CudnnBatchNormLayer.h

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#pragma once

#include "paddle/utils/Stat.h"
#include "Layer.h"
#include "BatchNormBaseLayer.h"

namespace paddle {

/**
 * @brief Cudnn Batch normalization layer use to cuDNN lib to implentment.
 * @note Cudnn version must >= v4.0, and better to use the latest version
 * (v5.1).
 *
 * The config file api is batch_norm_layer.
 */

class CudnnBatchNormLayer : public BatchNormBaseLayer {
public:
  explicit CudnnBatchNormLayer(const LayerConfig& config)
      : BatchNormBaseLayer(config) {}

  ~CudnnBatchNormLayer();

  bool init(const LayerMap& layerMap, const ParameterMap& parameterMap);
  /**
   * reshape tensor of ioDesc_.
   */
  void reshape(int batchSize);

  void forward(PassType passType);
  void backward(const UpdateCallback& callback = nullptr);

protected:
  /**
   * Epsilon value used in the batch normalization formula.
   * Minimum allowed value is CUDNN_BN_MIN_EPSILON defined in cudnn.h.
   * Same epsilon value should be used in forward and backward functions.
   */
  static const double EPS;

  /// Input/output tensor descriptor desc
  hl_tensor_descriptor ioDesc_;
  /// Shared tensor descriptor desc for the 6 tenros:
  /// bnScale, bnBias, running mean/var, save_mean/var
  hl_tensor_descriptor bnParamDesc_;

  /**
   * @brief The gradient of weight and bias in cudnn api can not be empty.
   * If set is_static for weight or bias, it will not allocate memory for them,
   * and the gradient is NULL. In this case, will use two matrix.
   */
  MatrixPtr tmpWGrad_, tmpBiasGrad_;
};

}  // namespace paddle