# sequence_softmax¶

paddle.static.nn. sequence_softmax ( input, use_cudnn=False, name=None ) [source]
api_attr

Static Graph

Note:

The input type of the OP must be LoDTensor. For Tensor, use: api_fluid_layers_softmax

A LoD-tensor can be regarded as several sequences, and this op apply softmax algo on each sequence. The shape of input Tensor can be $$[N, 1]$$ or $$[N]$$, where $$N$$ is the sum of the length of all sequences. Recommended usage: $$[N]$$.

For i-th sequence in a mini-batch:

$\begin{split}Out(X[lod[i]:lod[i+1]], :) = \\frac{\exp(X[lod[i]:lod[i+1], :])}{\sum(\exp(X[lod[i]:lod[i+1], :]))}\end{split}$

For example, for a LoD-Tensor with 6 sequences ([3, 2, 4, 1, 2, 3] - sequence length list in order), the lod in the runtime is [[0, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12, 15]], then softmax will be computed among $$X[0:3,:],X[3:5,:],X[5:9,:],X[9:10,:],X[10:12,:],X[12:15,:]$$, and $$N$$ turns out to be 15.

*Case 1:

Given:
input.data = [0.7, 1, 0.6,
1.5, 1.1,
1.2, 0.2, 0.6, 1.9,
3.1,
2.5, 0.8,
0.1, 2.4, 1.3]
input.lod = [[0, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12, 15]]
then:
output.data = [0.30724832, 0.41474187, 0.2780098,
0.59868765, 0.40131235,
0.2544242, 0.09359743, 0.13963096, 0.5123474,
1.,
0.84553474, 0.15446526,
0.06995796, 0.69777346, 0.23226859]
output.lod = [[0, 3, 5, 9, 10, 12, 15]]

Parameters
• input (Variable) – A LoDTensor with shape of $$[N, 1]$$ or $$[N]$$, Recommended usage: $$[N]$$. Supported data types: float32, float64.

• use_cudnn (bool, optional) – Use cudnn kernel or not. Effective only when the cudnn version of the paddle library is installed and GPU is used for training or reasoning. Default: False.

• name (str, optional) – The default value is None. Normally there is no need for user to set this property. For more information, please refer to Name

Returns

A LoD-Tensor which has the same shape and data type with input.

Return type

Variable

Examples

import paddle