How to get gradients with respect to the inputs in pytorch

This is one way to find adversarial examples of CNN.

The boilerplate:

import torch
from torch.autograd import Variable
import torch.nn as nn
import torch.optim as optim
import numpy as np

　　Define a simple network:

class lolnet(nn.Module):
    def __init__(self):
        super(lolnet,self).__init__()
        self.a=nn.Linear(in_features=1,out_features=1,bias=False)
        self.a.weight = nn.Parameter(torch.FloatTensor([[0.6]]))
        self.b=nn.Linear(in_features=1,out_features=1,bias=False)
        self.b.weight=nn.Parameter(torch.FloatTensor([[0.6]]))
        
    def forward(self, inputs):
        return self.b(
            self.a(inputs)
        )

　　The inputs

inputs=np.array([[5]])
inputs=torch.from_numpy(inputs).float()
inputs=Variable(inputs)
inputs.requires_grad=True
net=lolnet()

　　The optimizer

opx=optim.SGD(
    params=[
        {"params":inputs}
    ],lr=0.5
)

　　The optimization process

for i in range(50):
    x=net(inputs)
    loss=(x-1)**2
    opx.zero_grad() 
    loss.backward()
    opx.step()
    print(net.a.weight.data.numpy()[0][0],inputs.data.numpy()[0][0],loss.data.numpy()[0][0])

　　The results are as below:

0.6 4.712 0.6400001
0.6 4.4613247 0.4848616
0.6 4.243137 0.36732942
0.6 4.0532265 0.27828723
0.6 3.8879282 0.2108294
0.6 3.7440526 0.15972354
0.6 3.6188233 0.1210059
0.6 3.5098238 0.09167358
0.6 3.4149506 0.069451585
0.6 3.332373 0.052616227
0.6 3.2604973 0.039861854
0.6 3.1979368 0.030199187
0.6 3.143484 0.022878764
0.6 3.0960886 0.017332876
0.6 3.0548356 0.013131317
0.6 3.0189288 0.00994824
0.6 2.9876754 0.0075367615
0.6 2.9604726 0.005709796
0.6 2.9367952 0.0043257284
0.6 2.9161866 0.003277142
0.6 2.8982487 0.0024827516
0.6 2.8826356 0.0018809267
0.6 2.869046 0.001424982
0.6 2.8572176 0.0010795629
0.6 2.8469222 0.0008178701
0.6 2.837961 0.00061961624
0.6 2.830161 0.00046941772
0.6 2.8233721 0.000355627
0.6 2.8174632 0.0002694209
0.6 2.81232 0.00020411481
0.6 2.8078432 0.0001546371
0.6 2.8039467 0.00011715048
0.6 2.8005552 8.875507e-05
0.6 2.7976031 6.724081e-05
0.6 2.7950337 5.093933e-05
0.6 2.7927973 3.8591857e-05
0.6 2.7908509 2.9236677e-05
0.6 2.7891567 2.2150038e-05
0.6 2.7876818 1.6781378e-05
0.6 2.7863982 1.2713146e-05
0.6 2.785281 9.631679e-06
0.6 2.7843084 7.296927e-06
0.6 2.783462 5.527976e-06
0.6 2.7827253 4.1880226e-06
0.6 2.782084 3.1727632e-06
0.6 2.7815259 2.4034823e-06
0.6 2.78104 1.821013e-06
0.6 2.7806172 1.3793326e-06
0.6 2.780249 1.044933e-06
0.6 2.7799287 7.9170513e-07

Process finished with exit code 0