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| <div class="section" id="kvstore-api"> |
| <span id="kvstore-api"></span><h1>KVStore API<a class="headerlink" href="#kvstore-api" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> |
| <div class="section" id="basic-push-and-pull"> |
| <span id="basic-push-and-pull"></span><h2>Basic Push and Pull<a class="headerlink" href="#basic-push-and-pull" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>Provides basic operation over multiple devices (GPUs) on a single device.</p> |
| <div class="section" id="initialization"> |
| <span id="initialization"></span><h3>Initialization<a class="headerlink" href="#initialization" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3> |
| <p>Let’s consider a simple example. It initializes |
| a (<code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">int</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NDArray</span></code>) pair into the store, and then pulls the value out.</p> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'local'</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># create a local kv store.</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">shape</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">init</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">zeros</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 2. 2. 2.]</span> |
| <span class="go"> [ 2. 2. 2.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="section" id="push-aggregation-and-updater"> |
| <span id="push-aggregation-and-updater"></span><h3>Push, Aggregation, and Updater<a class="headerlink" href="#push-aggregation-and-updater" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3> |
| <p>For any key that’s been initialized, you can push a new value with the same shape to the key, as follows:</p> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">push</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># pull out the value</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 8. 8. 8.]</span> |
| <span class="go"> [ 8. 8. 8.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <p>The data that you want to push can be stored on any device. Furthermore, you can push multiple |
| values into the same key, where KVStore first sums all of these |
| values, and then pushes the aggregated value, as follows:</p> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">gpus</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">gpu</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)]</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">gpu</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">gpu</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">gpus</span><span class="p">]</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">push</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 4. 4. 4.]</span> |
| <span class="go"> [ 4. 4. 4.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <p>For each push command, KVStore applies the pushed value to the value stored by an |
| <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">updater</span></code>. The default updater is <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ASSIGN</span></code>. You can replace the default to |
| control how data is merged.</p> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">update</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">input</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">stored</span><span class="p">):</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span> <span class="k">print</span> <span class="s2">"update on key: </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2">"</span> <span class="o">%</span> <span class="n">key</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span> <span class="n">stored</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="nb">input</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="mi">2</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">_set_updater</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">update</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 4. 4. 4.]</span> |
| <span class="go"> [ 4. 4. 4.]]</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">push</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">))</span> |
| <span class="go">update on key: 3</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 6. 6. 6.]</span> |
| <span class="go"> [ 6. 6. 6.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="section" id="pull"> |
| <span id="pull"></span><h3>Pull<a class="headerlink" href="#pull" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3> |
| <p>You’ve already seen how to pull a single key-value pair. Similar to the way that you use the push command, you can |
| pull the value into several devices with a single call.</p> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">gpu</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">gpu</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">gpus</span><span class="p">]</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 6. 6. 6.]</span> |
| <span class="go"> [ 6. 6. 6.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="section" id="list-key-value-pairs"> |
| <span id="list-key-value-pairs"></span><h2>List Key-Value Pairs<a class="headerlink" href="#list-key-value-pairs" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> |
| <p>All of the operations that we’ve discussed so far are performed on a single key. KVStore also provides |
| the interface for generating a list of key-value pairs. For a single device, use the following:</p> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">keys</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">9</span><span class="p">]</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">init</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)]</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">))</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">push</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)]</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">))</span> |
| <span class="go">update on key: 5</span> |
| <span class="go">update on key: 7</span> |
| <span class="go">update on key: 9</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">zeros</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)]</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 3. 3. 3.]</span> |
| <span class="go"> [ 3. 3. 3.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <p>For multiple devices:</p> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">gpu</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">gpu</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">gpus</span><span class="p">]]</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">push</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="go">update on key: 5</span> |
| <span class="go">update on key: 7</span> |
| <span class="go">update on key: 9</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 11. 11. 11.]</span> |
| <span class="go"> [ 11. 11. 11.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="section" id="api-reference"> |
| <span id="api-reference"></span><h2>API Reference<a class="headerlink" href="#api-reference" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> |
| <script src="../../_static/js/auto_module_index.js" type="text/javascript"></script><span class="target" id="module-mxnet.kvstore"></span><p>Key value store interface of MXNet for parameter synchronization.</p> |
| <dl class="class"> |
| <dt id="mxnet.kvstore.KVStore"> |
| <em class="property">class </em><code class="descclassname">mxnet.kvstore.</code><code class="descname">KVStore</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>handle</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mxnet.kvstore.KVStore" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> |
| <dd><p>A key-value store for synchronization of values, over multiple devices.</p> |
| <dl class="method"> |
| <dt id="mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.init"> |
| <code class="descname">init</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>key</em>, <em>value</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.init" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> |
| <dd><p>Initializes a single or a sequence of key-value pairs into the store.</p> |
| <p>For each key, one must <cite>init</cite> it before calling <cite>push</cite> or <cite>pull</cite>. |
| When multiple workers invoke <cite>init</cite> for the same key, only |
| the value supplied by worker with rank <cite>0</cite> is used. This function returns |
| after data has been initialized successfully.</p> |
| <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
| <col class="field-name"/> |
| <col class="field-body"/> |
| <tbody valign="top"> |
| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first last simple"> |
| <li><strong>key</strong> (<em>str or sequence of str</em>) – The keys.</li> |
| <li><strong>value</strong> (<em>NDArray or sequence of NDArray</em>) – Values corresponding to the keys.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| <p class="rubric">Examples</p> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># init a single key-value pair</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">shape</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'local'</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">init</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'3'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">zeros</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'3'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 2. 2. 2.]</span> |
| <span class="go">[ 2. 2. 2.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># init a list of key-value pairs</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">keys</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'5'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'7'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'9'</span><span class="p">]</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">init</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)]</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">))</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| </dd></dl> |
| <dl class="method"> |
| <dt id="mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.push"> |
| <code class="descname">push</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>key</em>, <em>value</em>, <em>priority=0</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.push" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> |
| <dd><p>Pushes a single or a sequence of key-value pairs into the store.</p> |
| <p>This function returns immediately after adding an operator to the engine. |
| The actual operation is executed asynchronously after all previous <cite>push</cite> |
| and <cite>pull</cite> calls for the same input key(s) are finished. |
| There is no synchronization between workers. One can use <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">_barrier()</span></code> |
| to sync all workers.</p> |
| <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
| <col class="field-name"/> |
| <col class="field-body"/> |
| <tbody valign="top"> |
| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first last simple"> |
| <li><strong>key</strong> (<em>str or list of str</em>) – Keys.</li> |
| <li><strong>value</strong> (<em>NDArray or list of NDArray or list of list of NDArray</em>) – Values corresponding to the keys.</li> |
| <li><strong>priority</strong> (<em>int, optional</em>) – The priority of the push operation. |
| Higher priority push operations are likely to be executed before |
| other push actions.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| <p class="rubric">Examples</p> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># push a single key-value pair</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">push</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'3'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'3'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># pull out the value</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 8. 8. 8.]</span> |
| <span class="go">[ 8. 8. 8.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># aggregate the value and the push</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">gpus</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">gpu</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)]</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">gpu</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">gpu</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">gpus</span><span class="p">]</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">push</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'3'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'3'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 4. 4. 4.]</span> |
| <span class="go">[ 4. 4. 4.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># push a list of keys.</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># single device</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">push</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)]</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">))</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">zeros</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)]</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 1. 1. 1.]</span> |
| <span class="go">[ 1. 1. 1.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># multiple devices:</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">gpu</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">gpu</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">gpus</span><span class="p">]]</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">push</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 4. 4. 4.]</span> |
| <span class="go">[ 4. 4. 4.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| </dd></dl> |
| <dl class="method"> |
| <dt id="mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.pull"> |
| <code class="descname">pull</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>key</em>, <em>out=None</em>, <em>priority=0</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.pull" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> |
| <dd><p>Pulls a single value or a sequence of values from the store.</p> |
| <p>This function returns immediately after adding an operator to the engine. |
| Subsequent attempts to read from the <cite>out</cite> variable will be blocked until the |
| pull operation completes.</p> |
| <p><cite>pull</cite> is executed asynchronously after all previous <cite>push</cite> and <cite>pull</cite> calls |
| for the same input key(s) are finished.</p> |
| <p>The returned values are gauranteed to be the latest values in the store.</p> |
| <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
| <col class="field-name"/> |
| <col class="field-body"/> |
| <tbody valign="top"> |
| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><ul class="first last simple"> |
| <li><strong>key</strong> (<em>int or list of int</em>) – Keys.</li> |
| <li><strong>out</strong> (<em>NDArray or list of NDArray or list of list of NDArray</em>) – Values corresponding to the keys.</li> |
| <li><strong>priority</strong> (<em>int, optional</em>) – The priority of the pull operation. |
| Higher priority pull operations are likely to be executed before |
| other pull actions.</li> |
| </ul> |
| </td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| <p class="rubric">Examples</p> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># pull a single key-value pair</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">a</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">zeros</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'3'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">a</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">a</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 2. 2. 2.]</span> |
| <span class="go">[ 2. 2. 2.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># pull into multiple devices</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">gpu</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">gpu</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">gpus</span><span class="p">]</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">'3'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 2. 2. 2.]</span> |
| <span class="go">[ 2. 2. 2.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># pull a list of key-value pairs.</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># On single device</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">keys</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="s1">'5'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'7'</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s1">'9'</span><span class="p">]</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">zeros</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)]</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 2. 2. 2.]</span> |
| <span class="go">[ 2. 2. 2.]]</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># On multiple devices</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">b</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">[[</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">gpu</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">gpu</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">gpus</span><span class="p">]]</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="nb">len</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">keys</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">b</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="k">print</span> <span class="n">b</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">][</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">]</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">[[ 2. 2. 2.]</span> |
| <span class="go">[ 2. 2. 2.]]</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| </dd></dl> |
| <dl class="method"> |
| <dt id="mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.set_optimizer"> |
| <code class="descname">set_optimizer</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>optimizer</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.set_optimizer" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> |
| <dd><p>Registers an optimizer with the kvstore.</p> |
| <p>When using a single machine, this function updates the local optimizer. |
| If using multiple machines and this operation is invoked from a worker node, |
| it will serialized the optimizer with pickle and send it to all servers. |
| The function returns after all servers have been updated.</p> |
| <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
| <col class="field-name"/> |
| <col class="field-body"/> |
| <tbody valign="top"> |
| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>optimizer</strong> (<a class="reference internal" href="optimization.html#mxnet.optimizer.Optimizer" title="mxnet.optimizer.Optimizer"><em>Optimizer</em></a>) – The new optimizer for the store</td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| <p class="rubric">Examples</p> |
| <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">create</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">shape</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">weight</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">zeros</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">init</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">weight</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># set the optimizer for kvstore as the default SGD optimizer</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">set_optimizer</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">optimizer</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">SGD</span><span class="p">())</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">grad</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">mx</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">nd</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ones</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">shape</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">push</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">grad</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">kv</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">pull</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">out</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">weight</span><span class="p">)</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="c1"># weight is updated via gradient descent</span> |
| <span class="gp">>>> </span><span class="n">weight</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">asnumpy</span><span class="p">()</span> |
| <span class="go">array([[-0.01, -0.01],</span> |
| <span class="go"> [-0.01, -0.01]], dtype=float32)</span> |
| </pre></div> |
| </div> |
| </dd></dl> |
| <dl class="attribute"> |
| <dt id="mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.type"> |
| <code class="descname">type</code><a class="headerlink" href="#mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.type" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> |
| <dd><p>Returns the type of this kvstore.</p> |
| <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
| <col class="field-name"/> |
| <col class="field-body"/> |
| <tbody valign="top"> |
| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>type</strong> – |
| the string type</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body">str</td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| </dd></dl> |
| <dl class="attribute"> |
| <dt id="mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.rank"> |
| <code class="descname">rank</code><a class="headerlink" href="#mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.rank" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> |
| <dd><p>Returns the rank of this worker node.</p> |
| <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
| <col class="field-name"/> |
| <col class="field-body"/> |
| <tbody valign="top"> |
| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>rank</strong> – |
| The rank of this node, which is in range [0, num_workers())</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body">int</td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| </dd></dl> |
| <dl class="attribute"> |
| <dt id="mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.num_workers"> |
| <code class="descname">num_workers</code><a class="headerlink" href="#mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.num_workers" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> |
| <dd><p>Returns the number of worker nodes.</p> |
| <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
| <col class="field-name"/> |
| <col class="field-body"/> |
| <tbody valign="top"> |
| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>size</strong> – |
| The number of worker nodes.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body">int</td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| </dd></dl> |
| <dl class="method"> |
| <dt id="mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.save_optimizer_states"> |
| <code class="descname">save_optimizer_states</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>fname</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.save_optimizer_states" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> |
| <dd><p>Saves the optimizer (updater) state to a file. This is often used when checkpointing |
| the model during training.</p> |
| <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
| <col class="field-name"/> |
| <col class="field-body"/> |
| <tbody valign="top"> |
| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>fname</strong> (<em>str</em>) – Path to the output states file.</td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| </dd></dl> |
| <dl class="method"> |
| <dt id="mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.load_optimizer_states"> |
| <code class="descname">load_optimizer_states</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>fname</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mxnet.kvstore.KVStore.load_optimizer_states" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> |
| <dd><p>Loads the optimizer (updater) state from the file.</p> |
| <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
| <col class="field-name"/> |
| <col class="field-body"/> |
| <tbody valign="top"> |
| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>fname</strong> (<em>str</em>) – Path to input states file.</td> |
| </tr> |
| </tbody> |
| </table> |
| </dd></dl> |
| </dd></dl> |
| <dl class="function"> |
| <dt id="mxnet.kvstore.create"> |
| <code class="descclassname">mxnet.kvstore.</code><code class="descname">create</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em>name='local'</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#mxnet.kvstore.create" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt> |
| <dd><p>Creates a new KVStore.</p> |
| <p>For single machine training, there are two commonly used types:</p> |
| <p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">local</span></code>: Copies all gradients to CPU memory and updates weights there.</p> |
| <p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">device</span></code>: Aggregates gradients and updates weights on GPUs. With this setting, |
| the KVStore also attempts to use GPU peer-to-peer communication, |
| potentially accelerating the communication.</p> |
| <p>For distributed training, KVStore also supports a number of types:</p> |
| <p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dist_sync</span></code>: Behaves similarly to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">local</span></code> but with one major difference. |
| With <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dist_sync</span></code>, batch-size now means the batch size used on each machine. |
| So if there are <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">n</span></code> machines and we use batch size <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">b</span></code>, |
| then <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dist_sync</span></code> behaves like <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">local</span></code> with batch size <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">n</span> <span class="pre">*</span> <span class="pre">b</span></code>.</p> |
| <p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dist_device_sync</span></code>: Identical to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dist_sync</span></code> with the difference similar |
| to <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">device</span></code> vs <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">local</span></code>.</p> |
| <p><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dist_async</span></code>: Performs asynchronous updates. |
| The weights are updated whenever gradients are received from any machine. |
| No two updates happen on the same weight at the same time. However, the order is not |
| guaranteed.</p> |
| <table class="docutils field-list" frame="void" rules="none"> |
| <col class="field-name"/> |
| <col class="field-body"/> |
| <tbody valign="top"> |
| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Parameters:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>name</strong> (<em>{'local', 'device', 'dist_sync', 'dist_device_sync', 'dist_async'}</em>) – The type of KVStore.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns:</th><td class="field-body"><strong>kv</strong> – |
| The created KVStore.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Return type:</th><td class="field-body"><a class="reference internal" href="#mxnet.kvstore.KVStore" title="mxnet.kvstore.KVStore">KVStore</a></td> |
| </tr> |
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