[resolved] Runtime error assigning hidden state

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I am using a GRUCell at each time-step to pass input and hidden state and get back the new hidden state in the following way:

hidden_states[i, j, :] = GRUCell(input, hidden_states[i, j, :])

where

hidden_states = Variable(torch.zeros(N, N, 1, hidden_state_size)).cuda()

As you can notice that instead of sending a batch of inputs, I am sending one input at a time (hence, the 1 in the tensor size). When I run this, I get a runtime error as follows:

RuntimeError: in-place operations can be only used on variables that don't share storage with any other variables, but detected that there are 2 objects sharing it

Can anyone explain how I have created another variable with the same storage as hidden_states?

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Resolved. I was using hidden_states elsewhere in the code and creating a new variable that shared the storage.