Warning: This API is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of TensorFlow after the replacement is stable.

Tensor

public final class Tensor

A statically typed multi-dimensional array whose elements are of a type described by T.

Instances of a Tensor are not thread-safe.

WARNING: Resources consumed by the Tensor object must be explicitly freed by invoking the close() method when the object is no longer needed. For example, using a try-with-resources block:

try (Tensor t = Tensor.create(...)) {
   doSomethingWith(t);
 }

Public Methods

boolean	booleanValue() Returns the value in a scalar `Boolean` tensor.
byte[]	bytesValue() Returns the value in a scalar `String` tensor.
void	close() Release resources associated with the Tensor.
<U> U	copyTo(U dst) Copies the contents of the tensor to `dst` and returns `dst`.
static Tensor<?>	create(Object obj) Creates a tensor from an object whose class is inspected to figure out what the underlying data type should be.
static <T> Tensor<T>	create(Class<T> type, long[] shape, ByteBuffer data) Create a Tensor of any type with data from the given buffer.
static Tensor<Double>	create(long[] shape, DoubleBuffer data) Create a `Double` Tensor with data from the given buffer.
static Tensor<Long>	create(long[] shape, LongBuffer data) Create an `Long` Tensor with data from the given buffer.
static Tensor<Integer>	create(long[] shape, IntBuffer data) Create a `Integer` Tensor with data from the given buffer.
static Tensor<Float>	create(long[] shape, FloatBuffer data) Create a `Float` Tensor with data from the given buffer.
static <T> Tensor<T>	create(Object obj, Class<T> type) Creates a Tensor from a Java object.
DataType	dataType() Returns the `DataType` of elements stored in the Tensor.
double	doubleValue() Returns the value in a scalar `Double` tensor.
<U> Tensor<U>	expect(Class<U> type) Returns this Tensor object with the type `Tensor<U>`.
float	floatValue() Returns the value in a scalar `Float` tensor.
int	intValue() Returns the value in a scalar `Integer` tensor.
long	longValue() Returns the value in a scalar `Long` tensor.
int	numBytes() Returns the size, in bytes, of the tensor data.
int	numDimensions() Returns the number of dimensions (sometimes referred to as rank) of the Tensor.
int	numElements() Returns the number of elements in a flattened (1-D) view of the tensor.
long[]	shape() Returns the shape of the Tensor, i.e., the sizes of each dimension.
String	toString() Returns a string describing the type and shape of the Tensor.
void	writeTo(LongBuffer dst) Write the data of a `Long` tensor into the given buffer.
void	writeTo(DoubleBuffer dst) Write the data of a `Double` tensor into the given buffer.
void	writeTo(IntBuffer dst) Write the data of a `Integer` tensor into the given buffer.
void	writeTo(ByteBuffer dst) Write the tensor data into the given buffer.
void	writeTo(FloatBuffer dst) Write the data of a `Float` tensor into the given buffer.

Inherited Methods

From class java.lang.Object

boolean	equals(Object arg0)
final Class<?>	getClass()
int	hashCode()
final void	notify()
final void	notifyAll()
String	toString()
final void	wait(long arg0, int arg1)
final void	wait(long arg0)
final void	wait()

From interface java.lang.AutoCloseable

abstract void

close()

Public Methods

public boolean booleanValue ()

Returns the value in a scalar Boolean tensor.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	if the Tensor does not represent a boolean scalar.

public byte[] bytesValue ()

Returns the value in a scalar String tensor.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	if the Tensor does not represent a boolean scalar.

public void close ()

Release resources associated with the Tensor.

WARNING:This must be invoked for all tensors that were not been produced by an eager operation or memory will be leaked.

The Tensor object is no longer usable after close returns.

public U copyTo (U dst)

Copies the contents of the tensor to dst and returns dst.

For non-scalar tensors, this method copies the contents of the underlying tensor to a Java array. For scalar tensors, use one of bytesValue(), floatValue(), doubleValue(), intValue(), longValue() or booleanValue() instead. The type and shape of dst must be compatible with the tensor. For example:

int matrix[2][2] = { {1,2},{3,4} };
 try(Tensor t = Tensor.create(matrix)) {
   // Succeeds and prints "3"
   int[][] copy = new int[2][2];
   System.out.println(t.copyTo(copy)[1][0]);

   // Throws IllegalArgumentException since the shape of dst does not match the shape of t.
   int[][] dst = new int[4][1];
   t.copyTo(dst);
 }

Parameters

dst

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	if the tensor is a scalar or if `dst` is not compatible with the tensor (for example, mismatched data types or shapes).

public static Tensor<?> create (Object obj)

Creates a tensor from an object whose class is inspected to figure out what the underlying data type should be.

Parameters

obj

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	if `obj` is not compatible with the TensorFlow type system.

public static Tensor<T> create (Class<T> type, long[] shape, ByteBuffer data)

Create a Tensor of any type with data from the given buffer.

Creates a Tensor with the provided shape of any type where the tensor's data has been encoded into data as per the specification of the TensorFlow C API.

Parameters

type	the tensor element type, represented as a class object.
shape	the tensor shape.
data	a buffer containing the tensor data.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	If the tensor datatype or shape is not compatible with the buffer

public static Tensor<Double> create (long[] shape, DoubleBuffer data)

Create a Double Tensor with data from the given buffer.

Creates a Tensor with the given shape by copying elements from the buffer (starting from its current position) into the tensor. For example, if shape = {2,3} (which represents a 2x3 matrix) then the buffer must have 6 elements remaining, which will be consumed by this method.

Parameters

shape	the tensor shape.
data	a buffer containing the tensor data.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	If the tensor shape is not compatible with the buffer

public static Tensor<Long> create (long[] shape, LongBuffer data)

Create an Long Tensor with data from the given buffer.

Parameters

shape	the tensor shape.
data	a buffer containing the tensor data.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	If the tensor shape is not compatible with the buffer

public static Tensor<Integer> create (long[] shape, IntBuffer data)

Create a Integer Tensor with data from the given buffer.

Parameters

shape	the tensor shape.
data	a buffer containing the tensor data.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	If the tensor shape is not compatible with the buffer

public static Tensor<Float> create (long[] shape, FloatBuffer data)

Create a Float Tensor with data from the given buffer.

Parameters

shape	the tensor shape.
data	a buffer containing the tensor data.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	If the tensor shape is not compatible with the buffer

public static Tensor<T> create (Object obj, Class<T> type)

Creates a Tensor from a Java object.

A Tensor is a multi-dimensional array of elements of a limited set of types. Not all Java objects can be converted to a Tensor. In particular, the argument obj must be either a primitive (float, double, int, long, boolean, byte) or a multi-dimensional array of one of those primitives. The argument type specifies how to interpret the first argument as a TensorFlow type. For example:

// Valid: A 64-bit integer scalar.
 Tensor&lt;Long&gt; s = Tensor.create(42L, Long.class);

 // Valid: A 3x2 matrix of floats.
 float[][] matrix = new float[3][2];
 Tensor&lt;Float&gt; m = Tensor.create(matrix, Float.class);

 // Invalid: Will throw an IllegalArgumentException as an arbitrary Object
 // does not fit into the TensorFlow type system.
 Tensor&lt;?&gt; o = Tensor.create(new Object())

 // Invalid: Will throw an IllegalArgumentException since there are
 // a differing number of elements in each row of this 2-D array.
 int[][] twoD = new int[2][];
 twoD[0] = new int[1];
 twoD[1] = new int[2];
 Tensor&lt;Integer&gt; x = Tensor.create(twoD, Integer.class);

String-typed Tensors are multi-dimensional arrays of arbitrary byte sequences, so can be initialized from arrays of byte[] elements. For example:

// Valid: A String tensor.
 Tensor&lt;String&gt; s = Tensor.create(new byte[]{1, 2, 3}, String.class);

 // Java Strings will need to be encoded into a byte-sequence.
 String mystring = "foo";
 Tensor&lt;String&gt; s = Tensor.create(mystring.getBytes("UTF-8"), String.class);

 // Valid: Matrix of String tensors.
 // Each element might have a different length.
 byte[][][] matrix = new byte[2][2][];
 matrix[0][0] = "this".getBytes("UTF-8");
 matrix[0][1] = "is".getBytes("UTF-8");
 matrix[1][0] = "a".getBytes("UTF-8");
 matrix[1][1] = "matrix".getBytes("UTF-8");
 Tensor&lt;String&gt; m = Tensor.create(matrix, String.class);

Parameters

obj	The object to convert to a `Tensor<T>`. Note that whether it is compatible with the type T is not checked by the type system. For type-safe creation of tensors, use `Tensors`.
type	The class object representing the type T.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	if `obj` is not compatible with the TensorFlow type system.

public DataType dataType ()

Returns the DataType of elements stored in the Tensor.

public double doubleValue ()

Returns the value in a scalar Double tensor.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	if the Tensor does not represent a double scalar.

public Tensor<U> expect (Class<U> type)

Returns this Tensor object with the type Tensor<U>. This method is useful when given a value of type Tensor<?>.

Parameters

type	any (non-null) array of the correct type.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	if the actual data type of this object does not match the type `U`.

public float floatValue ()

Returns the value in a scalar Float tensor.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	if the Tensor does not represent a float scalar.

public int intValue ()

Returns the value in a scalar Integer tensor.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	if the Tensor does not represent a int scalar.

public long longValue ()

Returns the value in a scalar Long tensor.

Throws

IllegalArgumentException	if the Tensor does not represent a long scalar.

public int numBytes ()

Returns the size, in bytes, of the tensor data.

public int numDimensions ()

Returns the number of dimensions (sometimes referred to as rank) of the Tensor.

Will be 0 for a scalar, 1 for a vector, 2 for a matrix, 3 for a 3-dimensional tensor etc.

public int numElements ()

Returns the number of elements in a flattened (1-D) view of the tensor.

public long[] shape ()

Returns the shape of the Tensor, i.e., the sizes of each dimension.

Returns

an array where the i-th element is the size of the i-th dimension of the tensor.

public String toString ()

Returns a string describing the type and shape of the Tensor.

public void writeTo (LongBuffer dst)

Write the data of a Long tensor into the given buffer.

Copies numElements() elements to the buffer.

Parameters

dst	the destination buffer

Throws

BufferOverflowException	If there is insufficient space in the given buffer for the data in this tensor
IllegalArgumentException	If the tensor datatype is not `Long`

public void writeTo (DoubleBuffer dst)

Write the data of a Double tensor into the given buffer.

Copies numElements() elements to the buffer.

Parameters

dst	the destination buffer

Throws

BufferOverflowException	If there is insufficient space in the given buffer for the data in this tensor
IllegalArgumentException	If the tensor datatype is not `Double`

public void writeTo (IntBuffer dst)

Write the data of a Integer tensor into the given buffer.

Copies numElements() elements to the buffer.

Parameters

dst	the destination buffer

Throws

BufferOverflowException	If there is insufficient space in the given buffer for the data in this tensor
IllegalArgumentException	If the tensor data type is not `Integer`

public void writeTo (ByteBuffer dst)

Write the tensor data into the given buffer.

Copies numBytes() bytes to the buffer in native byte order for primitive types.

Parameters

dst	the destination buffer

Throws

BufferOverflowException	If there is insufficient space in the given buffer for the data in this tensor

public void writeTo (FloatBuffer dst)

Write the data of a Float tensor into the given buffer.

Copies numElements() elements to the buffer.

Parameters

dst	the destination buffer

Throws

BufferOverflowException	If there is insufficient space in the given buffer for the data in this tensor
IllegalArgumentException	If the tensor datatype is not `Float`