torch.optim.Optimizer.state_dict

Optimizer.state_dict()

Return the state of the optimizer as a dict.

It contains two entries:

• state: a Dict holding current optimization state. Its content

  differs between optimizer classes, but some common characteristics hold. For example, state is saved per parameter, and the parameter itself is NOT saved. state is a Dictionary mapping parameter ids to a Dict with state corresponding to each parameter.

• param_groups: a List containing all parameter groups where each

  parameter group is a Dict. Each parameter group contains metadata specific to the optimizer, such as learning rate and weight decay, as well as a List of parameter IDs of the parameters in the group. If a param group was initialized with named_parameters() the names content will also be saved in the state dict.

NOTE: The parameter IDs may look like indices but they are just IDs associating state with param_group. When loading from a state_dict, the optimizer will zip the param_group params (int IDs) and the optimizer param_groups (actual nn.Parameter s) in order to match state WITHOUT additional verification.

A returned state dict might look something like:

{
    'state': {
        0: {'momentum_buffer': tensor(...), ...},
        1: {'momentum_buffer': tensor(...), ...},
        2: {'momentum_buffer': tensor(...), ...},
        3: {'momentum_buffer': tensor(...), ...}
    },
    'param_groups': [
        {
            'lr': 0.01,
            'weight_decay': 0,
            ...
            'params': [0]
            'param_names' ['param0']  (optional)
        },
        {
            'lr': 0.001,
            'weight_decay': 0.5,
            ...
            'params': [1, 2, 3]
            'param_names': ['param1', 'layer.weight', 'layer.bias'] (optional)
        }
    ]
}

Return type

Dict[str, Any]