[theano-users] What are all the types of theano variables?

[David Krueger]

AFAICT, the basic types are:

Variable
SharedVariable,
Constant,
random (??)

are there more?

Is this documented somewhere?

[Mohamed Akrout]

Hi,

In the official tutorial
<http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/theano.pdf> of Theano, Theano
manipulates Tensor and Scalars. Anyone of these two types can be Variable,
Shared, or constant.

From my understanding, random is not a type by itself because you have
theano.tensor.constant type but no theano.tensor.random.

Post by David Krueger
Variable
SharedVariable,
Constant,
random (??)
are there more?
Is this documented somewhere?

[David Krueger]

thanks for the response. Do you know if this is an exhaustive list? (I
don't care about the distinction between tensors/scalars/dtypes, atm)

Also, pg59 has: "Random streams are at their core shared variables", so I
guess that clears things up a little bit.

Post by Mohamed Akrout
Hi,
In the official tutorial
<http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/theano.pdf> of Theano, Theano
manipulates Tensor and Scalars. Anyone of these two types can be Variable,
Shared, or constant.
From my understanding, random is not a type by itself because you have
theano.tensor.constant type but no theano.tensor.random.

Post by David Krueger
Variable
SharedVariable,
Constant,
random (??)
are there more?
Is this documented somewhere?

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[David Krueger]

blocks' code-base seems to suggest it is exhaustive:
(line 265):
https://github.com/mila-udem/blocks/blob/master/blocks/utils/__init__.py


On Sun, May 14, 2017 at 6:30 PM, David Krueger <

Post by David Krueger
thanks for the response. Do you know if this is an exhaustive list? (I
don't care about the distinction between tensors/scalars/dtypes, atm)
Also, pg59 has: "Random streams are at their core shared variables", so I
guess that clears things up a little bit.

Post by Mohamed Akrout
Hi,
In the official tutorial
<http://deeplearning.net/software/theano/theano.pdf> of Theano, Theano
manipulates Tensor and Scalars. Anyone of these two types can be Variable,
Shared, or constant.
From my understanding, random is not a type by itself because you have
theano.tensor.constant type but no theano.tensor.random.

Post by David Krueger
Variable
SharedVariable,
Constant,
random (??)
are there more?
Is this documented somewhere?

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