added script to compute Empirical Fisher

Author: varisd

scripts/compute_fisher.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Compute the Empirical Fisher matrix using a list of gradients.
+
+The gradient tensors can be spread over multiple npz files. The mean
+is computed over the first dimension (supposed to be a batch).
+
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import os
+import re
+import glob
+
+import numpy as np
+
+from neuralmonkey.logging import log as _log
+
+
+def log(message: str, color: str = "blue") -> None:
+    _log(message, color)
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__)
+    parser.add_argument("--file_prefix", type=str,
+                        help="prefix of the npz files containing the gradients")
+    parser.add_argument("--output_path", type=str,
+                        help="Path to output the Empirical Fisher to.")
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+
+    output_dict = {}
+    n = 0
+    for file in glob.glob("{}.*npz".format(args.file_prefix)):
+        log("Processing {}".format(file))
+        tensors = np.load(file)
+
+        # first dimension must be equal for all tensors (batch)
+        shapes = [tensors[f].shape for f in tensors.files]
+        assert all([x[0] == shapes[0][0] for x in shapes])
+
+        for varname in tensors.files:
+            res = np.sum(np.square(tensors[varname]), 0)
+            if varname in output_dict:
+                output_dict[varname] += res
+            else:
+                output_dict[varname] = res
+        n += shapes[0][0]
+
+    for name in output_dict:
+        output_dict[name] /= n
+
+    np.savez(args.output_path, **output_dict)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()