What the recommended way to update tensor's value?

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Since a.data = b.detach() is not recommended( is it right?), and a.fill_(v) can only cope with 0-dim value, so what’s the recommended value to update one tensor value?
My typical case is to write gradients into tensor.grad after using autograd.grad().

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Hi,

If you want to change the value of a tensor that requires gradients without it being tracked by the autograd engine, you should do:

with torch.no_grad():
    a.copy_(b)

As is done for weight initialization for example in the nn.init package.

If thinks don’t require gradients and have no grad_fn associated with it, you can simply do:

a.copy_(b)