sanitize.lua

require('torch')
require('nn')
require('cunn')
require('cudnn')


-- common obj name to be freed
local common = {'output', 'gradInput'}

-- temporary buffer name other than output/gradInput
local t = {
   -- convolution
   ['nn.SpatialConvolution'] = {'finput', 'fgradInput'},
   ['nn.SpatialConvolutionMM'] = {'finput', 'fgradInput'},

   -- pooling
   ['nn.SpatialMaxPooling'] = {'indices'},
   ['nn.TemporalMaxPooling'] = {'indices'},
   ['nn.VolumetricMaxPooling'] = {'indices'},
   ['nn.SpatialFractionalMaxPooling'] = {'indices'},

   -- regularizer
   ['nn.BatchNormalization'] = {'buffer', 'buffer2', 'centered', 'normalized'},
   ['nn.SpatialBatchNormalization'] = {'buffer', 'buffer2','centered', 'normalized'},
   ['nn.Dropout'] = {'noise'},
   ['nn.SpatialDropout'] = {'noise'},

   -- transfer
   ['nn.PReLU'] = {'gradWeightBuf', 'gradWeightBuf2'},
   ['nn.LogSigmoid'] = {'buffer'},

   -- etc
   ['nn.Mean'] = {'_gradInput'},
   ['nn.Normalize'] = {'_output', 'norm', 'normp'},
   ['nn.PairwiseDistance'] = {'diff'},
   ['nn.Reshape'] = {'_input', '_gradOutput'},

   -- fbcunn
   ['nn.AbstractParallel'] = {'homeGradBuffers', 'input_gpu', 'gradOutput_gpu', 'gradInput_gpu'},
   ['nn.DataParallel'] = {'homeGradBuffers', 'input_gpu', 'gradOutput_gpu', 'gradInput_gpu'},
   ['nn.ModelParallel'] = {'homeGradBuffers', 'input_gpu', 'gradOutput_gpu', 'gradInput_gpu'},
}


local function free_table_or_tensor(val, name, field)
   if type(val[name]) == 'table' then
      val[name] = {}
   elseif type(val[name]) == 'userdata' then
      val[name] = field.new()
   end
end


local function is_member(name, t)
   if t == nil then
      return false
   end

   for _, value in pairs(t) do
      if name == value then
         return true
      end
   end
   return false
end


-- Taken and modified from Soumith's imagenet-multiGPU.torch code
-- https://github.com/soumith/imagenet-multiGPU.torch/blob/master/train.lua
local function sanitize(model)
   local list = model:listModules()
   for _,val in ipairs(list) do
      for name,field in pairs(val) do

         -- remove ffi obj
         if torch.type(field) == 'cdata' then
            val[name] = nil

         -- remove common obj
         elseif is_member(name, common) then
            free_table_or_tensor(val, name, field)

         -- remove specific obj
         elseif is_member(name, t[val.__typename]) then
            free_table_or_tensor(val, name, field)
         end
      end
   end
   return model
end


return sanitize