{"id":5330,"date":"2024-03-14T02:42:29","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T02:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-perform-model-weight-regularization-in-pytorch\/"},"modified":"2025-08-01T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T13:39:05","slug":"how-to-perform-model-weight-regularization-in-pytorch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silicloud.com\/blog\/how-to-perform-model-weight-regularization-in-pytorch\/","title":{"rendered":"PyTorch Weight Regularization Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In PyTorch, you can use the parameters() method in the torch.nn.Module class to access the weight parameters of a model, and then apply regularization techniques to constrain these parameters. Below is an example code demonstrating how to apply L2 regularization to a model&#8217;s weights.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"post-pre\"><code><span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> torch\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> torch.nn <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">as<\/span> nn\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">import<\/span> torch.optim <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">as<\/span> optim\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u5b9a\u4e49\u4e00\u4e2a\u7b80\u5355\u7684\u795e\u7ecf\u7f51\u7edc\u6a21\u578b<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">class<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title class_\">Net<\/span>(nn.Module):\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">def<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">__init__<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-params\">self<\/span>):\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">super<\/span>(Net, self).__init__()\r\n        self.fc1 = nn.Linear(<span class=\"hljs-number\">10<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">5<\/span>)\r\n        self.fc2 = nn.Linear(<span class=\"hljs-number\">5<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>)\r\n\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">def<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-title function_\">forward<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-params\">self, x<\/span>):\r\n        x = torch.relu(self.fc1(x))\r\n        x = self.fc2(x)\r\n        <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">return<\/span> x\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u521b\u5efa\u6a21\u578b\u5b9e\u4f8b<\/span>\r\nmodel = Net()\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u5b9a\u4e49L2\u6b63\u5219\u5316\u53c2\u6570<\/span>\r\nl2_lambda = <span class=\"hljs-number\">0.01<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u5b9a\u4e49\u4f18\u5316\u5668\u548c\u635f\u5931\u51fd\u6570<\/span>\r\noptimizer = optim.Adam(model.parameters(), lr=<span class=\"hljs-number\">0.01<\/span>)\r\ncriterion = nn.MSELoss()\r\n\r\n<span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u8bad\u7ec3\u6a21\u578b<\/span>\r\n<span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> epoch <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> <span class=\"hljs-built_in\">range<\/span>(<span class=\"hljs-number\">100<\/span>):\r\n    optimizer.zero_grad()\r\n    \r\n    <span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u6b63\u5411\u4f20\u64ad<\/span>\r\n    output = model(torch.randn(<span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">10<\/span>))\r\n    loss = criterion(output, torch.randn(<span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>, <span class=\"hljs-number\">1<\/span>))\r\n    \r\n    <span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u6dfb\u52a0L2\u6b63\u5219\u5316\u9879<\/span>\r\n    l2_reg = torch.tensor(<span class=\"hljs-number\">0.<\/span>)\r\n    <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">for<\/span> param <span class=\"hljs-keyword\">in<\/span> model.parameters():\r\n        l2_reg += torch.norm(param)\r\n    \r\n    loss += l2_lambda * l2_reg\r\n    \r\n    <span class=\"hljs-comment\"># \u53cd\u5411\u4f20\u64ad<\/span>\r\n    loss.backward()\r\n    optimizer.step()\r\n<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>In the above example, we first defined a simple neural network model called Net, and then created an instance of the model. 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