Log the learning rate, add cosine, refuse unknown schedules - #124
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Three small changes to the torch trainer, all prompted by trying to run an actual learning-rate study and finding the tooling could not answer basic questions about it. **learning_rate is now logged per epoch.** MLflow recorded loss, train_loss and val_loss but never the rate, so nothing in the record said what a schedule did. Comparing two runs meant re-deriving the trajectory by replaying ReduceLROnPlateau's rule against the recorded val_loss curve — which happens to work, because that rule is deterministic, but is reconstruction rather than measurement and is impossible for any other schedule. Read before the scheduler steps, so it is the rate the epoch just reported on rather than the one the next epoch will use. **cosine (CosineAnnealingLR).** T_max defaults to n_epochs so the rate reaches eta_min exactly as training ends. The property that makes it worth having is reproducibility: two runs of one config get an identical lr trajectory, which reduce_on_plateau cannot promise because its cuts land wherever the noise puts them. Measured on a real 500k-batch pair, the plateau schedule fired at epoch 12 in one run and epoch 9 in its sibling. **An unknown scheduler name now raises.** Previously the if/elif chain fell through, leaving self.scheduler as None: the job trained fine at a constant rate and nothing anywhere said the requested schedule did not exist. That costs a full training run — hours on a GPU — and the result looks like a legitimate constant-lr experiment rather than a typo. Not addressed: the jax trainer builds its rate through an optax schedule function rather than a torch scheduler object, so learning_rate would need a different extraction there. Left alone rather than guessed at; the two backends' metric sets diverge by this one key until someone who is running jaxtrain wires it up. Tests: cosine anneals monotonically to eta_min over T_max, honours explicit t_max/min_lr, an unknown name raises, and None still means no scheduler. 279 passed, 7 skipped, 1 xfailed.
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe trainer now supports cosine annealing with configurable ChangesLearning-rate scheduler support
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Mergeability Score: 🟡 Moderate · up to Cosine scheduling can abort a training run when configured with T_max=0, and invalid learning-rate floor values can violate the intended schedule contract. Validate these parameters before merge to avoid failed or misleading training runs. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant ModelTrainerTorchMLP
participant CosineAnnealingLR
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ModelTrainerTorchMLP->>ModelTrainerTorchMLP: Capture epoch learning rate
ModelTrainerTorchMLP->>CosineAnnealingLR: Step scheduler after epoch
CosineAnnealingLR-->>ModelTrainerTorchMLP: Update optimizer learning rate
ModelTrainerTorchMLP->>MLflow: Log epoch loss and learning rate
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In `@src/lanfactory/trainers/torch_mlp.py`:
- Around line 667-679: Validate the resolved CosineAnnealingLR parameters before
constructing the scheduler in the trainer initialization flow: require T_max
(from lr_scheduler_params["t_max"] or n_epochs) to be greater than zero, and
require min_lr (or its 0.0 default) to be within [0, learning_rate]. Raise a
clear configuration error for invalid values, and add pytest coverage for
zero/non-positive T_max and min_lr values below zero or above learning_rate.
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| self.scheduler = optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR( | ||
| self.optimizer, | ||
| T_max=( | ||
| self.train_config["lr_scheduler_params"]["t_max"] | ||
| if "t_max" in self.train_config["lr_scheduler_params"] | ||
| else self.train_config["n_epochs"] | ||
| ), | ||
| eta_min=( | ||
| self.train_config["lr_scheduler_params"]["min_lr"] | ||
| if "min_lr" in self.train_config["lr_scheduler_params"] | ||
| else 0.0 | ||
| ), | ||
| ) |
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For PyTorch 2.10.0, what happens when torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR uses T_max=0, and what constraints apply to eta_min relative to the optimizer base learning rate?
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In PyTorch (including version 2.10.0), T_max is used as a denominator in the cosine function within the CosineAnnealingLR scheduler [1][2]. If T_max is set to 0, it will result in a ZeroDivisionError when the scheduler attempts to compute the new learning rate, as the implementation performs division by T_max [1][2]. Regarding constraints on eta_min, there is no strict technical requirement that eta_min be lower than the base learning rate enforced by the code itself [1]. However, the scheduler's formula is designed to anneal the learning rate from the base learning rate down to eta_min [1][3]. If eta_min is set higher than the base learning rate, the "annealing" process will mathematically result in the learning rate increasing toward that higher value rather than decreasing [1]. It is standard practice and expected behavior to set eta_min to a value less than or equal to the base learning rate to achieve the intended decay [4].
Citations:
- 1: https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/1781f63f19fdfb119cc58a9a9b6c6ef0650c7cc4/torch/optim/lr_scheduler.py
- 2: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/2.3/%5Fmodules/torch/optim/lr%5Fscheduler.html
- 3: https://docs.pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR.md
- 4: https://discuss.pytorch.org/t/how-to-implement-torch-optim-lr-scheduler-cosineannealinglr/28797
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printf '%s\n' '--- scheduler implementation and call sites ---'
rg -n -C 12 'CosineAnnealingLR|lr_scheduler_params|scheduler\.step|learning.?rate|lr' src/lanfactory/trainers/torch_mlp.py
printf '%s\n' '--- configuration definitions and tests ---'
rg -n -C 8 'LR_SCHEDULER_PARAMS|lr_scheduler_params|t_max|min_lr|CosineAnnealingLR' src tests pyproject.toml
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set -euo pipefail
python3 - <<'PY'
try:
import torch
except Exception as exc:
print(f"torch_import_error={type(exc).__name__}: {exc}")
else:
print(f"torch_version={torch.__version__}")
for t_max in (0, -1, 1):
optimizer = torch.optim.SGD([torch.nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(1.0))], lr=0.01)
try:
scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(
optimizer, T_max=t_max, eta_min=0.0
)
try:
scheduler.step()
result = f"step_ok lr={optimizer.param_groups[0]['lr']!r}"
except Exception as exc:
result = f"step_error={type(exc).__name__}: {exc}"
except Exception as exc:
result = f"construct_error={type(exc).__name__}: {exc}"
print(f"T_max={t_max}: {result}")
for eta_min in (-0.001, 0.0, 0.01, 0.02):
optimizer = torch.optim.SGD([torch.nn.Parameter(torch.tensor(1.0))], lr=0.01)
try:
scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.CosineAnnealingLR(
optimizer, T_max=4, eta_min=eta_min
)
values = []
for _ in range(4):
scheduler.step()
values.append(optimizer.param_groups[0]["lr"])
print(f"eta_min={eta_min}: construct_and_step_ok values={values!r}")
except Exception as exc:
print(f"eta_min={eta_min}: error={type(exc).__name__}: {exc}")
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printf '%s\n' '--- scheduler test helper and existing assertions ---'
sed -n '1225,1310p' tests/test_torch_mlp.py
printf '%s\n' '--- scheduler documentation/config references ---'
rg -n -C 5 'CosineAnnealingLR|cosine|t_max|min_lr|LR_SCHEDULER_PARAMS' README.md docs src tests -g '*.md' -g '*.yaml' -g '*.yml' -g '*.py' || trueRepository: lnccbrown/LANfactory
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Reject invalid cosine scheduler parameters before construction.
T_max defaults to n_epochs, and custom t_max values are not validated. When T_max=0, the first scheduler.step() fails with division by zero and aborts training. Require T_max > 0 and add pytest coverage.
PyTorch does not enforce an upper bound for eta_min. If this scheduler must decay from learning_rate to a non-negative floor, reject min_lr < 0 and min_lr > learning_rate. Add tests for the selected configuration contract.
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In `@src/lanfactory/trainers/torch_mlp.py` around lines 667 - 679, Validate the
resolved CosineAnnealingLR parameters before constructing the scheduler in the
trainer initialization flow: require T_max (from lr_scheduler_params["t_max"] or
n_epochs) to be greater than zero, and require min_lr (or its 0.0 default) to be
within [0, learning_rate]. Raise a clear configuration error for invalid values,
and add pytest coverage for zero/non-positive T_max and min_lr values below zero
or above learning_rate.
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Pull request overview
Improves the PyTorch training backend’s learning-rate observability and reproducibility by (1) logging the per-epoch learning rate to MLflow, (2) adding a cosine annealing scheduler option, and (3) refusing unknown scheduler names so typos don’t silently fall back to constant-LR training.
Changes:
- Log
learning_rate(per epoch) to MLflow alongsidetrain_loss. - Add
cosine(CosineAnnealingLR) as a supportedlr_scheduleroption. - Raise
ValueErrorfor unknownlr_schedulernames; add tests covering cosine behavior, unknown names, andNone.
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| File | Description |
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src/lanfactory/trainers/torch_mlp.py |
Adds cosine scheduler support, logs per-epoch LR to MLflow, and raises on unknown scheduler names. |
tests/test_torch_mlp.py |
Adds targeted scheduler tests for cosine, unknown scheduler refusal, and None scheduler behavior. |
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tests/test_torch_mlp.py:1289
- Same as above: if the intent is that t_max=4 reaches eta_min after 4 epochs, pass an explicit epoch index to step() so the test matches the trainer’s epoch-counting semantics and stays stable across PyTorch versions.
for _ in range(4):
trainer.scheduler.step()
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| if self.train_config["lr_scheduler"] == "reduce_on_plateau": | ||
| self.scheduler.step(val_loss) | ||
| elif self.train_config["lr_scheduler"] == "multiply": | ||
| elif self.train_config["lr_scheduler"] in ("multiply", "cosine"): | ||
| self.scheduler.step() |
| for _ in range(10): | ||
| seen.append(trainer.optimizer.param_groups[0]["lr"]) | ||
| trainer.scheduler.step() | ||
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Came out of an actual learning-rate study on Oscar, where the tooling turned out to be unable to answer basic questions about what the schedule did.
What and why
learning_ratelogged per epoch. MLflow recordedloss,train_lossandval_lossbut never the rate. To find out what the scheduler had done to three completed production runs I had to replay PyTorch'sReduceLROnPlateaurule against each recordedval_losscurve. That works — the rule is deterministic — but it is reconstruction, not measurement, and there is no equivalent trick for any other schedule. Read before the scheduler steps, so the value is the rate the epoch just reported on.cosine(CosineAnnealingLR),T_maxdefaulting ton_epochs,eta_minfrommin_lr. The reason to want it here is reproducibility rather than accuracy: two runs of one config get an identical lr trajectory.reduce_on_plateaucannot promise that — on a real 500k-batch pair differing only in initial rate, it fired at epoch 12 in one run and epoch 9 in the other.An unknown scheduler name now raises. The
if/elifchain previously fell through and leftself.scheduler = None. The job then trained fine at a constant rate, and nothing in the config, the logs, or the MLflow record said the requested schedule did not exist. That is hours of GPU time producing a result that looks like a deliberate constant-lr experiment.Not addressed
The jax trainer builds its rate through an
optaxschedule function rather than a torch scheduler object, solearning_rateneeds a different extraction there. I left it alone rather than guess — the two backends' metric sets diverge by this one key until someone runningjaxtrainwires it up. Flagging it because_docs/mlflow-schema.mdtreats cross-backend metric parity as a goal.Verification
279 passed, 7 skipped, 1 xfailed(8m39s), ruff clean. Four new tests: cosine anneals monotonically toeta_minoverT_max; explicitt_max/min_lrhonoured; an unknown name raises;Nonestill means no scheduler.Context
This unblocks a schedule comparison currently running at 500k batch (constant / gentle plateau / exponential / aggressive plateau). Those four use only what already exists, deliberately, so they run against a frozen environment. Cosine would be the next series.
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