StopGradient

public final class StopGradient

Stops gradient computation.

When executed in a graph, this op outputs its input tensor as-is.

When building ops to compute gradients, this op prevents the contribution of its inputs to be taken into account. Normally, the gradient generator adds ops to a graph to compute the derivatives of a specified 'loss' by recursively finding out inputs that contributed to its computation. If you insert this op in the graph it inputs are masked from the gradient generator. They are not taken into account for computing gradients.

This is useful any time you want to compute a value with TensorFlow but need to pretend that the value was a constant. Some examples include:

• The EM algorithm where the M-step should not involve backpropagation through the output of the E-step.
• Contrastive divergence training of Boltzmann machines where, when differentiating the energy function, the training must not backpropagate through the graph that generated the samples from the model.
• Adversarial training, where no backprop should happen through the adversarial example generation process.

Constants

String

OP_NAME

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

Public Methods

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

Inherited Methods

From class 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()

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 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.

From interface org.tensorflow.Operand

abstract Output<T>	asOutput() Returns the symbolic handle of the tensor.
abstract T	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<T>	type() Returns the tensor type of this operand

From interface 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: "StopGradient"

Public Methods

public Output<T> 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 StopGradient<T> create (Scope scope, Operand<T> input)

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

Parameters

scope	current scope

Returns

• a new instance of StopGradient

public Output<T> output ()