copy.deepcopy(model), why?

[Turningl]

Hello, your project has helped me a lot. Thank you very much. But I have a question: why do I need copy.deepcopy(model) when I am trying to implement a federated learning model, it seems that without copy.deepcopy all models will have the same weight. It's only when you use it that the model is different. So why is that?

[saigontrade88]

Hi,
Can you provide the filename together with the corresponding line number? y = copy.deepcopy(x) returns y which is a copy of variable x. Any future operations on x will not affect y.