“RuntimeError: expected scalar type Double but found Float” in Pytorch CNN training

Question

I just begin to learn Pytorch and create my first CNN. The dataset contains 3360 RGB images and I converted them to a [3360, 3, 224, 224] tensor. The data and label are in the dataset(torch.utils.data.TensorDataset) . Below is the training code.

    def train_net():
        dataset = ld.load()
        data_iter = Data.DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=168, shuffle=True)
        net = model.VGG_19()
        summary(net, (3, 224, 224), device="cpu")
        loss_func = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
        optimizer = optim.SGD(net.parameters(), lr=0.001, momentum=0.9, dampening=0.1)
        scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.StepLR(optimizer, step_size=50, gamma=0.1)
        for epoch in range(5):
            print("epoch:", epoch + 1)
            train_loss = 0
            for i, data in enumerate(data_iter, 0):
                x, y = data
                print(x.dtype)
                optimizer.zero_grad()
                out = net(x)
                loss = loss_func(out, y)
                loss.backward()
                optimizer.step()
                train_loss += loss.item()
                if i % 100 == 99:
                    print("loss:", train_loss / 100)
                    train_loss = 0.0
        print("finish train")

Then I have this error:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
              File "D:/python/DeepLearning/VGG/train.py", line 52, in <module>
                train_net()
              File "D:/python/DeepLearning/VGG/train.py", line 29, in train_net
                out = net(x)
              File "D:\python\lib\site-packages\torch\nn\modules\module.py", line 727, in _call_impl
                result = self.forward(*input, **kwargs)
              File "D:\python\DeepLearning\VGG\model.py", line 37, in forward
                out = self.conv3_64(x)
              File "D:\python\lib\site-packages\torch\nn\modules\module.py", line 727, in _call_impl
                result = self.forward(*input, **kwargs)
              File "D:\python\lib\site-packages\torch\nn\modules\container.py", line 117, in forward
                input = module(input)
              File "D:\python\lib\site-packages\torch\nn\modules\module.py", line 727, in _call_impl
                result = self.forward(*input, **kwargs)
              File "D:\python\lib\site-packages\torch\nn\modules\conv.py", line 423, in forward
                return self._conv_forward(input, self.weight)
              File "D:\python\lib\site-packages\torch\nn\modules\conv.py", line 419, in _conv_forward
                return F.conv2d(input, weight, self.bias, self.stride,
            RuntimeError: expected scalar type Double but found Float

I think there is something wrong with x and I print its type by print(x.dtype) :

torch.float64

which is double instead of float. Do you know what`s wrong? Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

that error is actually refering to the weights of the conv layer which are in float32 by default when the matrix multiplication is called. Since your input is double ( float64 in pytorch) while the weights in conv are float
So the solution in your case is:

def train_net():
    dataset = ld.load()
    data_iter = Data.DataLoader(dataset, batch_size=168, shuffle=True)
    net = model.VGG_19()
    summary(net, (3, 224, 224), device="cpu")
    loss_func = nn.CrossEntropyLoss()
    optimizer = optim.SGD(net.parameters(), lr=0.001, momentum=0.9, dampening=0.1)
    scheduler = torch.optim.lr_scheduler.StepLR(optimizer, step_size=50, gamma=0.1)
    for epoch in range(5):
        print("epoch:", epoch + 1)
        train_loss = 0
        for i, data in enumerate(data_iter, 0):
            x, y = data                        #      //_______________
            x = x.float()    # HERE IS THE CHANGE     \\
            print(x.dtype)
            optimizer.zero_grad()
            out = net(x)
            loss = loss_func(out, y)
            loss.backward()
            optimizer.step()
            train_loss += loss.item()
            if i % 100 == 99:
                print("loss:", train_loss / 100)
                train_loss = 0.0
    print("finish train")

This will work for sure