tabensemb.model.AbstractNN.validation_step_end#

method

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

Use this when validating with dp because validation_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 = [validation_step(sub_batch) for sub_batch in sub_batches]
validation_step_end(step_output)

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

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

    out = self.encoder(x)
    loss = self.softmax(out)
    loss = nce_loss(loss)
    self.log("val_loss", loss)

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

    out = self(x)
    return out

def validation_step_end(self, val_step_outputs):
    for out in val_step_outputs:
        ...