Convolutional layers

A convolution is an integral that expresses the amount of overlap of one function g as it is shifted over another function f. It therefore "blends" one function with another. The neural network package supports convolution, pooling, subsampling and other relevant facilities. These are divided based on the dimensionality of the input and output Tensors:

Temporal Modules apply to sequences with a one-dimensional relationship (e.g. sequences of words, phonemes and letters. Strings of some kind).
- TemporalConvolution : a 1D convolution over an input sequence ;
- TemporalSubSampling : a 1D sub-sampling over an input sequence ;
- TemporalMaxPooling : a 1D max-pooling operation over an input sequence ;
- LookupTable : a convolution of width 1, commonly used for word embeddings ;
Spatial Modules apply to inputs with two-dimensional relationships (e.g. images):
- SpatialConvolution : a 2D convolution over an input image ;
- SpatialFullConvolution : a 2D full convolution over an input image ;
- SpatialDilatedConvolution : a 2D dilated convolution over an input image ;
- SpatialConvolutionLocal : a 2D locally-connected layer over an input image ;
- SpatialSubSampling : a 2D sub-sampling over an input image ;
- SpatialMaxPooling : a 2D max-pooling operation over an input image ;
- SpatialDilatedMaxPooling : a 2D dilated max-pooling operation over an input image ;
- SpatialFractionalMaxPooling : a 2D fractional max-pooling operation over an input image ;
- SpatialAveragePooling : a 2D average-pooling operation over an input image ;
- SpatialAdaptiveMaxPooling : a 2D max-pooling operation which adapts its parameters dynamically such that the output is of fixed size ;
- SpatialMaxUnpooling : a 2D max-unpooling operation ;
- SpatialLPPooling : computes the p norm in a convolutional manner on a set of input images ;
- SpatialConvolutionMap : a 2D convolution that uses a generic connection table ;
- SpatialZeroPadding : pads a feature map with specified number of zeros ;
- SpatialReflectionPadding : pads a feature map with the reflection of the input ;
- SpatialReplicationPadding : pads a feature map with the value at the edge of the input borders ;
- SpatialSubtractiveNormalization : a spatial subtraction operation on a series of 2D inputs using
- SpatialCrossMapLRN : a spatial local response normalization between feature maps ;
- SpatialBatchNormalization: mean/std normalization over the mini-batch inputs and pixels, with an optional affine transform that follows a kernel for computing the weighted average in a neighborhood ;
- SpatialUpsamplingNearest: A simple nearest neighbor upsampler applied to every channel of the feature map.
- SpatialUpsamplingBilinear: A simple bilinear upsampler applied to every channel of the feature map.
Volumetric Modules apply to inputs with three-dimensional relationships (e.g. videos) :
- VolumetricConvolution : a 3D convolution over an input video (a sequence of images) ;
- VolumetricFullConvolution : a 3D full convolution over an input video (a sequence of images) ;
- VolumetricDilatedConvolution : a 3D dilated convolution over an input image ;
- VolumetricMaxPooling : a 3D max-pooling operation over an input video.
- VolumetricDilatedMaxPooling : a 3D dilated max-pooling operation over an input video ;
- VolumetricAveragePooling : a 3D average-pooling operation over an input video.
- VolumetricMaxUnpooling : a 3D max-unpooling operation.
- VolumetricReplicationPadding : Pads a volumetric feature map with the value at the edge of the input borders. ;

Temporal Modules

Excluding an optional first batch dimension, temporal layers expect a 2D Tensor as input. The first dimension is the number of frames in the sequence (e.g. nInputFrame), the last dimension is the number of features per frame (e.g. inputFrameSize). The output will normally have the same number of dimensions, although the size of each dimension may change. These are commonly used for processing acoustic signals or sequences of words, i.e. in Natural Language Processing.

Note: The LookupTable is special in that while it does output a temporal Tensor of size nOutputFrame x outputFrameSize, its input is a 1D Tensor of indices of size nIndices. Again, this is excluding the option first batch dimension.

TemporalConvolution

module = nn.TemporalConvolution(inputFrameSize, outputFrameSize, kW, [dW])

Applies a 1D convolution over an input sequence composed of nInputFrame frames. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 2D tensor (nInputFrame x inputFrameSize) or a 3D tensor (nBatchFrame x nInputFrame x inputFrameSize).

The parameters are the following:

inputFrameSize: The input frame size expected in sequences given into forward().
outputFrameSize: The output frame size the convolution layer will produce.
kW: The kernel width of the convolution
dW: The step of the convolution. Default is 1.

Note that depending of the size of your kernel, several (of the last) frames of the sequence might be lost. It is up to the user to add proper padding frames in the input sequences.

If the input sequence is a 2D tensor of dimension nInputFrame x inputFrameSize, the output sequence will be nOutputFrame x outputFrameSize where

nOutputFrame = (nInputFrame - kW) / dW + 1

If the input sequence is a 3D tensor of dimension nBatchFrame x nInputFrame x inputFrameSize, the output sequence will be nBatchFrame x nOutputFrame x outputFrameSize.

The parameters of the convolution can be found in self.weight (Tensor of size outputFrameSize x (inputFrameSize x kW) ) and self.bias (Tensor of size outputFrameSize). The corresponding gradients can be found in self.gradWeight and self.gradBias.

For a 2D input, the output value of the layer can be precisely described as:

output[t][i] = bias[i]
  + sum_j sum_{k=1}^kW weight[i][j][k]
                                * input[dW*(t-1)+k)][j]

Here is a simple example:

inp=5;  -- dimensionality of one sequence element
outp=1; -- number of derived features for one sequence element
kw=1;   -- kernel only operates on one sequence element per step
dw=1;   -- we step once and go on to the next sequence element

mlp=nn.TemporalConvolution(inp,outp,kw,dw)

x=torch.rand(7,inp) -- a sequence of 7 elements
print(mlp:forward(x))

which gives:

-0.9109
-0.9872
-0.6808
-0.9403
-0.9680
-0.6901
-0.6387
[torch.Tensor of dimension 7x1]

This is equivalent to:

weights=torch.reshape(mlp.weight,inp) -- weights applied to all
bias= mlp.bias[1];
for i=1,x:size(1) do -- for each sequence element
   element= x[i]; -- features of ith sequence element
   print(element:dot(weights) + bias)
end

which gives:

-0.91094998687717
-0.98721705771773
-0.68075004276185
-0.94030132495887
-0.96798754116609
-0.69008470895581
-0.63871422284166

TemporalMaxPooling

module = nn.TemporalMaxPooling(kW, [dW])

Applies 1D max-pooling operation in kW regions by step size dW steps. Input sequence composed of nInputFrame frames. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 2D tensor (nInputFrame x inputFrameSize) or a 3D tensor (nBatchFrame x nInputFrame x inputFrameSize).

If the input sequence is a 2D tensor of dimension nInputFrame x inputFrameSize, the output sequence will be nOutputFrame x inputFrameSize where

nOutputFrame = (nInputFrame - kW) / dW + 1

TemporalSubSampling

module = nn.TemporalSubSampling(inputFrameSize, kW, [dW])

Applies a 1D sub-sampling over an input sequence composed of nInputFrame frames. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 2D tensor (nInputFrame x inputFrameSize). The output frame size will be the same as the input one (inputFrameSize).

The parameters are the following:

inputFrameSize: The input frame size expected in sequences given into forward().
kW: The kernel width of the sub-sampling
dW: The step of the sub-sampling. Default is 1.

Note that depending of the size of your kernel, several (of the last) frames of the sequence might be lost. It is up to the user to add proper padding frames in the input sequences.

If the input sequence is a 2D tensor nInputFrame x inputFrameSize, the output sequence will be inputFrameSize x nOutputFrame where

nOutputFrame = (nInputFrame - kW) / dW + 1

The parameters of the sub-sampling can be found in self.weight (Tensor of size inputFrameSize) and self.bias (Tensor of size inputFrameSize). The corresponding gradients can be found in self.gradWeight and self.gradBias.

The output value of the layer can be precisely described as:

output[i][t] = bias[i] + weight[i] * sum_{k=1}^kW input[i][dW*(t-1)+k)]

LookupTable

module = nn.LookupTable(nIndex, size, [paddingValue], [maxNorm], [normType])

This layer is a particular case of a convolution, where the width of the convolution would be 1. When calling forward(input), it assumes input is a 1D or 2D tensor filled with indices. If the input is a matrix, then each row is assumed to be an input sample of given batch. Indices start at 1 and can go up to nIndex. For each index, it outputs a corresponding Tensor of size specified by size.

LookupTable can be very slow if a certain input occurs frequently compared to other inputs; this is often the case for input padding. During the backward step, there is a separate thread for each input symbol which results in a bottleneck for frequent inputs. generating a n x size1 x size2 x ... x sizeN tensor, where n is the size of a 1D input tensor.

Again with a 1D input, when only size1 is provided, the forward(input) is equivalent to performing the following matrix-matrix multiplication in an efficient manner:

P M

where M is a 2D matrix of size nIndex x size1 containing the parameters of the lookup-table and P is a 2D matrix of size n x nIndex, where for each ith row vector, every element is zero except the one at index input[i] where it is 1.

1D example:

 -- a lookup table containing 10 tensors of size 3
 module = nn.LookupTable(10, 3)

 input = torch.Tensor{1,2,1,10}
 print(module:forward(input))

Outputs something like:

-1.4415 -0.1001 -0.1708
-0.6945 -0.4350  0.7977
-1.4415 -0.1001 -0.1708
-0.0745  1.9275  1.0915
[torch.DoubleTensor of dimension 4x3]

Note that the first row vector is the same as the 3rd one!

Given a 2D input tensor of size m x n, the output is a m x n x size tensor, where m is the number of samples in the batch and n is the number of indices per sample.

2D example:

 -- a lookup table containing 10 tensors of size 3
 module = nn.LookupTable(10, 3)

 -- a batch of 2 samples of 4 indices each
 input = torch.Tensor({{1,2,4,5},{4,3,2,10}})
 print(module:forward(input))

Outputs something like:

(1,.,.) =
 -0.0570 -1.5354  1.8555
 -0.9067  1.3392  0.6275
  1.9662  0.4645 -0.8111
  0.1103  1.7811  1.5969

(2,.,.) =
  1.9662  0.4645 -0.8111
  0.0026 -1.4547 -0.5154
 -0.9067  1.3392  0.6275
 -0.0193 -0.8641  0.7396
[torch.DoubleTensor of dimension 2x4x3]

LookupTable supports max-norm regularization. One can activate the max-norm constraints by setting non-nil maxNorm in constructor or using setMaxNorm function. In the implementation, the max-norm constraint is enforced in the forward pass. That is the output of the LookupTable always obeys the max-norm constraint, even though the module weights may temporarily exceed the max-norm constraint.

max-norm regularization example:

 -- a lookup table with max-norm constraint: 2-norm <= 1
 module = nn.LookupTable(10, 3, 0, 1, 2)
 input = torch.Tensor{1,2,1,10}
 print(module.weight)
 -- output of the module always obey max-norm constraint
 print(module:forward(input))
 -- the rows accessed should be re-normalized
 print(module.weight)

Outputs something like:

 0.2194  1.4759 -1.1829
 0.7069  0.2436  0.9876
-0.2955  0.3267  1.1844
-0.0575 -0.2957  1.5079
-0.2541  0.5331 -0.0083
 0.8005 -1.5994 -0.4732
-0.0065  2.3441 -0.6354
 0.2910  0.4230  0.0975
 1.2662  1.1846  1.0114
-0.4095 -1.0676 -0.9056
[torch.DoubleTensor of size 10x3]

 0.1152  0.7751 -0.6212
 0.5707  0.1967  0.7973
 0.1152  0.7751 -0.6212
-0.2808 -0.7319 -0.6209
[torch.DoubleTensor of size 4x3]

 0.1152  0.7751 -0.6212
 0.5707  0.1967  0.7973
-0.2955  0.3267  1.1844
-0.0575 -0.2957  1.5079
-0.2541  0.5331 -0.0083
 0.8005 -1.5994 -0.4732
-0.0065  2.3441 -0.6354
 0.2910  0.4230  0.0975
 1.2662  1.1846  1.0114
-0.2808 -0.7319 -0.6209
[torch.DoubleTensor of size 10x3]

Note that the 1st, 2nd and 10th rows of the module.weight are updated to obey the max-norm constraint, since their indices appear in the "input".

Spatial Modules

Excluding an optional batch dimension, spatial layers expect a 3D Tensor as input. The first dimension is the number of features (e.g. frameSize), the last two dimensions are spatial (e.g. height x width). These are commonly used for processing images.

SpatialConvolution

module = nn.SpatialConvolution(nInputPlane, nOutputPlane, kW, kH, [dW], [dH], [padW], [padH])

Applies a 2D convolution over an input image composed of several input planes. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 3D tensor (nInputPlane x height x width).

The parameters are the following:

nInputPlane: The number of expected input planes in the image given into forward().
nOutputPlane: The number of output planes the convolution layer will produce.
kW: The kernel width of the convolution
kH: The kernel height of the convolution
dW: The step of the convolution in the width dimension. Default is 1.
dH: The step of the convolution in the height dimension. Default is 1.
padW: The additional zeros added per width to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kW-1)/2.
padH: The additional zeros added per height to the input planes. Default is padW, a good number is (kH-1)/2.

Note that depending of the size of your kernel, several (of the last) columns or rows of the input image might be lost. It is up to the user to add proper padding in images.

If the input image is a 3D tensor nInputPlane x height x width, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x oheight x owidth where

owidth  = floor((width  + 2*padW - kW) / dW + 1)
oheight = floor((height + 2*padH - kH) / dH + 1)

The parameters of the convolution can be found in self.weight (Tensor of size nOutputPlane x nInputPlane x kH x kW) and self.bias (Tensor of size nOutputPlane). The corresponding gradients can be found in self.gradWeight and self.gradBias.

The output value of the layer can be precisely described as:

output[i][j][k] = bias[k]
  + sum_l sum_{s=1}^kW sum_{t=1}^kH weight[s][t][l][k]
                                    * input[dW*(i-1)+s)][dH*(j-1)+t][l]

SpatialConvolutionMap

module = nn.SpatialConvolutionMap(connectionMatrix, kW, kH, [dW], [dH])

This class is a generalization of nn.SpatialConvolution. It uses a generic connection table between input and output features. The nn.SpatialConvolution is equivalent to using a full connection table. One can specify different types of connection tables.

Full Connection Table

table = nn.tables.full(nin,nout)

This is a precomputed table that specifies connections between every input and output node.

One to One Connection Table

table = nn.tables.oneToOne(n)

This is a precomputed table that specifies a single connection to each output node from corresponding input node.

Random Connection Table

table = nn.tables.random(nin,nout, nto)

This table is randomly populated such that each output unit has nto incoming connections. The algorithm tries to assign uniform number of outgoing connections to each input node if possible.

SpatialFullConvolution

module = nn.SpatialFullConvolution(nInputPlane, nOutputPlane, kW, kH, [dW], [dH], [padW], [padH], [adjW], [adjH])

Applies a 2D full convolution over an input image composed of several input planes. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 3D or 4D tensor. Note that instead of setting adjW and adjH, SpatialFullConvolution also accepts a table input with two tensors: {convInput, sizeTensor} where convInput is the standard input on which the full convolution is applied, and the size of sizeTensor is used to set the size of the output. Using the two-input version of forward will ignore the adjW and adjH values used to construct the module. The layer can be used without a bias by module:noBias().

Other frameworks call this operation "In-network Upsampling", "Fractionally-strided convolution", "Backwards Convolution," "Deconvolution", or "Upconvolution."

The parameters are the following:

nInputPlane: The number of expected input planes in the image given into forward().
nOutputPlane: The number of output planes the convolution layer will produce.
kW: The kernel width of the convolution
kH: The kernel height of the convolution
dW: The step of the convolution in the width dimension. Default is 1.
dH: The step of the convolution in the height dimension. Default is 1.
padW: The additional zeros added per width to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kW-1)/2.
padH: The additional zeros added per height to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kH-1)/2.
adjW: Extra width to add to the output image. Default is 0. Cannot be greater than dW-1.
adjH: Extra height to add to the output image. Default is 0. Cannot be greater than dH-1.

If the input image is a 3D tensor nInputPlane x height x width, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x oheight x owidth where

owidth  = (width  - 1) * dW - 2*padW + kW + adjW
oheight = (height - 1) * dH - 2*padH + kH + adjH

Further information about the full convolution can be found in the following paper: Fully Convolutional Networks for Semantic Segmentation.

SpatialDilatedConvolution

module = nn.SpatialDilatedConvolution(nInputPlane, nOutputPlane, kW, kH, [dW], [dH], [padW], [padH], [dilationW], [dilationH])

Also sometimes referred to as atrous convolution. Applies a 2D dilated convolution over an input image composed of several input planes. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 3D or 4D tensor.

The parameters are the following:

nInputPlane: The number of expected input planes in the image given into forward().
nOutputPlane: The number of output planes the convolution layer will produce.
kW: The kernel width of the convolution
kH: The kernel height of the convolution
dW: The step of the convolution in the width dimension. Default is 1.
dH: The step of the convolution in the height dimension. Default is 1.
padW: The additional zeros added per width to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kW-1)/2.
padH: The additional zeros added per height to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kH-1)/2.
dilationW: The number of pixels to skip. Default is 1. 1 makes it a SpatialConvolution
dilationH: The number of pixels to skip. Default is 1. 1 makes it a SpatialConvolution

If the input image is a 3D tensor nInputPlane x height x width, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x oheight x owidth where

owidth  = floor(width + 2 * padW - dilationW * (kW-1) + 1) / dW + 1
oheight = floor(height + 2 * padH - dilationH * (kH-1) + 1) / dH + 1

Further information about the dilated convolution can be found in the following paper: Multi-Scale Context Aggregation by Dilated Convolutions.

SpatialConvolutionLocal

module = nn.SpatialConvolutionLocal(nInputPlane, nOutputPlane, iW, iH, kW, kH, [dW], [dH], [padW], [padH])

Applies a 2D locally-connected layer over an input image composed of several input planes. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 3D or 4D tensor.

A locally-connected layer is similar to a convolution layer but without weight-sharing.

The parameters are the following:

nInputPlane: The number of expected input planes in the image given into forward().
nOutputPlane: The number of output planes the locally-connected layer will produce.
iW: The input width.
iH: The input height.
kW: The kernel width.
kH: The kernel height.
dW: The step in the width dimension. Default is 1.
dH: The step in the height dimension. Default is 1.
padW: The additional zeros added per width to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kW-1)/2.
padH: The additional zeros added per height to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kH-1)/2.

If the input image is a 3D tensor nInputPlane x iH x iW, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x oH x oW where

oW  = floor((iW  + 2*padW - kW) / dW + 1)
oH = floor((iH + 2*padH - kH) / dH + 1)

SpatialLPPooling

module = nn.SpatialLPPooling(nInputPlane, pnorm, kW, kH, [dW], [dH])

Computes the p norm in a convolutional manner on a set of 2D input planes.

SpatialMaxPooling

module = nn.SpatialMaxPooling(kW, kH [, dW, dH, padW, padH])

Applies 2D max-pooling operation in kWxkH regions by step size dWxdH steps. The number of output features is equal to the number of input planes.

If the input image is a 3D tensor nInputPlane x height x width, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x oheight x owidth where

owidth  = op((width  + 2*padW - kW) / dW + 1)
oheight = op((height + 2*padH - kH) / dH + 1)

op is a rounding operator. By default, it is floor. It can be changed by calling :ceil() or :floor() methods.

SpatialDilatedMaxPooling

module = nn.SpatialDilatedMaxPooling(kW, kH [, dW, dH, padW, padH, dilationW, dilationH])

Also sometimes referred to as atrous pooling. Applies 2D dilated max-pooling operation in kWxkH regions by step size dWxdH steps. The number of output features is equal to the number of input planes. If dilationW and dilationH are not provided, this is equivalent to performing normal nn.SpatialMaxPooling.

If the input image is a 3D tensor nInputPlane x height x width, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x oheight x owidth where

owidth  = op((width - (dilationW * (kW - 1) + 1) + 2*padW) / dW + 1)
oheight = op((height - (dilationH * (kH - 1) + 1) + 2*padH) / dH + 1)

op is a rounding operator. By default, it is floor. It can be changed by calling :ceil() or :floor() methods.

SpatialFractionalMaxPooling

module = nn.SpatialFractionalMaxPooling(kW, kH, outW, outH)
--   the output should be the exact size (outH x outW)
OR
module = nn.SpatialFractionalMaxPooling(kW, kH, ratioW, ratioH)
--   the output should be the size (floor(inH x ratioH) x floor(inW x ratioW))
--   ratios are numbers between (0, 1) exclusive

Applies 2D Fractional max-pooling operation as described in the paper "Fractional Max Pooling" by Ben Graham in the "pseudorandom" mode.

The max-pooling operation is applied in kWxkH regions by a stochastic step size determined by the target output size. The number of output features is equal to the number of input planes.

There are two constructors available.

Constructor 1:

module = nn.SpatialFractionalMaxPooling(kW, kH, outW, outH)

Constructor 2:

module = nn.SpatialFractionalMaxPooling(kW, kH, ratioW, ratioH)

If the input image is a 3D tensor nInputPlane x height x width, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x oheight x owidth

where

owidth  = floor(width * ratioW)
oheight = floor(height * ratioH)

ratios are numbers between (0, 1) exclusive

SpatialAveragePooling

module = nn.SpatialAveragePooling(kW, kH [, dW, dH, padW, padH])

Applies 2D average-pooling operation in kWxkH regions by step size dWxdH steps. The number of output features is equal to the number of input planes.

If the input image is a 3D tensor nInputPlane x height x width, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x oheight x owidth where

owidth  = op((width  + 2*padW - kW) / dW + 1)
oheight = op((height + 2*padH - kH) / dH + 1)

op is a rounding operator. By default, it is floor. It can be changed by calling :ceil() or :floor() methods.

By default, the output of each pooling region is divided by the number of elements inside the padded image (which is usually kW*kH, except in some corner cases in which it can be smaller). You can also divide by the number of elements inside the original non-padded image. To switch between different division factors, call :setCountIncludePad() or :setCountExcludePad(). If padW=padH=0, both options give the same results.

SpatialAdaptiveMaxPooling

module = nn.SpatialAdaptiveMaxPooling(W, H)

Applies 2D max-pooling operation in an image such that the output is of size WxH, for any input size. The number of output features is equal to the number of input planes.

For an output of dimensions (owidth,oheight), the indexes of the pooling region (j,i) in the input image of dimensions (iwidth,iheight) are given by:

x_j_start = floor((j   /owidth)  * iwidth)
x_j_end   = ceil(((j+1)/owidth)  * iwidth)

y_i_start = floor((i   /oheight) * iheight)
y_i_end   = ceil(((i+1)/oheight) * iheight)

SpatialMaxUnpooling

module = nn.SpatialMaxUnpooling(poolingModule)

Applies 2D "max-unpooling" operation using the indices previously computed by the SpatialMaxPooling module poolingModule.

When B = poolingModule:forward(A) is called, the indices of the maximal values (corresponding to their position within each map) are stored: B[{n,k,i,j}] = A[{n,k,indices[{n,k,i}],indices[{n,k,j}]}]. If C is a tensor of same size as B, module:updateOutput(C) outputs a tensor D of same size as A such that: D[{n,k,indices[{n,k,i}],indices[{n,k,j}]}] = C[{n,k,i,j}].

Module inspired by: "Visualizing and understanding convolutional networks" (2014) by Matthew Zeiler, Rob Fergus

SpatialSubSampling

module = nn.SpatialSubSampling(nInputPlane, kW, kH, [dW], [dH])

Applies a 2D sub-sampling over an input image composed of several input planes. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 3D tensor (nInputPlane x height x width). The number of output planes will be the same as nInputPlane.

The parameters are the following:

nInputPlane: The number of expected input planes in the image given into forward().
kW: The kernel width of the sub-sampling
kH: The kernel height of the sub-sampling
dW: The step of the sub-sampling in the width dimension. Default is 1.
dH: The step of the sub-sampling in the height dimension. Default is 1.

Note that depending of the size of your kernel, several (of the last) columns or rows of the input image might be lost. It is up to the user to add proper padding in images.

If the input image is a 3D tensor nInputPlane x height x width, the output image size will be nInputPlane x oheight x owidth where

owidth  = (width  - kW) / dW + 1
oheight = (height - kH) / dH + 1 .

The parameters of the sub-sampling can be found in self.weight (Tensor of size nInputPlane) and self.bias (Tensor of size nInputPlane). The corresponding gradients can be found in self.gradWeight and self.gradBias.

The output value of the layer can be precisely described as:

output[i][j][k] = bias[k]
  + weight[k] sum_{s=1}^kW sum_{t=1}^kH input[dW*(i-1)+s)][dH*(j-1)+t][k]

SpatialUpSamplingNearest

module = nn.SpatialUpSamplingNearest(scale)

Applies a 2D up-sampling over an input image composed of several input planes. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 3D or 4D tensor (i.e. for 4D: nBatchPlane x nInputPlane x height x width). The number of output planes will be the same. The v dimension is assumed to be the second last dimension (i.e. for 4D it will be the 3rd dim), and the u dimension is assumed to be the last dimension.

The parameters are the following:

scale: The upscale ratio. Must be a positive integer

The up-scaling method is simple nearest neighbor, ie:

output(u,v) = input(floor((u-1)/scale)+1, floor((v-1)/scale)+1)

Where u and v are index from 1 (as per lua convention). There are no learnable parameters.

SpatialUpSamplingBilinear

module = nn.SpatialUpSamplingBilinear(scale)
module = nn.SpatialUpSamplingBilinear({oheight=H, owidth=W})

Applies a 2D up-sampling over an input image composed of several input planes. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 3D or 4D tensor (i.e. for 4D: nBatchPlane x nInputPlane x height x width). The number of output planes will be the same. The v dimension is assumed to be the second last dimension (i.e. for 4D it will be the 3rd dim), and the u dimension is assumed to be the last dimension.

The parameters are the following:

scale: The upscale ratio. Must be a positive integer
Or a table {oheight=H, owidth=W}: The required output height and width, should be positive integers.

The up-scaling method is bilinear. If scale is specified, given an input of height iH and width iW, output height and width will be:

oH = (iH - 1)(scale - 1) + iH
oW = (iW - 1)(scale - 1) + iW

There are no learnable parameters.

SpatialZeroPadding

module = nn.SpatialZeroPadding(padLeft, padRight, padTop, padBottom)

Each feature map of a given input is padded with specified number of zeros. If padding values are negative, then input is cropped.

SpatialReflectionPadding

module = nn.SpatialReflectionPadding(padLeft, padRight, padTop, padBottom)

Each feature map of a given input is padded with the reflection of the input boundary

SpatialReplicationPadding

module = nn.SpatialReplicationPadding(padLeft, padRight, padTop, padBottom)

Each feature map of a given input is padded with the replication of the input boundary

SpatialSubtractiveNormalization

module = nn.SpatialSubtractiveNormalization(ninputplane, kernel)

Applies a spatial subtraction operation on a series of 2D inputs using kernel for computing the weighted average in a neighborhood. The neighborhood is defined for a local spatial region that is the size as kernel and across all features. For a an input image, since there is only one feature, the region is only spatial. For an RGB image, the weighted average is taken over RGB channels and a spatial region.

If the kernel is 1D, then it will be used for constructing and seperable 2D kernel. The operations will be much more efficient in this case.

The kernel is generally chosen as a gaussian when it is believed that the correlation of two pixel locations decrease with increasing distance. On the feature dimension, a uniform average is used since the weighting across features is not known.

For this example we use an external package image

require 'image'
require 'nn'
lena = image.rgb2y(image.lena())
ker = torch.ones(11)
m=nn.SpatialSubtractiveNormalization(1,ker)
processed = m:forward(lena)
w1=image.display(lena)
w2=image.display(processed)

SpatialCrossMapLRN

module = nn.SpatialCrossMapLRN(size [,alpha] [,beta] [,k])

Applies Spatial Local Response Normalization between different feature maps. By default, alpha = 0.0001, beta = 0.75 and k = 1

The operation implemented is:

                          x_f
y_f =  -------------------------------------------------
        (k+(alpha/size)* sum_{l=l1 to l2} (x_l^2))^beta

where x_f is the input at spatial locations h,w (not shown for simplicity) and feature map f, l1 corresponds to max(0,f-ceil(size/2)) and l2 to min(F, f-ceil(size/2) + size). Here, F is the number of feature maps. More information can be found here.

SpatialBatchNormalization

module = nn.SpatialBatchNormalization(N [,eps] [, momentum] [,affine]) where N = number of input feature maps eps is a small value added to the standard-deviation to avoid divide-by-zero. Defaults to 1e-5 affine is a boolean. When set to false, the learnable affine transform is disabled. Defaults to true

Implements Batch Normalization as described in the paper: "Batch Normalization: Accelerating Deep Network Training by Reducing Internal Covariate Shift" by Sergey Ioffe, Christian Szegedy

The operation implemented is:

   y =     ( x - mean(x) )
        -------------------- * gamma + beta
       standard-deviation(x)

where the mean and standard-deviation are calculated per feature-map over the mini-batches and pixels and where gamma and beta are learnable parameter vectors of size N (where N = number of feature maps). The learning of gamma and beta is optional.

In training time, this layer keeps a running estimate of it's computed mean and std. The running sum is kept with a default momentup of 0.1 (unless over-ridden) In test time, this running mean/std is used to normalize.

The module only accepts 4D inputs.

-- with learnable parameters
model = nn.SpatialBatchNormalization(m)
A = torch.randn(b, m, h, w)
C = model:forward(A)  -- C will be of size `b x m x h x w`

-- without learnable parameters
model = nn.SpatialBatchNormalization(m, nil, nil, false)
A = torch.randn(b, m, h, w)
C = model:forward(A)  -- C will be of size `b x m x h x w`

Volumetric Modules

Excluding an optional batch dimension, volumetric layers expect a 4D Tensor as input. The first dimension is the number of features (e.g. frameSize), the second is sequential (e.g. time) and the last two dimensions are spatial (e.g. height x width). These are commonly used for processing videos (sequences of images).

VolumetricConvolution

module = nn.VolumetricConvolution(nInputPlane, nOutputPlane, kT, kW, kH [, dT, dW, dH, padT, padW, padH])

Applies a 3D convolution over an input image composed of several input planes. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 4D tensor (nInputPlane x time x height x width).

The parameters are the following:

nInputPlane: The number of expected input planes in the image given into forward().
nOutputPlane: The number of output planes the convolution layer will produce.
kT: The kernel size of the convolution in time
kW: The kernel width of the convolution
kH: The kernel height of the convolution
dT: The step of the convolution in the time dimension. Default is 1.
dW: The step of the convolution in the width dimension. Default is 1.
dH: The step of the convolution in the height dimension. Default is 1.
padT: The additional zeros added per time to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kT-1)/2.
padW: The additional zeros added per width to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kW-1)/2.
padH: The additional zeros added per height to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kH-1)/2.

Note that depending of the size of your kernel, several (of the last) columns or rows of the input image might be lost. It is up to the user to add proper padding in images.

If the input image is a 4D tensor nInputPlane x time x height x width, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x otime x oheight x owidth where

otime  = floor((time  + 2*padT - kT) / dT + 1)
owidth  = floor((width  + 2*padW - kW) / dW + 1)
oheight  = floor((height  + 2*padH - kH) / dH + 1)

The parameters of the convolution can be found in self.weight (Tensor of size nOutputPlane x nInputPlane x kT x kH x kW) and self.bias (Tensor of size nOutputPlane). The corresponding gradients can be found in self.gradWeight and self.gradBias.

VolumetricFullConvolution

module = nn.VolumetricFullConvolution(nInputPlane, nOutputPlane, kT, kW, kH, [dT], [dW], [dH], [padT], [padW], [padH])

Applies a 3D full convolution over an input image composed of several input planes. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 4D or 5D tensor. Note that instead of setting adjT, adjW and adjH, VolumetricFullConvolution also accepts a table input with two tensors: {convInput, sizeTensor} where convInput is the standard input on which the full convolution is applied, and the size of sizeTensor is used to set the size of the output. Using the two-input version of forward will ignore the adjT, adjW and adjH values used to construct the module.

This can be used as 3D deconvolution, or 3D upsampling. So that the 3D FCN can be easly implemented.

The parameters are the following:

nInputPlane: The number of expected input planes in the image given into forward().
nOutputPlane: The number of output planes the convolution layer will produce.
kT: The kernel depth of the convolution
kW: The kernel width of the convolution
kH: The kernel height of the convolution
dT: The step of the convolution in the depth dimension. Default is 1.
dW: The step of the convolution in the width dimension. Default is 1.
dH: The step of the convolution in the height dimension. Default is 1.
padT: The additional zeros added per depth to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kT-1)/2.
padW: The additional zeros added per width to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kW-1)/2.
padH: The additional zeros added per height to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kH-1)/2.

If the input image is a 3D tensor nInputPlane x depth x height x width, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x odepth x oheight x owidth where

odepth  = (depth  - 1) * dT - 2*padT + kT
owidth  = (width  - 1) * dW - 2*padW + kW
oheight = (height - 1) * dH - 2*padH + kH

VolumetricDilatedConvolution

module = nn.VolumetricDilatedConvolution(nInputPlane, nOutputPlane, kT, kW, kH, [dT], [dW], [dH], [padT], [padW], [padH], [dilationT], [dilationW], [dilationH])

Applies a 3D dilated convolution over an input image composed of several input planes. The input tensor in forward(input) is expected to be a 4D or 5D tensor.

The parameters are the following:

nInputPlane: The number of expected input planes in the image given into forward().
nOutputPlane: The number of output planes the convolution layer will produce.
kT: The kernel depth of the convolution
kW: The kernel width of the convolution
kH: The kernel height of the convolution
dT: The step of the convolution in the depth dimension. Default is 1.
dW: The step of the convolution in the width dimension. Default is 1.
dH: The step of the convolution in the height dimension. Default is 1.
padT: The additional zeros added per depth to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kT-1)/2.
padW: The additional zeros added per width to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kW-1)/2.
padH: The additional zeros added per height to the input planes. Default is 0, a good number is (kH-1)/2.
dilationT: The number of pixels to skip. Default is 1. 1 makes it a VolumetricConvolution
dilationW: The number of pixels to skip. Default is 1. 1 makes it a VolumetricConvolution
dilationH: The number of pixels to skip. Default is 1. 1 makes it a VolumetricConvolution

If the input image is a 4D tensor nInputPlane x depth x height x width, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x odepth x oheight x owidth where

odepth  = floor(depth + 2 * padT - dilationT * (kT-1) + 1) / dT + 1
owidth  = floor(width + 2 * padW - dilationW * (kW-1) + 1) / dW + 1
oheight = floor(height + 2 * padH - dilationH * (kH-1) + 1) / dH + 1

Further information about the dilated convolution can be found in the following paper: Multi-Scale Context Aggregation by Dilated Convolutions.

VolumetricMaxPooling

module = nn.VolumetricMaxPooling(kT, kW, kH [, dT, dW, dH, padT, padW, padH])

Applies 3D max-pooling operation in kTxkWxkH regions by step size dTxdWxdH steps. The number of output features is equal to the number of input planes / dT. The input can optionally be padded with zeros. Padding should be smaller than half of kernel size. That is, padT < kT/2, padW < kW/2 and padH < kH/2.

VolumetricDilatedMaxPooling

module = nn.VolumetricDilatedMaxPooling(kT, kW, kH [, dT, dW, dH, padT, padW, padH, dilationT, dilationW, dilationH])

Also sometimes referred to as atrous pooling. Applies 3D dilated max-pooling operation in kTxkWxkH regions by step size dTxdWxdH steps. The number of output features is equal to the number of input planes. If dilationT, dilationW and dilationH are not provided, this is equivalent to performing normal nn.VolumetricMaxPooling.

If the input image is a 4D tensor nInputPlane x depth x height x width, the output image size will be nOutputPlane x otime x oheight x owidth where

otime  = op((depth - (dilationT * (kT - 1) + 1) + 2*padT) / dT + 1)
owidth  = op((width - (dilationW * (kW - 1) + 1) + 2*padW) / dW + 1)
oheight = op((height - (dilationH * (kH - 1) + 1) + 2*padH) / dH + 1)

op is a rounding operator. By default, it is floor. It can be changed by calling :ceil() or :floor() methods.

VolumetricAveragePooling

module = nn.VolumetricAveragePooling(kT, kW, kH [, dT, dW, dH])

Applies 3D average-pooling operation in kTxkWxkH regions by step size dTxdWxdH steps. The number of output features is equal to the number of input planes / dT.

VolumetricMaxUnpooling

module = nn.VolumetricMaxUnpooling(poolingModule)

Applies 3D "max-unpooling" operation using the indices previously computed by the VolumetricMaxPooling module poolingModule.

When B = poolingModule:forward(A) is called, the indices of the maximal values (corresponding to their position within each map) are stored: B[{n,k,t,i,j}] = A[{n,k,indices[{n,k,t}],indices[{n,k,i}],indices[{n,k,j}]}]. If C is a tensor of same size as B, module:updateOutput(C) outputs a tensor D of same size as A such that: D[{n,k,indices[{n,k,t}],indices[{n,k,i}],indices[{n,k,j}]}] = C[{n,k,t,i,j}].

VolumetricReplicationPadding

module = nn.VolumetricReplicationPadding(padLeft, padRight, padTop, padBottom,
                                         padFront, padBack)

Each feature map of a given input is padded with the replication of the input boundary.

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Spatial Modules

SpatialConvolution

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SpatialLPPooling

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SpatialAveragePooling

SpatialAdaptiveMaxPooling

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SpatialSubSampling

SpatialUpSamplingNearest

SpatialUpSamplingBilinear

SpatialZeroPadding

SpatialReflectionPadding

SpatialReplicationPadding

SpatialSubtractiveNormalization

SpatialCrossMapLRN

SpatialBatchNormalization

Volumetric Modules

VolumetricConvolution

VolumetricFullConvolution

VolumetricDilatedConvolution

VolumetricMaxPooling

VolumetricDilatedMaxPooling

VolumetricAveragePooling

VolumetricMaxUnpooling

VolumetricReplicationPadding