handle non-trainable parameters

2 files changed, 25 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/torch_ema/__init__.py b/torch_ema/__init__.py
index 9732013..6cf180f 100644
--- a/torch_ema/__init__.py
+++ b/torch_ema/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,3 @@
-from .ema import *
+from .ema import ExponentialMovingAverage
+
+__all__ = [ExponentialMovingAverage]
diff --git a/torch_ema/ema.py b/torch_ema/ema.py
index 1d03fd6..8077f80 100644
--- a/torch_ema/ema.py
+++ b/torch_ema/ema.py
@@ -18,7 +18,23 @@ class ExponentialMovingAverage:
     Args:
         parameters: Iterable of `torch.nn.Parameter` (typically from
             `model.parameters()`).
+            Note that EMA is computed on *all* provided parameters,
+            regardless of whether or not they have `requires_grad = True`;
+            this allows a single EMA object to be consistantly used even
+            if which parameters are trainable changes step to step.
+
+            If you want to some parameters in the EMA, do not pass them
+            to the object in the first place. For example:
+
+                ExponentialMovingAverage(
+                    parameters=[p for p in model.parameters() if p.requires_grad],
+                    decay=0.9
+                )
+
+            will ignore parameters that do not require grad.
+
         decay: The exponential decay.
+
         use_num_updates: Whether to use number of updates when computing
             averages.
     """
@@ -33,8 +49,10 @@ class ExponentialMovingAverage:
         self.decay = decay
         self.num_updates = 0 if use_num_updates else None
         parameters = list(parameters)
-        self.shadow_params = [p.clone().detach()
-                              for p in parameters if p.requires_grad]
+        self.shadow_params = [
+            p.clone().detach()
+            for p in parameters
+        ]
         self.collected_params = None
         # By maintaining only a weakref to each parameter,
         # we maintain the old GC behaviour of ExponentialMovingAverage:
@@ -95,7 +113,6 @@ class ExponentialMovingAverage:
             )
         one_minus_decay = 1.0 - decay
         with torch.no_grad():
-            parameters = [p for p in parameters if p.requires_grad]
             for s_param, param in zip(self.shadow_params, parameters):
                 tmp = (s_param - param)
                 # tmp will be a new tensor so we can do in-place
@@ -117,8 +134,7 @@ class ExponentialMovingAverage:
         """
         parameters = self._get_parameters(parameters)
         for s_param, param in zip(self.shadow_params, parameters):
-            if param.requires_grad:
-                param.data.copy_(s_param.data)
+            param.data.copy_(s_param.data)
 
     def store(
         self,
@@ -136,7 +152,6 @@ class ExponentialMovingAverage:
         self.collected_params = [
             param.clone()
             for param in parameters
-            if param.requires_grad
         ]
 
     def restore(
@@ -163,8 +178,7 @@ class ExponentialMovingAverage:
             )
         parameters = self._get_parameters(parameters)
         for c_param, param in zip(self.collected_params, parameters):
-            if param.requires_grad:
-                param.data.copy_(c_param.data)
+            param.data.copy_(c_param.data)
 
     @contextlib.contextmanager
     def average_parameters(