I know how to use tf.py_func to create a new custom op that runs on CPU. I also know from the TF guide you can create a new op and its gradient in C++
What I am looking for is none of the above. I want to define a custom gradient function for a composition of TF ops. tf.register_gradients can be used along with gradient_override_map to define a custom gradient for an existing op, but how do you register a composition of TF ops as a new op in the first place?
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tfe.custom_gradient是您要使用的装饰器
I have provided three different ways of defining custom gradients in Tensorflow in this repo .
In this approach we define a tf op using tf.py_func and assign a custom gradient function to it.
with g.gradient_override_map({"PyFunc": rnd_name}):
return tf.py_func(func, inp, Tout, stateful=stateful, name=name)
In this approach we use a workaround to define a custom gradient for a composition of Tensorflow ops. We override the gradient of the identity op.
def python_func(x_in, name=None):
with ops.name_scope(name):
backward_func = tf.identity(x_in) # We'll later override the gradient of identity to deflect our desired gradient function.
forward_func = tf.subtract(2 * tf.exp(x_in), x_in)
return backward_func + tf.stop_gradient(forward_func - backward_func)
def my_op(func, inp, grad, name=None, victim_op='Identity'):
# Need to generate a unique name to avoid duplicates.
rnd_name = 'my_gradient' + str(np.random.randint(0, 1E+8))
tf.RegisterGradient(rnd_name)(grad)
g = tf.get_default_graph()
with g.gradient_override_map({victim_op: rnd_name}):
return func(inp, name=name)
This approach uses tensorflow.contrib.eager available as of Tensorflow 1.5 to define custom gradients for a composition of tensorflow ops.
@tfe.custom_gradient
def python_func(x_in):
def grad_func(grad):
return grad * ((2 * tf.exp(x_in)) - 1)
forward_func = tf.subtract(2 * tf.exp(x_in), x_in)
return forward_func, grad_func
I am not sure how you managed to solve your problem but the names 'op_name' and 'some_name' in above solution would not show on the graph. So you will not be able to use gradient_override_map({"op_name": "SynthGrad"}).
One possible solution: If you have a custom tensorflow op x=f(a,b) in forwardpass but you want that to behave as g(a,b) in backwardpass, you can do something like this:
t=g(a,b) out=t+tf.stop_gradient(f(a,b)-t)
However, you need to define g(a,b) in C++ as a dummy/identity operator with a name. Later, you can use gradient_override_map.
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