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PyTorch 1.4.0 Release Notes

  • Highlights
  • Backwards Incompatible Changes
    • Python
    • JIT
    • C++
  • New Features
    • torch.optim
    • Distributed
    • RPC [Experimental]
    • JIT
    • Mobile
  • Improvements
    • Distributed
    • JIT
    • Mobile
    • Named Tensors
    • C++ API
    • AMD Support
    • ONNX
    • Quantization
    • Visualization
    • Other Improvements
  • Bug Fixes
    • Distributed
    • RPC
    • C++ API
    • JIT
    • Quantization
    • Mobile
    • Other Bug fixes
  • Deprecations
  • Performance

The PyTorch v1.4.0 release is now available.

The release contains over 1,500 commits and a significant amount of effort in areas spanning existing areas like JIT, ONNX, Distributed, Performance and Eager Frontend Improvements and improvements to experimental areas like mobile and quantization. It also contains new experimental features including rpc-based model parallel distributed training and language bindings for the Java language (inference only).

PyTorch 1.4 is the last release that supports Python 2. For the C++ API, it is the last release that supports C++11: you should start migrating to Python 3 and building with C++14 to make the future transition from 1.4 to 1.5 easier.

Highlights

PyTorch Mobile - Build level customization

Following the experimental release of PyTorch Mobile in the 1.3 release, PyTorch 1.4 adds additional mobile support including the ability to customize build scripts at a fine-grain level. This allows mobile developers to optimize library size by only including the operators used by their models and, in the process, reduce their on device footprint significantly. Initial results show that, for example, a customized MobileNetV2 is 40% to 50% smaller than the prebuilt PyTorch mobile library. Learn more about how to create your own custom builds, and please engage with the community on the PyTorch forums to provide any feedback you have.

Distributed Model Parallel Training [Experimental]

With the scale of models, such as RoBERTa, continuing to increase into the billions of parameters, model parallel training has become ever more important to help researchers push the limits. This release provides a distributed RPC framework to support distributed model parallel training. It allows for running functions remotely and referencing remote objects without copying the real data around, and provides autograd and optimizer APIs to transparently run backwards and update parameters across RPC boundaries.

To learn more about the APIs and the design of this feature, see the links below:

For the full tutorials, see the links below:

As always, you can connect with community members and discuss more on the forums.

Java bindings [Experimental]

In addition to supporting Python and C++, this release adds experimental support for Java bindings. Based on the interface developed for Android in PyTorch Mobile, the new bindings allow you to invoke TorchScript models from any Java program. Note that the Java bindings are only available for Linux for this release, and for inference only. We expect support to expand in subsequent releases. See the code snippet below for how to use PyTorch within Java:

Learn more about how to use PyTorch from Java here, and see the full Javadocs API documentation here.

Pruning

Pruning functionalities have been added to PyTorch in the nn.utils.prune module. This provides out-of-the-box support for common magnitude-based and random pruning techniques, both structured and unstructured, both layer-wise and global, and it also enables custom pruning from user-provided masks.

To prune a tensor, first select a pruning technique among those available in nn.utils.prune (or implement your own by subclassing BasePruningMethod). 

from torch.nn.utils import prune
t = torch.rand(2, 5)
p = prune.L1Unstructured(amount=0.7)
pruned_tensor = p.prune(t)

To prune a module, select one of the pruning functions available in nn.utils.prune (or implement your own) and specify which module and which parameter within that module pruning should act on. 

m = nn.Conv2d(3, 1, 2)
prune.ln_structured(module=m, name='weight', amount=5, n=2, dim=1)

Pruning reparametrizes the module by turning weight (in the example above) from a parameter to an attribute, and replacing it with a new parameter called weight_orig (i.e. appending "_orig" to the initial parameter name) that stores the unpruned version of the tensor. The pruning mask is stored as a buffer named weight_mask (i.e. appending "_mask" to the initial parameter name). Pruning is applied prior to each forward pass by recomputing weight through a multiplication with the updated mask using PyTorch's forward_pre_hooks.

Iterative pruning is seamlessly enabled by repeatedly calling pruning functions on the same parameter (this automatically handles the combination of successive masks by making use of a PruningContainer under the hood).

nn.utils.prune is easily extensible to support new pruning functions by subclassing the BasePruningMethod base class and implementing the compute_mask method with the instructions to compute the mask according to the logic of the new pruning technique.

Backwards Incompatible Changes

Python

torch.optim: It is no longer supported to use Scheduler.get_lr() to obtain the last computed learning rate. to get the last computed learning rate, call Scheduler.get_last_lr() instead. (26423)

Learning rate schedulers are now “chainable,” as mentioned in the New Features section below. Scheduler.get_lr was sometimes used for monitoring purposes to obtain the current learning rate. But since Scheduler.get_lr is also used internally for computing new learning rates, this actually returns a value that is “one step ahead.” To get the last computed learning rate, use Scheduler.get_last_lr instead.

Note that optimizer.param_groups[0]['lr'] was in version 1.3.1 and remains in 1.4.0 a way of getting the current learning rate used in the optimizer.

Tensor.unfold on a 0-dimensional Tensor now properly returns a 1-dimensional Tensor.

Version 1.3.1Version 1.4.0 
>>> torch.tensor(5).unfold(dimension=0, size=1, step=1)
tensor(5)
      
>>> torch.tensor(5).unfold(dimension=0, size=1, step=1)
tensor([5])

torch.symeig now return a 0-element eigenvectors tensor when eigenvectors=False (the default).

Version 1.3.1Version 1.4.0 
>>> torch.symeig(torch.randn(3,3)).eigenvectors.shape
torch.Size([3, 3])
      
>>> torch.symeig(torch.randn(3,3)).eigenvectors.shape
torch.Size([0])

JIT

  • Make torch.jit.get_trace_graph private (it is now torch.jit._get_trace_graph) (29149)
    • This function was intended only for ONNX integration; use traced_module.graph instead, like:
    • traced_module = torch.jit.trace(my_module, example_inputs)
      traced_graph = traced_module.graph
  • @property on ScriptModules has been disabled (28395)
    • Scripted @property accesses were silently broken before, where we would evaluate the the get function once and store that as the attribute permanently. They properly error now; a workaround is to make your @property a regular method.
  • Custom ops: torch::jit::RegisterOperators has been removed, use torch::RegisterOperators instead (28229). The usage and behavior should remain the same.
  • Remove torch.jit._register_* bindings from Python (e.g. torch.jit._register_attribute). These were private functions that were not intended to be used. (29499)

C++

[C++] The distinction between Tensor and Variable has been eliminated at the C++ level. (28287)

This change simplifies our C++ API and matches previous changes we did at the python level that merged Tensors and Variables into a single type.

This change is unlikely to affect user code; the most likely exceptions are:

  1. Argument-dependent lookup for torch::autograd may no longer work. This can break because Variable is now defined as an alias for Tensor (using Variable = Tensor;). In this case, you must explicitly qualify the calls to torch::autograd functions.

  2. Because Variable and Tensor are now the same type, code which assumes that they are different types (e.g., for the purposes of templating, or std::enable_if checks) will not work until you delete the (now) redundant overload/specialization.

  3. Some operators may trace differently. If this happens, please file a bug. The most likely situations are:

  1. There are now more operations in your trace than before (usually, calls to aten::empty)
  2. There are now less operations in your trace than before (e.g., the trace complains that "there is no observable dependence" with the inputs)

[C++] arguments in torch::nn::LinearOptions are renamed to match the Python API. (27382)

  • Arguments that are renamed:
    • in -> in_features
    • out -> out_features
    • with_bias -> bias

[C++] arguments in torch::nn::Conv{1,2,3}dOptions are renamed to match the Python API. (28917) (29838)

  • Arguments that are renamed:
    • input_channels -> in_channels
    • output_channels -> out_channels
    • with_bias -> bias

[C++] torch::nn::Conv{1,2,3}dOptions no longer has the transposed argument. (31005)

  • If users have transposed originally set to true in torch::nn::Conv{1,2,3}dOptions, they should migrate their code to use torch::nn::ConvTranspose{1,2,3}d layers instead.

[C++] All Reduction enums for torch::nn layers and functionals are changed to have torch::KEnumNAME syntax. (27942, 26837)

  • Example: previously, to specify “mean” as the reduction method in a torch::nn layer or functional, we would use torch::Reduction::Mean. Now, torch::Reduction::Mean has been renamed to the shorter torch::kMean.

[C++] torch::tensor constructor is improved to match Python API behavior. (28523) (29632) (29066)

  • Shape checking fixes
    • Example 1: previously, torch::tensor({{1}, {2}}) produced a tensor of sizes {2}. Now, it produces a tensor of sizes {2, 1}.
    • Example 2: previously, torch::tensor(1.1) produced a 1-dim tensor. Now it produces a 0-dim tensor.
  • Type inference improvements
    • Example 1: previously, C++ torch::tensor with a double (e.g. torch::tensor(1.1)) or a (nested) braced-init-list of doubles (e.g. torch::tensor({{1.1, 2.2}}) produces a tensor with dtype torch::kDouble. Now it produces a tensor with dtype torch::get_default_dtype().
    • Example 2: previously, C++ torch::tensor with an integer type (e.g. torch::tensor(1)) or a (nested) braced-init-list of integer types (e.g. torch::tensor({{1, 2}})) produces a tensor with the same dtype. Now it always produces a tensor of dtype torch::kLong (aka. int64_t).
    • Example 3: previously, when passed a TensorOptions without a dtype set to the torch::tensor constructor, it always produces a tensor of dtype torch::get_default_dtype(). Now it produces a tensor of different dtypes based on the dtype of the braced-init-list and the default dtype.
  • Passing a std::initializer_list (NOT braced-init-list) to torch::tensor will no longer compile, and the user should pass the equivalent braced-init-list to torch::tensor instead. For example, write torch::tensor({1.1, 1.2}) instead of torch::tensor(std::initializer_list<double>({1.1, 1.2})).

[C++] Some activation modules’ forward function now take Tensor instead of Tensor& as input. (28501)

torch::nn layers affected: ELU / SELU / Hardtanh / LeakyReLU / ReLU / ReLU6 / RReLU / CELU
This change ensures that the above layers can be used in a torch::nn::Sequential module. If your C++ model uses any of the above layers, you must recompile your C++ code with the new libtorch binary.

New Features

torch.optim

Learning rate schedulers (torch.optim.lr_scheduler) now support “chaining.” This means that two schedulers can be defined and stepped one after the other to compound their effect, see example below. Previously, the schedulers would overwrite each other. 

>>> import torch
>>> from torch.optim import SGD
>>> from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import ExponentialLR, StepLR
>>>
>>> model = [torch.nn.Parameter(torch.randn(2, 2, requires_grad=True))]
>>> optimizer = SGD(model, 0.1)
>>>
>>> scheduler1 = ExponentialLR(optimizer, gamma=0.9)
>>> scheduler2 = StepLR(optimizer, step_size=3, gamma=0.1)
>>>
>>> for epoch in range(4):
>>>     print(epoch, scheduler2.get_last_lr()[0])
>>>
>>>     optimizer.step()
>>>     scheduler1.step()
>>>     scheduler2.step()
    
0 0.1
1 0.09000000000000001
2 0.08100000000000002
3 0.00729000000000002
4 0.00656100000000002

Distributed

  • Add allgather_coalesced API to ProcessGroup (28634,29059)
  • Add abort API in ProcessGroupGloo Send/Recv Work (29928).
  • Add --no_python flag to allow using a bash script wrapper in the launch command (29144).

RPC [Experimental]

torch.distributed.rpc is a newly introduced package. It contains basic building blocks to run functions remotely in model training and inference, which will be useful for scenarios like distributed model parallel or implementing parameter server frameworks. More specifically, it contains four pillars: RPC, Remote Reference, Distributed Autograd, and Distributed Optimizer. Please refer to the documentation and the tutorial for more details.

  • Add rpc_sync and rpc_async for builtin operators and Python user functions (23228, 23569, 28392).
  • Add remote and RRef for builtin operators and Python user functions (25169, 25499).
  • Distributed Autograd - FAST mode backward pass implementation. (27022, 27576).
  • Integrate remote and RRef with distributed autograd (28630, 28656).
  • Add a distributed optimizer (29304, 30062).
  • Add python API for get_gradients() method to retrieve gradients from distributed autograd context. (28926).
  • Support creating local RRefs on local values and to-self remote calls (28948, 29634).
  • Support custom pickler for RPC (30185).
  • Add default RPC agent options based on the backend type (30201).
  • Add local shutdown to ProcessGroup agent (30330).

JIT

  • script::Module: implement more of of the nn.Module API (28828)
    • In particular, adds the (optionally recursive) methods that iterate over submodules, parameters, etc.
    • Adds a pybind-like attr() method to simplify attribute access.
  • Add support for @staticmethod on ScriptModules (27163)
  • Support Module Containers as Iterables (26465)
  • Support Iterables In List Comprehensions (26768)
  • Dictionaries now preserve insertion order, and OrderedDict is supported (26465)
  • Add support for hasattr() (29332)
  • TorchScript classes can now be callable (26743)
  • Add clone_instance for ScriptModules (30168)
  • Add torch.memory_format support to the TorchScript (28544)
  • Custom forward() is now allowed on container modules (28988)
  • Calls to submodules are now preserved in the traced graph (29261)
  • Add support for module containers to be used as iterables (28255)
  • Make JIT Serialization support arbitrary std::function<> IO (28039)
  • Support layout() in script (27100)
  • Methods and functions are no longer inlined in the serialized file format (26706)

Mobile

  • Build level customization
    • Add custom build script to only include selected operators (30144).
    • Dump operator names used by a script module (29374, 30467).
    • Disable JIT optimizer in Android wrapper for mobile custom build (30285).
    • FBJNI Gradle ABI_FILTERS parameter (30135).

Improvements

Distributed

Improvements

  • Add timeout support in ProcessGroupNCCL (27224).
  • Ensure that DDP wrapped module has parameters that require gradients (25858).
  • Making torch/csrc/cuda NCCL usage safe for NCCL 2.5 (29014).
  • Enable test_distributed for ROCm but only with NCCL backend (28814).

RPC Improvements

  • Separate out RPC to rpc_sync and rpc_async APIs (26570).
  • Make python user function serialization format to be consistent with builtin operators (27136).
  • Clean up distributed autograd context on all participants on exit (27951).
  • Improve error handling for distributed autograd engine. (27940).
  • Scope pybind11 functions to torch.distributed.{autograd,rpc} (27529).
  • Lift rpc_timeout to RpcAgent to make it reusable for other RpcAgent implementations. (29341).
  • Support sending message to self in process_group_agent (29253).
  • Properly shutdown RPC even in the case of clean_shutdown=False. (29148).
  • Ensure initializedContextIds_ map is cleaned up appropriately in distributed autograd engine. (29787).
  • Add hash and equality operators for WorkerInfo (29958).
  • Add RpcAgentOptions struct type to bundle arguments for different RpcAgents (29972).
  • Mark timeout FutureMessages and throw exceptions in ProcessGroupAgent (29601).
  • Re-throw python remote exception when using remote reference to itself (29930).
  • By default ignore RRef leaks during shutdown (30217).

Documentation

MISC

  • Add known worker IDs to distributed autograd context (26324).
  • Minor tweaks to RPC message API (28326).
  • Rename PythonUDF{Call,Resp} (27530).
  • Use std::shared_ptr for DistAutogradContext (29770).
  • Mark c10d::~NCCLUtils as noexcept (29118).

JIT

  • Move custom passes to last optimization step (29256)
  • Represent the original Python name of a module type the same way in traced and scripted modules. (29912)
  • Only print original SourceRange on highlight (29708)
  • Error message and ergonomic improvements:
    • Show full call stack in TorchScript exception even when calls were inlined. (29911)
    • Reduce error context from 10 -> 3 (26765)
    • Fix error report highlight for unmatched type annotation (27195)
    • Make default string arguments in schemas human readable (27088)
    • Print which output didn't have dependence during trace checking. (29047)
  • Improvements to save/load and serialization performance:
    • Modules can now share JIT types if their implementation is the same, improving save/load performance (26666)
    • Improve float pickling speed. (28553)
    • Pickler: convert std::stringstream cases for improved performance. (29351)
    • Buffer to speed Unpickler (27727)
    • Buffer in Pickler to improve performance. (27720)
    • In torch::save() avoid zip compressing small header records. (28180)
    • String optimizations related to serialization. (28230)
  • Clean up serialized source format (28129)
  • API for finding a common ancestor block for a pair of nodes (28864)
  • Make inserted child module names unique (27237)
  • Better hashing for constant pool (27733)
  • Improve error messages when a method or attribute is missing (27110)
  • Display original source range in Node::print (27524)
  • Always use the closure to resolve variable names (27515)

Mobile

  • Improve Java API / JNI
  • Improve support for older Android NDK
    • Introduce math_compat.h for older Android versions (28567).
    • Define std::strtoll for older Android (28603).
  • Improve error message, documentation, debuggability
    • Enable full error message for mobile builds (29926).
    • Update iOS README.md (27145).
    • Update Android README.md (28533).
    • Rename function parameters to avoid [-Werror,-Wshadow] (30276).
    • Fix exception message in Java Tensor (30776).
  • Improve support for benchmark and profiling
    • Add Android and iOS test app for benchmark and profiling (28405, 28406, 28469, 28622).
    • Integration with mobile benchmark in PEP (28437).
    • Subscribe for record function and if android do atrace (28708).
  • Improve build / CI

Named Tensors

  • torch.addcdiv, torch.addcmul Added named tensor support (28975).
  • torch.{ones,zeros,full,rand,randn}_like Added named tensor support (28981).
  • torch.cdist Added named tensor support (29129).
  • torch.equal Added named tensor support (29322).
  • Added named tensor support for comparison ops (27162).
  • Tensor.align_to Fixed error message (27221).
  • Tensor.align_to Make method-only. (27304).
  • Tensor.align_to Accept partially named tensors (27308).
  • torch.mean(Tensor, Dimname) Fixed autograd support (29199).
  • Tensor.unflatten Fix when dim is a negative integer (#31208) (31432).
  • Fix type errors in examples about Named Tensor (27828).

C++ API

New torch::nn modules

  • Convolution layers
    • torch::nn::ConvTranspose{1,2,3}d / Unfold (29721) (27809).
  • Pooling layers
  • Loss layers
    • torch::nn::HingeEmbeddingLoss / CosineEmbeddingLoss /MultiMarginLoss (27101) (27345) (27424) (27770).
    • torch::nn::TripletMarginLoss / SoftMarginloss / MultiLabelMargin / MarginRankingLoss / MultiLabelSoftMarginLoss (27713, 27956) (27660) (27659) (29000) (27669).
    • torch::nn::MSELoss / KLDivLoss / BCELoss / SmoothL1Loss / PoissonNLLLoss / BCEWithLogitsLoss (27156) (28806) (30146) (27661) (28755) (28783).
    • torch::nn::NLLLoss / CrossEntropyLoss / CTCLoss (29812) (28654).
  • Normalization Layers
  • Activation Layers
  • Dropout Layers
    • torch::nn::Dropout / Dropout{2, 3}d / AlphaDropout / FeatureAlphaDropout (29761) (28424).
  • Padding Layers
    • torch::nn::ReflectionPad{1, 2}d / ReplicationPad{1,2,3}d / ZeroPad2d / ConstantPad{1,2,3}d (28538) (28539) (28540) (28541).
  • Embedding layers
    • torch::nn::Embedding / EmbeddingBag (26358).
  • Linear layers
  • Vision layers
    • torch::nn::Upsample / PixelShuffle (28413) (28140).

New torch::nn::functional functions

  • Convolution functions
    • torch::nn::functional::conv{1,2,3}d / conv_transpose{1,2,3}d / fold / unfold (28917) (29721) (28732) (27809).
  • Pooling functions
    • torch::nn::functional::adaptive_avg_pool{1, 2, 3}d / lp_pool{1, 2}d / fractional_max_pool{2, 3}d / fractional_max_pool{2, 3}d_with_indices (26808, 26818, 26819) (27800, 28492) (29584) (29933).
  • Loss functions
    • torch::nn::functional::hinge_embedding_loss / multi_margin_loss / multilabel_soft_margin_loss / triplet_margin_loss / soft_margin_loss / margin_ranking_loss (27101) (27424) (27669) (27713) (27660) (29000).
    • torch::nn::functional::poisson_nll_loss / nll_loss / cross_entropy / binary_cross_entropy_with_logits (28755) (29812) (28783).
    • torch::nn::functional::l1_loss / kl_div / mse_loss / binary_cross_entropy / smooth_l1_loss / ctc_loss (27156) (28806) (30146) (27661) (28654).
  • Normalization functions
  • Activation functions
  • Embedding functions
    • torch::nn::functional::embedding / embedding_bag / one_hot (28669) (29673) (27177).
  • Linear functions
    • torch::nn::functional::linear / bilinear (27382) (26082).
  • Padding functions
  • Vision functions
    • torch::nn::functional::affine_grid / grid_sample / interpolate / pixel_shuffle (27263) (28354) (28413) (28140).
  • Distance functions
    • torch::nn::functional::pdist (27122).
  • Utility functions
    • torch::nn::utils::clip_grad_value_ / parameters_to_vector / vector_to_parameters (28736, 29584) (30216) (29267).

AMD Support

  • New features integration
    • Enabled RCCL Integration (23884, 27383, 27518, 29385)
    • Enabled rocTX and rocTracer Integration (27416)
    • Improved hiprtc integration (27390)
    • bfloat16 enablement (initial) on ROCm (27719)
  • Build/CI
    • Upgrade to ROCm 2.9 (27417)
    • Upgrade ROCm CI to Python3.6 (30119, 27353)
    • Distribute hipify scripts as part of torch package (27425)
    • Build and test gfx908 architecture (27388)
    • Add torch.version.hip (29815).
    • Build fixes (29547, 29009)

ONNX

In PyTorch 1.4, we have mainly focused on expanding the coverage for ONNX Opset 11, and enabling exporting torchvision models. Most of the torchvision models can be exported to ONNX (Opset 11, with fixed input size), including FasterRCNN, MaskRCNN, and KeypointRCNN. We have also enhanced export support for some tensor indexing scenarios, with more enhancements to come in the next release. In addition, 20+ new PyTorch operators are enabled in ONNX exporter.

Expanding Coverage for ONNX Opset 11

  • torch.sort/torch.topk are supported in Opset 11 (25739)
  • torch.size/torch.squeeze/torch.unsqueeze/torch.mm/torch.index_fill/torch.index_copy are supported in Opset 11 (27578)
  • torch.masked_select/torch.masked_scatter are supported in Opset 11 (25949)
  • torch.arange is supported in Opset 11 (26875)
  • avg_pool, constant_pad_nd, reflection_pad, replication_pad Support enhanced in Opset 11 (28225)
  • torch.hardtanh is supported in Opset 11 (30169)
  • Enable ONNX constant folding for opset 11 (29011)

Exporting More Torch Operators/Models to ONNX

  • torch.remainder is enabled in exporter (24410)
  • torch.unfold is enabled in exporter (24970)
  • torch.slice/torch.select with negative index are enabled in exporter (25273, 26549)
  • torch.ones/torch.ones_like/torch.zeros/torch.zeros_like/torch.full/torch.full_like with default dtype are enabled in exporter (27577)
  • torch.unbind is enabled in exporter (27247)
  • torch.nn.functional.interpolate export is enhanced (27179, 27566, 28560, 29489)
  • torch.det is enabled in exporter (26958)
  • torch.group_norm is enabled in exporter (27071)
  • torch.meshgrid is enabled in exporter (26037)
  • torch.randn/torch.randn_like are enabled in exporter (28470, 29354)
  • torch.weight_norm enabled in exporter (28618)
  • torch.scalar_tensor is enabled in exporter (28713)
  • torch.logdet is enabled in exporter (29767)
  • torch.batch_norm 2D with affine=False is enabled in exporter (29458)
  • torch.bitshift is enabled in exporter (28210)

Enhancing Export/Test Infra

  • Use deepcopy inputs in ONNX ORT test cases (27186)
  • Return NotImplemented from all binary math ops (27423).
  • Disabling ONNX IR v4 sematics for opset 8 or lower (28990)
  • Add ONNX tests for torchvision models (30121)
  • Keep output type information while exporting ONNX graph (25906)

Quantization

Quantization updates correspond to a mix of bug-fixes and feature improvements, with feature improvements adding improved operator coverage and performance improvements. We have also made a lot of progress towards enabling graph mode quantization support.

  • Feature improvements:
    • Enabling intra-op parallelism (26692).
    • Enabling inplace relu (28710).
    • Quantized Tensor support copy (28612).
    • Add quantized torch mean implementation (27675).
    • Add quantized avg_pool2d for pytorch mobile (27631).
    • Add nn.quantized.Conv3d (29813).
    • Adding inplace quantized relu6 (29245).
    • Fast histogram observer (29790).
    • PackedSequence support for quantized LSTM (29585).
    • Improve legacy QuantizedLinear functions to reduce overhead (29773).
    • Add support for quantized operator conversion from PT to C2 via ONNX (29694).
    • enable per channel dynamic quantization (30122).
  • Scripting support:
    • Make PerChannelMinMaxObserver scriptable using torch.jit.ignore (29416).
    • Make HistogramObserver scriptable with @torch.jit.ignore (27950).
    • Fix tracing for dynamic quantized LSTM (29331).

Visualization

  • Fixed graph visualization: displaying proper names after recent JIT changes (30244)
  • Support logging embedding for TensorBoard visualizations to generic filesystem (27716)

Other Improvements

  • torch.argmax/argmin Allow half type (28787).
  • torch.cuda.memory_stats / memory_summary instrumentation for CUDA memory allocator (27361).
  • torch.set_num_threads Allow calling multiple times with TBB (27190).
  • torch.set_num_threads Allow calling multiple times in parallel native (27947).
  • torch.logical_xor Allow non-bool tensors (27248).
  • torch.promote_types Nicer error message. (27941).
  • torch.batch_norm_elemt Add an out-variant (27621).
  • torch.lerp Implement derivative with respect to weight (28219).
  • torch.complex32 Add type promotion support (27929).
  • torch.unique Support bool tensors (28374).
  • torch.reshape Improve backward for viewable geometries (28901).
  • torch.lu Generalized factorization (28608).
  • torch.equal Add the intra-op parallelism (28810).
  • torch.randint Accept generator=None (29748).
  • torch.bfloat16 Enabled for cuda (27259).
  • torch.multinomial Enable for torch.half (29266).
  • nn.RNN Respect the current stream in cudnn (27026).
  • nn.RNN Preserve nonlinearity attribute (28058).
  • nn.Linear Support 0-batch size. (27211).
  • nn.functional.binary_cross_entropy implement double backwards (26983).
  • nn.AdaptiveAvgPool2d Add support for NHWC memory format (24396).
  • nn.GELU Add GELU activation (28944).
  • nn.LayerNorm Handle batch size of zero (28614).
  • nn.BatchNorm Add NHWC support on cudnn (23861).
  • nn.BatchNorm2d support torch.channels_last (28982).
  • nn.BatchNorm2d Handle empty inputs (30035).
  • nn.LayerNorm Enable the intra-op parallelism (28464).
  • nn.utils.prune Add pruning functionality (24076).
  • nn.Sequential Make iterable (28987).
  • dtype.is_signed Ability to differentiate signed dtypes (29511).
  • optim.lr_scheduler.MultiplicativeLR Add new multiplicative learning rate scheduler. (27254).
  • cuda.comm.scatter, gather Add channel-last support (28077).
  • at::parallel_for Choose number of OMP threads based on GRAIN_SIZE (26963).
  • Return NotImplemented from unsupported tensor arithmetic operators (26507).
  • Automatically select proper tqdm submodule (27108).
  • Pickle support for sparse tensors (27062).
  • Vectorized complex unary and binary op support. (26500).
  • Complex support for reduce and linpack ops on CPU (27653).
  • Complex support for compare and pointwise ops on CPU (28735).
  • Make PyTorch Python 3.8 compatible (29302).
  • Buffer python warning to avoid deadlocks (26613).
  • Use NNPACK for strided convolutions. (29084).

Bug Fixes

Distributed

  • Ensure NCCL error handling code is disabled for NCCL versions < 2.4 (27124).
  • Fix segmentation fault in FileStore with concurrent accesses. (28812).
  • Fix DDP incompatibility issue with nn.MultiheadAttention (26826).

RPC

  • Add ProcessGroupAgent termination detection algorithm (26984).
  • Fix pybind11 warnings in Python RPC handler implementation (27284).
  • Defer creating ProcessGroupAgent listener thread until contexts are initialized (28013).
  • Fix Python RPC handler exit crash (27251).
  • Fix distributed autograd initialization (29069).
  • Always include autograd context id in rpc_* / remote requests (29781).
  • Make RRefContext singleton leaky, deal with module destruct order race. (30172).

C++ API Bug Fixes

  • at::Tensor::requires_grad_ now supported (26332).
  • torch::isfinite now supported (30083).
  • torch::nn::modules_ordered_dict is deprecated (28774).
  • Add reset_parameters to torch::nn modules (29832).
  • Allow passing undefined Tensor to Module::register_parameter (27948).
  • Exclude undefined tensors in the result of Module::parameters() / named_paramters() / buffers() / named_buffers() (30626).
  • Include hierarchy information in C++ API loading error messages (28499).
  • Fix a bug: the C++ L-BFGS optimizer does not work properly if there are one or more registered tensors with no grad in the model (27606).
  • Use c10::variant-based enums for Nonlinearity and FanMode (27933). Support for torch::nn::init::Nonlinearity and torch::nn::init::FanMode will be removed in 1.5.

JIT

  • Make dropout properly condition on training. (29436)
  • Fix aten::grad to return optional list (29577)
  • Fix torch.arange dtype
  • Fix type sharing on loaded ScriptModules (29826)
  • Fix type sharing between traced modules (29583)
  • Check for mutable default parameters (29833)
  • Fix tracing of autograd functions (29791)
  • Check for unrolled loop in break & continue (29474)
  • Fix negative string indexing (22700)
  • Make jit.trace_module reentrant (29411)
  • Fix jit outplace tracing and reapply changes to _like operators. (28839)
  • Properly guard against inheritance on TorchScript classes (28407)
  • Fix when giving jit format warning about unsupported options (28616)
  • Fix handling of function attributes. (28569)
  • Fix pushLong() issue in pickler. (28057)
  • Fix broken name mangling (27511)
  • Fix segfault while printing value type for an error msg in emitListComprehension (27261)
  • Fix toIValue dict iteration (26856)
  • Fix race condition in Function::optimized_graph(). (27012)
  • Sanitize module names on legacy import (27764)
  • Python None should have its type inferred as NoneType (26665)
  • Properly set existing attributes under recursive script (27514)

Quantization

  • Skip copy_same_type_transpose_ for quantized tensor (29609).
  • Add note that cuda quantization is not supported (27829).
  • Rename _intrinsic to intrinsic (27194).
  • Better error message for quantized dispatch (28635).
  • Update the misleading comments for zero_points and scale in dynamic quant linear module [1/2] (28767).
  • Avoid the misleading zero_point and scale [2/2] (28827).
  • Add the warning message for API with linear modules (28766).
  • Do not insert observers for empty sequential modules (28384).
  • Fix the padding issue of quantized average pool operator (28260).

Mobile

  • Fix deadlock issues in ThreadPool (29885).
  • Disable ProfilingGraphExecutorImpl for mobile (30067).

Other Bug fixes

  • torch.kthvalue Fix CUDA shared memory out of bound access in findPattern (28989).

  • torch.save Fix source files not being saved (28965).

  • torch.load Fix OSError loading files larger than 2GB. (27125).

  • torch.linspace clearer error message for negative step sizes. (28274).

  • torch.histc Add range checks to avoid segfaults (27712).

  • torch.lu Fix thread local issue on cpu (28546).

  • torch.max_pool2d Limit tensor size to max CUDA grid size (28931).

  • torch.renorm Fix a memory leak in CUDA renorm. (29873).

  • torch.index_add Fix bug in atomicAdd on CUDA for some dtypes (29231).

  • torch.addmm Fix handling of empty tensors (28613).

  • nn.CTCLoss Fix incorrect gradient for large target sizes (27460).

  • nn.functional.ctc_loss Fix incorrect gradient on cudnn (27039).

  • nn.Embedding Incorrect gradient at padding_idx in cuda kernel. (27731).

  • nn.LayerNorm Fix an illegal memory access error (28196).

  • nn.Conv2d handle zero stride (28784).

  • nn.PoissonNLLLoss Fix incorrect result with full=True (28637).

  • nn.AvgPool2d fix an overflow for 2^31-1 sized inputs (30793).

  • nn.RNNBase Fix an issue with use of children of RNN third party device types (28562).

  • nn.Upsample Fix “invalid configuration argument” error (28927).

  • nn.Upsample Fix a CUDA launch config failure (29016).

  • optim.lr_scheduler.OneCycleLR Correctly handle div_factor parameter (28217).

  • PackedSequence.to Ensure all tensors are moved (27245).

  • EventList.total_average Fix a regression caused by missing iadd (27498).

  • Tensor.record_stream Ensure stream is recorded for shifted view tensors (27371).

  • torch.hub Handle branch names containing a slash. (27960).

  • Fix error handling in Magma kernels (29003).

  • Fix avx for c++14 (28207).

  • Fix illegal memory access thread safety issue in sparse CUDA (29426).

  • __cuda_array_interface__ Fix stride calculation (31450).

Deprecations

Python 2 support is deprecated and will not be supported in the 1.5 release.

torch.optim: Scheduler.step(epoch) is now deprecated; use Scheduler.step() instead. (26432)

For example: 

>>> for epoch in range(10):
>>>    optimizer.step()
>>>    scheduler.step(epoch)
DeprecationWarning: The epoch parameter in `scheduler.step()` was not necessary and is being deprecated where possible. Please use `scheduler.step()` to step the scheduler. During the deprecation, if epoch is different from None, the closed form is used instead of the new chainable form, where available. Please open an issue if you are unable to replicate your use case: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/new/choose.
  warnings.warn(EPOCH_DEPRECATION_WARNING, DeprecationWarning)

[C++] C++11 is deprecated and will not be supported in the 1.5 release.

[C++] Tensor::is_variable() has been deprecated. As noted in the Backwards Incompatible Changes section, the distinction between variable and non-variable has been eliminated, so this check is no longer meaningful. Generally, is_variable() will now return true except in some special circumstances (see 29653 for more details). (29653)

[C++] torch::nn::modules_ordered_dict has been deprecated. It is generally no longer necessary and can just be removed. (28774)

torch.jit.quantized API has been deprecated in favor of torch.quantization.quantize_dynamic (28766)

Performance

A benchmark suite is available to easily measure the performance of operators with a range of input shapes. The generated benchmark data fully characterize the performance of operators in terms of execution time. For more details see README.md in the benchmarks/operator_benchmark directory.

  • torch.nn.functional.threshold, torch.nn.functional.layer_norm, torch.cdist Performance of threshold (CPU), layer norm (CUDA) and cdist operations was improved (27155,27634, 25799)
  • torch.Tensor.fill_ Performance for half and bfloat16 types on CPU was improved (28397).
  • torch.nn.MaxPool2d implementation for channels_last format was added (24872)
  • There is a fast pass reducing the overheads of pointwise operations relying on TensorIterator under certain conditions (contiguous inputs, no broadcast) (29180).
  • Overheads of operations with scalars/number literals was improved (29915).
  • In case of type promotion on the GPU, the values are converted on the fly, without explicit casting of the full tensor (30018).
  • reorder_dimensions in TensorIterator favors output write locality, improving overall performance when operating on discontiguous tensors (28615).
  • Float pickling speed was improved (28553).
  • GRAIN_SIZE for intra-op parallelization was unified between TH and ATen operations (28770)
  • tensor.numel devirtualized, improving performance (27294)
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