Hi, I had a very general question. In Pytorch, I have seen usually using only the forward function to define a model. As an example, in this code taken from PyTorch website:
class Net(nn.Module):
def __init__(self):
    super(Net, self).__init__()
    # 1 input image channel, 6 output channels, 5x5 square convolution
    # kernel
    self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(1, 6, 5)
    self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(6, 16, 5)
    # an affine operation: y = Wx + b
    self.fc1 = nn.Linear(16 * 5 * 5, 120)
    self.fc2 = nn.Linear(120, 84)
    self.fc3 = nn.Linear(84, 10)

def forward(self, x):
    # Max pooling over a (2, 2) window
    x = F.max_pool2d(F.relu(self.conv1(x)), (2, 2))
    # If the size is a square you can only specify a single number
    x = F.max_pool2d(F.relu(self.conv2(x)), 2)
    x = x.view(-1, self.num_flat_features(x))
    x = F.relu(self.fc1(x))
    x = F.relu(self.fc2(x))
    x = self.fc3(x)
    return x

However, say that I want to define multiple forward functions. Say that forward_1(self,x), forward_2(self,x), each of which use the same model parameters, but different computation graphs.
Is it ok to do that? Example
class Net(nn.Module):
def __init__(self):
    super(Net, self).__init__()
    # 1 input image channel, 6 output channels, 5x5 square convolution
    # kernel
    self.conv1 = nn.Conv2d(1, 6, 5)
    self.conv2 = nn.Conv2d(6, 16, 5)
    # an affine operation: y = Wx + b
    self.fc1 = nn.Linear(16 * 5 * 5, 120)
    self.fc2 = nn.Linear(120, 84)
    self.fc3 = nn.Linear(84, 10)

def forward_1(self, x):
    x = F.max_pool2d(F.relu(self.conv1(x)), (2, 2))
    # If the size is a square you can only specify a single number
    x = F.max_pool2d(F.relu(self.conv2(x)), 2)
    return x
def forward_2(self,x):
    x = x.view(-1, self.num_flat_features(x))
    x = F.relu(self.fc1(x))
    x = F.relu(self.fc2(x))
    x = self.fc3(x)
    return x

Now say that I want to backprop using forward_1 once, and forward_2 once again.
Can I do the following??
output = net.forward_1(x)
loss = criterion(target,output)
loss.backward()
optimizer.step
output = net.forward_2(x)
loss = criterion(target,output)
loss.backward()
optimizer.step

is it ok to do that?