TensorFlow 1 version | View source on GitHub |
Computes CTC (Connectionist Temporal Classification) loss.
tf.nn.ctc_loss(
labels, logits, label_length, logit_length, logits_time_major=True, unique=None,
blank_index=None, name=None
)
This op implements the CTC loss as presented in (Graves et al., 2006).
Notes:
- Same as the "Classic CTC" in TensorFlow 1.x's tf.compat.v1.nn.ctc_loss setting of preprocess_collapse_repeated=False, ctc_merge_repeated=True
- Labels may be supplied as either a dense, zero-padded tensor with a vector of label sequence lengths OR as a SparseTensor.
- On TPU and GPU: Only dense padded labels are supported.
- On CPU: Caller may use SparseTensor or dense padded labels but calling with a SparseTensor will be significantly faster.
- Default blank label is 0 rather num_classes - 1, unless overridden by blank_index.
Args | |
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labels
|
tensor of shape [batch_size, max_label_seq_length] or SparseTensor |
logits
|
tensor of shape [frames, batch_size, num_labels], if logits_time_major == False, shape is [batch_size, frames, num_labels]. |
label_length
|
tensor of shape [batch_size], None if labels is SparseTensor Length of reference label sequence in labels. |
logit_length
|
tensor of shape [batch_size] Length of input sequence in logits. |
logits_time_major
|
(optional) If True (default), logits is shaped [time, batch, logits]. If False, shape is [batch, time, logits] |
unique
|
(optional) Unique label indices as computed by ctc_unique_labels(labels). If supplied, enable a faster, memory efficient implementation on TPU. |
blank_index
|
(optional) Set the class index to use for the blank label. Negative values will start from num_classes, ie, -1 will reproduce the ctc_loss behavior of using num_classes - 1 for the blank symbol. There is some memory/performance overhead to switching from the default of 0 as an additional shifted copy of the logits may be created. |
name
|
A name for this Op . Defaults to "ctc_loss_dense".
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Returns | |
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loss
|
tensor of shape [batch_size], negative log probabilities. |
References:
Connectionist Temporal Classification - Labeling Unsegmented Sequence Data with Recurrent Neural Networks: Graves et al., 2006 (pdf)