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ContinuousBernoulli

class tensorplay.distributions.ContinuousBernoulli(probs: Tensor | bool | int | float | None = None, logits: Tensor | bool | int | float | None = None, lims: tuple[float, float] = (0.499, 0.501), validate_args: bool | None = None)[source]

Creates a continuous Bernoulli distribution parameterized by probs or logits (but not both).

The distribution is supported in [0, 1] and parameterized by ‘probs’ (in (0,1)) or ‘logits’ (real-valued). Note that, unlike the Bernoulli, ‘probs’ does not correspond to a probability and ‘logits’ does not correspond to log-odds, but the same names are used due to the similarity with the Bernoulli. See [1] for more details.

Example:

>>> # xdoctest: +IGNORE_WANT("non-deterministic")
>>> m = ContinuousBernoulli(tensorplay.tensor([0.3]))
>>> m.sample()
tensor([ 0.2538])
Parameters:
  • probs (Number, Tensor) – (0,1) valued parameters

  • logits (Number, Tensor) – real valued parameters whose sigmoid matches ‘probs’

[1] The continuous Bernoulli: fixing a pervasive error in variational autoencoders, Loaiza-Ganem G and Cunningham JP, NeurIPS 2019. https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.06845

property batch_shape: Size

Returns the shape over which parameters are batched.

enumerate_support(expand: bool = True) → Tensor

Returns tensor containing all values supported by a discrete distribution. The result will enumerate over dimension 0, so the shape of the result will be (cardinality,) + batch_shape + event_shape (where event_shape = () for univariate distributions).

Note that this enumerates over all batched tensors in lock-step [[0, 0], [1, 1], …]. With expand=False, enumeration happens along dim 0, but with the remaining batch dimensions being singleton dimensions, [[0], [1], ...

To iterate over the full Cartesian product use itertools.product(m.enumerate_support()).

Parameters:

expand (bool) – whether to expand the support over the batch dims to match the distribution’s batch_shape.

Returns:

Tensor iterating over dimension 0.

property event_shape: Size

Returns the shape of a single sample (without batching).

property mode: Tensor

Returns the mode of the distribution.

perplexity() → Tensor

Returns perplexity of distribution, batched over batch_shape.

Returns:

Tensor of shape batch_shape.

sample_n(n: int) → Tensor

Generates n samples or n batches of samples if the distribution parameters are batched.

static set_default_validate_args(value: bool) → None

Sets whether validation is enabled or disabled.

The default behavior mimics Python’s assert statement: validation is on by default, but is disabled if Python is run in optimized mode (via python -O). Validation may be expensive, so you may want to disable it once a model is working.

Parameters:

value (bool) – Whether to enable validation.

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