X-Git-Url: https://www.fleuret.org/cgi-bin/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=README.md;h=fbb7a96039cb55dbca12ea20942878443544b3e8;hb=125002d32a2c9ea88bdbc722a888d3788901fc27;hp=6418a4029420fe3ae652952b637ef6e43787051a;hpb=6a412f5164d3b4085f657114b797006eb7e56a74;p=dagnn.git diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 6418a40..fbb7a96 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -1,15 +1,15 @@ -#Introduction# +# Introduction # -This package implements a new module nn.DAG which inherits from -nn.Container and allows to combine modules in an arbitrary graph -without cycle. +This package implements a new module nn.DAG for the torch framework, +which inherits from nn.Container and allows to combine modules in an +arbitrary graph without cycle. -##Example## +## Example ## A typical use would be: -```Lua +```lua model = nn.DAG() a = nn.Linear(100, 10) @@ -48,30 +48,36 @@ Note that DAG:connect allows to add a bunch of edges at once. This is particularly useful to add anonymous modules which have a single predecessor and successor. -##Input and output## +# Usage # -If a node has a single predecessor, its output is taken as-is. If it -has multiple predecessors, all the outputs are collected into a table, -and the table is used as input. The indexes of the outputs in that -table reflects the order in which the predecessors appeared in the +## Input and output ## + +The DAG can deal with modules which take as input and produce as +output tensors and nested tables of tensors. + +If a node has a single predecessor, the output of the latter is taken +as-is as the input to the former. If it has multiple predecessors, all +the outputs are collected into a table, and the table is used as +input. The indexes of the outputs in that table reflect the +chronological order in which the edges where created in the DAG:connect() commands. The input to the DAG (respectively the produced output) is a nested table of inputs reflecting the structure of the nested table of -modules provided to DAG:setInput (respectively DAG:setOutput) +modules given as argument to DAG:setInput (respectively DAG:setOutput) So for instance, in the example above, the model expects a tensor as input, since it is the input to the module a, and its output will is a table composed of two tensors, corresponding to the outputs of d and e respectively. -##Usage## +## Functions ## -###nn.DAG()### +### nn.DAG() ### Create a new empty DAG, which inherits from nn.Container. -###nn.DAG:connect([module1 [, module2 [, ...]]])### +### nn.DAG:connect([module1 [, module2 [, ...]]]) ### Add new nodes corresponding to the modules passed as arguments if they are not already existing. Add edges between every two nodes @@ -80,21 +86,21 @@ corresponding to a pair of successive modules in the arguments. Calling it with n > 2 arguments is strictly equivalent to calling it n-1 times on the pairs of successive arguments. -###nn.DAG:setInput(i)### +### nn.DAG:setInput(i) ### Defines the content and structure of the input. The argument should be -either a module, or a (nested) table of module. The input to the DAG -should be a (nested) table of inputs with the corresponding structure. +either a module, or a (nested) table of modules. The input to the DAG +should be a (nested) table of inputs, with the corresponding structure. -###nn.DAG:setOutput(o)### +### nn.DAG:setOutput(o) ### Similar to DAG:setInput(). -###nn.DAG:print()### +### nn.DAG:print() ### Prints the list of nodes. -###nn.DAG:saveDot(filename)### +### nn.DAG:saveDot(filename) ### Save a dot file to be used by the Graphviz set of tools for graph visualization. This dot file can than be used for instance to produce