‘set_requires_grad’,  ‘criterionGAN’ are defined as :
criterionGAN = GANLoss(args.gan_mode).to(device)
where GANLoss is :
class GANLoss(nn.Module):
    """Define different GAN objectives.

    The GANLoss class abstracts away the need to create the target label tensor
    that has the same size as the input.
    """

    def __init__(self, gan_mode, target_real_label=1.0, target_fake_label=0.0):
        """ Initialize the GANLoss class.

        Parameters:
            gan_mode (str) - - the type of GAN objective. It currently supports vanilla, lsgan, and wgangp.
            target_real_label (bool) - - label for a real image
            target_fake_label (bool) - - label of a fake image
        """
        super(GANLoss, self).__init__()
        self.register_buffer('real_label', torch.tensor(target_real_label))
        self.register_buffer('fake_label', torch.tensor(target_fake_label))
        self.gan_mode = gan_mode
        if gan_mode == 'lsgan':
            self.loss = nn.MSELoss()
        elif gan_mode == 'vanilla':
            self.loss = nn.BCEWithLogitsLoss()
        elif gan_mode in ['wgangp']:
            self.loss = None
        else:
            raise NotImplementedError('gan mode %s not implemented' % gan_mode)

def set_requires_grad(nets, requires_grad=False):
        """Set requies_grad=Fasle for all the networks to avoid unnecessary computations
        Parameters:
            nets (network list)   -- a list of networks
            requires_grad (bool)  -- whether the networks require gradients or not
        """
        if not isinstance(nets, list):
            nets = [nets]
        for net in nets:
            if net is not None:
                for param in net.parameters():
                    param.requires_grad = requires_grad

all code is a little long, but the core is mainly the above.