Gradual warmup lr schedule--pytorch

Gradually warm-up(increasing) learning rate for pytorch’s optimizer. Proposed in ‘Accurate, Large Minibatch SGD: Training ImageNet in 1 Hour’.

# from:https://github.com/ildoonet/pytorch-gradual-warmup-lr
from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import _LRScheduler
from torch.optim.lr_scheduler import ReduceLROnPlateau

class GradualWarmupScheduler(_LRScheduler):
    """ Gradually warm-up(increasing) learning rate in optimizer.
    Proposed in 'Accurate, Large Minibatch SGD: Training ImageNet in 1 Hour'.
    Args:
        optimizer (Optimizer): Wrapped optimizer.
        multiplier: target learning rate = base lr * multiplier
        total_epoch: target learning rate is reached at total_epoch, gradually
        after_scheduler: after target_epoch, use this scheduler(eg. ReduceLROnPlateau)
    """

    def __init__(self, optimizer, multiplier, total_epoch, after_scheduler=None):
        self.multiplier = multiplier
        if self.multiplier <= 1.:
            raise ValueError('multiplier should be greater than 1.')
        self.total_epoch = total_epoch
        self.after_scheduler = after_scheduler
        self.finished = False
        super().__init__(optimizer)

    def get_lr(self):
        if self.last_epoch > self.total_epoch:
            if self.after_scheduler:
                if not self.finished:
                    self.after_scheduler.base_lrs = [base_lr * self.multiplier for base_lr in self.base_lrs]
                    self.finished = True
                return self.after_scheduler.get_lr()
            return [base_lr * self.multiplier for base_lr in self.base_lrs]

        return [base_lr * ((self.multiplier - 1.) * self.last_epoch / self.total_epoch + 1.) for base_lr in self.base_lrs]

    def step_ReduceLROnPlateau(self, metrics, epoch=None):
        if epoch is None:
            epoch = self.last_epoch + 1
        self.last_epoch = epoch if epoch != 0 else 1  # ReduceLROnPlateau is called at the end of epoch, whereas others are called at beginning
        if self.last_epoch <= self.total_epoch:
            warmup_lr = [base_lr * ((self.multiplier - 1.) * self.last_epoch / self.total_epoch + 1.) for base_lr in self.base_lrs]
            for param_group, lr in zip(self.optimizer.param_groups, warmup_lr):
                param_group['lr'] = lr
        else:
            if epoch is None:
                self.after_scheduler.step(metrics, None)
            else:
                self.after_scheduler.step(metrics, epoch - self.total_epoch)

    def step(self, epoch=None, metrics=None):
        if type(self.after_scheduler) != ReduceLROnPlateau:
            if self.finished and self.after_scheduler:
                if epoch is None:
                    self.after_scheduler.step(None)
                else:
                    self.after_scheduler.step(epoch - self.total_epoch)
            else:
                return super(GradualWarmupScheduler, self).step(epoch)
        else:
            self.step_ReduceLROnPlateau(metrics, epoch)

if __name__ == '__main__':
	scheduler_cosine = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(optimizer, max_epoch)
	scheduler_warmup = GradualWarmupScheduler(optimizer, multiplier=8, total_epoch=10, after_scheduler=scheduler_cosine)

	for epoch in range(train_epoch):
    	scheduler_warmup.step()     # 10 epoch warmup, after that schedule as scheduler_plateau
    ...