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NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::Params - A container for holding variables.

DESCRIPTION

    A container for holding variables.
    Used by RNN cells for parameter sharing between cells.

    Parameters
    ----------
    prefix : str
        All variables name created by this container will
        be prepended with the prefix

get

    Get a variable with the name or create a new one if does not exist.

    Parameters
    ----------
    $name : str
        name of the variable
    @kwargs:
        more arguments that are passed to mx->sym->Variable call

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNNCell::Base

DESCRIPTION

    Abstract base class for RNN cells

    Parameters
    ----------
    prefix : str
        prefix for name of layers
        (and name of weight if params is undef)
    params : AI::MXNet::RNN::Params or undef
        container for weight sharing between cells.
        created if undef.

reset

    Reset before re-using the cell for another graph

call

    Construct symbol for one step of RNN.

    Parameters
    ----------
    $inputs : mx->sym->Variable
        input symbol, 2D, batch * num_units
    $states : mx->sym->Variable or ArrayRef[AI::MXNet::Symbol]
        state from previous step or begin_state().

    Returns
    -------
    $output : AI::MXNet::Symbol
        output symbol
    $states : ArrayRef[AI::MXNet::Symbol]
        state to next step of RNN.
    Can be called via overloaded &{}: &{$cell}($inputs, $states);

params

    Parameters of this cell

state_shape

    shape(s) of states

state_info

    shape and layout information of states

begin_state

    Initial state for this cell.

    Parameters
    ----------
    :$func : sub ref, default is AI::MXNet::Symbol->can('zeros')
        Function for creating initial state.
        Can be AI::MXNet::Symbol->can('zeros'),
        AI::MXNet::Symbol->can('uniform'), AI::MXNet::Symbol->can('Variable') etc.
        Use AI::MXNet::Symbol->can('Variable') if you want to directly
        feed the input as states.
    @kwargs :
        more keyword arguments passed to func. For example
        mean, std, dtype, etc.

    Returns
    -------
    $states : ArrayRef[AI::MXNet::Symbol]
        starting states for first RNN step

unpack_weights

    Unpack fused weight matrices into separate
    weight matrices

    Parameters
    ----------
    $args : HashRef[AI::MXNet::NDArray]
        hash ref containing packed weights.
        usually from AI::MXNet::Module->get_output()

    Returns
    -------
    $args : HashRef[AI::MXNet::NDArray]
        hash ref with weights associated with
        this cell, unpacked.

pack_weights

    Pack fused weight matrices into common
    weight matrices

    Parameters
    ----------
    args : HashRef[AI::MXNet::NDArray]
        hash ref containing unpacked weights.

    Returns
    -------
    $args : HashRef[AI::MXNet::NDArray]
        hash ref with weights associated with
        this cell, packed.

unroll

    Unroll an RNN cell across time steps.

    Parameters
    ----------
    :$length : Int
        number of steps to unroll
    :$inputs : AI::MXNet::Symbol, array ref of Symbols, or undef
        if inputs is a single Symbol (usually the output
        of Embedding symbol), it should have shape
        of [$batch_size, $length, ...] if layout == 'NTC' (batch, time series)
        or ($length, $batch_size, ...) if layout == 'TNC' (time series, batch).

        If inputs is a array ref of symbols (usually output of
        previous unroll), they should all have shape
        ($batch_size, ...).

        If inputs is undef, a placeholder variables are
        automatically created.
    :$begin_state : array ref of Symbol
        input states. Created by begin_state()
        or output state of another cell. Created
        from begin_state() if undef.
    :$input_prefix : str
        prefix for automatically created input
        placehodlers.
    :$layout : str
        layout of input symbol. Only used if the input
        is a single Symbol.
    :$merge_outputs : Bool
        If 0, returns outputs as an array ref of Symbols.
        If 1, concatenates the output across the time steps
        and returns a single symbol with the shape
        [$batch_size, $length, ...) if the layout equal to 'NTC',
        or [$length, $batch_size, ...) if the layout equal tp 'TNC'.
        If undef, output whatever is faster

    Returns
    -------
    $outputs : array ref of Symbol or Symbol
        output symbols.
    $states : Symbol or nested list of Symbol
        has the same structure as begin_state()

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::Cell

DESCRIPTION

    Simple recurrent neural network cell

    Parameters
    ----------
    num_hidden : int
        number of units in output symbol
    activation : str or Symbol, default 'tanh'
        type of activation function
    prefix : str, default 'rnn_'
        prefix for name of layers
        (and name of weight if params is undef)
    params : AI::MXNet::RNNParams or undef
        container for weight sharing between cells.
        created if undef.

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::LSTMCell

DESCRIPTION

    Long-Short Term Memory (LSTM) network cell.

    Parameters
    ----------
    num_hidden : int
        number of units in output symbol
    prefix : str, default 'lstm_'
        prefix for name of layers
        (and name of weight if params is undef)
    params : AI::MXNet::RNN::Params or None
        container for weight sharing between cells.
        created if undef.
    forget_bias : bias added to forget gate, default 1.0.
        Jozefowicz et al. 2015 recommends setting this to 1.0

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::GRUCell

DESCRIPTION

    Gated Rectified Unit (GRU) network cell.
    Note: this is an implementation of the cuDNN version of GRUs
    (slight modification compared to Cho et al. 2014).

    Parameters
    ----------
    num_hidden : int
        number of units in output symbol
    prefix : str, default 'gru_'
        prefix for name of layers
        (and name of weight if params is undef)
    params : AI::MXNet::RNN::Params or undef
        container for weight sharing between cells.
        created if undef.

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::FusedCell

DESCRIPTION

    Fusing RNN layers across time step into one kernel.
    Improves speed but is less flexible. Currently only
    supported if using cuDNN on GPU.

unfuse

    Unfuse the fused RNN

    Returns
    -------
    $cell : AI::MXNet::RNN::SequentialCell
        unfused cell that can be used for stepping, and can run on CPU.

NAME

    AI:MXNet::RNN::SequentialCell

DESCRIPTION

    Sequentially stacking multiple RNN cells

    Parameters
    ----------
    params : AI::MXNet::RNN::Params or undef
        container for weight sharing between cells.
        created if undef.

add

    Append a cell to the stack.

    Parameters
    ----------
    $cell : AI::MXNet::RNN::Cell::Base

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::BidirectionalCell

DESCRIPTION

    Bidirectional RNN cell

    Parameters
    ----------
    l_cell : AI::MXNet::RNN::Cell::Base
        cell for forward unrolling
    r_cell : AI::MXNet::RNN::Cell::Base
        cell for backward unrolling
    output_prefix : str, default 'bi_'
        prefix for name of output

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::Conv::Base

DESCRIPTION

    Abstract base class for Convolutional RNN cells

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::ConvCell

DESCRIPTION

    Convolutional RNN cells

    Parameters
    ----------
    input_shape : array ref of int
        Shape of input in single timestep.
    num_hidden : int
        Number of units in output symbol.
    h2h_kernel : array ref of int, default (3, 3)
        Kernel of Convolution operator in state-to-state transitions.
    h2h_dilate : array ref of int, default (1, 1)
        Dilation of Convolution operator in state-to-state transitions.
    i2h_kernel : array ref of int, default (3, 3)
        Kernel of Convolution operator in input-to-state transitions.
    i2h_stride : array ref of int, default (1, 1)
        Stride of Convolution operator in input-to-state transitions.
    i2h_pad : array ref of int, default (1, 1)
        Pad of Convolution operator in input-to-state transitions.
    i2h_dilate : array ref of int, default (1, 1)
        Dilation of Convolution operator in input-to-state transitions.
    activation : str or Symbol,
        default functools.partial(symbol.LeakyReLU, act_type='leaky', slope=0.2)
        Type of activation function.
    prefix : str, default 'ConvRNN_'
        Prefix for name of layers (and name of weight if params is None).
    params : RNNParams, default None
        Container for weight sharing between cells. Created if None.
    conv_layout : str, , default 'NCHW'
        Layout of ConvolutionOp

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::ConvLSTMCell

DESCRIPTION

    Convolutional LSTM network cell.

    Reference:
        Xingjian et al. NIPS2015

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::ConvGRUCell

DESCRIPTION

    Convolutional GRU network cell.

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::ModifierCell

DESCRIPTION

    Base class for modifier cells. A modifier
    cell takes a base cell, apply modifications
    on it (e.g. Dropout), and returns a new cell.

    After applying modifiers the base cell should
    no longer be called directly. The modifer cell
    should be used instead.

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::DropoutCell

DESCRIPTION

    Apply the dropout on base cell

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::ZoneoutCell

DESCRIPTION

    Apply Zoneout on base cell.

NAME

    AI::MXNet::RNN::ResidualCell

DESCRIPTION

    Adds residual connection as described in Wu et al, 2016
    (https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.08144).
    Output of the cell is output of the base cell plus input.