Paddle/paddle/gserver/layers/DataLayer.h

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#pragma once

#include <memory>

#include "Layer.h"

namespace paddle {
/**
 * This layer just copy data to output, and has no backward propagation.
 *
 * The config file api is data_layer.
 */
class DataLayer : public Layer {
public:
  explicit DataLayer(const LayerConfig& config) : Layer(config) {}

  virtual void setData(const Argument& data) { data_ = data; }

  /**
   * Prefetch sparse matrix/ids only.
   */
  void prefetch() override { output_ = data_; }

  /**
   * Forward propagation. Copy data_ (value, in, grad, ids, cpuSequenceDims,
   * sequenceStartPositions, subSequenceStartPositions, strs) to output_.
   */
  void forward(PassType passType) override {
    Layer::forward(passType);
    copyDataToOutput(output_);
    if (FLAGS_show_layer_stat) {
      showOutputStats();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Data layer's backward propagation do nothing.
   */
  void backward(const UpdateCallback& callback) override { (void)callback; }

  void copyOutputToOtherDevice() override {
    for (size_t i = 0; i != outputOtherDevice_.size(); i++) {
      copyDataToOutput(outputOtherDevice_[i]);
    }
  }

private:
  void copyDataToOutput(Argument& output);

protected:
  Argument data_;
};

typedef std::shared_ptr<DataLayer> DataLayerPtr;

}  // namespace paddle