# Copyright (c) OpenMMLab. All rights reserved. from mmengine.dist import all_reduce_params, is_distributed from mmengine.registry import HOOKS from .hook import Hook @HOOKS.register_module() class SyncBuffersHook(Hook): """Synchronize model buffers such as running_mean and running_var in BN at the end of each epoch.""" priority = 'NORMAL' def __init__(self) -> None: self.distributed = is_distributed() def after_train_epoch(self, runner) -> None: """All-reduce model buffers at the end of each epoch. Args: runner (Runner): The runner of the training process. """ if self.distributed: all_reduce_params(runner.model.buffers(), op='mean')