chainer.functions.normalize

chainer.functions.normalize(x, eps=1e-05, axis=1)

L2 norm squared (a.k.a. Euclidean norm).

This function implements L2 normalization on a vector along the given axis. No reduction is done along the normalization axis.

In the case when axis=1 and \(\mathbf{x}\) is a matrix of dimension \((N, K)\), where \(N\) and \(K\) denote mini-batch size and the dimension of the input vectors, this function computes an output matrix \(\mathbf{y}\) of dimension \((N, K)\) by the following equation:

\[\mathbf{y}_i = {\mathbf{x}_i \over \| \mathbf{x}_i \|_2 + \epsilon}\]

eps is used to avoid division by zero when norm of \(\mathbf{x}\) along the given axis is zero.

The default value of axis is determined for backward compatibility.

Parameters

• x (Variable or N-dimensional array) – Two dimensional output variable. The first dimension is assumed to be the mini-batch dimension.

• eps (float) – Epsilon value for numerical stability.

• axis (int or tuple of ints) – Axis along which to normalize.

Returns

The output variable which has the same shape as \(x\).

Return type

Variable