Sketch the tensor initialization module. (#134)

candle-nn/src/init.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+//! Variable initialization.
+// This is based on:
+// https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/07107919297db3f8ab37f11c12666b6d6d5f692e/torch/nn/init.py#
+use candle::Shape;
+
+/// Number of features as input or output of a layer.
+/// In Kaiming initialization, choosing `FanIn` preserves
+/// the magnitude of the variance of the weights in the
+/// forward pass, choosing `FanOut` preserves this
+/// magnitude in the backward pass.
+#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone)]
+pub enum FanInOut {
+    FanIn,
+    FanOut,
+}
+
+impl FanInOut {
+    /// Compute the fan-in or fan-out value for a weight tensor of
+    /// the specified dimensions.
+    /// <https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/dbeacf11820e336e803bb719b7aaaf2125ae4d9c/torch/nn/init.py#L284>
+    pub fn for_shape(&self, shape: &Shape) -> usize {
+        let dims = shape.dims();
+        let receptive_field_size: usize = dims.iter().skip(2).product();
+        match &self {
+            FanInOut::FanIn => {
+                if dims.len() < 2 {
+                    1
+                } else {
+                    dims[1] * receptive_field_size
+                }
+            }
+            FanInOut::FanOut => {
+                if dims.is_empty() {
+                    1
+                } else {
+                    dims[0] * receptive_field_size
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone)]
+pub enum NormalOrUniform {
+    Normal,
+    Uniform,
+}
+
+/// The non-linear function that follows this layer. ReLU is the
+/// recommended value.
+#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone)]
+pub enum NonLinearity {
+    ReLU,
+    Linear,
+    Sigmoid,
+    Tanh,
+    SELU,
+    ExplicitGain(f64),
+}
+
+impl NonLinearity {
+    // https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/blob/07107919297db3f8ab37f11c12666b6d6d5f692e/torch/nn/init.py#L67
+    pub fn gain(&self) -> f64 {
+        match *self {
+            NonLinearity::ReLU => 2f64.sqrt(),
+            NonLinearity::Tanh => 5. / 3.,
+            NonLinearity::Linear | NonLinearity::Sigmoid => 1.,
+            NonLinearity::SELU => 0.75,
+            NonLinearity::ExplicitGain(g) => g,
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// Variable initializations.
+#[derive(Debug, Copy, Clone)]
+pub enum Init {
+    /// Constant value.
+    Const(f64),
+
+    /// Random normal with some mean and standard deviation.
+    Randn { mean: f64, stdev: f64 },
+
+    /// Uniform initialization between some lower and upper bounds.
+    Uniform { lo: f64, up: f64 },
+
+    /// Kaiming uniform initialization.
+    /// See "Delving deep into rectifiers: Surpassing human-level performance on ImageNet classification"
+    /// He, K. et al. (2015). This uses a uniform distribution.
+    Kaiming {
+        dist: NormalOrUniform,
+        fan: FanInOut,
+        non_linearity: NonLinearity,
+    },
+
+    /// Orthogonal initialization
+    Orthogonal { gain: f64 },
+}
+
+pub const DEFAULT_KAIMING_UNIFORM: Init = Init::Kaiming {
+    dist: NormalOrUniform::Uniform,
+    fan: FanInOut::FanIn,
+    non_linearity: NonLinearity::ReLU,
+};
+
+pub const DEFAULT_KAIMING_NORMAL: Init = Init::Kaiming {
+    dist: NormalOrUniform::Normal,
+    fan: FanInOut::FanIn,
+    non_linearity: NonLinearity::ReLU,
+};

candle-nn/src/lib.rs

@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 // For now this crate shares its error type with candle-core. We may introduce some separate
 // error type if needed or add some specialized cases on the candle-core side.
-mod activation;
+pub mod activation;
-mod conv;
+pub mod conv;
-mod embedding;
+pub mod embedding;
-mod layer_norm;
+pub mod init;
-mod linear;
+pub mod layer_norm;
-mod var_builder;
+pub mod linear;
+pub mod var_builder;
 
 pub use activation::Activation;
 pub use conv::{Conv1d, Conv1dConfig};