tweaks

Project.toml

@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ MacroTools = "0.5"
 NNlib = "0.8.9"
 NNlibCUDA = "0.2.4"
 OneHotArrays = "0.1, 0.2"
-Optimisers = "0.2.10"
+Optimisers = "0.2.11"
 ProgressLogging = "0.1"
 Reexport = "0.2, 1.0"
 SpecialFunctions = "1.8.2, 2.1.2"

docs/src/training/train_api.md

@@ -9,14 +9,28 @@ Flux.Optimise.train!(loss, model, data, opt; cb)
 To see one in a terminal, you will need to install [TerminalLoggers.jl](https://github.com/JuliaLogging/TerminalLoggers.jl)
 and follow its setup instructions.
 
-The new version of Flux's training code was written as an independent package, called Optimisers.jl.
-However, at present all Flux models contain parameter arrays (such as `Array`s and `CuArray`s)
+The new version of Flux's training code was written as an independent package, [Optimisers.jl](https://github.com/FluxML/Optimisers.jl).
+This is designed to allow for immutable objects.
+But at present all Flux models contain parameter arrays (such as `Array`s and `CuArray`s)
 which can be updated in-place. Thus objects returned by `update!` can be ignored.
 
 ```@docs
 Optimisers.update!
 ```
 
+### Modifiers
+
+The state returned by `setup` can be modified to temporarily prevent training of
+some parts of the model, or to change the learning rate uses.
+The functions for doing so may be accessed as `Flux.freeze!`, `Flux.thaw!`, and `Flux.adjust`:
+
+```@docs
+Optimisers.adjust
+Optimisers.freeze!
+Optimisers.thaw!
+```
+
+
 ## Implicit style
 
 Flux used to handle gradients, training, and optimisation rules quite differently.

docs/src/training/training.md

@@ -326,15 +326,27 @@ The first, [`WeightDecay`](@ref) adds `0.42` times original parameter to the gra
 matching the gradient of the penalty above (with the same, unrealistically large, constant).
 After that, in either case, [`Adam`](@ref) computes the final update.
 
-The same mechanism can be used for other purposes, such as gradient clipping with [`ClipGrad`](@ref ).
+The same `OptimiserChain` mechanism can be used for other purposes, such as gradient clipping with [`ClipGrad`](@ref ).
 
 Besides L2 / weight decay, another common and quite different kind of regularisation is
-provided by the [`Dropout`](@ref Flux.Dropout) layer. This turns off some ... ??
-
-?? do we discuss test/train mode here too?
+provided by the [`Dropout`](@ref Flux.Dropout) layer. This turns off some outputs of the
+previous layer during training.
+It should switch automatically, but see [trainmode!](@ref Flux.trainmode!) / [testmode!](@ref Flux.testmode!) to manually enable or disable this layer.
 
 ## Freezing, Schedules
 
-?? maybe these also fit in here.
+Finer control of training 
+
+```julia
+model = Chain(enc = encoder, dec = decoder)
+
+opt = Flux.setup(Adam(), model)
+
+Flux.freeze!(opt.layers.enc)  # corresponds to model.layers.end
+```
 
+!!! note
+    This `freeze!` goes with the "explicit" style. 
+    The earlier "implicit" equivalent was to pass to `gradient` an object referencing only
+    part of the model, such as `Flux.params(model.layers.enc)`.
 

src/Flux.jl

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ using MacroTools: @forward
 @reexport using NNlib
 using MLUtils
 import Optimisers: Optimisers, trainable, destructure  # before v0.13, Flux owned these functions
+using Optimisers: freeze!, thaw!, adjust
 
 using Zygote, ChainRulesCore
 using Zygote: Params, @adjoint, gradient, pullback, @nograd