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How to use autograd inside Tensorflow
import tensorflow as tf
import autograd.numpy as np
from autograd import grad
from tensorflow.python.framework import function
rng = np.random.RandomState(42)
x_np = rng.randn(4,4).astype(np.float32)
with tf.device('/cpu:0'):
x = tf.Variable(x_np)
def tf_loss(a):
return tf.reduce_sum(tf.square(a))
def np_loss(a):
return np.array(2.).astype(np.float32)*np.square(a).sum()
grad_np_loss = grad(np_loss)
l = tf_loss(x)
g = tf.gradients(l, x)
with tf.device('/cpu:0'):
np_in_tf = tf.py_func(np_loss, [x], tf.float32)
npgrad_in_tf = tf.py_func(grad_np_loss, [x], tf.float32)
@function.Defun()
def op_grad(x, grad):
return [tf.py_func(grad_np_loss, [x], tf.float32)]
@function.Defun(grad_func=op_grad)
def tf_replaced_grad_loss(a):
return tf_loss(a)
with tf.device('/cpu:0'):
tf_np_grad = tf.gradients(tf_replaced_grad_loss(x),x)
with tf.Session() as sess:
sess.run(tf.global_variables_initializer())
print("Tensorflow gradient:\n")
print(sess.run(g)[0])
print("\nNumpy gradient (should be 2 times tf version):\n")
print(grad_np_loss(x_np))
print("\nNumpy gradient evaluated in Tensorflow:\n")
print(sess.run(npgrad_in_tf))
print("\nNumpy gradient put in Tensorflow graph:\n")
print(sess.run(tf_np_grad)[0])
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