@ptrblck Thanks for your reply. reduce_loss_dict() is used to reduce all losses computed from two GPUs for logging purpose. Here’s the code snippet:
def reduce_loss_dict(loss_dict):
    """
    Reduce the loss dictionary from all processes so that process with rank
    0 has the averaged results. Returns a dict with the same fields as
    loss_dict, after reduction.
    """
    world_size = get_world_size()
    if world_size < 2:
        return loss_dict
    with torch.no_grad():
        loss_names = []
        all_losses = []
        for k in sorted(loss_dict.keys()):
            loss_names.append(k)
            all_losses.append(loss_dict[k])
        all_losses = torch.stack(all_losses, dim=0)
        dist.reduce(all_losses, dst=0)
        if dist.get_rank() == 0:
            # only main process gets accumulated, so only divide by
            # world_size in this case
            all_losses /= world_size
        reduced_losses = {k: v for k, v in zip(loss_names, all_losses)}
    return reduced_losses

As you said, I’ve also noticed that it doesn’t detach the loss in reduce_loss_dict. However, when updating losses by meters, the losses will be detached by item(). I also tried modifying the second to the last line in reduce_loss_dict where reduced_losses = {k: v.item() for k, v in zip(loss_names, all_losses)}, but it doesn’t help.
The code snippet of meters.update():
class MetricLogger(object):
    def __init__(self, delimiter="\t"):
        self.meters = defaultdict(SmoothedValue)
        self.delimiter = delimiter

    def update(self, **kwargs):
        for k, v in kwargs.items():
            if isinstance(v, torch.Tensor):
                v = v.item()
            assert isinstance(v, (float, int))
            self.meters[k].update(v)