总结和测试用例
核心问题是，正如我所料，Tensorflow 在不是第一个批次上抛出 OOM 分配。因此，我认为存在内存泄漏，因为在每批之后显然没有释放所有内存。
num_units: 50, batch_size: 1000; fails OOM (gpu) before 1st batch as expected
num_units: 50, batch_size: 800, fails OOM (gpu) before 1st batch as expected
num_units: 50, batch_size: 750; fails OOM (gpu) after 10th batch (???)
num_units: 50, batch_size: 500; fails OOM (gpu) after 90th batch (???)
num_units: 50, batch_size: 300; fails OOM (gpu) after 540th batch (???)
num_units: 50, batch_size: 200; computer freezes after around 900 batches with 100% ram use
num_units: 50, batch_size: 100; passes 1 epoch -- may fail later (unknown)
解释：
从本质上讲，它在第 145 批次失败之前144以批次大小运行批次，这看起来很奇怪。500如果它不能为第 145 批分配足够的内存，为什么它应该为前 144 批工作？这种行为是可以复制的。
请注意，每个批次的大小都不同，因为每个批次都有尺寸[BATCH_SIZE, MAX_SEQUENCE_LENGTH]，并且根据采样的序列，序列长度会有所不同，但程序不会在最大的批次上失败；它后来在较小的一个上失败了。因此，我得出结论，单个超大批次不会导致内存错误；它似乎是内存泄漏。
使用较大的批处理大小，程序会更早地失败；使用较小的批量大小，它稍后会失败。
完整的错误在这里：
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 1323, in _do_call
return fn(*args)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 1302, in _run_fn
status, run_metadata)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/errors_impl.py", line 473, in __exit__
c_api.TF_GetCode(self.status.status))
tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.ResourceExhaustedError: OOM when allocating tensor with shape[500,80]
[[Node: decoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/basic_lstm_cell/MatMul = MatMul[T=DT_FLOAT, transpose_a=false, transpose_b=false, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0"](decoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/basic_lstm_cell/concat, decoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/basic_lstm_cell/MatMul/Enter)]]
[[Node: gradients/Add/_282 = _Recv[client_terminated=false, recv_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0", send_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0", send_device_incarnation=1, tensor_name="edge_457_gradients/Add", tensor_type=DT_FLOAT, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0"](^_cloopdecoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/TrainingHelperNextInputs/add/y/_181)]]
During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/me/IdeaProjects/tf-nmt/main.py", line 89, in <module>
_ = sess.run([update_step])
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 889, in run
run_metadata_ptr)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 1120, in _run
feed_dict_tensor, options, run_metadata)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 1317, in _do_run
options, run_metadata)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/client/session.py", line 1336, in _do_call
raise type(e)(node_def, op, message)
tensorflow.python.framework.errors_impl.ResourceExhaustedError: OOM when allocating tensor with shape[500,80]
[[Node: decoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/basic_lstm_cell/MatMul = MatMul[T=DT_FLOAT, transpose_a=false, transpose_b=false, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0"](decoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/basic_lstm_cell/concat, decoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/basic_lstm_cell/MatMul/Enter)]]
[[Node: gradients/Add/_282 = _Recv[client_terminated=false, recv_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0", send_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0", send_device_incarnation=1, tensor_name="edge_457_gradients/Add", tensor_type=DT_FLOAT, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0"](^_cloopdecoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/TrainingHelperNextInputs/add/y/_181)]]
Caused by op 'decoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/basic_lstm_cell/MatMul', defined at:
File "/home/me/IdeaProjects/tf-nmt/main.py", line 49, in <module>
outputs, _, _ = tf.contrib.seq2seq.dynamic_decode(decoder)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/contrib/seq2seq/python/ops/decoder.py", line 309, in dynamic_decode
swap_memory=swap_memory)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/control_flow_ops.py", line 2819, in while_loop
result = loop_context.BuildLoop(cond, body, loop_vars, shape_invariants)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/control_flow_ops.py", line 2643, in BuildLoop
pred, body, original_loop_vars, loop_vars, shape_invariants)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/control_flow_ops.py", line 2593, in _BuildLoop
body_result = body(*packed_vars_for_body)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/contrib/seq2seq/python/ops/decoder.py", line 254, in body
decoder_finished) = decoder.step(time, inputs, state)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/contrib/seq2seq/python/ops/basic_decoder.py", line 138, in step
cell_outputs, cell_state = self._cell(inputs, state)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/rnn_cell_impl.py", line 290, in __call__
return base_layer.Layer.__call__(self, inputs, state, scope=scope)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/layers/base.py", line 618, in __call__
outputs = self.call(inputs, *args, **kwargs)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/rnn_cell_impl.py", line 567, in call
array_ops.concat([inputs, h], 1), self._kernel)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/math_ops.py", line 1993, in matmul
a, b, transpose_a=transpose_a, transpose_b=transpose_b, name=name)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/ops/gen_math_ops.py", line 2532, in _mat_mul
name=name)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/op_def_library.py", line 787, in _apply_op_helper
op_def=op_def)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/ops.py", line 3081, in create_op
op_def=op_def)
File "/home/me/anaconda3/lib/python3.6/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/ops.py", line 1528, in __init__
self._traceback = self._graph._extract_stack() # pylint: disable=protected-access
ResourceExhaustedError (see above for traceback): OOM when allocating tensor with shape[500,80]
[[Node: decoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/basic_lstm_cell/MatMul = MatMul[T=DT_FLOAT, transpose_a=false, transpose_b=false, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0"](decoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/basic_lstm_cell/concat, decoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/basic_lstm_cell/MatMul/Enter)]]
[[Node: gradients/Add/_282 = _Recv[client_terminated=false, recv_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0", send_device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:GPU:0", send_device_incarnation=1, tensor_name="edge_457_gradients/Add", tensor_type=DT_FLOAT, _device="/job:localhost/replica:0/task:0/device:CPU:0"](^_cloopdecoder/while/BasicDecoderStep/TrainingHelperNextInputs/add/y/_181)]]
代码片段（来自models.py）
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow.python.layers import core as layers_core
class NMTModel:
def __init__(self, hparams, iterator, mode):
source, target_in, target_out, source_lengths, target_lengths = iterator.get_next()
true_batch_size = tf.size(source_lengths)
# Lookup embeddings
embedding_encoder = tf.get_variable("embedding_encoder", [hparams.src_vsize, hparams.src_emsize])
encoder_emb_inp = tf.nn.embedding_lookup(embedding_encoder, source)
embedding_decoder = tf.get_variable("embedding_decoder", [hparams.tgt_vsize, hparams.tgt_emsize])
decoder_emb_inp = tf.nn.embedding_lookup(embedding_decoder, target_in)
# Build and run Encoder LSTM
encoder_cell = tf.nn.rnn_cell.BasicLSTMCell(hparams.num_units)
encoder_outputs, encoder_state = tf.nn.dynamic_rnn(encoder_cell, encoder_emb_inp, sequence_length=source_lengths, dtype=tf.float32)
# Build and run Decoder LSTM with Helper and output projection layer
decoder_cell = tf.nn.rnn_cell.BasicLSTMCell(hparams.num_units)
projection_layer = layers_core.Dense(hparams.tgt_vsize, use_bias=False)
# if mode is 'TRAIN' or mode is 'EVAL': # then decode using TrainingHelper
# helper = tf.contrib.seq2seq.TrainingHelper(decoder_emb_inp, sequence_length=target_lengths)
# elif mode is 'INFER': # then decode using Beam Search
# helper = tf.contrib.seq2seq.GreedyEmbeddingHelper(embedding_decoder, tf.fill([true_batch_size], hparams.sos), hparams.eos)
helper = tf.contrib.seq2seq.GreedyEmbeddingHelper(embedding_decoder, tf.fill([true_batch_size], hparams.sos), hparams.eos)
decoder = tf.contrib.seq2seq.BasicDecoder(decoder_cell, helper, encoder_state, output_layer=projection_layer)
outputs, _, _ = tf.contrib.seq2seq.dynamic_decode(decoder, maximum_iterations=tf.reduce_max(target_lengths))
logits = outputs.rnn_output
if mode is 'TRAIN' or mode is 'EVAL': # then calculate loss
crossent = tf.nn.sparse_softmax_cross_entropy_with_logits(labels=target_out, logits=logits)
target_weights = tf.sequence_mask(target_lengths, maxlen=tf.shape(target_out)[1], dtype=logits.dtype)
self.loss = tf.reduce_sum((crossent * target_weights)) / tf.cast(true_batch_size, tf.float32)
if mode is 'TRAIN': # then calculate/clip gradients, then optimize model
params = tf.trainable_variables()
gradients = tf.gradients(self.loss, params)
clipped_gradients, _ = tf.clip_by_global_norm(gradients, hparams.max_gradient_norm)
optimizer = tf.train.AdamOptimizer(hparams.l_rate)
self.update_step = optimizer.apply_gradients(zip(clipped_gradients, params))
if mode is 'EVAL' or mode is 'INFER': # then allow access to input/output tensors to printout
self.src = source
self.tgt = target_out
self.preds = tf.argmax(logits, axis=2)
# Designate a saver operation
self.saver = tf.train.Saver(tf.global_variables())
def train(self, sess):
return sess.run([self.update_step, self.loss])
def eval(self, sess):
return sess.run([self.loss, self.src, self.tgt, self.preds])
def infer(self, sess):
return sess.run([self.src, self.tgt, self.preds]) # tgt should not exist (temporary debugging only)