tfp.substrates.numpy.bijectors.real_nvp_default_template

Build a scale-and-shift function using a multi-layer neural network.

tfp.substrates.numpy.bijectors.real_nvp_default_template(
    hidden_layers,
    shift_only=False,
    activation=tf.nn.relu,
    name=None,
    *args,
    **kwargs
)

This will be wrapped in a make_template to ensure the variables are only created once. It takes the d-dimensional input x[0:d] and returns the D-d dimensional outputs loc ('mu') and log_scale ('alpha').

The default template does not support conditioning and will raise an exception if condition_kwargs are passed to it. To use conditioning in Real NVP bijector, implement a conditioned shift/scale template that handles the condition_kwargs.

hidden_layers Python list-like of non-negative integer, scalars indicating the number of units in each hidden layer. Default: [512, 512].
shift_only Python bool indicating if only the shift term shall be computed (i.e. NICE bijector). Default: False.
activation Activation function (callable). Explicitly setting to None implies a linear activation.
name A name for ops managed by this function. Default: 'real_nvp_default_template'.
*args tf.layers.dense arguments.
**kwargs tf.layers.dense keyword arguments.

shift Float-like Tensor of shift terms ('mu' in [Papamakarios et al. (2016)][1]).
log_scale Float-like Tensor of log(scale) terms ('alpha' in [Papamakarios et al. (2016)][1]).

NotImplementedError if rightmost dimension of inputs is unknown prior to graph execution, or if condition_kwargs is not empty.

References

[1]: George Papamakarios, Theo Pavlakou, and Iain Murray. Masked Autoregressive Flow for Density Estimation. In Neural Information Processing Systems, 2017. https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.07057