lossstats.py

            # loss stats
            if counter % print_every == 0:
                # Get validation loss
                val_h = net.init_hidden(batch_size)
                val_losses = []
                net.eval()
                for x, y in get_batches(val_data, batch_size, seq_length):
                    # One-hot encode our data and make them Torch tensors
                    x = one_hot_encode(x, n_chars)
                    x, y = torch.from_numpy(x), torch.from_numpy(y)
                    
                    # Creating new variables for the hidden state, otherwise
                    # we'd backprop through the entire training history
                    val_h = tuple([each.data for each in val_h])
                    
                    inputs, targets = x, y
                    if(train_on_gpu):
                        inputs, targets = inputs.cuda(), targets.cuda()

                    output, val_h = net(inputs, val_h)
                    val_loss = criterion(output, targets.view(batch_size*seq_length).long())
                
                    val_losses.append(val_loss.item())
                
                net.train() # reset to train mode after iterationg through validation data
                
                print("Epoch: {}/{}...".format(e+1, epochs),
                      "Step: {}...".format(counter),
                      "Loss: {:.4f}...".format(loss.item()),
                      "Val Loss: {:.4f}".format(np.mean(val_losses)))