How caffe load a layer
The main codes are in caffe::Net::Init()
const LayerParameter& layer_param = param.layer(layer_id);
...
layers_.push_back(LayerRegistry<Dtype>::CreateLayer(layer_param));
Then the layer is created by look up from the registry table:
// Get a layer using a LayerParameter.
static shared_ptr<Layer<Dtype> > CreateLayer(const LayerParameter& param) {
if (Caffe::root_solver()) {
LOG(INFO) << "Creating layer " << param.name();
}
const string& type = param.type();
CreatorRegistry& registry = Registry();
CHECK_EQ(registry.count(type), 1) << "Unknown layer type: " << type
<< " (known types: " << LayerTypeListString() << ")";
return registry[type](param);
}
Still not understand
relative with parallelism.
if (share_from_root) {
LOG(INFO) << "Sharing layer " << layer_param.name() << " from root net";
layers_.push_back(root_net_->layers_[layer_id]);
layers_[layer_id]->SetShared(true);
}
Several *Blobs() function
Relative PR:
Called from caffe::Layer::SetUp()
:
void SetUp(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) {
InitMutex();
CheckBlobCounts(bottom, top); // virtual
LayerSetUp(bottom, top); // virtual
Reshape(bottom, top); // virtual
SetLossWeights(top);
}
by CheckBlobCounts(bottom, top)
, which is a virtual function may be overrided in the inherited layer class. Following is the function of the base layer, caffe::Layer::CheckBlobCounts()
:
/**
* Called by the parent Layer's SetUp to check that the number of bottom
* and top Blobs provided as input match the expected numbers specified by
* the {ExactNum,Min,Max}{Bottom,Top}Blobs() functions.
*/
virtual void CheckBlobCounts(const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& bottom,
const vector<Blob<Dtype>*>& top) {
if (ExactNumBottomBlobs() >= 0) {
CHECK_EQ(ExactNumBottomBlobs(), bottom.size())
<< type() << " Layer takes " << ExactNumBottomBlobs()
<< " bottom blob(s) as input.";
}
if (MinBottomBlobs() >= 0) {
CHECK_LE(MinBottomBlobs(), bottom.size())
<< type() << " Layer takes at least " << MinBottomBlobs()
<< " bottom blob(s) as input.";
}
if (MaxBottomBlobs() >= 0) {
CHECK_GE(MaxBottomBlobs(), bottom.size())
<< type() << " Layer takes at most " << MaxBottomBlobs()
<< " bottom blob(s) as input.";
}
if (ExactNumTopBlobs() >= 0) {
CHECK_EQ(ExactNumTopBlobs(), top.size())
<< type() << " Layer produces " << ExactNumTopBlobs()
<< " top blob(s) as output.";
}
if (MinTopBlobs() >= 0) {
CHECK_LE(MinTopBlobs(), top.size())
<< type() << " Layer produces at least " << MinTopBlobs()
<< " top blob(s) as output.";
}
if (MaxTopBlobs() >= 0) {
CHECK_GE(MaxTopBlobs(), top.size())
<< type() << " Layer produces at most " << MaxTopBlobs()
<< " top blob(s) as output.";
}
if (EqualNumBottomTopBlobs()) {
CHECK_EQ(bottom.size(), top.size())
<< type() << " Layer produces one top blob as output for each "
<< "bottom blob input.";
}
}