Function test_loop

beginner_source/basics/optimization_tutorial.py:170–188

(dataloader, model, loss_fn)

def test_loop(dataloader, model, loss_fn):
    # Set the model to evaluation mode - important for batch normalization and dropout layers
    # Unnecessary in this situation but added for best practices
    model.eval()
    size = len(dataloader.dataset)
    num_batches = len(dataloader)
    test_loss, correct = 0, 0

    # Evaluating the model with torch.no_grad() ensures that no gradients are computed during test mode
    # also serves to reduce unnecessary gradient computations and memory usage for tensors with requires_grad=True
    with torch.no_grad():
        for X, y in dataloader:
            pred = model(X)
            test_loss += loss_fn(pred, y).item()
            correct += (pred.argmax(1) == y).type(torch.float).sum().item()

    test_loss /= num_batches
    correct /= size
    print(f"Test Error: \n Accuracy: {(100*correct):>0.1f}%, Avg loss: {test_loss:>8f} \n")


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