Callback¶
A callback is a self-contained program that can be reused across projects.
Lightning has a callback system to execute callbacks when needed. Callbacks should capture NON-ESSENTIAL logic that is NOT required for your lightning module to run.
Here’s the flow of how the callback hooks are executed:
An overall Lightning system should have:
Trainer for all engineering
LightningModule for all research code.
Callbacks for non-essential code.
Example:
from pytorch_lightning.callbacks import Callback
class MyPrintingCallback(Callback):
def on_init_start(self, trainer):
print('Starting to init trainer!')
def on_init_end(self, trainer):
print('trainer is init now')
def on_train_end(self, trainer, pl_module):
print('do something when training ends')
trainer = Trainer(callbacks=[MyPrintingCallback()])
Starting to init trainer!
trainer is init now
We successfully extended functionality without polluting our super clean lightning module research code.
Examples¶
You can do pretty much anything with callbacks.
Built-in Callbacks¶
Lightning has a few built-in callbacks.
Note
For a richer collection of callbacks, check out our bolts library.
Finetune a backbone model based on a learning rate user-defined scheduling. |
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This class implements the base logic for writing your own Finetuning Callback. |
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Abstract base class used to build new callbacks. |
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Monitor a metric and stop training when it stops improving. |
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Automatically monitors and logs GPU stats during training stage. |
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Change gradient accumulation factor according to scheduling. |
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Create a simple callback on the fly using lambda functions. |
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Automatically monitor and logs learning rate for learning rate schedulers during training. |
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Save the model periodically by monitoring a quantity. |
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Model pruning Callback, using PyTorch’s prune utilities. |
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Base class to implement how the predictions should be stored. |
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This is the default progress bar used by Lightning. |
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The base class for progress bars in Lightning. |
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Quantization allows speeding up inference and decreasing memory requirements by performing computations and storing tensors at lower bitwidths (such as INT8 or FLOAT16) than floating point precision. |
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Implements the Stochastic Weight Averaging (SWA) Callback to average a model. |
Persisting State¶
Some callbacks require internal state in order to function properly. You can optionally
choose to persist your callback’s state as part of model checkpoint files using the callback hooks
on_save_checkpoint()
and on_load_checkpoint()
.
However, you must follow two constraints:
Your returned state must be able to be pickled.
You can only use one instance of that class in the Trainer callbacks list. We don’t support persisting state for multiple callbacks of the same class.
Best Practices¶
The following are best practices when using/designing callbacks.
Callbacks should be isolated in their functionality.
Your callback should not rely on the behavior of other callbacks in order to work properly.
Do not manually call methods from the callback.
Directly calling methods (eg. on_validation_end) is strongly discouraged.
Whenever possible, your callbacks should not depend on the order in which they are executed.
Available Callback hooks¶
setup¶
teardown¶
on_init_start¶
on_init_end¶
on_fit_start¶
on_fit_end¶
on_sanity_check_start¶
on_sanity_check_end¶
on_train_batch_start¶
on_train_batch_end¶
on_train_epoch_start¶
on_train_epoch_end¶
- Callback.on_train_epoch_end(trainer, pl_module, unused=None)[source]
Called when the train epoch ends.
To access all batch outputs at the end of the epoch, either:
Implement training_epoch_end in the LightningModule and access outputs via the module OR
Cache data across train batch hooks inside the callback implementation to post-process in this hook.
on_validation_epoch_start¶
on_validation_epoch_end¶
on_test_epoch_start¶
on_test_epoch_end¶
on_epoch_start¶
on_epoch_end¶
on_batch_start¶
on_validation_batch_start¶
on_validation_batch_end¶
on_test_batch_start¶
on_test_batch_end¶
on_batch_end¶
on_train_start¶
on_train_end¶
on_pretrain_routine_start¶
on_pretrain_routine_end¶
on_validation_start¶
on_validation_end¶
on_test_start¶
on_test_end¶
on_keyboard_interrupt¶
on_save_checkpoint¶
- Callback.on_save_checkpoint(trainer, pl_module, checkpoint)[source]
Called when saving a model checkpoint, use to persist state.
- Parameters
pl_module¶ (
LightningModule
) – the currentLightningModule
instance.checkpoint¶ (
Dict
[str
,Any
]) – the checkpoint dictionary that will be saved.
- Return type
- Returns
The callback state.
on_load_checkpoint¶
- Callback.on_load_checkpoint(trainer, pl_module, callback_state)[source]
Called when loading a model checkpoint, use to reload state.
- Parameters
pl_module¶ (
LightningModule
) – the currentLightningModule
instance.callback_state¶ (
Dict
[str
,Any
]) – the callback state returned byon_save_checkpoint
.
- Return type
Note
The
on_load_checkpoint
won’t be called with an undefined state. If youron_load_checkpoint
hook behavior doesn’t rely on a state, you will still need to overrideon_save_checkpoint
to return adummy state
.