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Log gradient norms of any magnitude #16877

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What does this PR do?

After just having spent 3 hours trying to figure out, why some of parameters apparently receive no gradients, I found out that grad_norm arbitrarily decides that gradient norms less than 1e-4 are not worth knowing about and rounds them to zero. This PR fixes that.

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Can you add a CHANGELOG entry? Under the "Changed" section

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Great!

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Thanks for the review and information. I have added a changelog entry.

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@awaelchli awaelchli merged commit 7bc39ae into Lightning-AI:master Feb 28, 2023
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