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PyTorch Cheat Sheet
******************************

Imports
=========

General
-------

.. code-block:: python

    import torch                                        # root package
    from torch.utils.data import Dataset, DataLoader    # dataset representation and loading

Neural Network API
------------------

.. code-block:: python

    import torch.autograd as autograd         # computation graph
    from torch import Tensor                  # tensor node in the computation graph
    import torch.nn as nn                     # neural networks
    import torch.nn.functional as F           # layers, activations and more
    import torch.optim as optim               # optimizers e.g. gradient descent, ADAM, etc.

See `autograd <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/autograd.html>`__,
`nn <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html>`__,
`functional <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html#torch-nn-functional>`__
and `optim <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/optim.html>`__

ONNX
----

.. code-block:: python

    torch.onnx.export(model, dummy data, xxxx.proto)       # exports an ONNX formatted  
                                                           # model using a trained model, dummy
                                                           # data and the desired file name

    model = onnx.load("alexnet.proto")                     # load an ONNX model
    onnx.checker.check_model(model)                        # check that the model 
                                                           # IR is well formed  
                    
    onnx.helper.printable_graph(model.graph)               # print a human readable 
                                                           # representation of the graph

See `onnx <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/onnx.html>`__

Vision
------

.. code-block:: python

    from torchvision import datasets, models, transforms     # vision datasets, 
                                                             # architectures & 
                                                             # transforms

    import torchvision.transforms as transforms              # composable transforms

See
`torchvision <https://pytorch.org/vision/stable/index.html>`__

Distributed Training
--------------------

.. code-block:: python

    import torch.distributed as dist             # distributed communication
    from torch.multiprocessing import Process    # memory sharing processes

See `distributed <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/distributed.html>`__
and
`multiprocessing <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/multiprocessing.html>`__

Tensors
=========

Creation
--------

.. code-block:: python

    x = torch.randn(*size)              # tensor with independent N(0,1) entries
    x = torch.[ones|zeros](*size)       # tensor with all 1's [or 0's]
    x = torch.tensor(L)                 # create tensor from [nested] list or ndarray L
    y = x.clone()                       # clone of x
    with torch.no_grad():               # code wrap that stops autograd from tracking tensor history
    requires_grad=True                  # arg, when set to True, tracks computation 
                                        # history for future derivative calculations

See `tensor <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/tensors.html>`__

Dimensionality
--------------

.. code-block:: python

    x.size()                                  # return tuple-like object of dimensions
    x = torch.cat(tensor_seq, dim=0)          # concatenates tensors along dim
    y = x.view(a,b,...)                       # reshapes x into size (a,b,...)
    y = x.view(-1,a)                          # reshapes x into size (b,a) for some b
    y = x.transpose(a,b)                      # swaps dimensions a and b
    y = x.permute(*dims)                      # permutes dimensions
    y = x.unsqueeze(dim)                      # tensor with added axis
    y = x.unsqueeze(dim=2)                    # (a,b,c) tensor -> (a,b,1,c) tensor
    y = x.squeeze()                           # removes all dimensions of size 1 (a,1,b,1) -> (a,b)
    y = x.squeeze(dim=1)                      # removes specified dimension of size 1 (a,1,b,1) -> (a,b,1)

See `tensor <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/tensors.html>`__

Algebra
-------


.. code-block:: python

    ret = A.mm(B)       # matrix multiplication
    ret = A.mv(x)       # matrix-vector multiplication
    x = x.t()           # matrix transpose

See `math
operations <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/torch.html?highlight=mm#math-operations>`__

GPU Usage
---------

.. code-block:: python

    torch.cuda.is_available                                     # check for cuda
    x = x.cuda()                                                # move x's data from 
                                                                # CPU to GPU and return new object

    x = x.cpu()                                                 # move x's data from GPU to CPU 
                                                                # and return new object

    if not args.disable_cuda and torch.cuda.is_available():     # device agnostic code 
        args.device = torch.device('cuda')                      # and modularity
    else:                                                       #
        args.device = torch.device('cpu')                       #

    net.to(device)                                              # recursively convert their 
                                                                # parameters and buffers to 
                                                                # device specific tensors

    x = x.to(device)                                            # copy your tensors to a device 
                                                                # (gpu, cpu)

See `cuda <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/cuda.html>`__

Deep Learning
=============

.. code-block:: python

    nn.Linear(m,n)                                # fully connected layer from 
                                                  # m to n units

    nn.ConvXd(m,n,s)                              # X dimensional conv layer from 
                                                  # m to n channels where X⍷{1,2,3} 
                                                  # and the kernel size is s

    nn.MaxPoolXd(s)                               # X dimension pooling layer 
                                                  # (notation as above)

    nn.BatchNormXd                                # batch norm layer
    nn.RNN/LSTM/GRU                               # recurrent layers
    nn.Dropout(p=0.5, inplace=False)              # dropout layer for any dimensional input
    nn.Dropout2d(p=0.5, inplace=False)            # 2-dimensional channel-wise dropout
    nn.Embedding(num_embeddings, embedding_dim)   # (tensor-wise) mapping from 
                                                  # indices to embedding vectors

See `nn <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html>`__

Loss Functions
--------------

.. code-block:: python

    nn.X                                  # where X is L1Loss, MSELoss, CrossEntropyLoss
                                          # CTCLoss, NLLLoss, PoissonNLLLoss, 
                                          # KLDivLoss, BCELoss, BCEWithLogitsLoss,
                                          # MarginRankingLoss, HingeEmbeddingLoss,
                                          # MultiLabelMarginLoss, SmoothL1Loss,
                                          # SoftMarginLoss, MultiLabelSoftMarginLoss,
                                          # CosineEmbeddingLoss, MultiMarginLoss,
                                          # or TripletMarginLoss
    
 
See `loss
functions <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html#loss-functions>`__

Activation Functions
--------------------

.. code-block:: python

    nn.X                                  # where X is ReLU, ReLU6, ELU, SELU, PReLU, LeakyReLU, 
                                          # RReLu, CELU, GELU, Threshold, Hardshrink, HardTanh,
                                          # Sigmoid, LogSigmoid, Softplus, SoftShrink, 
                                          # Softsign, Tanh, TanhShrink, Softmin, Softmax, 
                                          # Softmax2d, LogSoftmax or AdaptiveSoftmaxWithLoss

See `activation
functions <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/nn.html#non-linear-activations-weighted-sum-nonlinearity>`__

Optimizers
----------

.. code-block:: python

    opt = optim.x(model.parameters(), ...)      # create optimizer
    opt.step()                                  # update weights
    opt.zero_grad()                             # clear the gradients
    optim.X                                     # where X is SGD, AdamW, Adam,
                                                # Adafactor, NAdam, RAdam, Adadelta,
                                                # Adagrad, SparseAdam, Adamax, ASGD,
                                                # LBFGS, RMSprop or Rprop

See `optimizers <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/optim.html>`__

Learning rate scheduling
------------------------

.. code-block:: python

    scheduler = optim.X(optimizer,...)      # create lr scheduler
    scheduler.step()                        # update lr after optimizer updates weights
    optim.lr_scheduler.X                    # where X is LambdaLR, MultiplicativeLR,
                                            # StepLR, MultiStepLR, ExponentialLR,
                                            # CosineAnnealingLR, ReduceLROnPlateau, CyclicLR,
                                            # OneCycleLR, CosineAnnealingWarmRestarts,

See `learning rate
scheduler <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/optim.html#how-to-adjust-learning-rate>`__

Data Utilities
==============

Datasets
--------

.. code-block:: python

    Dataset                    # abstract class representing dataset
    TensorDataset              # labelled dataset in the form of tensors
    Concat Dataset             # concatenation of Datasets

See
`datasets <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/data.html?highlight=dataset#torch.utils.data.Dataset>`__

Dataloaders and ``DataSamplers``
--------------------------------

.. code-block:: python

    DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=1, ...)      # loads data batches agnostic 
                                                # of structure of individual data points

    sampler.Sampler(dataset,...)                # abstract class dealing with 
                                                # ways to sample from dataset

    sampler.XSampler where ...                  # Sequential, Random, SubsetRandom,
                                                # WeightedRandom, Batch, Distributed

See
`dataloader <https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/data.html?highlight=dataloader#torch.utils.data.DataLoader>`__

Also see
--------

-  `Deep Learning with PyTorch: A 60 Minute
   Blitz <https://pytorch.org/tutorials/beginner/deep_learning_60min_blitz.html>`__
-  `PyTorch Forums <https://discuss.pytorch.org/>`__
-  `PyTorch for Numpy
   users <https://github.com/wkentaro/pytorch-for-numpy-users>`__