modify the annotations of HookAttribute, Variable declaration

paddle/parameter/ParameterUpdaterHook.cpp

@@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ namespace paddle {
 
 /**
  * The static pruning hook
- * Static means user specific a sparsity_ratio before training start, and the
+ * Static means user specify a sparsity_ratio before training started, and the
  * network will prune the parameters based on the sparsity_ratio. More deatils
- * can see https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02626.pdf.
+ * can be found https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02626.pdf.
  */
 
 class StaticPruningHook : public IParameterUpdaterHook {
@@ -57,29 +57,31 @@ public:
   }
 
   void generateMask(Parameter* para) {
-    VectorPtr vec = para->getBuf(PARAMETER_VALUE);
-    maskTemp_ = Vector::create(para->getSize(), false);
-    maskTemp_->zeroMem();
-    real* dataPtr = maskTemp_->getData();
+
+    VectorPtr maskTemp = Vector::create(para->getSize(), false);
+    maskTemp->zeroMem();
+    real* maskTempData = maskTemp->getData();
     size_t nonZeroNum = para->getSize() * (1 - sparsityRatio_);
 
-    VectorPtr vecCpu = Vector::create(para->getSize(), false);
-    vecCpu->copyFrom(*vec);
+    VectorPtr paraVec = para->getBuf(PARAMETER_VALUE);
+    VectorPtr paraCpuCopy = Vector::create(para->getSize(), false);
+
+    paraCpuCopy->copyFrom(*paraVec);
     std::vector<std::pair<real, size_t>> param;
 
     for (size_t i = 0; i < para->getSize(); i++)
-      param.push_back(std::make_pair(fabs(vecCpu->getData()[i]), i));
+      param.push_back(std::make_pair(fabs(paraCpuCopy->getData()[i]), i));
 
     std::partial_sort(
         param.begin(), param.begin() + nonZeroNum, param.end(), sortPairAscend);
-    for (size_t i = 0; i < nonZeroNum; i++) dataPtr[param[i].second] = 1.0;
+    for (size_t i = 0; i < nonZeroNum; i++) maskTempData[param[i].second] = 1.0;
 
     // Currently just use a mask vector for hack.
     if (para->useGpu()) {
       maskVec_ = Vector::create(para->getSize(), para->useGpu());
-      maskVec_->copyFrom(*maskTemp_);
+      maskVec_->copyFrom(*maskTemp);
     } else {
-      maskVec_ = maskTemp_;
+      maskVec_ = maskTemp;
     }
   }
 
@@ -91,15 +93,14 @@ public:
     VLOG(3) << "Initialize Parameter " << para;
     SetDevice device(para->getDeviceId());
 
-    auto& vec = para->getBuf(PARAMETER_VALUE);
-    vec->dotMul(*maskVec_);
+    auto& paraVec = para->getBuf(PARAMETER_VALUE);
+    paraVec->dotMul(*maskVec_);
   }
 
 private:
   SameThreadChecker updateThreadChecker_;
   std::atomic<size_t> initCount_;
   VectorPtr maskVec_;
-  VectorPtr maskTemp_;
   real sparsityRatio_;
 };
 

python/paddle/trainer_config_helpers/attrs.py

@@ -58,15 +58,21 @@ def is_compatible_with(x, Type):
 
 class HookAttribute(object):
     """
-    Hook Attribute object. The hook is an auxiliary operation that occurs 
-    during network propagation.
-    NOTE: IT IS A HIGH LEVEL USER INTERFACE.
-
-    :param  type: Hook type, eg: 'pruning'
+    Hook Attribute object. As a member of ParameterAttribute class, the hook is an auxiliary operation that occurs 
+    during training process of a layer with parameters, such as img_conv layer, fc layer.
+
+    :param  type: Hook type, currently supported types: 
+                        'pruning' :  user specify a sparsity_ratio before training started, and the
+                            network will prune the parameters based on the sparsity_ratio. 
+                            eg: The definition of Hook object can be hk = HookAttribute('pruning', 0.6)
+                            The specific usage can be paddle.layer.img_conv(input=img, filter_size=3,
+                                                                       num_channels=3, num_filters=64,
+                                                                       param_attr=ParameterAttribute(update_hooks=hk) )
+                            The pruning deatils can be found https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02626.pdf
     :type type: string
 
     :param sparsity_ratio: Must be specified if hook type is 'pruning', 
-                           it represents the ratio of the zero elements to be set by the Parameter.
+                        it represents the ratio of the zero elements to be set by the Parameter.
     :type sparsity_ratio: float or None
 	
     """
@@ -78,7 +84,7 @@ class HookAttribute(object):
             assert is_compatible_with(
                 self.sparsity_ratio,
                 float), 'sparisity_ratio must be float type'
-            assert self.sparsity_ratio <= 1 and self.sparsity_ratio >= 0, 'sparisity must be a flaot between [0, 1] '
+            assert self.sparsity_ratio <= 1 and self.sparsity_ratio >= 0, 'sparisity_ratio must be a float between [0, 1] '
 
     def __call__(self):
         return ParameterHook(self.type, sparsity_ratio=self.sparsity_ratio)