Shuffle

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Shuffle

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General

The shuffle primitive shuffles data along the shuffle axis (here is designated as ) with the group parameter . Namely, the shuffle axis is thought to be a 2D tensor of size and it is being transposed to . Variable names follow the standard Naming Conventions.

The formal definition is shown below:

Forward

where

dimension is called a shuffle axis,
is a group_size,
is the outermost indices (to the left from shuffle axis),
is the innermost indices (to the right from shuffle axis), and
and relate to each other as define by the system:

Here, and .

Difference Between Forward Training and Forward Inference

There is no difference between the dnnl_forward_training and dnnl_forward_inference propagation kinds.

Backward

The backward propagation computes , based on .

Essentially, backward propagation is the same as forward propagation with replaced by .

Execution Arguments

When executed, the inputs and outputs should be mapped to an execution argument index as specified by the following table.

Primitive input/output	Execution argument index
	DNNL_ARG_SRC
	DNNL_ARG_DST
	DNNL_ARG_DIFF_SRC
	DNNL_ARG_DIFF_DST

Data Types

The shuffle primitive supports the following combinations of data types:

Propagation	Source / Destination
forward / backward	f32, bf16, f16
forward	s32, s8, u8

WARNING:

There might be hardware and/or implementation specific restrictions. Check the Implementation Limitations section below.

Data Layouts

The shuffle primitive works with arbitrary data tensors. There is no special meaning associated with any logical dimensions. However, the shuffle axis is typically referred to as channels (hence in formulas we use ).

Shuffle operation typically appear in CNN topologies. Hence, in the library the shuffle primitive is optimized for the corresponding memory formats:

Spatial	Logical tensor	Shuffle Axis	Implementations optimized for memory formats
2D	NCHW	1 (C)	dnnl_nchw ( dnnl_abcd ), dnnl_nhwc ( dnnl_acdb ), optimized^
3D	NCDHW	1 (C)	dnnl_ncdhw ( dnnl_abcde ), dnnl_ndhwc ( dnnl_acdeb ), optimized^

Here optimized^ means the format that comes out of any preceding compute-intensive primitive.

Post-Ops and Attributes

The shuffle primitive does not support any post-ops or attributes.

Implementation Limitations

Refer to Data Types for limitations related to data types support.
GPU
- Only tensors of 6 or fewer dimensions are supported.

Performance Tips

N/A

Example

Shuffle Primitive Example

This C++ API example demonstrates how to create and execute a Shuffle primitive.

Key optimizations included in this example:

Shuffle along axis 1 (channels).

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