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.

You can enable debug mode with chainer.using_config():

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

See Configuring Chainer for Chainer’s configuration mechanism.

You can also set CHAINER_DEBUG environment variable to 1 to enable this mode.

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

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

chainer.is_debug	Get the debug mode.
chainer.set_debug	Set the debug mode.

Deprecated interface

As of v2.0.0, it is recommended to turn on the debug mode using chainer.config.debug. See Configuring Chainer for the way to use the config object. We leave the reference of the conventional way (which has been available since Chainer v1) as follows.

chainer.DebugMode

Debug mode context.