CRFLayer.h

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#pragma once

#include <memory>

#include "Layer.h"
#include "LinearChainCRF.h"

namespace paddle {

/**
 * A layer for calculating the cost of sequential conditional random field
 * model.
 * See class LinearChainCRF for the detail of the CRF formulation.
 */
class CRFLayer : public Layer {
public:
  explicit CRFLayer(const LayerConfig& config) : Layer(config) {}
  virtual bool init(const LayerMap& layerMap, const ParameterMap& parameterMap);
  virtual void forward(PassType passType);
  virtual void backward(const UpdateCallback& callback);

protected:
  size_t numClasses_;
  ParameterPtr parameter_;
  std::vector<LinearChainCRF> crfs_;
  LayerPtr weightLayer_;  // weight for each sequence
  std::unique_ptr<Weight> weight_;  // parameters
  real coeff_;            // weight for the layer
};

}  // namespace paddle