RuntimeError: unsupported operation: some elements of the input tensor and the written-to tensor ref

参考：`RuntimeError: unsupported operation: some elements of the input tensor and the written-to tensor refer to a single memory location` · Lightning-AI/pytorch-lightning · Discussion #14377 · GitHub

问题：

调用 model时出现如题报错，换用其他model没报错，google了下，问题在PositionalEncoding中。

model背景：调用transformer，使用了原PositionalEncoding代码：

class PositionalEncoding(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, d_model, dropout=0.1, max_len=5000):
        super(PositionalEncoding, self).__init__()
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(p=dropout)

        pe = torch.zeros(max_len, d_model)
        position = torch.arange(0, max_len, dtype=torch.float).unsqueeze(1)
        div_term = torch.exp(torch.arange(0, d_model, 2).float() * (-np.log(10000.0) / d_model))
        pe[:, 0::2] = torch.sin(position * div_term)
        pe[:, 1::2] = torch.cos(position * div_term)
        pe = pe.unsqueeze(0).transpose(0, 1)

        self.register_buffer('pe', pe)


    def forward(self, x):
        # not used in the final model
        x = x + self.pe[:x.shape[0], :]
        return self.dropout(x)

本人解决方案

将其改为 即可

class PositionalEncoding(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, d_model, dropout=0.1, max_len=5000):
        super(PositionalEncoding, self).__init__()
        self.dropout = nn.Dropout(p=dropout)

        pe = torch.zeros(max_len, d_model)
        position = torch.arange(0, max_len, dtype=torch.float).unsqueeze(1)
        div_term = torch.exp(torch.arange(0, d_model, 2).float() * (-np.log(10000.0) / d_model))
        pe[:, 0::2] = torch.sin(position * div_term)
        pe[:, 1::2] = torch.cos(position * div_term)
        pe = pe.unsqueeze(0).transpose(0, 1)

        # self.register_buffer('pe', pe)
        self.register_parameter('pe', nn.Parameter(pe, requires_grad=False))

    def forward(self, x):
        # not used in the final model
        x = x + self.pe[:x.shape[0], :]
        return self.dropout(x)

原因应该是nn.register_buffer、torch版本和DDP之间的问题，因为我对model进行单卡测试时无报错，so。。。，我之前也因为self.register_buffer('pe', pe)这行代码遇到过其他报错，总之 使用PositionalEncoding且多卡并行时注意一下这里。