There’s a work-in-progress batched version of the tutorial coming up, the easiest way I could find was to do packing and unpacking within the encoder:
class EncoderRNN(nn.Module):
def __init__(self, input_size, hidden_size, n_layers=1, dropout=0.1):
super(EncoderRNN, self).__init__()
self.input_size = input_size
self.hidden_size = hidden_size
self.n_layers = n_layers
self.dropout = dropout
self.embedding = nn.Embedding(input_size, hidden_size)
self.gru = nn.GRU(hidden_size, hidden_size, n_layers, dropout=self.dropout, bidirectional=True)
def forward(self, input_seqs, input_lengths, hidden=None):
# Note: we run this all at once (over multiple batches of multiple sequences)
embedded = self.embedding(input_seqs)
packed = torch.nn.utils.rnn.pack_padded_sequence(embedded, input_lengths)
outputs, hidden = self.gru(packed, hidden)
outputs, output_lengths = torch.nn.utils.rnn.pad_packed_sequence(outputs) # unpack (back to padded)
outputs = outputs[:, :, :self.hidden_size] + outputs[:, : ,self.hidden_size:] # Sum bidirectional outputs
return outputs, hidden
It would be nice if other layers had support for PackedSequence…