tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper

Class AttentionWrapper

Inherits From: RNNCell

Defined in tensorflow/contrib/seq2seq/python/ops/attention_wrapper.py.

Wraps another RNNCell with attention.

__init__

__init__(
    cell,
    attention_mechanism,
    attention_layer_size=None,
    alignment_history=False,
    cell_input_fn=None,
    output_attention=True,
    initial_cell_state=None,
    name=None,
    attention_layer=None
)

Construct the AttentionWrapper.

NOTE If you are using the BeamSearchDecoder with a cell wrapped in AttentionWrapper, then you must ensure that:

  • The encoder output has been tiled to beam_width via tf.contrib.seq2seq.tile_batch (NOT tf.tile).
  • The batch_size argument passed to the zero_state method of this wrapper is equal to true_batch_size * beam_width.
  • The initial state created with zero_state above contains a cell_state value containing properly tiled final state from the encoder.

An example:

tiled_encoder_outputs = tf.contrib.seq2seq.tile_batch(
    encoder_outputs, multiplier=beam_width)
tiled_encoder_final_state = tf.conrib.seq2seq.tile_batch(
    encoder_final_state, multiplier=beam_width)
tiled_sequence_length = tf.contrib.seq2seq.tile_batch(
    sequence_length, multiplier=beam_width)
attention_mechanism = MyFavoriteAttentionMechanism(
    num_units=attention_depth,
    memory=tiled_inputs,
    memory_sequence_length=tiled_sequence_length)
attention_cell = AttentionWrapper(cell, attention_mechanism, ...)
decoder_initial_state = attention_cell.zero_state(
    dtype, batch_size=true_batch_size * beam_width)
decoder_initial_state = decoder_initial_state.clone(
    cell_state=tiled_encoder_final_state)

Args:

  • cell: An instance of RNNCell.
  • attention_mechanism: A list of AttentionMechanism instances or a single instance.
  • attention_layer_size: A list of Python integers or a single Python integer, the depth of the attention (output) layer(s). If None (default), use the context as attention at each time step. Otherwise, feed the context and cell output into the attention layer to generate attention at each time step. If attention_mechanism is a list, attention_layer_size must be a list of the same length. If attention_layer is set, this must be None.
  • alignment_history: Python boolean, whether to store alignment history from all time steps in the final output state (currently stored as a time major TensorArray on which you must call stack()).
  • cell_input_fn: (optional) A callable. The default is: lambda inputs, attention: array_ops.concat([inputs, attention], -1).
  • output_attention: Python bool. If True (default), the output at each time step is the attention value. This is the behavior of Luong-style attention mechanisms. If False, the output at each time step is the output of cell. This is the behavior of Bhadanau-style attention mechanisms. In both cases, the attention tensor is propagated to the next time step via the state and is used there. This flag only controls whether the attention mechanism is propagated up to the next cell in an RNN stack or to the top RNN output.
  • initial_cell_state: The initial state value to use for the cell when the user calls zero_state(). Note that if this value is provided now, and the user uses a batch_size argument of zero_state which does not match the batch size of initial_cell_state, proper behavior is not guaranteed.
  • name: Name to use when creating ops.
  • attention_layer: A list of tf.layers.Layer instances or a single tf.layers.Layer instance taking the context and cell output as inputs to generate attention at each time step. If None (default), use the context as attention at each time step. If attention_mechanism is a list, attention_layer must be a list of the same length. If attention_layers_size is set, this must be None.

Raises:

  • TypeError: attention_layer_size is not None and (attention_mechanism is a list but attention_layer_size is not; or vice versa).
  • ValueError: if attention_layer_size is not None, attention_mechanism is a list, and its length does not match that of attention_layer_size; if attention_layer_size and attention_layer are set simultaneously.

Properties

activity_regularizer

Optional regularizer function for the output of this layer.

dtype

graph

input

Retrieves the input tensor(s) of a layer.

Only applicable if the layer has exactly one input, i.e. if it is connected to one incoming layer.

Returns:

Input tensor or list of input tensors.

Raises:

  • AttributeError: if the layer is connected to more than one incoming layers.

Raises:

  • RuntimeError: If called in Eager mode.
  • AttributeError: If no inbound nodes are found.

input_mask

Retrieves the input mask tensor(s) of a layer.

Only applicable if the layer has exactly one inbound node, i.e. if it is connected to one incoming layer.

Returns:

Input mask tensor (potentially None) or list of input mask tensors.

Raises:

  • AttributeError: if the layer is connected to more than one incoming layers.

input_shape

Retrieves the input shape(s) of a layer.

Only applicable if the layer has exactly one input, i.e. if it is connected to one incoming layer, or if all inputs have the same shape.

Returns:

Input shape, as an integer shape tuple (or list of shape tuples, one tuple per input tensor).

Raises:

  • AttributeError: if the layer has no defined input_shape.
  • RuntimeError: if called in Eager mode.

losses

Losses which are associated with this Layer.

Variable regularization tensors are created when this property is accessed, so it is eager safe: accessing losses under a tf.GradientTape will propagate gradients back to the corresponding variables.

Returns:

A list of tensors.

name

non_trainable_variables

non_trainable_weights

output

Retrieves the output tensor(s) of a layer.

Only applicable if the layer has exactly one output, i.e. if it is connected to one incoming layer.

Returns:

Output tensor or list of output tensors.

Raises:

  • AttributeError: if the layer is connected to more than one incoming layers.
  • RuntimeError: if called in Eager mode.

output_mask

Retrieves the output mask tensor(s) of a layer.

Only applicable if the layer has exactly one inbound node, i.e. if it is connected to one incoming layer.

Returns:

Output mask tensor (potentially None) or list of output mask tensors.

Raises:

  • AttributeError: if the layer is connected to more than one incoming layers.

output_shape

Retrieves the output shape(s) of a layer.

Only applicable if the layer has one output, or if all outputs have the same shape.

Returns:

Output shape, as an integer shape tuple (or list of shape tuples, one tuple per output tensor).

Raises:

  • AttributeError: if the layer has no defined output shape.
  • RuntimeError: if called in Eager mode.

output_size

Integer or TensorShape: size of outputs produced by this cell.

scope_name

state_size

The state_size property of AttentionWrapper.

Returns:

An AttentionWrapperState tuple containing shapes used by this object.

trainable_variables

trainable_weights

updates

variables

Returns the list of all layer variables/weights.

Alias of self.weights.

Returns:

A list of variables.

weights

Returns the list of all layer variables/weights.

Returns:

A list of variables.

Methods

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.__call__

__call__(
    inputs,
    state,
    scope=None
)

Run this RNN cell on inputs, starting from the given state.

Args:

  • inputs: 2-D tensor with shape [batch_size, input_size].
  • state: if self.state_size is an integer, this should be a 2-D Tensor with shape [batch_size, self.state_size]. Otherwise, if self.state_size is a tuple of integers, this should be a tuple with shapes [batch_size, s] for s in self.state_size.
  • scope: VariableScope for the created subgraph; defaults to class name.

Returns:

A pair containing:

  • Output: A 2-D tensor with shape [batch_size, self.output_size].
  • New state: Either a single 2-D tensor, or a tuple of tensors matching the arity and shapes of state.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.__deepcopy__

__deepcopy__(memo)

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.__setattr__

__setattr__(
    name,
    value
)

Implement setattr(self, name, value).

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.apply

apply(
    inputs,
    *args,
    **kwargs
)

Apply the layer on a input.

This is an alias of self.__call__.

Arguments:

  • inputs: Input tensor(s).
  • *args: additional positional arguments to be passed to self.call.
  • **kwargs: additional keyword arguments to be passed to self.call.

Returns:

Output tensor(s).

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.build

build(_)

Creates the variables of the layer (optional, for subclass implementers).

This is a method that implementers of subclasses of Layer or Model can override if they need a state-creation step in-between layer instantiation and layer call.

This is typically used to create the weights of Layer subclasses.

Arguments:

  • input_shape: Instance of TensorShape, or list of instances of TensorShape if the layer expects a list of inputs (one instance per input).

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.compute_mask

compute_mask(
    inputs,
    mask=None
)

Computes an output mask tensor.

Arguments:

  • inputs: Tensor or list of tensors.
  • mask: Tensor or list of tensors.

Returns:

None or a tensor (or list of tensors, one per output tensor of the layer).

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.compute_output_shape

compute_output_shape(input_shape)

Computes the output shape of the layer.

Assumes that the layer will be built to match that input shape provided.

Arguments:

  • input_shape: Shape tuple (tuple of integers) or list of shape tuples (one per output tensor of the layer). Shape tuples can include None for free dimensions, instead of an integer.

Returns:

An input shape tuple.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.count_params

count_params()

Count the total number of scalars composing the weights.

Returns:

An integer count.

Raises:

  • ValueError: if the layer isn't yet built (in which case its weights aren't yet defined).

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.from_config

from_config(
    cls,
    config
)

Creates a layer from its config.

This method is the reverse of get_config, capable of instantiating the same layer from the config dictionary. It does not handle layer connectivity (handled by Network), nor weights (handled by set_weights).

Arguments:

  • config: A Python dictionary, typically the output of get_config.

Returns:

A layer instance.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.get_config

get_config()

Returns the config of the layer.

A layer config is a Python dictionary (serializable) containing the configuration of a layer. The same layer can be reinstantiated later (without its trained weights) from this configuration.

The config of a layer does not include connectivity information, nor the layer class name. These are handled by Network (one layer of abstraction above).

Returns:

Python dictionary.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.get_initial_state

get_initial_state(
    inputs=None,
    batch_size=None,
    dtype=None
)

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.get_input_at

get_input_at(node_index)

Retrieves the input tensor(s) of a layer at a given node.

Arguments:

  • node_index: Integer, index of the node from which to retrieve the attribute. E.g. node_index=0 will correspond to the first time the layer was called.

Returns:

A tensor (or list of tensors if the layer has multiple inputs).

Raises:

  • RuntimeError: If called in Eager mode.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.get_input_mask_at

get_input_mask_at(node_index)

Retrieves the input mask tensor(s) of a layer at a given node.

Arguments:

  • node_index: Integer, index of the node from which to retrieve the attribute. E.g. node_index=0 will correspond to the first time the layer was called.

Returns:

A mask tensor (or list of tensors if the layer has multiple inputs).

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.get_input_shape_at

get_input_shape_at(node_index)

Retrieves the input shape(s) of a layer at a given node.

Arguments:

  • node_index: Integer, index of the node from which to retrieve the attribute. E.g. node_index=0 will correspond to the first time the layer was called.

Returns:

A shape tuple (or list of shape tuples if the layer has multiple inputs).

Raises:

  • RuntimeError: If called in Eager mode.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.get_losses_for

get_losses_for(inputs)

Retrieves losses relevant to a specific set of inputs.

Arguments:

  • inputs: Input tensor or list/tuple of input tensors.

Returns:

List of loss tensors of the layer that depend on inputs.

Raises:

  • RuntimeError: If called in Eager mode.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.get_output_at

get_output_at(node_index)

Retrieves the output tensor(s) of a layer at a given node.

Arguments:

  • node_index: Integer, index of the node from which to retrieve the attribute. E.g. node_index=0 will correspond to the first time the layer was called.

Returns:

A tensor (or list of tensors if the layer has multiple outputs).

Raises:

  • RuntimeError: If called in Eager mode.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.get_output_mask_at

get_output_mask_at(node_index)

Retrieves the output mask tensor(s) of a layer at a given node.

Arguments:

  • node_index: Integer, index of the node from which to retrieve the attribute. E.g. node_index=0 will correspond to the first time the layer was called.

Returns:

A mask tensor (or list of tensors if the layer has multiple outputs).

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.get_output_shape_at

get_output_shape_at(node_index)

Retrieves the output shape(s) of a layer at a given node.

Arguments:

  • node_index: Integer, index of the node from which to retrieve the attribute. E.g. node_index=0 will correspond to the first time the layer was called.

Returns:

A shape tuple (or list of shape tuples if the layer has multiple outputs).

Raises:

  • RuntimeError: If called in Eager mode.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.get_updates_for

get_updates_for(inputs)

Retrieves updates relevant to a specific set of inputs.

Arguments:

  • inputs: Input tensor or list/tuple of input tensors.

Returns:

List of update ops of the layer that depend on inputs.

Raises:

  • RuntimeError: If called in Eager mode.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.get_weights

get_weights()

Returns the current weights of the layer.

Returns:

Weights values as a list of numpy arrays.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.set_weights

set_weights(weights)

Sets the weights of the layer, from Numpy arrays.

Arguments:

  • weights: a list of Numpy arrays. The number of arrays and their shape must match number of the dimensions of the weights of the layer (i.e. it should match the output of get_weights).

Raises:

  • ValueError: If the provided weights list does not match the layer's specifications.

tf.contrib.seq2seq.AttentionWrapper.zero_state

zero_state(
    batch_size,
    dtype
)

Return an initial (zero) state tuple for this AttentionWrapper.

NOTE Please see the initializer documentation for details of how to call zero_state if using an AttentionWrapper with a BeamSearchDecoder.

Args:

  • batch_size: 0D integer tensor: the batch size.
  • dtype: The internal state data type.

Returns:

An AttentionWrapperState tuple containing zeroed out tensors and, possibly, empty TensorArray objects.

Raises:

  • ValueError: (or, possibly at runtime, InvalidArgument), if batch_size does not match the output size of the encoder passed to the wrapper object at initialization time.