What is a HybridBlock class in MXNet

This recipe explains what is a HybridBlock class in MXNet

Recipe Objective: What is a HybridBlock class in MXNet?

This recipe explains what a HybridBlock class in MXNet is.

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Step 1: Importing library

Let us first import the necessary libraries. We'll import ndarray(nd as alias) from mxnet and HybridBlock and neural network(nn as alias) from mxnet.gluon.

import mxnet as mx
from mxnet import nd
from mxnet.gluon import nn, Block

Step 2: Class

HybridBlock and Block are similar in a few manners it uses both Symbol and NDArray for forwarding. The forward computation must not be dynamic to work with the symbol.

class obj(nn.HybridBlock):
    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
       super(obj, self).__init__(**kwargs)
       with self.name_scope():
          self.dense0 = nn.Dense(5)
          self.dense1 = nn.Dense(5)

    def hybrid_forward(self, F, x):
       x = F.relu(self.dense0(x))
       return self.dense1(x)

Step 3: HybridBlocks

After calling hybridize(), HybridBlock will create a symbolic graph resembling the forward computation and cache it. Before calling hybridize(), HybridBlock is similar to regular Block. Further forwards, the cached graph will be used instead of hybrid_forward().

Obj=obj()
Obj.initialize(ctx=mx.cpu(0))
Obj.hybridize()
Obj(mx.nd.ones(5))

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