Gradually decay the weight loss

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I am quite new in pyTorch and currently working with CycleGAN (pyTorch implementation) as a part of my project and I understand most of the implementation of cycleGAN.

I read the paper with the name ‘CycleGAN with better Cycles’ and I am trying to apply the modification which mentioned in the paper. One of modification is Cycle consistency weight decay which I don’t know how to apply.

optimizer_G.zero_grad()

# Identity loss
loss_id_A = criterion_identity(G_BA(real_A), real_A)
loss_id_B = criterion_identity(G_AB(real_B), real_B)

loss_identity = (loss_id_A + loss_id_B) / 2

# GAN loss
fake_B = G_AB(real_A)
loss_GAN_AB = criterion_GAN(D_B(fake_B), valid)
fake_A = G_BA(real_B)
loss_GAN_BA = criterion_GAN(D_A(fake_A), valid)

loss_GAN = (loss_GAN_AB + loss_GAN_BA) / 2

# Cycle consistency loss
recov_A = G_BA(fake_B)
loss_cycle_A = criterion_cycle(recov_A, real_A)
recov_B = G_AB(fake_A)
loss_cycle_B = criterion_cycle(recov_B, real_B)

loss_cycle = (loss_cycle_A + loss_cycle_B) / 2

# Total loss
loss_G =    loss_GAN + 
            lambda_cyc * loss_cycle + #lambda_cyc is 10
            lambda_id * loss_identity #lambda_id is 0.5 * lambda_cyc

loss_G.backward()
optimizer_G.step()

My question is how can I gradually decay the weight of cycle consistency loss?

Any help for implementing this modification would be appreciated.

This is from paper:
Cycle consistency loss helps to stabilize training a lot in early stages but becomes an obstacle towards realistic images in later stages. We propose to gradually decay the weight of cycle consistency loss λ as training progress. However, we should still make sure that λ is
not decayed to 0 so that generators won’t become unconstrained and go completely wild.

Thanks in advance.

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You can change weight decay with :

for param_group in optimizer.param_groups:
      param_group['weight_decay'] = 0.0000001
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Thanks! but I think this is not what I want.
I updated my question maybe now is more clear.