import numpy as np
from matplotlib import pyplot as plt

def plot_grad_flow(named_parameters):
    ave_grads = []
    max_grads= []
    layers = []
    for n, p in named_parameters:
        if(p.requires_grad) and ("bias" not in n):
            layers.append(n)
            ave_grads.append(p.grad.abs().mean())
            max_grads.append(p.grad.abs().max())
    plt.bar(np.arange(len(max_grads)), max_grads, alpha=0.1, lw=1, color="c")
    plt.bar(np.arange(len(max_grads)), ave_grads, alpha=0.1, lw=1, color="b")
    plt.hlines(0, 0, len(ave_grads)+1, lw=2, color="k" )
    plt.xticks(range(0,len(ave_grads), 1), layers, rotation="vertical")
    plt.xlim(left=0, right=len(ave_grads))
    plt.ylim(bottom = -0.001, top=0.02)
    plt.xlabel("Layers")
    plt.ylabel("average gradient")
