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Motivation

Have you ever had to load a dataset that was so memory consuming that you wished a magic trick could seamlessly take care of that? Large datasets are increasingly becoming part of our lives, as we are able to harness an ever-growing quantity of data.

We have to keep in mind that in some cases, even the most state-of-the-art configuration won't have enough memory space to process the data the way we used to do it. That is the reason why we need to find other ways to do that task efficiently. In this blog post, we are going to show you how to generate your data on multiple cores in real time and feed it right away to your deep learning model.

This tutorial will show you how to do so on the GPU-friendly framework PyTorch, where an efficient data generation scheme is crucial to leverage the full potential of your GPU during the training process.

Tutorial

Previous situation

Before reading this article, your PyTorch script probably looked like this:

or even this:

This article is about optimizing the entire data generation process, so that it does not become a bottleneck in the training procedure.

In order to do so, let's dive into a step by step recipe that builds a parallelizable data generator suited for this situation. By the way, the following code is a good skeleton to use for your own project; you can copy/paste the following pieces of code and fill the blanks accordingly.

Notations

Before getting started, let's go through a few organizational tips that are particularly useful when dealing with large datasets.

Let ID be the Python string that identifies a given sample of the dataset. A good way to keep track of samples and their labels is to adopt the following framework:

1. Create a dictionary called partition where you gather:

   • in partition['train'] a list of training IDs
   • in partition['validation'] a list of validation IDs

2. Create a dictionary called labels where for each ID of the dataset, the associated label is given by labels[ID]

For example, let's say that our training set contains id-1, id-2 and id-3 with respective labels 0, 1 and 2, with a validation set containing id-4 with label 1. In that case, the Python variables partition and labels look like

and

Also, for the sake of modularity, we will write PyTorch code and customized classes in separate files, so that your folder looks like

where data/ is assumed to be the folder containing your dataset.

Finally, it is good to note that the code in this tutorial is aimed at being general and minimal, so that you can easily adapt it for your own dataset.

Dataset

Now, let's go through the details of how to set the Python class Dataset, which will characterize the key features of the dataset you want to generate.

First, let's write the initialization function of the class. We make the latter inherit the properties of torch.utils.data.Dataset so that we can later leverage nice functionalities such as multiprocessing.

There, we store important information such as labels and the list of IDs that we wish to generate at each pass.

Each call requests a sample index for which the upperbound is specified in the __len__ method.

Now, when the sample corresponding to a given index is called, the generator executes the __getitem__ method to generate it.

During data generation, this method reads the Torch tensor of a given example from its corresponding file ID.pt.Since our code is designed to be multicore-friendly, note that you can do more complex operations instead (e.g. computations from source files) without worrying that data generation becomes a bottleneck in the training process.

The complete code corresponding to the steps that we described in this section is shown below.

PyTorch script

Now, we have to modify our PyTorch script accordingly so that it accepts the generator that we just created.In order to do so, we use PyTorch's DataLoader class, which in addition to our Dataset class, also takes in the following important arguments:

• batch_size, which denotes the number of samples contained in each generated batch.
• shuffle. If set to True, we will get a new order of exploration at each pass (or just keep a linear exploration scheme otherwise). Shuffling the order in which examples are fed to the classifier is helpful so that batches between epochs do not look alike. Doing so will eventually make our model more robust.
• num_workers, which denotes the number of processes that generate batches in parallel. A high enough number of workers assures that CPU computations are efficiently managed, i.e. that the bottleneck is indeed the neural network's forward and backward operations on the GPU (and not data generation).

A proposition of code template that you can write in your script is shown below.

Conclusion

This is it! You can now run your PyTorch script with the command

and you will see that during the training phase, data is generated in parallel by the CPU, which can then be fed to the GPU for neural network computations.

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