1 #ifndef CAFFE_SOLVER_HPP_
2 #define CAFFE_SOLVER_HPP_
3 #include <boost/function.hpp>
7 #include "caffe/net.hpp"
8 #include "caffe/solver_factory.hpp"
9 #include "caffe/util/benchmark.hpp"
14 * @brief Enumeration of actions that a client of the Solver may request by
15 * implementing the Solver's action request function, which a
16 * client may optionally provide in order to request early termination
17 * or saving a snapshot without exiting. In the executable caffe, this
18 * mechanism is used to allow the snapshot to be saved when stopping
19 * execution with a SIGINT (Ctrl-C).
21 namespace SolverAction {
23 NONE = 0, // Take no special action.
24 STOP = 1, // Stop training. snapshot_after_train controls whether a
25 // snapshot is created.
26 SNAPSHOT = 2 // Take a snapshot, and keep training.
31 * @brief Type of a function that returns a Solver Action enumeration.
33 typedef boost::function<SolverAction::Enum()> ActionCallback;
36 * @brief An interface for classes that perform optimization on Net%s.
38 * Requires implementation of ApplyUpdate to compute a parameter update
39 * given the current state of the Net parameters.
41 template <typename Dtype>
44 explicit Solver(const SolverParameter& param);
45 explicit Solver(const string& param_file);
46 void Init(const SolverParameter& param);
50 // Client of the Solver optionally may call this in order to set the function
51 // that the solver uses to see what action it should take (e.g. snapshot or
52 // exit training early).
53 void SetActionFunction(ActionCallback func);
54 SolverAction::Enum GetRequestedAction();
55 // The main entry of the solver function. In default, iter will be zero. Pass
56 // in a non-zero iter number to resume training for a pre-trained net.
57 virtual void Solve(const char* resume_file = NULL);
58 inline void Solve(const string resume_file) { Solve(resume_file.c_str()); }
60 // The Restore method simply dispatches to one of the
61 // RestoreSolverStateFrom___ protected methods. You should implement these
62 // methods to restore the state from the appropriate snapshot type.
63 void Restore(const char* resume_file);
64 // The Solver::Snapshot function implements the basic snapshotting utility
65 // that stores the learned net. You should implement the SnapshotSolverState()
66 // function that produces a SolverState protocol buffer that needs to be
67 // written to disk together with the learned net.
70 inline const SolverParameter& param() const { return param_; }
71 inline shared_ptr<Net<Dtype> > net() { return net_; }
72 inline const vector<shared_ptr<Net<Dtype> > >& test_nets() {
75 int iter() const { return iter_; }
77 // Invoked at specific points during an iteration
80 virtual void on_start() = 0;
81 virtual void on_gradients_ready() = 0;
86 const vector<Callback*>& callbacks() const { return callbacks_; }
87 void add_callback(Callback* value) {
88 callbacks_.push_back(value);
91 void CheckSnapshotWritePermissions();
93 * @brief Returns the solver type.
95 virtual inline const char* type() const { return ""; }
98 // Make and apply the update value for the current iteration.
99 virtual void ApplyUpdate() = 0;
100 string SnapshotFilename(const string extension);
101 string SnapshotToBinaryProto();
102 string SnapshotToHDF5();
105 void Test(const int test_net_id = 0);
106 virtual void SnapshotSolverState(const string& model_filename) = 0;
107 virtual void RestoreSolverStateFromHDF5(const string& state_file) = 0;
108 virtual void RestoreSolverStateFromBinaryProto(const string& state_file) = 0;
109 void DisplayOutputBlobs(const int net_id);
110 void UpdateSmoothedLoss(Dtype loss, int start_iter, int average_loss);
112 SolverParameter param_;
115 shared_ptr<Net<Dtype> > net_;
116 vector<shared_ptr<Net<Dtype> > > test_nets_;
117 vector<Callback*> callbacks_;
118 vector<Dtype> losses_;
119 Dtype smoothed_loss_;
121 // A function that can be set by a client of the Solver to provide indication
122 // that it wants a snapshot saved and/or to exit early.
123 ActionCallback action_request_function_;
125 // True iff a request to stop early was received.
126 bool requested_early_exit_;
128 // Timing information, handy to tune e.g. nbr of GPUs
129 Timer iteration_timer_;
130 float iterations_last_;
132 DISABLE_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(Solver);
137 #endif // CAFFE_SOLVER_HPP_