The documentation of torch.view has the input parameter as (*size).
https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/tensors.html#torch.Tensor.view
What exactly does * represent here?
Why does not just input of type <class ‘torch.Size’> work?
The asterisk (*) is used to unwrap values in Python and you could thus pass the desired shapes as separate values to view.
torch.Size works fine as an input also:
x = torch.randn(100)
y = torch.randn(10, 10)
x = x.view(y.size())
print(x.shape)
> torch.Size([10, 10])
x = x.view(torch.Size([100]))
print(x.shape)
> torch.Size([100])
x = x.view(1, 5, 20)
print(x.shape)
> torch.Size([1, 5, 20])
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Got it. Thanks a lot. 