here’s a similar problem 1, but I think torch is good enough to deal with initialization problem.
Let’s see loss first
# first time save and the loss  
epoch:8  loss:2.6038

# second time reload, and save model when epoch is 10
epoch:8  loss:7.8922
epoch:10 loss:4.8546

# third time reload, and save model when epoch is 27
epoch:10 loss:6.0920
epoch:27 loss:2.1613

# fourth time reload and training
epoch:27 loss:6.0920

as you can see, once I reload the model and run a epoch training, the loss raising instead of descending. It’s really strange.
I use step method that because of my machine cannot support big batch.

The first time I use four GPU with 16 batch size and backward the loss every 2 step..
The second time I use two GPU with 8 batch size and backward the loss every 4 step

The third time I use four GPU with 16 batch size and backward the loss every 2 step..
The fourth time I use four GPU with 16 batch size and backward the loss every 2 step..

According to the first to the third time, I think it’s batchnorm problem cause the batch size is different that the param alpha and beta is not suitable for another set.
But surprisingly, the fourth time still get a similar situation.So it’s really confuse me.Did I miss some param should save? Here’s my load and reload code. I am sure the use of model.train() and model.eval() is right.
# saving script 
    def save_model(self, path, epoch, model, optimizer):
        #if epoch % 4 != 0:
        #    return
        if isinstance(model, torch.nn.DataParallel):
            state_dict = model.module.state_dict()
        else:
            state_dict = model.state_dict()
        torch.save({
            'epoch': epoch,
            'model_state_dict': state_dict,
            'optimizer_state_dict': optimizer.state_dict(),
            'learning_rate':optimizer.state_dict()['param_groups'][0]['lr']
            # 'loss': loss
        }, path)

# reloading script 
    def load_model(self, model, optimizer, resume, strict=True):
        checkpoint = torch.load(resume, map_location=lambda storage, loc: storage)
        print('loaded weights from {}, epoch {}'.format(resume, checkpoint['epoch']))
        state_dict_ = checkpoint['model_state_dict']
        state_dict = {}
        for k in state_dict_:
            if k.startswith('module') and not k.startswith('module_list'):
                state_dict[k[7:]] = state_dict_[k]
            else:
                state_dict[k] = state_dict_[k]
        model_state_dict = model.state_dict()
        if not strict:
            for k in state_dict:
                if k in model_state_dict:
                    if state_dict[k].shape != model_state_dict[k].shape:
                        print('Skip loading parameter {}, required shape{}, ' \
                              'loaded shape{}.'.format(k, model_state_dict[k].shape, state_dict[k].shape))
                        state_dict[k] = model_state_dict[k]
                else:
                    print('Drop parameter {}.'.format(k))
            for k in model_state_dict:
                if not (k in state_dict):
                    print('No param {}.'.format(k))
                    state_dict[k] = model_state_dict[k]
        model.load_state_dict(state_dict, strict=False)
        optimizer.load_state_dict(checkpoint['optimizer_state_dict'])
        for state in optimizer.state.values():
            for k, v in state.items():
                if isinstance(v, torch.Tensor):
                    state[k] = v.cuda()
        epoch = checkpoint['epoch']
        # loss = checkpoint['loss']
        return model, optimizer, epoch