mindspore.nn

Neural Networks Cells.

Pre-defined building blocks or computing units to construct neural networks.

Compared with the previous version, the added, deleted and supported platforms change information of mindspore.nn operators in MindSpore, please refer to the link https://gitee.com/mindspore/docs/blob/r1.5/resource/api_updates/nn_api_updates.md.

Cell

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.Cell

Base class for all neural networks.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.GraphCell

Base class for running the graph loaded from a MindIR.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.GraphKernel

Base class for GraphKernel.

Ascend GPU CPU

Containers

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.CellList

Holds Cells in a list.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.SequentialCell

Sequential cell container.

Ascend GPU CPU

Convolution Layers

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.Conv1d

1D convolution layer.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Conv1dTranspose

1D transposed convolution layer.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Conv2d

2D convolution layer.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Conv2dTranspose

2D transposed convolution layer.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Conv3d

3D convolution layer.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.Conv3dTranspose

Compute a 3D transposed convolution, which is also known as a deconvolution (although it is not an actual deconvolution).

Ascend GPU

Gradient

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.Jvp

Compute the jacobian-vector-product of the given network.

To Be Developed

mindspore.nn.Vjp

Computes the dot product between a vector v and the Jacobian of the given network at the point given by the inputs.

To Be Developed

Recurrent Layers

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.GRUCell

A GRU(Gated Recurrent Unit) cell.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.GRU

Stacked GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit) layers.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.LSTMCell

LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) layer.

GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.LSTM

Stacked LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) layers.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.RNNCell

An Elman RNN cell with tanh or ReLU non-linearity.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.RNN

Stacked Elman RNN layers.

Ascend GPU

Sparse Layers

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.Embedding

A simple lookup table that stores embeddings of a fixed dictionary and size.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.EmbeddingLookup

Returns a slice of the input tensor based on the specified indices.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.MultiFieldEmbeddingLookup

Returns a slice of input tensor based on the specified indices and the field ids.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.SparseToDense

Converts a sparse tensor into dense.

CPU

mindspore.nn.SparseTensorDenseMatmul

Multiplies sparse matrix a and dense matrix b.

CPU

Non-linear Activations

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.ELU

Exponential Linear Uint activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.FastGelu

Fast Gaussian error linear unit activation function.

Ascend

mindspore.nn.GELU

Gaussian error linear unit activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.get_activation

Gets the activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.HShrink

Applies the hard shrinkage function element-wise, each element complies the follow function:

Ascend

mindspore.nn.HSigmoid

Hard sigmoid activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.HSwish

Hard swish activation function.

GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.LeakyReLU

Leaky ReLU activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.LogSigmoid

Logsigmoid activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.LogSoftmax

LogSoftmax activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.PReLU

PReLU activation function.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.ReLU

Rectified Linear Unit activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.ReLU6

Compute ReLU6 activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Sigmoid

Sigmoid activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Softmax

Softmax activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.SoftShrink

Applies the soft shrinkage function elementwise.

Ascend

mindspore.nn.Tanh

Tanh activation function.

Ascend GPU CPU

Utilities

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.ClipByNorm

Clips tensor values to a maximum \(L_2\)-norm.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Dense

The dense connected layer.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Dropout

Dropout layer for the input.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Flatten

Flatten layer for the input.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.L1Regularizer

Applies l1 regularization to weights.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Norm

Computes the norm of vectors, currently including Euclidean norm, i.e., \(L_2\)-norm.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.OneHot

Returns a one-hot tensor.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Pad

Pads the input tensor according to the paddings and mode.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Range

Creates a sequence of numbers in range [start, limit) with step size delta.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.ResizeBilinear

Samples the input tensor to the given size or scale_factor by using bilinear interpolate.

Ascend CPU GPU

mindspore.nn.Roll

Rolls the elements of a tensor along an axis.

Ascend

mindspore.nn.Tril

Returns a tensor with elements above the kth diagonal zeroed.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Triu

Returns a tensor with elements below the kth diagonal zeroed.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Unfold

Extracts patches from images.

Ascend

Images Functions

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.CentralCrop

Crops the central region of the images with the central_fraction.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.ImageGradients

Returns two tensors, the first is along the height dimension and the second is along the width dimension.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.MSSSIM

Returns MS-SSIM index between two images.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.PSNR

Returns Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio of two image batches.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.SSIM

Returns SSIM index between two images.

Ascend GPU CPU

Normalization Layers

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.BatchNorm1d

Batch Normalization layer over a 2D input.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.BatchNorm2d

Batch Normalization layer over a 4D input.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.BatchNorm3d

Batch Normalization layer over a 5D input.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.GlobalBatchNorm

Global Batch Normalization layer over a N-dimension input.

Ascend

mindspore.nn.GroupNorm

Group Normalization over a mini-batch of inputs.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.InstanceNorm2d

Instance Normalization layer over a 4D input.

GPU

mindspore.nn.LayerNorm

Applies Layer Normalization over a mini-batch of inputs.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.MatrixDiag

Returns a batched diagonal tensor with a given batched diagonal values.

Ascend

mindspore.nn.MatrixDiagPart

Returns the batched diagonal part of a batched tensor.

Ascend

mindspore.nn.MatrixSetDiag

Modifies the batched diagonal part of a batched tensor.

Ascend

mindspore.nn.SyncBatchNorm

Sync Batch Normalization layer over a N-dimension input.

Ascend

Pooling layers

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.AvgPool1d

1D average pooling for temporal data.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.AvgPool2d

2D average pooling for temporal data.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.MaxPool1d

1D max pooling operation for temporal data.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.MaxPool2d

2D max pooling operation for temporal data.

Ascend GPU CPU

Quantized Functions

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.ActQuant

Quantization aware training activation function.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.Conv2dBnAct

A combination of convolution, Batchnorm, and activation layer.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Conv2dBnFoldQuant

2D convolution with Batch Normalization operation folded construct.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.Conv2dBnFoldQuantOneConv

2D convolution which use the convolution layer statistics once to calculate Batch Normalization operation folded construct.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.Conv2dBnWithoutFoldQuant

2D convolution and batchnorm without fold with fake quantized construct.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.Conv2dQuant

2D convolution with fake quantized operation layer.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.DenseBnAct

A combination of Dense, Batchnorm, and the activation layer.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.DenseQuant

The fully connected layer with fake quantized operation.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.FakeQuantWithMinMaxObserver

Quantization aware operation which provides the fake quantization observer function on data with min and max.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.MulQuant

Adds fake quantized operation after Mul operation.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.TensorAddQuant

Adds fake quantized operation after TensorAdd operation.

Ascend GPU

Loss Functions

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.BCELoss

BCELoss creates a criterion to measure the binary cross entropy between the true labels and predicted labels.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.BCEWithLogitsLoss

Adds sigmoid activation function to input logits, and uses the given logits to compute binary cross entropy between the logits and the labels.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.CosineEmbeddingLoss

CosineEmbeddingLoss creates a criterion to measure the similarity between two tensors using cosine distance.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.DiceLoss

The Dice coefficient is a set similarity loss.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.FocalLoss

The loss function proposed by Kaiming team in their paper Focal Loss for Dense Object Detection improves the effect of image object detection.

Ascend

mindspore.nn.L1Loss

L1Loss creates a criterion to measure the mean absolute error (MAE) between \(x\) and \(y\) element-wise, where \(x\) is the input Tensor and \(y\) is the labels Tensor.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.LossBase

Base class for other losses.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.MAELoss

MAELoss creates a criterion to measure the average absolute error between \(x\) and \(y\) element-wise, where \(x\) is the input and \(y\) is the labels.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.MSELoss

MSELoss creates a criterion to measure the mean squared error (squared L2-norm) between \(x\) and \(y\) element-wise, where \(x\) is the input and \(y\) is the labels.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.MultiClassDiceLoss

When there are multiple classifications, label is transformed into multiple binary classifications by one hot.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.RMSELoss

RMSELoss creates a criterion to measure the root mean square error between \(x\) and \(y\) element-wise, where \(x\) is the input and \(y\) is the labels.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.SampledSoftmaxLoss

Computes the sampled softmax training loss.

GPU

mindspore.nn.SmoothL1Loss

A loss class for learning region proposals.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.SoftMarginLoss

A loss class for two-class classification problems.

Ascend

mindspore.nn.SoftmaxCrossEntropyWithLogits

Computes softmax cross entropy between logits and labels.

Ascend GPU CPU

Optimizer Functions

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.Adagrad

Implements the Adagrad algorithm with ApplyAdagrad Operator.

Ascend CPU GPU

mindspore.nn.Adam

Updates gradients by the Adaptive Moment Estimation (Adam) algorithm.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.AdamOffload

This optimizer will offload Adam optimizer to host CPU and keep parameters being updated on the device, to minimize the memory cost.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.AdamWeightDecay

Implements the Adam algorithm to fix the weight decay.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.FTRL

Implements the FTRL algorithm with ApplyFtrl Operator.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Lamb

Lamb(Layer-wise Adaptive Moments optimizer for Batching training) Dynamic Learning Rate.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.LARS

Implements the LARS algorithm with LARSUpdate Operator.

Ascend CPU

mindspore.nn.LazyAdam

This optimizer will apply a lazy adam algorithm when gradient is sparse.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.Momentum

Implements the Momentum algorithm.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Optimizer

Base class for all optimizers.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.ProximalAdagrad

Implements the ProximalAdagrad algorithm with ApplyProximalAdagrad Operator.

Ascend

mindspore.nn.RMSProp

Implements Root Mean Squared Propagation (RMSProp) algorithm.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.SGD

Implements stochastic gradient descent.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.thor

Updates gradients by second-order algorithm--THOR.

Ascend GPU

Wrapper Functions

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.DistributedGradReducer

A distributed optimizer.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.DynamicLossScaleUpdateCell

Dynamic Loss scale update cell.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.FixedLossScaleUpdateCell

Static scale update cell, the loss scaling value will not be updated.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.ForwardValueAndGrad

Network training package class.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.GetNextSingleOp

Cell to run for getting the next operation.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.ParameterUpdate

Cell that updates parameter.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.PipelineCell

Wrap the network with Micro Batch.

To Be Developed

mindspore.nn.TimeDistributed

The time distributed layer.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.TrainOneStepCell

Network training package class.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.TrainOneStepWithLossScaleCell

Network training with loss scaling.

Ascend GPU

mindspore.nn.WithEvalCell

Cell that returns loss, output and label for evaluation.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.WithGradCell

Cell that returns the gradients.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.WithLossCell

Cell with loss function.

Ascend GPU CPU

Math Functions

API Name

Description

Supported Platforms

mindspore.nn.MatMul

Multiplies matrix x1 by matrix x2.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.Moments

Calculates the mean and variance of x.

Ascend GPU CPU

mindspore.nn.ReduceLogSumExp

Reduces a dimension of a tensor by calculating exponential for all elements in the dimension, then calculate logarithm of the sum.

Ascend GPU CPU

Metrics

mindspore.nn.Accuracy

Calculates the accuracy for classification and multilabel data.

mindspore.nn.auc

Computes the AUC(Area Under the Curve) using the trapezoidal rule.

mindspore.nn.BleuScore

Calculates BLEU score of machine translated text with one or more references.

mindspore.nn.ConfusionMatrix

Computes the confusion matrix.

mindspore.nn.ConfusionMatrixMetric

The performance matrix of measurement classification model is the model whose output is binary or multi class.

mindspore.nn.CosineSimilarity

Computes representation similarity

mindspore.nn.Dice

The Dice coefficient is a set similarity metric.

mindspore.nn.F1

Calculates the F1 score.

mindspore.nn.Fbeta

Calculates the fbeta score.

mindspore.nn.HausdorffDistance

Calculates the Hausdorff distance.

mindspore.nn.get_metric_fn

Gets the metric method based on the input name.

mindspore.nn.Loss

Calculates the average of the loss.

mindspore.nn.MAE

Calculates the mean absolute error(MAE).

mindspore.nn.MeanSurfaceDistance

This function is used to compute the Average Surface Distance from y_pred to y under the default setting.

mindspore.nn.Metric

Base class of metric.

mindspore.nn.MSE

Measures the mean squared error(MSE).

mindspore.nn.names

Gets the names of the metric methods.

mindspore.nn.OcclusionSensitivity

This function is used to calculate the occlusion sensitivity of the model for a given image.

mindspore.nn.Perplexity

Computes perplexity.

mindspore.nn.Precision

Calculates precision for classification and multilabel data.

mindspore.nn.Recall

Calculates recall for classification and multilabel data.

mindspore.nn.ROC

Calculates the ROC curve.

mindspore.nn.RootMeanSquareDistance

This function is used to compute the Residual Mean Square Distance from y_pred to y under the default setting.

mindspore.nn.rearrange_inputs

This decorator is used to rearrange the inputs according to its _indexes attributes which is specified by the set_indexes method.

mindspore.nn.Top1CategoricalAccuracy

Calculates the top-1 categorical accuracy.

mindspore.nn.Top5CategoricalAccuracy

Calculates the top-5 categorical accuracy.

mindspore.nn.TopKCategoricalAccuracy

Calculates the top-k categorical accuracy.

Dynamic Learning Rate

LearningRateSchedule

The dynamic learning rates in this module are all subclasses of LearningRateSchedule. Pass the instance of LearningRateSchedule to an optimizer. During the training process, the optimizer calls the instance taking current step as input to get the current learning rate.

import mindspore.nn as nn

min_lr = 0.01
max_lr = 0.1
decay_steps = 4
cosine_decay_lr = nn.CosineDecayLR(min_lr, max_lr, decay_steps)

net = Net()
optim = nn.Momentum(net.trainable_params(), learning_rate=cosine_decay_lr, momentum=0.9)

mindspore.nn.CosineDecayLR

Calculates learning rate base on cosine decay function.

mindspore.nn.ExponentialDecayLR

Calculates learning rate base on exponential decay function.

mindspore.nn.InverseDecayLR

Calculates learning rate base on inverse-time decay function.

mindspore.nn.NaturalExpDecayLR

Calculates learning rate base on natural exponential decay function.

mindspore.nn.PolynomialDecayLR

Calculates learning rate base on polynomial decay function.

mindspore.nn.WarmUpLR

Gets learning rate warming up.

Dynamic LR

The dynamic learning rates in this module are all functions. Call the function and pass the result to an optimizer. During the training process, the optimizer takes result[current step] as current learning rate.

import mindspore.nn as nn

min_lr = 0.01
max_lr = 0.1
total_step = 6
step_per_epoch = 1
decay_epoch = 4

lr= nn.cosine_decay_lr(min_lr, max_lr, total_step, step_per_epoch, decay_epoch)

net = Net()
optim = nn.Momentum(net.trainable_params(), learning_rate=lr, momentum=0.9)

mindspore.nn.cosine_decay_lr

Calculates learning rate base on cosine decay function.

mindspore.nn.exponential_decay_lr

Calculates learning rate base on exponential decay function.

mindspore.nn.inverse_decay_lr

Calculates learning rate base on inverse-time decay function.

mindspore.nn.natural_exp_decay_lr

Calculates learning rate base on natural exponential decay function.

mindspore.nn.piecewise_constant_lr

Get piecewise constant learning rate.

mindspore.nn.polynomial_decay_lr

Calculates learning rate base on polynomial decay function.

mindspore.nn.warmup_lr

Gets learning rate warming up.