RuntimeError: view size is not compatible with input tensor‘s size and stride

针对view()只能处理contiguous之说的大体解释

>>> y = torch.Tensor(5, 3)
>>> y
tensor([[7.0975e+22, 7.9309e+34, 7.9439e+08],
        [3.2604e-12, 1.1625e+33, 8.9605e-01],
        [1.1632e+33, 5.6003e-02, 7.0374e+22],
        [6.9983e+28, 1.9859e+29, 4.3218e+27],
        [4.7423e+30, 2.2856e+20, 3.2607e-12]])
>>> z = y.t()
>>> z
tensor([[7.0975e+22, 3.2604e-12, 1.1632e+33, 6.9983e+28, 4.7423e+30],
        [7.9309e+34, 1.1625e+33, 5.6003e-02, 1.9859e+29, 2.2856e+20],
        [7.9439e+08, 8.9605e-01, 7.0374e+22, 4.3218e+27, 3.2607e-12]])
>>> z.view(15)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
RuntimeError: view size is not compatible with input tensor's size and stride (at least one dimension spans across two contiguous subspaces). Use .reshape(...) instead.

这边在官方文档view()与reshape()的区别中解释如下：

To ensure that the new tensor always shares its data with the original, torch.view imposes some contiguity constraints on the shapes of the two tensors [docs]. More often than not this is not a concern, but sometimes torch.view throws an error even if the shapes of the two tensors are compatible. Here’s a famous counter-example.

大概意思就是：

.view()方法只能改变连续的(contiguous)张量，否则需要先调用.contiguous()方法。而reshape()不受此约束。

大概意思就是张量在进行形状变化时，还受stride控制，因此可能导致变行后的数据不连续。具体看下例子：

>>> z
tensor([[7.0975e+22, 3.2604e-12, 1.1632e+33, 6.9983e+28, 4.7423e+30],
        [7.9309e+34, 1.1625e+33, 5.6003e-02, 1.9859e+29, 2.2856e+20],
        [7.9439e+08, 8.9605e-01, 7.0374e+22, 4.3218e+27, 3.2607e-12]])
>>> y
tensor([[7.0975e+22, 7.9309e+34, 7.9439e+08],
        [3.2604e-12, 1.1625e+33, 8.9605e-01],
        [1.1632e+33, 5.6003e-02, 7.0374e+22],
        [6.9983e+28, 1.9859e+29, 4.3218e+27],
        [4.7423e+30, 2.2856e+20, 3.2607e-12]])
>>> z.stride()
(1, 3)
>>> z.view(15)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
RuntimeError: view size is not compatible with input tensor's size and stride (at least one dimension spans across two contiguous subspaces). Use .reshape(...) instead.
>>> y.stride()
(3, 1)
>>> y.view(15)
tensor([7.0975e+22, 7.9309e+34, 7.9439e+08, 3.2604e-12, 1.1625e+33, 8.9605e-01,
        1.1632e+33, 5.6003e-02, 7.0374e+22, 6.9983e+28, 1.9859e+29, 4.3218e+27,
        4.7423e+30, 2.2856e+20, 3.2607e-12])

然而当加入.contiguous()后，则变成：

>>> z.contiguous().stride()
(5, 1)
>>> z.contiguous().view(15)
tensor([7.0975e+22, 3.2604e-12, 1.1632e+33, 6.9983e+28, 4.7423e+30, 7.9309e+34,
        1.1625e+33, 5.6003e-02, 1.9859e+29, 2.2856e+20, 7.9439e+08, 8.9605e-01,
        7.0374e+22, 4.3218e+27, 3.2607e-12])