lightning/docs/source/early_stopping.rst

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Early stopping
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Stopping an epoch early
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You can stop an epoch early by overriding :meth:`~pytorch_lightning.core.lightning.LightningModule.on_batch_start` to return `-1` when some condition is met.
If you do this repeatedly, for every epoch you had originally requested, then this will stop your entire run.
Default Epoch End Callback Behavior
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By default early stopping will be enabled if `'val_loss'`
is found in :meth:`~pytorch_lightning.core.lightning.LightningModule.validation_epoch_end`'s
return dict. Otherwise training will proceed with early stopping disabled.
Enable Early Stopping using Callbacks on epoch end
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There are two ways to enable early stopping using callbacks on epoch end.
.. doctest::
>>> from pytorch_lightning import Trainer
>>> from pytorch_lightning.callbacks import EarlyStopping
# A) Set early_stop_callback to True. Will look for 'val_loss'
# in validation_epoch_end() return dict. If it is not found an error is raised.
>>> trainer = Trainer(early_stop_callback=True)
# B) Or configure your own callback
>>> early_stop_callback = EarlyStopping(
... monitor='val_loss',
... min_delta=0.00,
... patience=3,
... verbose=False,
... mode='min'
... )
>>> trainer = Trainer(early_stop_callback=early_stop_callback)
In any case, the callback will fall back to the training metrics (returned in
:meth:`~pytorch_lightning.core.lightning.LightningModule.training_step`,
:meth:`~pytorch_lightning.core.lightning.LightningModule.training_step_end`)
looking for a key to monitor if validation is disabled or
:meth:`~pytorch_lightning.core.lightning.LightningModule.validation_epoch_end`
is not defined.
.. seealso::
:class:`~pytorch_lightning.trainer.trainer.Trainer`
Disable Early Stopping with callbacks on epoch end
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To disable early stopping pass ``False`` to the
:paramref:`~pytorch_lightning.trainer.trainer.Trainer.early_stop_callback`.
Note that ``None`` will not disable early stopping but will lead to the
default behaviour.
.. seealso::
:class:`~pytorch_lightning.trainer.trainer.Trainer`