ImportError:Extension horovod.torch has not been built

[sands-lab]

ImportError:Extension horovod.torch has not been built

[KevvinHoo]

There is no problem when I used compression = hvf.Compression.fp16 if args.fp16 allreduce else hvd.Compression.none, which used in the example program supported by Horovod, instead of grc = Allgather(TopKCompressor(0.3), ResidualMemory(), hvd.size()). That bug you mentioned above already be fixed before running the training script.
It is the truth that I haven't apply the patch, as I don't know how to make it. Could you tell me the details about this patch?

Best regards

[hangxu0304]

Hi,

Thanks for your interest. Currently Horovod 0.19.2 is not supported in our framework. Please follow the instruction to install the environment. Let us know if you encounter any issues.

Hang

[KevvinHoo]

I have installed Horovod 0.18.2. When I run the example program named pytorch_mnist.py, there are some errors as below:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./horovod_mnist.py", line 189, in <module>
    train(epoch)
  File "./horovod_mnist.py", line 67, in train
    loss.backward()
  File "/GPUFS/nudt_chkwu_2/.conda/envs/torch_ho/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/tensor.py", line 195, in backward
    torch.autograd.backward(self, gradient, retain_graph, create_graph)
  File "/GPUFS/nudt_chkwu_2/.conda/envs/torch_ho/lib/python3.6/site-packages/torch/autograd/__init__.py", line 99, in backward
    allow_unreachable=True)  # allow_unreachable flag
  File "/GPUFS/nudt_chkwu_2/.conda/envs/torch_ho/lib/python3.6/site-packages/horovod/torch/__init__.py", line 141, in hook
    handle, ctx = self._allreduce_grad_async(p)
  File "/GPUFS/nudt_chkwu_2/.conda/envs/torch_ho/lib/python3.6/site-packages/horovod/torch/__init__.py", line 122, in _allreduce_grad_async
    tensor_compressed, ctx = self._compression.compress(tensor)
AttributeError: 'Allgather' object has no attribute 'compress'

I find the class Allgather have a atrribute 'compress'. The example program used the TopkCompressor. I don't know how to solve this problem. Could you give me a advise? Thanks for your help.

[hangxu0304]

It seems like you haven't apply the horovod patch we provided. Before applying the patch, please make sure you can run an official horovod example following the horovod guidelines .
We do find a bug in pytorch_mnist.py, see here. Please update your training script by this version.

Hang

[KevvinHoo]

Never mind - I have read the file named horovd 0.18.2-patch. Maybe I know how to apply this patch. The - indicate to delete and the + is to add, right? And is it needed to make a change to the module file about the TensorFlow when I used the PyTorch framework?

[hangxu0304]

No need. Just modify the related pytorch files.

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