I'm trying to write a custom gradient function for 'my_op' which for the sake of the example contains just a call to tf.identity() (ideally, it could be any graph).
import tensorflow as tf
from tensorflow.python.framework import function
def my_op_grad(x):
return [tf.sigmoid(x)]
@function.Defun(a=tf.float32, python_grad_func=my_op_grad)
def my_op(a):
return tf.identity(a)
a = tf.Variable(tf.constant([5., 4., 3., 2., 1.], dtype=tf.float32))
sess = tf.Session()
sess.run(tf.initialize_all_variables())
grad = tf.gradients(my_op(a), [a])[0]
result = sess.run(grad)
print(result)
sess.close()
Unfortunately I get the following error:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "custom_op.py", line 19, in
grad = tf.gradients(my_op(a), [a])[0]
File "/Users/njk/tfm/lib/python3.5/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/function.py", line 528, in __call__
return call_function(self._definition, *args, **kwargs)
File "/Users/njk/tfm/lib/python3.5/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/function.py", line 267, in call_function
compute_shapes=False)
File "/Users/njk/tfm/lib/python3.5/site-packages/tensorflow/python/framework/ops.py", line 2285, in create_op
raise TypeError("Input #%d is not a tensor: %s" % (idx, a))
TypeError: Input #0 is not a tensor:
I know that it is possible to create a custom C++ operation, but in my case I just need to write a custom gradient for a function which can be easily written in Python using standard TensorFlow operations, so I would like to avoid writing unnecessary C++ code.
Also, I'm using the upstream version of TensorFlow from GitHub.
解决方案
Here is the modified code example:
def my_op_grad(op, grad): ### instead of my_op_grad(x)
return tf.sigmoid(op.inputs[0])
@function.Defun(a=tf.float32, python_grad_func=my_op_grad)
def my_op(a):
return tf.identity(a)
def main(unused_argv):
a = tf.Variable(tf.constant([-5., 4., -3., 2., 1.], dtype=tf.float32))
sess = tf.Session()
sess.run(tf.initialize_all_variables())
a = tf.identity(a) #workaround for bug github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/issues/3710
grad = tf.gradients(my_op(a), [a])[0]
result = sess.run(grad)
print(result)
sess.close()
Output:
[ 0.00669286 0.98201376 0.04742587 0.88079709 0.7310586 ]