How to make Zygote's gradient function work with a custom rrule

gladisor · April 13, 2023, 6:16pm

Here is a link to my issue which describes the problem I am facing:

Using the gradient function from Flux / Zygote with a custom rrule

opened 04:57PM - 13 Apr 23 UTC

closed 08:22PM - 13 Apr 23 UTC

Hello all, I am trying to extend the pedagogical example to work as if Foo is… a layer in the Flux ecosystem. I would like to insert Foo into a Flux Chain and train its parameters using the derivatives computed in the rrule instead of the standard Zygote AD. When I use the "gradient" function it returns a Grads(...) struct but the parameters do not match the gradients: ``` using Flux using Flux: params using ChainRulesCore struct Foo A::Matrix c::Float64 end Flux.@functor Foo function foo_mul(foo::Foo, b::AbstractArray) return foo.A * b end function ChainRulesCore.rrule(::typeof(foo_mul), foo::Foo, b::AbstractArray) println("calling foo rrule") y = foo_mul(foo, b) function foo_mul_pullback(ȳ) f̄ = NoTangent() f̄oo = Tangent{Foo}(; A=ȳ * b', c=ZeroTangent()) b̄ = @thunk(foo.A' * ȳ) return f̄, f̄oo, b̄ end return y, foo_mul_pullback end foo = Foo(randn(2, 2), 1.0) b = randn(2) ps = params(foo) gs = gradient(() -> sum(foo_mul(foo, b)), ps) display(gs.grads) ``` Here is the output of the code: ``` julia> include("scripts/foo.jl") calling foo rrule IdDict{Any, Any} with 3 entries: :(Main.b) => [1.5824, -0.280951] [0.795399 0.392306; 0.786999 -0.673257] => nothing :(Main.foo) => (A = [-0.728823 0.776745; -0.728823 0.776745], c = nothing) ``` How can I make this work properly with the Flux "gradient" function?

Topic		Replies	Views
Problems defining rrule for Flux layer General Usage flux , zygote	1	429	September 10, 2021
Rrule for zygote New to Julia zygote , gridap , chainrulescore , gradient , chainrules	7	214	July 29, 2025
Gradient accumulation using chainrulecore New to Julia zygote , chainrulescore , gradient , chainrules	1	296	September 25, 2023
Custom gradients for function. Resource for rrule and frule General Usage zygote , chainrulescore , gradient	18	278	July 20, 2024
ChainRules rrule for a fairly simple function General Usage question	2	628	July 24, 2020

How to make Zygote's gradient function work with a custom rrule

Related topics