Add WarmupStepWithFixedGammaLR schedule

Summary:
Pull Request resolved: #4473

Add WarmupStepWithFixedGammaLR schedule

Add cfg.SOLVER.INTERVAL_RESCALED to indicate whether we will rescale the interval of the scheduler after warming up in WarmupParamScheduler

Differential Revision: D38133633

fbshipit-source-id: 70f30a871d4890492a3e27f244535e68d32249c9

detectron2/config/defaults.py

@@ -545,6 +545,7 @@
 _C.SOLVER.WARMUP_FACTOR = 1.0 / 1000
 _C.SOLVER.WARMUP_ITERS = 1000
 _C.SOLVER.WARMUP_METHOD = "linear"
+_C.SOLVER.INTERVAL_RESCALED = False
 
 # Save a checkpoint after every this number of iterations
 _C.SOLVER.CHECKPOINT_PERIOD = 5000

detectron2/solver/build.py

@@ -6,7 +6,11 @@
 from enum import Enum
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, Iterable, List, Optional, Set, Type, Union
 import torch
-from fvcore.common.param_scheduler import CosineParamScheduler, MultiStepParamScheduler
+from fvcore.common.param_scheduler import (
+    CosineParamScheduler,
+    MultiStepParamScheduler,
+    StepWithFixedGammaParamScheduler,
+)
 
 from detectron2.config import CfgNode
 
@@ -284,6 +288,13 @@ def build_lr_scheduler(
         end_value = cfg.SOLVER.BASE_LR_END / cfg.SOLVER.BASE_LR
         assert end_value >= 0.0 and end_value <= 1.0, end_value
         sched = CosineParamScheduler(1, end_value)
+    elif name == "WarmupStepWithFixedGammaLR":
+        sched = StepWithFixedGammaParamScheduler(
+            base_value=1.0,
+            gamma=cfg.SOLVER.GAMMA,
+            num_decays=cfg.SOLVER.NUM_DECAYS,
+            num_updates=cfg.SOLVER.MAX_ITER,
+        )
     else:
         raise ValueError("Unknown LR scheduler: {}".format(name))
 
@@ -292,5 +303,6 @@ def build_lr_scheduler(
         cfg.SOLVER.WARMUP_FACTOR,
         min(cfg.SOLVER.WARMUP_ITERS / cfg.SOLVER.MAX_ITER, 1.0),
         cfg.SOLVER.WARMUP_METHOD,
+        cfg.SOLVER.INTERVAL_RESCALED,
     )
     return LRMultiplier(optimizer, multiplier=sched, max_iter=cfg.SOLVER.MAX_ITER)

detectron2/solver/lr_scheduler.py

@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ def __init__(
         warmup_factor: float,
         warmup_length: float,
         warmup_method: str = "linear",
+        interval_rescaled: bool = False,
     ):
         """
         Args:
@@ -33,6 +34,8 @@ def __init__(
             warmup_length: the relative length (in [0, 1]) of warmup steps w.r.t the entire
                 training, e.g. 0.01
             warmup_method: one of "linear" or "constant"
+            interval_rescaled: whether we will rescale the interval of the scheduler after
+                warming up
         """
         end_value = scheduler(warmup_length)  # the value to reach when warmup ends
         start_value = warmup_factor * scheduler(0.0)
@@ -44,7 +47,9 @@ def __init__(
             raise ValueError("Unknown warmup method: {}".format(warmup_method))
         super().__init__(
             [warmup, scheduler],
-            interval_scaling=["rescaled", "fixed"],
+            interval_scaling=["rescaled", "rescaled"]
+            if interval_rescaled
+            else ["rescaled", "fixed"],
             lengths=[warmup_length, 1 - warmup_length],
         )
 

tests/test_scheduler.py

@@ -4,7 +4,11 @@
 import numpy as np
 from unittest import TestCase
 import torch
-from fvcore.common.param_scheduler import CosineParamScheduler, MultiStepParamScheduler
+from fvcore.common.param_scheduler import (
+    CosineParamScheduler,
+    MultiStepParamScheduler,
+    StepWithFixedGammaParamScheduler,
+)
 from torch import nn
 
 from detectron2.solver import LRMultiplier, WarmupParamScheduler, build_lr_scheduler
@@ -117,3 +121,34 @@ def _test_end_value(cfg_dict):
                 }
             }
         )
+
+    def test_warmup_stepwithfixedgamma(self):
+        p = nn.Parameter(torch.zeros(0))
+        opt = torch.optim.SGD([p], lr=5)
+
+        multiplier = WarmupParamScheduler(
+            StepWithFixedGammaParamScheduler(
+                base_value=1.0,
+                gamma=0.1,
+                num_decays=4,
+                num_updates=30,
+            ),
+            0.001,
+            5 / 30,
+            interval_rescaled=True,
+        )
+        sched = LRMultiplier(opt, multiplier, 30)
+
+        p.sum().backward()
+        opt.step()
+
+        lrs = [0.005]
+        for _ in range(29):
+            sched.step()
+            lrs.append(opt.param_groups[0]["lr"])
+        self.assertTrue(np.allclose(lrs[:5], [0.005, 1.004, 2.003, 3.002, 4.001]))
+        self.assertTrue(np.allclose(lrs[5:10], 5.0))
+        self.assertTrue(np.allclose(lrs[10:15], 0.5))
+        self.assertTrue(np.allclose(lrs[15:20], 0.05))
+        self.assertTrue(np.allclose(lrs[20:25], 0.005))
+        self.assertTrue(np.allclose(lrs[25:], 0.0005))