Bitcast

public final class Bitcast

Bitcasts a tensor from one type to another without copying data.

Given a tensor `input`, this operation returns a tensor that has the same buffer data as `input` with datatype `type`.

If the input datatype `T` is larger than the output datatype `type` then the shape changes from [...] to [..., sizeof(`T`)/sizeof(`type`)].

If `T` is smaller than `type`, the operator requires that the rightmost dimension be equal to sizeof(`type`)/sizeof(`T`). The shape then goes from [..., sizeof(`type`)/sizeof(`T`)] to [...].

tf.bitcast() and tf.cast() work differently when real dtype is casted as a complex dtype (e.g. tf.complex64 or tf.complex128) as tf.cast() make imaginary part 0 while tf.bitcast() gives module error. For example,

Example 1:

>>> a = [1., 2., 3.] >>> equality_bitcast = tf.bitcast(a, tf.complex128) Traceback (most recent call last): ... InvalidArgumentError: Cannot bitcast from 1 to 18 [Op:Bitcast] >>> equality_cast = tf.cast(a, tf.complex128) >>> print(equality_cast) tf.Tensor([1.+0.j 2.+0.j 3.+0.j], shape=(3,), dtype=complex128)

Example 2:

>>> tf.bitcast(tf.constant(0xffffffff, dtype=tf.uint32), tf.uint8)

Example 3:

>>> x = [1., 2., 3.] >>> y = [0., 2., 3.] >>> equality= tf.equal(x,y) >>> equality_cast = tf.cast(equality,tf.float32) >>> equality_bitcast = tf.bitcast(equality_cast,tf.uint8) >>> print(equality) tf.Tensor([False True True], shape=(3,), dtype=bool) >>> print(equality_cast) tf.Tensor([0. 1. 1.], shape=(3,), dtype=float32) >>> print(equality_bitcast) tf.Tensor( [[ 0 0 0 0] [ 0 0 128 63] [ 0 0 128 63]], shape=(3, 4), dtype=uint8)

NOTE: Bitcast is implemented as a low-level cast, so machines with different endian orderings will give different results.

Constants

String OP_NAME The name of this op, as known by TensorFlow core engine

Public Methods

Output<U>
asOutput()
Returns the symbolic handle of the tensor.
static <U extends TType> Bitcast<U>
create(Scope scope, Operand<? extends TType> input, Class<U> type)
Factory method to create a class wrapping a new Bitcast operation.
Output<U>
output()

Inherited Methods

org.tensorflow.op.RawOp
final boolean
equals(Object obj)
final int
hashCode()
Operation
op()
Return this unit of computation as a single Operation.
final String
toString()
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()
org.tensorflow.op.Op
abstract ExecutionEnvironment
env()
Return the execution environment this op was created in.
abstract Operation
op()
Return this unit of computation as a single Operation.
org.tensorflow.Operand
abstract Output<U extends TType>
asOutput()
Returns the symbolic handle of the tensor.
abstract U extends TType
asTensor()
Returns the tensor at this operand.
abstract Shape
shape()
Returns the (possibly partially known) shape of the tensor referred to by the Output of this operand.
abstract Class<U extends TType>
type()
Returns the tensor type of this operand
org.tensorflow.ndarray.Shaped
abstract int
rank()
abstract Shape
shape()
abstract long
size()
Computes and returns the total size of this container, in number of values.

Constants

public static final String OP_NAME

The name of this op, as known by TensorFlow core engine

Constant Value: "Bitcast"

Public Methods

public Output<U> asOutput ()

Returns the symbolic handle of the tensor.

Inputs to TensorFlow operations are outputs of another TensorFlow operation. This method is used to obtain a symbolic handle that represents the computation of the input.

public static Bitcast<U> create (Scope scope, Operand<? extends TType> input, Class<U> type)

Factory method to create a class wrapping a new Bitcast operation.

Parameters
scope current scope
Returns
  • a new instance of Bitcast

public Output<U> output ()