Debug Mode

In debug mode, Chainer checks values of variables on runtime and shows more detailed error messages. It helps you to debug your programs. However, it requires some additional overhead time.

If you want to enable debug mode for the entire code, you can set CHAINER_DEBUG environment variable to 1.

You can also enable or disable debug mode for the specific scope of code with chainer.using_config() or by changing chainer.config.debug configuration.

with chainer.using_config('debug', True):
   ...

See Configuring Chainer for the details of Chainer’s configuration mechanism.

In debug mode, Chainer checks all results of forward and backward computation, and if it finds a NaN value, it raises a RuntimeError. Some functions and links also check validity of input values more strictly.

You can check if debug mode is enabled with chainer.is_debug() function.

chainer.is_debug

Returns if the debug mode is enabled or not in the current thread.

chainer.set_debug

Enables or disables the debug mode in the current thread.