DDPSpawnStrategy

class pytorch_lightning.strategies.DDPSpawnStrategy(accelerator=None, parallel_devices=None, cluster_environment=None, checkpoint_io=None, precision_plugin=None, ddp_comm_state=None, ddp_comm_hook=None, ddp_comm_wrapper=None, process_group_backend=None, **kwargs)[source]

Bases: pytorch_lightning.strategies.parallel.ParallelStrategy

Spawns processes using the torch.multiprocessing.spawn() method and joins processes after training finishes.

barrier(*args, **kwargs)[source]

Synchronizes all processes which blocks processes until the whole group enters this function.

Parameters

name – an optional name to pass into barrier.

Return type

None

broadcast(obj, src=0)[source]

Broadcasts an object to all processes.

Parameters

• obj (object) – the object to broadcast

• src (int) – source rank

Return type

object

model_to_device()[source]

Moves the model to the correct device.

pre_backward(closure_loss)[source]

Run before precision plugin executes backward.

Return type

None

predict_step(*args, **kwargs)[source]

The actual predict step.

See predict_step() for more details

Return type

Union[Tensor, Dict[str, Any]]

reduce(tensor, group=None, reduce_op='mean')[source]

Reduces a tensor from several distributed processes to one aggregated tensor.

Parameters

• tensor – the tensor to sync and reduce

• group (Optional[Any]) – the process group to gather results from. Defaults to all processes (world)

• reduce_op (Union[ReduceOp, str]) – the reduction operation. Defaults to ‘mean’/’avg’. Can also be a string ‘sum’ to calculate the sum during reduction.

Return type

Tensor

Returns

reduced value, except when the input was not a tensor the output remains is unchanged

setup(trainer)[source]

Setup plugins for the trainer fit and creates optimizers.

Parameters

trainer (Trainer) – the trainer instance

Return type

None

teardown()[source]

This method is called to teardown the training process.

It is the right place to release memory and free other resources.

Return type

None

test_step(*args, **kwargs)[source]

The actual test step.

See test_step() for more details

Return type

Union[Tensor, Dict[str, Any], None]

training_step(*args, **kwargs)[source]

The actual training step.

See training_step() for more details

Return type

Union[Tensor, Dict[str, Any]]

validation_step(*args, **kwargs)[source]

The actual validation step.

See validation_step() for more details

Return type

Union[Tensor, Dict[str, Any], None]

property root_device

Return the root device.