# Copyright (c) 2019 PaddlePaddle Authors. All Rights Reserved. # # Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); # you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. # You may obtain a copy of the License at # # http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 # # Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software # distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, # WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. # See the License for the specific language governing permissions and # limitations under the License. import numpy as np import six from paddle.fluid import core from paddle.fluid.layer_helper import LayerHelper from paddle.fluid.data_feeder import check_dtype, check_type __all__ = ['data'] def data(name, shape, dtype='float32', lod_level=0): """ **Data Layer** This function creates a variable on the global block. The global variable can be accessed by all the following operators in the graph. The variable is a placeholder that could be fed with input, such as Executor can feed input into the variable. Note: `paddle.fluid.layers.data` is deprecated. It will be removed in a future version. Please use this `paddle.fluid.data`. The `paddle.fluid.layers.data` set shape and dtype at compile time but does NOT check the shape or the dtype of fed data, this `paddle.fluid.data` checks the shape and the dtype of data fed by Executor or ParallelExecutor during run time. To feed variable size inputs, users can set None or -1 on the variable dimension when using :code:`paddle.fluid.data`, or feed variable size inputs directly to :code:`paddle.fluid.layers.data` and PaddlePaddle will fit the size accordingly. The default :code:`stop_gradient` attribute of the Variable created by this API is true, which means the gradient won't be passed backward through the data Variable. Set :code:`var.stop_gradient = False` If user would like to pass backward gradient. Args: name (str): The name/alias of the variable, see :ref:`api_guide_Name` for more details. shape (list|tuple): List|Tuple of integers declaring the shape. You can set "None" or -1 at a dimension to indicate the dimension can be of any size. For example, it is useful to set changeable batch size as "None" or -1. dtype (np.dtype|VarType|str, optional): The type of the data. Supported dtype: bool, float16, float32, float64, int8, int16, int32, int64, uint8. Default: float32. lod_level (int, optional): The LoD level of the LoDTensor. Usually users don't have to set this value. For more details about when and how to use LoD level, see :ref:`user_guide_lod_tensor` . Default: 0. Returns: Variable: The global variable that gives access to the data. Examples: .. code-block:: python import paddle.fluid as fluid import numpy as np # Creates a variable with fixed size [3, 2, 1] # User can only feed data of the same shape to x x = fluid.data(name='x', shape=[3, 2, 1], dtype='float32') # Creates a variable with changeable batch size -1. # Users can feed data of any batch size into y, # but size of each data sample has to be [2, 1] y = fluid.data(name='y', shape=[-1, 2, 1], dtype='float32') z = x + y # In this example, we will feed x and y with np-ndarray "1" # and fetch z, like implementing "1 + 1 = 2" in PaddlePaddle feed_data = np.ones(shape=[3, 2, 1], dtype=np.float32) exe = fluid.Executor(fluid.CPUPlace()) out = exe.run(fluid.default_main_program(), feed={ 'x': feed_data, 'y': feed_data }, fetch_list=[z.name]) # np-ndarray of shape=[3, 2, 1], dtype=float32, whose elements are 2 print(out) """ helper = LayerHelper('data', **locals()) check_type(name, 'name', (six.binary_type, six.text_type), 'data') check_type(shape, 'shape', (list, tuple), 'data') shape = list(shape) for i in six.moves.range(len(shape)): if shape[i] is None: shape[i] = -1 return helper.create_global_variable( name=name, shape=shape, dtype=dtype, type=core.VarDesc.VarType.LOD_TENSOR, stop_gradient=True, lod_level=lod_level, is_data=True, need_check_feed=True)