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Grad overflow on iteration occurs frequently?

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Hi, Grad overflow on iteration occurs almost every step in my experiments, and the result is bad, what's going on? Thanks for your reply.

Epoch 1/20
  0% 0/184 [00:00<?, ?it/s]
Grad overflow on iteration 0
Using dynamic loss scale of 65536
  1% 1/184 [00:00<01:34,  1.93it/s, loss=4.215]
Grad overflow on iteration 1
Using dynamic loss scale of 32768.0
  1% 2/184 [00:00<01:24,  2.15it/s, loss=4.174]
Grad overflow on iteration 2
Using dynamic loss scale of 16384.0
  4% 8/184 [00:03<01:14,  2.35it/s, loss=4.251]
Grad overflow on iteration 8
Using dynamic loss scale of 8192.0
  8% 14/184 [00:05<01:02,  2.72it/s, loss=3.725]
Grad overflow on iteration 14
Using dynamic loss scale of 4096.0
  8% 15/184 [00:05<00:58,  2.87it/s, loss=3.562]
Grad overflow on iteration 15
Using dynamic loss scale of 2048.0
  9% 16/184 [00:06<01:10,  2.38it/s, loss=3.418]
Grad overflow on iteration 16
Using dynamic loss scale of 1024.0
  9% 17/184 [00:06<01:09,  2.41it/s, loss=3.292]
Grad overflow on iteration 17
Using dynamic loss scale of 512.0
 10% 18/184 [00:07<01:06,  2.50it/s, loss=3.187]
Grad overflow on iteration 18
Using dynamic loss scale of 256.0
 10% 19/184 [00:07<01:08,  2.40it/s, loss=3.098]
Grad overflow on iteration 19
Using dynamic loss scale of 128.0
 11% 20/184 [00:08<01:07,  2.44it/s, loss=3.017]
Grad overflow on iteration 20
Using dynamic loss scale of 64.0
 12% 22/184 [00:08<01:06,  2.45it/s, loss=2.866]
Grad overflow on iteration 22
Using dynamic loss scale of 32.0
 12% 23/184 [00:09<01:11,  2.26it/s, loss=2.791]
Grad overflow on iteration 23
Using dynamic loss scale of 16.0
 13% 24/184 [00:09<01:07,  2.37it/s, loss=2.718]
Grad overflow on iteration 24
Using dynamic loss scale of 8.0
 17% 32/184 [00:13<00:59,  2.55it/s, loss=2.405]
Grad overflow on iteration 32
Using dynamic loss scale of 4.0
 20% 37/184 [00:15<01:12,  2.02it/s, loss=2.350]
Grad overflow on iteration 37
Using dynamic loss scale of 2.0
 21% 38/184 [00:16<01:24,  1.72it/s, loss=2.312]
Grad overflow on iteration 38
Using dynamic loss scale of 1.0
 22% 40/184 [00:17<01:10,  2.05it/s, loss=2.245]
Grad overflow on iteration 40
Using dynamic loss scale of 1
 22% 41/184 [00:17<01:13,  1.96it/s, loss=2.211]
Grad overflow on iteration 41
Using dynamic loss scale of 1
 23% 42/184 [00:18<01:08,  2.06it/s, loss=2.175]
Grad overflow on iteration 42
Using dynamic loss scale of 1
 25% 46/184 [00:19<00:57,  2.41it/s, loss=2.082]
Grad overflow on iteration 46
Using dynamic loss scale of 1
 26% 48/184 [00:20<00:56,  2.41it/s, loss=2.040]
Grad overflow on iteration 48
Using dynamic loss scale of 1
 27% 49/184 [00:21<00:58,  2.30it/s, loss=2.022]
Grad overflow on iteration 49
Using dynamic loss scale of 1
 27% 50/184 [00:21<00:58,  2.29it/s, loss=2.002]
Grad overflow on iteration 50
Using dynamic loss scale of 1

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No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reproducing the reported mixed-precision training run and inspect the dynamic loss-scale behavior around the logged gradient overflows; done means explaining whether the repeated overflows are expected and why they produce a bad result.

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Tech stack
python, pytorch
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machine-learning
Issue type
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