Pytorch weight normalization - works for all nn.Module (probably)

pytorch_weight_norm.py

## Weight norm is now added to pytorch as a pre-hook, so use that instead :)

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from torch.nn import Parameter
from functools import wraps

class WeightNorm(nn.Module):
    append_g = '_g'
    append_v = '_v'

    def __init__(self, module, weights):
        super(WeightNorm, self).__init__()
        self.module = module
        self.weights = weights
        self._reset()

    def _reset(self):
        for name_w in self.weights:
            w = getattr(self.module, name_w)

            # construct g,v such that w = g/||v|| * v
            g = torch.norm(w)
            v = w/g.expand_as(w)
            g = Parameter(g.data)
            v = Parameter(v.data)
            name_g = name_w + self.append_g
            name_v = name_w + self.append_v

            # remove w from parameter list
            del self.module._parameters[name_w]

            # add g and v as new parameters
            self.module.register_parameter(name_g, g)
            self.module.register_parameter(name_v, v)

    def _setweights(self):
        for name_w in self.weights:
            name_g = name_w + self.append_g
            name_v = name_w + self.append_v
            g = getattr(self.module, name_g)
            v = getattr(self.module, name_v)
            w = v*(g/torch.norm(v)).expand_as(v)
            setattr(self.module, name_w, w)

    def forward(self, *args):
        self._setweights()
        return self.module.forward(*args)

##############################################################
## An older version using a python decorator but might be buggy.
## Does not work when the module is replicated (e.g. nn.DataParallel)

def _decorate(forward, module, name, name_g, name_v):
    @wraps(forward)
    def decorated_forward(*args, **kwargs):
        g = module.__getattr__(name_g)
        v = module.__getattr__(name_v)
        w = v*(g/torch.norm(v)).expand_as(v)
        module.__setattr__(name, w)
        return forward(*args, **kwargs)
    return decorated_forward

def weight_norm(module, name):
    param = module.__getattr__(name)

    # construct g,v such that w = g/||v|| * v
    g = torch.norm(param)
    v = param/g.expand_as(param)
    g = Parameter(g.data)
    v = Parameter(v.data)
    name_g = name + '_g'
    name_v = name + '_v'

    # remove w from parameter list
    del module._parameters[name]

    # add g and v as new parameters
    module.register_parameter(name_g, g)
    module.register_parameter(name_v, v)

    # construct w every time before forward is called
    module.forward = _decorate(module.forward, module, name, name_g, name_v)
    return module

wm_example.py

import torch
import torch.nn as nn
from pytorch_weight_norm import WeightNorm

x = torch.autograd.Variable(torch.randn(5,10,30,30))
m = nn.ConvTranspose2d(10,20,3)
y = m(x)

print(m._parameters.keys())
# odict_keys(['weight', 'bias'])

m = WeightNorm(m, ['weight'])
y_wn = m(x)

print(m.module._parameters.keys())
# odict_keys(['bias', 'weight_g', 'weight_v'])

print(torch.norm(y-y_wn).data[0])
# 1.3324766769073904e-05 (not important to get this smaller)

## can also use within sequential
## and is also stackable

net = nn.Sequential(
    WeightNorm(nn.Linear(30,10), ['weight']),
    nn.ReLU(),
    WeightNorm(nn.Linear(10,20), ['weight', 'bias']),
)

hello, thanks for sharing this elegant implementation. Where could I find the newer updated version?
Thanks!

@rtqichen Thanks for contribution for this code.
@ all @greaber @Smerity @ypxie @ hanzhanggit
Hi everyone who read this post. I have some questions regarding to weight_norm. It would be great if you can help.
I tried to implement the weight_norm for each convolution and linear layer (check the code here https://github.com/xwuaustin/weight_norm/blob/master/cifar10_tutorial_weightNorm.py ). However, the training loss in CIFAR-10 seems no difference to the original setting (see the picture below) at the first 10 epochs (6 iterations equal to 1 epoch).

Now questions:

1. Is there something wrong with the code I modified? I used the code from cifar10_tutorial in pytorch. All I did is to add the wieghtNorm at each layer.

import torch.nn.utils.weight_norm as weightNorm
class Net(nn.Module):
def init(self):
super(Net, self).init()
### we use weight normalization after each convolutions and linear transfrom
self.conv1 = weightNorm(nn.Conv2d(3, 6, 5),name = "weight")
#print (self.conv1._parameters.keys())
self.pool = nn.MaxPool2d(2, 2)
self.conv2 =weightNorm(nn.Conv2d(6, 16, 5),name = "weight")
self.fc1 = weightNorm(nn.Linear(16 * 5 * 5, 120),name = "weight")
self.fc2 = weightNorm(nn.Linear(120, 84),name = "weight")
self.fc3 = weightNorm(nn.Linear(84, 10),name = "weight")

2 Is the update of the weights and bias, namely 'weight_g', 'weight_v', using the formulation:

3. Can we do the initialization as the paper suggested?

Thanks. Looking for your responds. :)

Excellent work to solve weight_norm(...) in deep copy problem!
Thank you