tabensemb.model.AbstractNN.test_step_end#

method

AbstractNN.test_step_end(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) → Tensor | Dict[str, Any] | None#

Use this when testing with DP because test_step() will operate on only part of the batch. However, this is still optional and only needed for things like softmax or NCE loss.

Note

If you later switch to ddp or some other mode, this will still be called so that you don’t have to change your code.

# pseudocode
sub_batches = split_batches_for_dp(batch)
step_output = [test_step(sub_batch) for sub_batch in sub_batches]
test_step_end(step_output)

Parameters:: step_output¶ – What you return in test_step() for each batch part.
Returns:: None or anything

# WITHOUT test_step_end
# if used in DP, this batch is 1/num_gpus large
def test_step(self, batch, batch_idx):
    # batch is 1/num_gpus big
    x, y = batch

    out = self(x)
    loss = self.softmax(out)
    self.log("test_loss", loss)

# --------------
# with test_step_end to do softmax over the full batch
def test_step(self, batch, batch_idx):
    # batch is 1/num_gpus big
    x, y = batch

    out = self.encoder(x)
    return out

def test_step_end(self, output_results):
    # this out is now the full size of the batch
    all_test_step_outs = output_results.out
    loss = nce_loss(all_test_step_outs)
    self.log("test_loss", loss)