LinearChainCTC.h

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#pragma once

#include <vector>
#include "paddle/math/Matrix.h"

namespace paddle {

class LinearChainCTC {
public:
  LinearChainCTC(int numClasses, bool normByTimes);

  // Calculate the negative log probability as loss
  real forward(real* softmaxSeq, int softmaxSeqLen, int* labelSeq,
               int labelSeqLen);

  // calculate the gradient
  void backward(real* softmaxSeq, real* softmaxSeqGrad, int* labelSeq,
                int labelSeqLen);

protected:
  int numClasses_, blank_, totalSegments_, totalTime_;
  bool normByTimes_;
  bool isInvalid_;

  MatrixPtr logActs_, forwardVars_, backwardVars_, gradTerms_;

  real logProb_;

  void segmentRange(int& start, int& end, int time);
};

}  // namespace paddle