ModelConfig.proto.m4

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ifdef(`proto3', `syntax = "proto2";')

import "ParameterConfig.proto";

package paddle;

/**
 * Various structs for the configuration of a neural network
 */
sinclude(`ModelConfigExt.proto.m4')

message ExternalConfig {
  repeated string layer_names = 1;
  repeated string input_layer_names = 2;
  repeated string output_layer_names = 3;
}

message ActivationConfig {
  // identity: f(x) = x
  // sigmoid: f(x) = 1 / (1 + exp(-x))
  // logistic: f(x) = (1 - exp(-x)) / (1+ exp(-x))
  // softmax: y_i = f(x_i) = exp(x_i) / (\sum_i exp(x_i))
  // relu: y = max(0, x)
  required string type = 1;
};

message ConvConfig {
  // filter_size = 5, says that this layer will use
  // filters of size 5x5 pixels.
  required uint32 filter_size = 1;

  // The image data dimensionality.
  // This value must be either 1, 2, 3, or a multiple of 4.
  required uint32 channels = 2;

  // stride = 1, indicates that the distance between
  // successive filter applications should be 1 pixel.
  required uint32 stride = 3;

  // padding = 4, instructs the net to implicitly
  // pad the images with a 4-pixel border of zeros.
  required uint32 padding = 4;

  // If groups = 4 together with the filters = 32 parameter,
  // they state that this convolutional layer is to have 4
  // groups of 32 filters. Each filter will connect to 8
  // input channels.
  required uint32 groups = 5;
  required uint32 filter_channels = 6;

  // The size of output feature map.
  required uint32 output_x = 7;

  // The size of input feature map.
  required uint32 img_size = 8;

  // caffe mode for output size coherence
  required bool caffe_mode = 9 [default = true];

  // if filter_size_y is set , this convolutional layer will use
  // filters of size filter_size * filter_size_y pixels.
  // if filter_size_y is not set, this convolutional layer will use
  // filters of size filter_size * filter_size
  required uint32 filter_size_y = 10;
  required uint32 padding_y = 11;
  required uint32 stride_y = 12;

  // if not set, use output_x
  optional uint32 output_y = 13;

  // if not set, use img_size
  optional uint32 img_size_y = 14;
}

message PoolConfig {
  // max or avg pooling
  required string pool_type = 1;
  required uint32 channels = 2;

  // Defines the size of the pooling region in
  // the x (equivalently, y) dimension.
  required uint32 size_x = 3;

  // Tell the net where in the input image to start the pooling.
  // start is deprecated now.
  optional uint32 start = 4;

  // Defines the stride size between successive pooling squares.
  required uint32 stride = 5 [default = 1];

  // The size of output feature map.
  required uint32 output_x = 6;

  // The size of input feature map.
  required uint32 img_size = 7;

  // padding = 4, instructs the net to implicitly
  // pad the images with a 4-pixel border of zeros.
  optional uint32 padding = 8 [default = 0];

  // if not set, use size_x
  optional uint32 size_y = 9;

  // if not set, use stride
  optional uint32 stride_y = 10;

  // if not set, use output_x
  optional uint32 output_y = 11;

  // if not set, use img_size
  optional uint32 img_size_y = 12;

  // if not set, use padding
  optional uint32 padding_y = 13;
}

message SppConfig {
  required ImageConfig image_conf = 1;
  required string pool_type = 2;
  required uint32 pyramid_height = 3;
}

message NormConfig {
  // rnorm or cmrnorm
  required string norm_type = 1;
  required uint32 channels = 2;

  // rnorm: this defines the size of the local regions
  // used for response normalization.
  // cmrnorm: The size parameter indicates how many
  // nearby maps to use for normalization.
  required uint32 size = 3;

  // the parameters for normalization
  // u = u / (1+scale*sum(u^2 in window))^pow
  required real scale = 4;
  required real pow = 5;

  // The size of output feature map.
  required uint32 output_x = 6;

  // The size of input feature map.
  required uint32 img_size = 7;

  // normalize with fixed window or sliding window
  // u = u / (1+scale*sum(u^2 in window))^pow
  // fixed window: shared a fixed window for each value
  // sliding window: have a different window for each value
  optional bool blocked = 8;

  // if not set, use output_x
  optional uint32 output_y = 9;

  // if not set, use img_size
  optional uint32 img_size_y = 10;
}

message BlockExpandConfig {
  required uint32 channels = 1;

  required uint32 stride_x = 2;
  required uint32 stride_y = 3;

  required uint32 padding_x = 4;
  required uint32 padding_y = 5;

  required uint32 block_x = 6;
  required uint32 block_y = 7;

  // The size of output feature map.
  required uint32 output_x = 8;
  required uint32 output_y = 9;

  // The size of input feature map.
  required uint32 img_size_x = 10;
  required uint32 img_size_y = 11;
}

message MaxOutConfig {
  required ImageConfig image_conf = 1;
  required uint32 groups = 2;
}

message ProjectionConfig {
  required string type = 1;
  required string name = 2;
  required uint64 input_size = 3;
  required uint64 output_size = 4;

  // For ShiftProjection
  optional int32 context_start = 5;
  optional int32 context_length = 6;
  optional bool trainable_padding = 7 [default = false];

  // For convolution
  optional ConvConfig conv_conf = 8;
  optional int32 num_filters = 9;

  // For IdentityOffsetProjection
  optional uint64 offset = 11 [default = 0];

  // For pool
  optional PoolConfig pool_conf = 12;
}

message OperatorConfig {
  required string type = 1;
  repeated int32 input_indices = 2;
  repeated uint64 input_sizes = 3;
  required uint64 output_size = 4;

  // For DotMulOperator
  optional real dotmul_scale = 5 [default = 1.0];

  // For ConvOperator
  optional ConvConfig conv_conf = 6;
  optional int32 num_filters = 7;
}

message BilinearInterpConfig {
  // The size of input feature map.
  required ImageConfig image_conf = 1;
  // The size of output feature map.
  required uint32 out_size_x = 2;
  required uint32 out_size_y = 3;
}

message ImageConfig {
  // The image data dimensionality.
  // This value must be either 1, 2, 3, or a multiple of 4.
  required uint32 channels = 2;

  // The size of input feature map.
  required uint32 img_size = 8;
  required uint32 img_size_y = 9;
}

message LayerInputConfig {
  required string input_layer_name = 1;
  optional string input_parameter_name = 2;
  optional ConvConfig conv_conf = 3;
  optional PoolConfig pool_conf = 4;
  optional NormConfig norm_conf = 5;
  optional ProjectionConfig proj_conf = 6;
  optional BlockExpandConfig block_expand_conf = 7;
  optional ImageConfig image_conf = 8;
  // If the input layer has multi-output.
  // Set the argument name.
  optional string input_layer_argument = 9;
  optional BilinearInterpConfig bilinear_interp_conf = 10;
  optional MaxOutConfig maxout_conf = 11;
  optional SppConfig spp_conf = 12;
}

message LayerConfig {
sinclude(`ModelConfigLayer.proto.m4')
  required string name = 1;
  required string type = 2;
  optional uint64 size = 3;
  //optional ActivationConfig activation = 4;
  optional string active_type = 4;
  repeated LayerInputConfig inputs = 5;
  optional string bias_parameter_name = 6;

  // This number must be a multiple of 16.
  optional uint32 num_filters = 7;

  // indicates that the biases of every filter in this layer
  // should be shared amongst all applications of that filter
  // (which is how convnets are usually trained). Setting this to
  // false will untie the biases, yielding a separate bias for
  // every location at which the filter is applied.
  optional bool shared_biases = 8 [default = false];

  // Valid values are ones that divide the area of the output
  // grid in this convolutional layer. For example if this layer
  // produces 32-channel 20x20 output grid, valid values of
  // partialSum are ones which divide 20*20 = 400.
  // I'll update this comments when confirmed
  optional uint32 partial_sum = 9;

  // for dropout
  optional real drop_rate = 10;

  // for HierarchicalSoftmaxLayer and NCELayer
  // the number of classes
  optional uint32 num_classes = 11;

  // the gpu device which the Layer's data in.
  // Only used by ParallelNeuralNetork. Ignored otherwise.
  optional int32 device = 12 [default = -1];

  // for recurrent layer. If true, the recurrence runs from the end to the beginning.
  optional bool reversed = 13 [default = false];

  // for lstmemory layer. Different types of nodes have different activation type.
  optional string active_gate_type  = 14;
  optional string active_state_type = 15;

  // For NCELayer
  // The number of random negative labels for each sample
  optional int32 num_neg_samples = 16 [default = 10];

  // For NCELayer
  // The distribution for generating the random negative labels.
  // A uniform distribution will be used if not provided
  repeated real neg_sampling_dist = 17 [packed = true];

  // For MaxLayer
  // default: output VALUE of MaxLayer. set this flag to true for output INDEX
  // INDEX will be put in Argument::value as real values.
  optional bool output_max_index = 19 [default = false];

  /// The filed number 20 have been deprecated.

  // For self-normalized estimation
  optional real softmax_selfnorm_alpha = 21 [default = 0.1];

  /// The filed numbers 22 and 23 have been deprecated.

  // for MDLstmLayer
  repeated bool directions = 24;

  // for CTCLayer
  optional bool norm_by_times = 25;

  // for CostLayers
  optional real coeff = 26 [default = 1.0];

  // for AverageLayer
  // can be set to: 'average', 'sum' or 'squarerootn'
  optional string average_strategy = 27;

  // for error clipping
  optional real error_clipping_threshold = 28 [default = 0.0];

  // for operators used by mixed layer
  repeated OperatorConfig operator_confs = 29;

  // for lambdaCost
  optional int32 NDCG_num = 30;
  optional int32 max_sort_size = 31;

  // for SlopeInterceptLayer
  optional real slope = 32;
  optional real intercept = 33;

  // for CosSimVecMatLayer and CosSimLayer
  optional real cos_scale = 34;

  // for DataNormLayer
  // can be set to: 'z-score', 'min-max' or 'decimal-scaling'
  optional string data_norm_strategy = 36;

  // for bos/eos id
  optional uint32 bos_id = 37;
  optional uint32 eos_id = 38;

  // for max id layer
  optional uint32 beam_size = 39;

  // for seqlastins layer, whether select first instead last
  optional bool select_first = 40 [default = false];

  // for seqlastins layer, AverageLayer, MaxLayer and ExpandLayer
  // can be set to: 'non-seq','seq'
  optional string trans_type = 41 [default = 'non-seq'];

  // to indicate whether selective_fc layer
  // is used in sequence generation or not
  optional bool selective_fc_pass_generation = 42 [default = false];

  // to indicate whether selective_fc layer take its last input to
  // selected several columns and only compute the multiplications
  // between the input matrices and the selected columns of
  // the parameter matrices of this layer.
  // if set false, selective_fc degrades into fc.
  optional bool has_selected_colums = 43 [default = true];

  // this parameter is for speed consideration.
  // if number of the selected columns is less than
  // sample number * selective_fc output size * selective_fc_mull_mull_ratio
  // sparse multiplication is used, otherwise, using full multiplication.
  optional real selective_fc_full_mul_ratio = 44 [default = 0.02];

  // to indicate how many threads selective_fc use to to accelate
  // the plain_mul period
  // leave empty or set to 0 to disable multi-thread accleleration
  optional uint32 selective_fc_parallel_plain_mul_thread_num = 45 [default = 0];

  // for batch normalization layer
  // if set use_global_stats true, will use the loaded mean and variance.
  optional bool use_global_stats = 46;

  // use to compute moving mean and variance.
  optional real moving_average_fraction = 47 [default = 0.9];

  // bias size
  optional uint32 bias_size = 48 [default = 0];

  // this parameter can be used as a user-defined parameter when necessary, 
  // without changing the proto file.
  // e.g., when a new layer with a user-defined parameter is implemented, 
  // it can be used to pass that parameter, without modifying the proto file.
  // string type is used for flexibility: different types can be converted
  // to string and reinterpreted in the user's own layer implementation.  
  optional string user_arg = 49;
  
  // to indicate rectangle image data
  optional uint64 height = 50;
  optional uint64 width = 51;

  // blank label used in ctc loss
  optional uint32 blank = 52 [default = 0];
}

message EvaluatorConfig {
  required string name = 1;
  required string type = 2;
  repeated string input_layers = 3;

  // Used by ChunkEvaluator
  optional string chunk_scheme = 4; // one of "IOB", "IOE", "IOBES"
  optional int32 num_chunk_types = 5; // number of chunk types other than "other"

  // Used by PrecisionRecallEvaluator and ClassificationErrorEvaluator
  // For multi binary labels: true if output > classification_threshold
  optional real classification_threshold = 6 [default = 0.5];
  // The positive label. -1 means average precision and recall
  optional int32 positive_label = 7 [default = -1];

  // load dict from this file
  optional string dict_file = 8;

  // dump result in this file
  optional string result_file = 9;

  // top # results for max id printer
  optional int32 num_results = 10 [default = 1];

  // whether to delimit the sequence in the seq_text_printer
  optional bool delimited = 11 [default = true];
}

message LinkConfig {
  required string layer_name = 1;
  required string link_name = 2;
  // If true, this link has sub-sequence
  optional bool has_subseq = 3 [default = false];
}

message MemoryConfig {
  required string layer_name = 1;
  required string link_name = 2;

  optional string boot_layer_name = 3;
  optional string boot_bias_parameter_name = 4;
  optional string boot_bias_active_type = 5;
  optional uint32 boot_with_const_id = 7;

  // memory is a sequence, initailized by a sequence boot layer
  optional bool is_sequence = 6 [default = false];
}

message GeneratorConfig {
  required uint32 max_num_frames = 1;
  required string eos_layer_name = 2;
  optional int32 num_results_per_sample = 3 [default = 1];

  // for beam search
  optional int32 beam_size = 4 [default = 1];

  optional bool log_prob = 5 [default = true];
}

message SubModelConfig {
  required string name = 1;
  repeated string layer_names = 2; // selected layers in sub model
  repeated string input_layer_names = 3;
  repeated string output_layer_names = 4;
  repeated string evaluator_names = 5;

  optional bool is_recurrent_layer_group = 6 [default = false];

  // If true, the recurrence runs from the end to the beginning.
  optional bool reversed = 7 [default = false];

  // name and link name of memory
  repeated MemoryConfig memories = 8;

  // if use recurrent layer group, all layers in submodel will postfix by
  // "_in_"+submodel.name, so we add a name pair to link between
  // root model and layer group,
  // note that these in/out layers are not input/output of the network.
  repeated LinkConfig in_links = 9;
  repeated LinkConfig out_links = 10;

  optional GeneratorConfig generator = 11;

  // the id of inlink which share info with outlinks, used in recurrent layer group
  optional int32 target_inlinkid = 12;
}

message ModelConfig {
  // type of the model.
  // Currently, "nn", "recurrent_nn" and "recursive_nn" are supported
  required string type = 1 [default = "nn"];

  // layers should be ordered in such a way that the forward propagation
  // can be correctly executed by going from the first layer to the last layer
  repeated LayerConfig layers = 2;

  repeated ParameterConfig parameters = 3;

  // Input layers should have the same order as the data streams provided
  // by the data provider. The type of input layers should be "data"
  repeated string input_layer_names = 4;

  // For training, the type of a output layer is usually cost layer.
  // For prediction, they should be the actual output layers.
  repeated string output_layer_names = 5;

  repeated EvaluatorConfig evaluators = 6;

  repeated SubModelConfig sub_models = 8;

  // For External Machine, defining how to split a neural network
  // into multiple parts.
  optional ExternalConfig external_config = 9;
};