results[0][0] == 0, 'The first result should belongs to the master.'
+
+        for i, res in results:
+            if i == 0:
+                continue
+            self._registry[i].result.put(res)
+
+        for i in range(self.nr_slaves):
+            assert self._queue.get() is True
+
+        return results[0][1]
+
+    @property
+    def nr_slaves(self):
+        return len(self._registry)

encoding/nn/syncbn.py

@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 ##+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 
 """Synchronized Cross-GPU Batch Normalization Module"""
-import functools
 import collections
 import threading
 import torch
@@ -22,52 +21,96 @@ from torch.nn.parallel._functions import ReduceAddCoalesced, Broadcast
 
 from ..functions import *
 from ..parallel import allreduce
+from .comm import SyncMaster
 
 __all__ = ['BatchNorm1d', 'BatchNorm2d', 'BatchNorm3d', 'Module', 'Sequential', 'Conv1d',
            'Conv2d', 'ConvTranspose2d', 'ReLU', 'Sigmoid', 'MaxPool2d', 'AvgPool2d',
            'AdaptiveAvgPool2d', 'Dropout2d', 'Linear']
 
+# Adapt from https://github.com/vacancy/Synchronized-BatchNorm-PyTorch
+_ChildMessage = collections.namedtuple('Message', ['sum', 'ssum', 'sum_size'])
+_MasterMessage = collections.namedtuple('_MasterMessage', ['sum', 'inv_std'])
 
 class _SyncBatchNorm(_BatchNorm):
     def __init__(self, num_features, eps=1e-5, momentum=0.001, affine=True):
         super(_SyncBatchNorm, self).__init__(num_features, eps=eps, momentum=momentum, affine=affine)
 
+        self._sync_master = SyncMaster(self._data_parallel_master)
+
         self._is_parallel = False
         self._parallel_id = None
         self._slave_pipe = None
-        self.sharedT = SharedTensor(torch.cuda.device_count())
 
     def forward(self, input):
+        # If it is not parallel computation or is in evaluation mode, use PyTorch's implementation.
+        if not (self._is_parallel and self.training):
+            return batch_norm(
+                input, self.running_mean, self.running_var, self.weight, self.bias,
+                self.training, self.momentum, self.eps)
+
         # Resize the input to (B, C, -1).
         input_shape = input.size()
-        input = input.view(input_shape[0], self.num_features, -1)
-        if not self.training:
-            std = (self.running_var.clamp(self.eps)).sqrt()
-            output = batchnormeval(input, self.weight, self.bias, self.running_mean, std)
-            return output.view(input_shape)
+        input = input.view(input.size(0), self.num_features, -1)
 
         # sum(x) and sum(x^2)
         N = input.size(0) * input.size(2)
         xsum, xsqsum = sum_square(input)
 
         # all-reduce for global sum(x) and sum(x^2)
-        igpu = input.get_device()
-        self.sharedT.push(N, igpu, xsum, xsqsum)
-        N, xsum, xsqsum = self.sharedT.pull(igpu)
+        if self._parallel_id == 0:
+            mean, inv_std = self._sync_master.run_master(_ChildMessage(xsum, xsqsum, N))
+        else:
+            mean, inv_std = self._slave_pipe.run_slave(_ChildMessage(xsum, xsqsum, N))
+        # forward
+        return batchnormtrain(input, self.weight, self.bias, mean, 1.0/inv_std).view(input_shape)
 
-        # calculate mean, var
-        mean = xsum / N
-        sumvar = xsqsum - xsum * xsum / N
-        unbias_var = sumvar / (N - 1)
-        bias_var = sumvar / N
-        std = bias_var.clamp(self.eps).sqrt()
 
-        # update running_mean and var
-        self.running_mean = (1-self.momentum) * self.running_mean + self.momentum * mean.data
-        self.running_var = (1-self.momentum) * self.running_var + self.momentum * unbias_var.data
+    def __data_parallel_replicate__(self, ctx, copy_id):
+        self._is_parallel = True
+        self._parallel_id = copy_id
 
-        # forward
-        return batchnormtrain(input, self.weight, self.bias, mean, std).view(input_shape)
+        # parallel_id == 0 means master device.
+        if self._parallel_id == 0:
+            ctx.sync_master = self._sync_master
+        else:
+            self._slave_pipe = ctx.sync_master.register_slave(copy_id)
+
+    def _data_parallel_master(self, intermediates):
+        """Reduce the sum and square-sum, compute the statistics, and broadcast it."""
+
+        # Always using same "device order" makes the ReduceAdd operation faster.
+        # Thanks to:: Tete Xiao (http://tetexiao.com/)
+        intermediates = sorted(intermediates, key=lambda i: i[1].sum.get_device())
+
+        to_reduce = [i[1][:2] for i in intermediates]
+        to_reduce = [j for i in to_reduce for j in i]  # flatten
+        target_gpus = [i[1].sum.get_device() for i in intermediates]
+
+        sum_size = sum([i[1].sum_size for i in intermediates])
+        sum_, ssum = ReduceAddCoalesced.apply(target_gpus[0], 2, *to_reduce)
+        mean, inv_std = self._compute_mean_std(sum_, ssum, sum_size)
+
+        broadcasted = Broadcast.apply(target_gpus, mean, inv_std)
+
+        outputs = []
+        for i, rec in enumerate(intermediates):
+            outputs.append((rec[0], _MasterMessage(*broadcasted[i*2:i*2+2])))
+
+        return outputs
+
+    def _compute_mean_std(self, sum_, ssum, size):
+        """Compute the mean and standard-deviation with sum and square-sum. This method
+        also maintains the moving average on the master device."""
+        assert size > 1, 'BatchNorm computes unbiased standard-deviation, which requires size > 1.'
+        mean = sum_ / size
+        sumvar = ssum - sum_ * mean
+        unbias_var = sumvar / (size - 1)
+        bias_var = sumvar / size
+
+        self.running_mean = (1 - self.momentum) * self.running_mean + self.momentum * mean.data
+        self.running_var = (1 - self.momentum) * self.running_var + self.momentum * unbias_var.data
+
+        return mean, bias_var.clamp(self.eps) ** -0.5
 
 
 class BatchNorm1d(_SyncBatchNorm):
@@ -82,13 +125,15 @@ class BatchNorm1d(_SyncBatchNorm):
 class BatchNorm2d(_SyncBatchNorm):
     r"""Cross-GPU Synchronized Batch normalization (SyncBN)
 
-    Standard BN [1]_ implementation only normalize the data within each device.
+    Standard BN [1]_ implementation only normalize the data within each device (GPU).
     SyncBN normalizes the input within the whole mini-batch.
     We follow the sync-onece implmentation described in the paper [2]_ .
     Please see the design idea in the `notes <./notes/syncbn.html>`_.
 
     .. note::
-        Please use ``CUDA_VISIBLE_DEVICES`` to select number of GPUs.
+        We adapt the awesome python API from another `PyTorch SyncBN Implementation
+        <https://github.com/vacancy/Synchronized-BatchNorm-PyTorch>`_ and provide
+        efficient CUDA backend.
 
     .. math::
 
@@ -125,9 +170,9 @@ class BatchNorm2d(_SyncBatchNorm):
         .. [2] Hang Zhang, Kristin Dana, Jianping Shi, Zhongyue Zhang, Xiaogang Wang, Ambrish Tyagi, and Amit Agrawal. "Context Encoding for Semantic Segmentation." *CVPR 2018*
 
     Examples:
-        >>> # Use exactly the same as standard BatchNrom2d
         >>> m = BatchNorm2d(100)
         >>> net = torch.nn.DataParallel(m)
+        >>> encoding.parallel.patch_replication_callback(net)
         >>> output = net(input)
     """
     def _check_input_dim(self, input):
@@ -148,11 +193,12 @@ class BatchNorm3d(_SyncBatchNorm):
 
 class SharedTensor(object):
     """Shared Tensor for cross GPU all reduce operation"""
-    def __init__(self, nGPUs):
+    def __init__(self, nGPUs, op):
         self.mutex = threading.Lock()
         self.all_tasks_done = threading.Condition(self.mutex)
         self.nGPUs = nGPUs
         self._clear()
+        self.op = op
 
     def _clear(self):
         self.N = 0
@@ -160,7 +206,7 @@ class SharedTensor(object):
         self.push_tasks = self.nGPUs
         self.reduce_tasks = self.nGPUs
 
-    def push(self, *inputs):
+    def __call__(self, *inputs):
         if self.nGPUs <= 1:
             return tuple(inputs)
         # push from device
@@ -177,15 +223,13 @@ class SharedTensor(object):
                 self.all_tasks_done.notify_all()
             while self.push_tasks:
                 self.all_tasks_done.wait()
-
-    def pull(self, igpu):
         # pull from device
         with self.mutex:
             if igpu == 0:
                 assert(len(self.dict) == self.nGPUs)
                 # flatten the tensors
                 self.list = [t for i in range(len(self.dict)) for t in self.dict[i]]
-                self.outlist = allreduce(2, *self.list)
+                self.outlist = self.op(2, *self.list)
                 self.reduce_tasks -= 1
             else:
                 self.reduce_tasks -= 1

encoding/parallel.py

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 
 """Encoding Data Parallel"""
 import threading
+import functools
 import torch
 from torch.autograd import Variable, Function
 import torch.cuda.comm as comm
@@ -17,10 +18,11 @@ from torch.nn.parallel.data_parallel import DataParallel
 from torch.nn.parallel.parallel_apply import get_a_var
 from torch.nn.parallel._functions import ReduceAddCoalesced, Broadcast
 
-__all__ = ['allreduce', 'DataParallelModel', 'DataParallelCriterion']
-
 torch_ver = torch.__version__[:3]
 
+__all__ = ['allreduce', 'DataParallelModel', 'DataParallelCriterion',
+           'patch_replication_callback']
+
 def allreduce(*inputs):
     """Cross GPU all reduce autograd operation for calculate mean and
     variance in SyncBN.
@@ -94,6 +96,11 @@ class DataParallelModel(DataParallel):
     def gather(self, outputs, output_device):
         return outputs
 
+    def replicate(self, module, device_ids):
+        modules = super(DataParallelModel, self).replicate(module, device_ids)
+        execute_replication_callbacks(modules)
+        return modules
+
 
 class DataParallelCriterion(DataParallel):
     """
@@ -181,3 +188,61 @@ def _criterion_parallel_apply(modules, inputs, targets, kwargs_tup=None, devices
             raise output
         outputs.append(output)
     return outputs
+
+###########################################################################
+# Adapted from Synchronized-BatchNorm-PyTorch.
+# https://github.com/vacancy/Synchronized-BatchNorm-PyTorch
+
+class CallbackContext(object):
+    pass
+
+
+def execute_replication_callbacks(modules):
+    """
+    Execute an replication callback `__data_parallel_replicate__` on each module created
+    by original replication.
+
+    The callback will be invoked with arguments `__data_parallel_replicate__(ctx, copy_id)`
+
+    Note that, as all modules are isomorphism, we assign each sub-module with a context
+    (shared among multiple copies of this module on different devices).
+    Through this context, different copies can share some information.
+
+    We guarantee that the callback on the master copy (the first copy) will be called ahead
+    of calling the callback of any slave copies.
+    """
+    master_copy = modules[0]
+    nr_modules = len(list(master_copy.modules()))
+    ctxs = [CallbackContext() for _ in range(nr_modules)]
+
+    for i, module in enumerate(modules):
+        for j, m in enumerate(module.modules()):
+            if hasattr(m, '__data_parallel_replicate__'):
+                m.__data_parallel_replicate__(ctxs[j], i)
+
+
+def patch_replication_callback(data_parallel):
+    """
+    Monkey-patch an existing `DataParallel` object. Add the replication callback.
+    Useful when you have customized `DataParallel` implementation.
+
+    Examples:
+        > sync_bn = SynchronizedBatchNorm1d(10, eps=1e-5, affine=False)
+        > sync_bn = DataParallel(sync_bn, device_ids=[0, 1])
+        > patch_replication_callback(sync_bn)
+        # this is equivalent to
+        > sync_bn = SynchronizedBatchNorm1d(10, eps=1e-5, affine=False)
+        > sync_bn = DataParallelWithCallback(sync_bn, device_ids=[0, 1])
+    """
+
+    assert isinstance(data_parallel, DataParallel)
+
+    old_replicate = data_parallel.replicate
+
+    @functools.wraps(old_replicate)
+    def new_replicate(module, device_ids):
+        modules = old_replicate(module, device_ids)
+        execute_replication_callbacks(modules)
+        return modules
+
+    data_parallel.replicate = new_replicate