Catalyst 22.02

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[22.02] - 2022-02-13

Tl;dr

• Catalyst architecture simplification.
• #1395, #1396, #1397, #1398, #1399, #1400, #1401, #1402, #1403.

Added

• Additional tests for different hardware accelerators setups. Please check out the tests/pipelines folder for more information.
• BackwardCallback and BackwardCallbackOrder as an abstraction on top of loss.backward. Now you could easily log model gradients or transform them before OptimizerCallback.
• CheckpointCallbackOrder for ICheckpointCallback.

Changed

• Minimal python version moved to 3.7, minimal PyTorch version moved to 1.4.0.
• Engines were rewritten on top of Accelerate. First, we found these two abstractions very close to each other. Second, Accelerate provides additional user-friendly API and more stable API for "Nvidia APEX" and "Facebook Fairscale" - it does not support them.
• SelfSupervisedRunner moved to the examples folder from the Catalyst API. The only Runners API, that will be supported in the future: IRunner, Runner, ISupervisedRunner, SupervisedRunner due to their consistency. If you are interested in any other Runner API - feel free to write your own CustomRunner and use SelfSupervisedRunner as an example.
• Runner.{global/stage}_{batch/loader/epoch}_metrics renamed to Runner.{batch/loader/epoch}_metrics
• CheckpointCallback rewritten from scratch.
• Catalyst registry moved to full-imports-paths only.
• Logger API changed to receive IRunner for all log_* methods.
• Metric API: topk_args renamed to topk.
• Contrib API: init imports from catalyst.contrib - removed, use from catalyst.contrib.{smth} import {smth}. Could be change to full-imports-only in future versions for stability.
• All quickstarts, minimal examples, notebooks, and pipelines moved to the new version.
• Codestyle moved to 89 right margin. Honestly speaking, it's much easier to maintain Catalyst with 89 right margin on MBP'16.

Removed

• ITrial removed.
• Stages support removed. While we embrace stages in deep learning experiments, current hardware accelerators are not prepared well for such setups. Additionally, ~95% of dl pipelines are single-stage. Multi-stage runner support is under review. For multi-stage support, please define a CustomRunner with rewritten API.
• Config/Hydra API support removed. Config API is under review. For now, you could write your own Config API with hydra-slayer if needed.
• catalyst-dl scripts removed. Without Config API we don't need them anymore.
• Nvidia Apex, Fairscale, Albumentations, Nifti, Hydra requiremets removed.
• OnnxCallback, PruningCallback, QuantizationCallback, TracingCallback removed from callbacks API. These callbacks are under review now.

If you have any questions on the Catalyst 22 edition updates, please join Catalyst slack for discussion.

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