AddtoLayer.h

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#pragma once

#include "Layer.h"
#include "paddle/math/Matrix.h"
#include "paddle/utils/ThreadLocal.h"

namespace paddle {

/** 
 * This layer just simply add all input layers together, then activate 
 * the sum inputs. Each input of this layer should be the same size, 
 * which is also the output size of this layer.
 * \f[
 *   y=f(\sum_{i}x_i + b)
 * \f]
 * where \f$y\f$ is output, \f$x\f$ is input, \f$b\f$ is bias, and \f$f\f$ is activation function.
 * 
 * The config file api is addto_layer.
 */
class AddtoLayer : public Layer {
protected:
  std::unique_ptr<Weight> biases_;

public:
  explicit AddtoLayer(const LayerConfig& config) : Layer(config) {}

  ~AddtoLayer() {}

  /** 
   * Intialization of AddtoLayer. 
   */
  bool init(const LayerMap& layerMap, const ParameterMap& parameterMap);

  /** 
   * Forward propagation.
   * @note There is no weight matrix for each input, 
   *       because it just a simple add operation.
   */
  void forward(PassType passType);

  /** 
   * Backward propagation. 
   */
  void backward(const UpdateCallback& callback = nullptr);
};

}  // namespace paddle