Add batched calculation option to energy_score_empirical in order to reduce memory consumption (#3402)

* Add batched calculation option to energy_score_empirical in order to reduce memory consumption.

* Replace native Python sum with torch stack(...).sum().

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Co-authored-by: Ben Zickel <ben@vesttoo.com>

Author: BenZickel

pyro/ops/stats.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 import math
 import numbers
-from typing import List, Tuple, Union
+from typing import List, Optional, Tuple, Union
 
 import torch
 from torch.fft import irfft, rfft
@@ -510,7 +510,9 @@ def crps_empirical(pred, truth):
     return (pred - truth).abs().mean(0) - (diff * weight).sum(0) / num_samples**2
 
 
-def energy_score_empirical(pred: torch.Tensor, truth: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Tensor:
+def energy_score_empirical(
+    pred: torch.Tensor, truth: torch.Tensor, pred_batch_size: Optional[int] = None
+) -> torch.Tensor:
     r"""
     Computes negative Energy Score ES* (see equation 22 in [1]) between a
     set of multivariate samples ``pred`` and a true data vector ``truth``. Running time
@@ -538,6 +540,8 @@ def energy_score_empirical(pred: torch.Tensor, truth: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Ten
         The leftmost dim is that of the multivariate sample.
     :param torch.Tensor truth: A tensor of true observations with same shape as ``pred`` except
         for the second leftmost dim which can have any value or be omitted.
+    :param int pred_batch_size: If specified the predictions will be batched before calculation
+        according to the specified batch size in order to reduce memory consumption.
     :return: A tensor of shape ``truth.shape``.
     :rtype: torch.Tensor
     """
@@ -552,10 +556,44 @@ def energy_score_empirical(pred: torch.Tensor, truth: torch.Tensor) -> torch.Ten
             "Actual shapes: {} versus {}".format(pred.shape, truth.shape)
         )
 
-    retval = (
-        torch.cdist(pred, truth).mean(dim=-2)
-        - 0.5 * torch.cdist(pred, pred).mean(dim=[-1, -2])[..., None]
-    )
+    if pred_batch_size is None:
+        retval = (
+            torch.cdist(pred, truth).mean(dim=-2)
+            - 0.5 * torch.cdist(pred, pred).mean(dim=[-1, -2])[..., None]
+        )
+    else:
+        # Divide predictions into batches
+        pred_len = pred.shape[-2]
+        pred_batches = []
+        while pred.numel() > 0:
+            pred_batches.append(pred[..., :pred_batch_size, :])
+            pred = pred[..., pred_batch_size:, :]
+        # Calculate predictions distance to truth
+        retval = (
+            torch.stack(
+                [
+                    torch.cdist(pred_batch, truth).sum(dim=-2)
+                    for pred_batch in pred_batches
+                ],
+                dim=0,
+            ).sum(dim=0)
+            / pred_len
+        )
+        # Calculate predictions self distance
+        for aux_pred_batch in pred_batches:
+            retval = (
+                retval
+                - 0.5
+                * torch.stack(
+                    [
+                        torch.cdist(pred_batch, aux_pred_batch).sum(dim=[-1, -2])
+                        for pred_batch in pred_batches
+                    ],
+                    dim=0,
+                ).sum(dim=0)[..., None]
+                / pred_len
+                / pred_len
+            )
 
     if remove_leftmost_dim:
         retval = retval[..., 0]

tests/ops/test_stats.py

@@ -355,3 +355,26 @@ def test_multivariate_energy_score(sample_dim, num_samples=10000):
         rtol=0.02,
     )
     assert energy_score * 1.02 < energy_score_uncorrelated
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("batch_shape", [(), (4,), (3, 2)])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize("sample_dim", [30, 100])
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "num_samples, pred_batch_size", [(100, 10), (100, 30), (100, 100), (100, 200)]
+)
+def test_energy_score_empirical_batched_calculation(
+    batch_shape, sample_dim, num_samples, pred_batch_size
+):
+    # Generate data
+    truth = torch.randn(batch_shape + (sample_dim,))
+    pred = torch.randn(batch_shape + (num_samples, sample_dim))
+    # Do batched and regular calculation
+    expected = energy_score_empirical(pred, truth)
+    actual = energy_score_empirical(pred, truth, pred_batch_size=pred_batch_size)
+    # Check accuracy
+    assert_close(actual, expected)
+
+
+def test_jit_compilation():
+    # Test that functions can be JIT compiled
+    torch.jit.script(energy_score_empirical)