tf.transpose函数的用法讲解（多维情况，看似复杂，其实也简单）

tf.transpose函数中文意思是转置，对于低维度的转置问题，很简单，不想讨论，直接转置就好（大家看下面文档，一看就懂）。

 

tf.transpose(a, perm=None, name='transpose')   

Transposes a. Permutes the dimensions according to perm.  

The returned tensor's dimension i will correspond to the input dimension perm[i]. If perm is not given, it is set to (n-1...0), where n is the rank of the input tensor. Hence by default, this operation performs a regular matrix transpose on 2-D input Tensors.  

For example:  
# 'x' is [[1 2 3]  
#         [4 5 6]]  
tf.transpose(x) ==> [[1 4]  
                     [2 5]  
                     [3 6]]  

# Equivalently  
tf.transpose(x perm=[1, 0]) ==> [[1 4]  
                                 [2 5]  
                                 [3 6]]  

# 'perm' is more useful for n-dimensional tensors, for n > 2  
# 'x' is   [[[1  2  3]  
#            [4  5  6]]  
#           [[7  8  9]  
#            [10 11 12]]]  
# Take the transpose of the matrices in dimension-0  
tf.transpose(b, perm=[0, 2, 1]) ==> [[[1  4]  
                                      [2  5]  
                                      [3  6]]  

                                     [[7 10]  
                                      [8 11]  
                                      [9 12]]]  

Args:   
•a: A Tensor.  
•perm: A permutation of the dimensions of a.  
•name: A name for the operation (optional).  

Returns:   

A transposed Tensor.

 

 

 

本文主要讨论高维度的情况：

为了形象理解高维情况，这里以矩阵组合举例：

先定义下： 2 x （3*4）表示2个3*4的矩阵，（其实，它是个3维张量）。

x = [[[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12]],[[21,22,23,24],[25,26,27,28],[29,30,31,32]]]

输出：

---------------
[[[ 1  2  3  4]
  [ 5  6  7  8]
  [ 9 10 11 12]]

 [[21 22 23 24]
  [25 26 27 28]
  [29 30 31 32]]]
---------------

 

重点来了：

tf.transpose的第二个参数perm=[0,1,2],0代表三维数组的高（即为二维数组的个数），1代表二维数组的行，2代表二维数组的列。
tf.transpose(x, perm=[1,0,2])代表将三位数组的高和行进行转置。

我们写个测试程序如下：

 

import tensorflow as tf

#x = tf.constant([[1, 2 ,3],[4, 5, 6]])
x = [[[1,2,3,4],[5,6,7,8],[9,10,11,12]],[[21,22,23,24],[25,26,27,28],[29,30,31,32]]]
#a=tf.constant(x)
a=tf.transpose(x, [0, 1, 2])
b=tf.transpose(x, [0, 2, 1])
c=tf.transpose(x, [1, 0, 2])
d=tf.transpose(x, [1, 2, 0])
e=tf.transpose(x, [2, 1, 0])
f=tf.transpose(x, [2, 0, 1])

# 'perm' is more useful for n-dimensional tensors, for n > 2
# 'x' is   [[[1  2  3]
#            [4  5  6]]
#           [[7  8  9]
#            [10 11 12]]]
# Take the transpose of the matrices in dimension-0
#tf.transpose(b, perm=[0, 2, 1])
with tf.Session() as sess:
    print ('---------------')
    print (sess.run(a))
    print ('---------------')
    print (sess.run(b))
    print ('---------------')
    print (sess.run(c))
    print ('---------------')
    print (sess.run(d))
    print ('---------------')
    print (sess.run(e))
    print ('---------------')
    print (sess.run(f))
    print ('---------------')

我们期待的结果是得到如下矩阵：

 

a: 2 x 3*4

b: 2 x 4*3

c: 3 x 2*4

d: 3 x 4*2

e: 4 x 3*2

f: 4 x 2*3

运行脚本，结果一致，如下：

 

---------------
[[[ 1  2  3  4]
  [ 5  6  7  8]
  [ 9 10 11 12]]

 [[21 22 23 24]
  [25 26 27 28]
  [29 30 31 32]]]
---------------
[[[ 1  5  9]
  [ 2  6 10]
  [ 3  7 11]
  [ 4  8 12]]

 [[21 25 29]
  [22 26 30]
  [23 27 31]
  [24 28 32]]]
---------------
[[[ 1  2  3  4]
  [21 22 23 24]]

 [[ 5  6  7  8]
  [25 26 27 28]]

 [[ 9 10 11 12]
  [29 30 31 32]]]
---------------
[[[ 1 21]
  [ 2 22]
  [ 3 23]
  [ 4 24]]

 [[ 5 25]
  [ 6 26]
  [ 7 27]
  [ 8 28]]

 [[ 9 29]
  [10 30]
  [11 31]
  [12 32]]]
---------------
[[[ 1 21]
  [ 5 25]
  [ 9 29]]

 [[ 2 22]
  [ 6 26]
  [10 30]]

 [[ 3 23]
  [ 7 27]
  [11 31]]

 [[ 4 24]
  [ 8 28]
  [12 32]]]
---------------
[[[ 1  5  9]
  [21 25 29]]

 [[ 2  6 10]
  [22 26 30]]

 [[ 3  7 11]
  [23 27 31]]

 [[ 4  8 12]
  [24 28 32]]]
---------------

 

 

最后，总结下：

[0, 1, 2]是正常显示，那么交换哪两个数字，就是把对应的输入张量的对应的维度对应交换即可。