sets the gradients of all optimized :class:`torch.Tensor` s. Args: set_to_none (bool): instead of setting to zero, set the grads to None. This will in general have lower memory footprint, and can modestly improve performance. However, it changes certain behaviors. For example: 1. When the user tries to access a gradient and perform manual ops on it, a None attribute or a Tensor full of 0s will behave differently. 2. If the user requests ``zero_grad(set_to_none=True)`` followed by a backward pass, ``.grad``\ s are guaranteed to be None for params that did not receive a gradient. 3. ``torch.optim`` optimizers have a different behavior if the gradient is 0 or None (in one case it does the step with a gradient of 0 and in the other it skips the step altogether). r]