tf.contrib.distributions.bijectors.masked_dense

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A autoregressively masked dense layer. (deprecated)

tf.contrib.distributions.bijectors.masked_dense(
    inputs,
    units,
    num_blocks=None,
    exclusive=False,
    kernel_initializer=None,
    reuse=None,
    name=None,
    *args,
    **kwargs
)

Analogous to tf.compat.v1.layers.dense.

See [Germain et al. (2015)][1] for detailed explanation.

Arguments:

  • inputs: Tensor input.
  • units: Python int scalar representing the dimensionality of the output space.
  • num_blocks: Python int scalar representing the number of blocks for the MADE masks.
  • exclusive: Python bool scalar representing whether to zero the diagonal of the mask, used for the first layer of a MADE.
  • kernel_initializer: Initializer function for the weight matrix. If None (default), weights are initialized using the tf.glorot_random_initializer.
  • reuse: Python bool scalar representing whether to reuse the weights of a previous layer by the same name.
  • name: Python str used to describe ops managed by this function.
  • *args: tf.compat.v1.layers.dense arguments.
  • **kwargs: tf.compat.v1.layers.dense keyword arguments.

Returns:

Output tensor.

Raises:

  • NotImplementedError: if rightmost dimension of inputs is unknown prior to graph execution.

References

[1]: Mathieu Germain, Karol Gregor, Iain Murray, and Hugo Larochelle. MADE: Masked Autoencoder for Distribution Estimation. In International Conference on Machine Learning, 2015. https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.03509