NPUBroadcastGlobalVariablesCallback Constructor

Description

Broadcasts variables in Keras scenarios to ensure that the initial values of variables on each device are the same in distributed scenarios.

Prototype

def __init__(self, root_rank)

Options

Option

Input/Output

Description

root_rank

Input

Identifies the device whose variables are to be broadcast to other devices.

Returns

None

Example

Before porting

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callbacks = [hvd.callbacks.BroadcastGlobalVariablesCallback(0)]

import numpy as np
data = np.random.random((1000, 100))
lables = np random.randint(2, size=(1000,1))
model.fit(data, lables, epochs=10, batch_size=32, callbacks=callbacks)

After porting

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from npu_bridge.npu_init import *
callbacks = [NPUBroadcastGlobalVariablesCallback(0)]

import numpy as np
data = np.random.random((1000, 100))
lables = np random.randint(2, size=(1000,1))
model.fit(data, lables, epochs=10, batch_size=32, callbacks=callbacks)