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7 Practical PyTorch Tips for Smoother Development and Better Performance
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7 Practical PyTorch Tips for Smoother Development and Better Performance

Last Updated on February 10, 2025 by Editorial Team

Author(s): Akhil Theerthala

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Things I wish someone listed down.7 Practical PyTorch Tips for Smoother Development and Better Performance

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PyTorch is a surprisingly simple language that allows you to train a model after reading a simple 2-minute article. But as we keep writing more, many things could give a qualitative improvement in the long run.

In the last two years, there have been surprisingly few points I (sometimes painfully) learned in my job. Here they are:

As we start writing models, we start by writing everything in a single class. We declare all the layers in a single __init__ function. Yet, as the scale of the project increases, this leads to repetitive blocks. Hence, it's better to define the modules to use separately instead.

One classic example of this is the attention blocks in a transformer architecture. You need not define the same scaled_dot_products again and again. Rather, creating a SimpleAttention() block once and reusing it when needed is a better way to code.

Not every model you train is going to work as intended. Having that hope is a fantasy. When you debug an experiment, you often need pinpointed data to identify the issue.

We all track the training and validation losses. However, some more commonly tracked metrics are… Read the full blog for free on Medium.

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