BlockExpandLayer.h

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#pragma once

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

namespace paddle {

/**
 * @brief Expand feature map to minibatch matrix.
 * - matrix width is: blockH_ * blockW_ * channels_
 * - matirx height is: outputH_ * outputW_
 *
 * \f[
 * outputH\_ = 1 + (2 * paddingH\_ + imgSizeH\_ - blockH\_ + strideH\_ - 1) /
 *             strideH\_ \\
 * outputW\_ = 1 + (2 * paddingW\_ + imgSizeW\_ - blockW\_ + strideW\_ - 1) /
 *             strideW\_
 * \f]
 *
 * The expand method is the same with ExpandConvLayer, but saved the transposed
 * value. After expanding, output_.sequenceStartPositions will store timeline.
 * The number of time steps are outputH_ * outputW_ and the dimension of each
 * time step is blockH_ * blockW_ * channels_. This layer can be used after
 * convolution neural network, and before recurrent neural network.
 *
 * The config file api is block_expand_layer.
 */
class BlockExpandLayer : public Layer {
protected:
  /**
   * @brief Calculate outputH_ and outputW_ and return block number which
   * actually is time steps.
   * @return time steps, outoutH_ * outputW_.
   */
  size_t getBlockNum();
  size_t blockH_, blockW_, strideH_, strideW_, paddingH_, paddingW_;
  size_t imgSizeH_, imgSizeW_, outputH_, outputW_, channels_;

  /// auxiliary variable, which saves the transposed output value.
  MatrixPtr outVTrans_;

  TensorShape inputShape_;
  TensorShape outputShape_;

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

  ~BlockExpandLayer() {}

  bool init(const LayerMap& layerMap,
            const ParameterMap& parameterMap) override;

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

}  // namespace paddle