Backward pass is extremely slow

Hi,
I am running a pytorch module that involves multiple cond1d layers, contranspose1d layers, and module_list of linear layers. And the number of subjects in each batch is of the order of 10 (total samples = 100).
It is taking an incredible amount of time for each epoch. When I ran the code with torch.util.profiler I got the following result.

I’m not sure what’s going wrong. Also, I don’t really understand the function named “to” in the autograd profiler. Any help is really appreciated.
Thank you.

It seems you are using the CPU for the processing?
How many cores and which CPU are you using?
You could try to use MKL-DNN as described here for a potential speedup.

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