RuntimeError: you can only change requires_grad flags of leaf variables
I have created an AutoModelForAudioClassification from SEWConfig. My goal is to feed it the [batchsize, 9600] input I obtained from other layers of my model class.When I pass a random input, eg AutoModelForAudioClassification.from_config(SEWConfig())(torch.randn((128, 9600))), it runs fine.But, when I use it within a class, it throwsRuntimeError: you can only change requires_grad flags of leaf variables..I can’t find any other forum similar to this issue.My code is below:class CNNTrans(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self, transformer, n_features):
        super(CNNTrans, self).__init__()
        self.n_features=n_features

        cnns=nn.Sequential(
            nn.Conv1d(1, 2, kernel_size=3, stride=1),
            nn.BatchNorm1d(2),
            nn.ReLU(),
            nn.Conv1d(2, 8, kernel_size=3, stride=1),
            nn.BatchNorm1d(8),
            nn.ReLU(),
            nn.Conv1d(8, 24, kernel_size=3, stride=1),
            nn.BatchNorm1d(24),
            nn.ReLU(),
            nn.Conv1d(24, 48, kernel_size=4, stride=1),
            nn.BatchNorm1d(48),
            nn.ReLU(),
            nn.Conv1d(48, 96, kernel_size=4, stride=1),
            nn.BatchNorm1d(96),
            nn.ReLU(),                        
        )

        self.layers=nn.ModuleDict()
        for i in range(self.n_features):
            self.layers[f'feature_{i}']=copy.deepcopy(cnns)

        self.cnn_dropout=nn.Dropout(0.1)
        self.trans=transformer


    def forward(self, x):
        outp=[]
        for i in range(self.n_features):
            outp.append(self.layers[f'feature_{i}'](x[:,i:i+1,:]))
        x=torch.concat(outp, dim=1).squeeze()
        x=self.trans(x)  # Throws Error. the shape of x here is [BatchSize, 9600]
        return x.logitsFor transformer argument, I pass the AutoModelForAudioClassification as explained above.What works?model.trans(torch.randn((32, 9600))What doesn’t work?x=self.trans(x) # x[32, 9600]Full trace:/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/transformers/models/sew/modeling_sew.py in forward(self, input_values, attention_mask, output_attentions, output_hidden_states, return_dict, labels)
   1180             output_attentions=output_attentions,
   1181             output_hidden_states=output_hidden_states,
-> 1182             return_dict=return_dict,
   1183         )
   1184 

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py in _call_impl(self, *input, **kwargs)
   1108         if not (self._backward_hooks or self._forward_hooks or self._forward_pre_hooks or _global_backward_hooks
   1109                 or _global_forward_hooks or _global_forward_pre_hooks):
-> 1110             return forward_call(*input, **kwargs)
   1111         # Do not call functions when jit is used
   1112         full_backward_hooks, non_full_backward_hooks = [], []

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/transformers/models/sew/modeling_sew.py in forward(self, input_values, attention_mask, mask_time_indices, output_attentions, output_hidden_states, return_dict)
    931         return_dict = return_dict if return_dict is not None else self.config.use_return_dict
    932 
--> 933         extract_features = self.feature_extractor(input_values)
    934         extract_features = extract_features.transpose(1, 2)
    935         extract_features = self.layer_norm(extract_features)

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/torch/nn/modules/module.py in _call_impl(self, *input, **kwargs)
   1108         if not (self._backward_hooks or self._forward_hooks or self._forward_pre_hooks or _global_backward_hooks
   1109                 or _global_forward_hooks or _global_forward_pre_hooks):
-> 1110             return forward_call(*input, **kwargs)
   1111         # Do not call functions when jit is used
   1112         full_backward_hooks, non_full_backward_hooks = [], []

/usr/local/lib/python3.7/dist-packages/transformers/models/sew/modeling_sew.py in forward(self, input_values)
    365         # make sure hidden_states require grad for gradient_checkpointing
    366         if self._requires_grad and self.training:
--> 367             hidden_states.requires_grad = True
    368 
    369         for conv_layer in self.conv_layers:

RuntimeError: you can only change requires_grad flags of leaf variables.Just for a check, I have also tried loading models with other configs but everything behaves the same.At this point, I don’t know if it’s a bug or am I doing something wrong here. Any help would be appreciated.
2022-06-28T03:29:14Z
Hi, did you find the solution for this issue? I met the same one.
2022-12-08T23:13:08Z
I ended up doing this to get around the error. I really want to train the entire model but this bypasses the flag.self.speaker_classifieris mynn.Modulesubclass withAutoModelas the encoder.self.speaker_classifier.encoder.feature_extractor._requires_grad = FalsePersonally, I would like to know the correct way to deal with this since it seems like switching arequires_gradflag  in the forward pass is no longer supported.