kron¶

paddle. kron ( x: Tensor, y: Tensor, name: str | None = None ) → Tensor [source]

Compute the Kronecker product of two tensors, a composite tensor made of blocks of the second tensor scaled by the first. Assume that the rank of the two tensors, $X$ and $Y$ are the same, if necessary prepending the smallest with ones. If the shape of $X$ is [$r_0$, $r_1$, …, $r_N$] and the shape of $Y$ is [$s_0$, $s_1$, …, $s_N$], then the shape of the output tensor is [$r_{0}s_{0}$, $r_{1}s_{1}$, …, $r_{N}s_{N}$]. The elements are products of elements from $X$ and $Y$. The equation is: $$output[k_{0}, k_{1}, …, k_{N}] = X[i_{0}, i_{1}, …, i_{N}] * Y[j_{0}, j_{1}, …, j_{N}]$$ where $$k_{t} = i_{t} * s_{t} + j_{t}, t = 0, 1, …, N$$

Parameters

• x (Tensor) – the fist operand of kron op, data type: bfloat16, float16, float32, float64, int32 or int64.

• y (Tensor) – the second operand of kron op, data type: bfloat16, float16, float32, float64, int32 or int64. Its data type should be the same with x.

• name (str|None, optional) – Name for the operation (optional, default is None). For more information, please refer to Name.

Returns

The output of kron, data type: bfloat16, float16, float32, float64, int32 or int64. Its data is the same with x.

Return type

Tensor

Examples

>>> import paddle
>>> x = paddle.to_tensor([[1, 2], [3, 4]], dtype='int64')
>>> y = paddle.to_tensor([[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]], dtype='int64')
>>> out = paddle.kron(x, y)
>>> out
Tensor(shape=[6, 6], dtype=int64, place=Place(cpu), stop_gradient=True,
[[1 , 2 , 3 , 2 , 4 , 6 ],
 [4 , 5 , 6 , 8 , 10, 12],
 [7 , 8 , 9 , 14, 16, 18],
 [3 , 6 , 9 , 4 , 8 , 12],
 [12, 15, 18, 16, 20, 24],
 [21, 24, 27, 28, 32, 36]])